Kichae

Ignoring the world definitely makes you good global citizens and not problems to work around. Good job. Way to go.

Ok, but hear me out. Have you seen most Python code?

JXL is my favourite squadron.

But I am home at 1pm, and they still didn’t actually deliver the package!

“It’s chemicals!”

Technically correct, I guess.

And if people would just recommend or advertise instances, and try to grow instances rather than the network directly, there’d be no problem. But every Fedi platform falls into this ptoblem of hiding the host and championing the platform itself, rather than powering independent social websites.

It’s so frustrating and sad.

Removed by mod

I saw. Bringing the original Canadian cast back for the announcement trailer fills me with fuzzy butterflies and fluttering kittens.

Unpopular opinion, I know, but downvotes are an anti-feature, designed to excuse big, for-profit social media from actually moderating their platforms. They have no place in real social spaces.

And from this post, I discovered there’s a new SPC game im development.

This just made my month!

They’ve also lowered their placement on the front end, meaning they’re pointing more horizontal.

Oh, and everyone’s driving three story tall monster minivans now

What a weird way to spell “timbits”

As per usual, the “free speech on someone else’s dime” folks think the people running the forums they feel entitled to shouldn’t have actual moderation tools. Shocking.

Once upon a time, people overseeing web forums used to have the ability to move posts, split topics, and even shunt comment chains into other, exising posts. But all Reddit allows is to delete, and so this space that apes some of the worst bits about Reddit thinks they shouldn’t do any better than the lowest of fucking low bars.

There are also just a lot of personalization options that just aren’t there, particularly for power-lite users, because Linix power users use the terminal for everything.

Like, heaven forbid you want a full featured, advanced file manager or something, but aren’t interested in learning bash scripting…

You can’t truly bar federated content from being viewed by non-members, but you can totally make it not worth the effort for most people to see what’s posted, and totally prevent contribution.

These kinds of restrictions wouldn’t be about strict secrecy, just effectively creating a white list for speaking. A +v in IRC terms.

Do you remember forum culture? Where, if you joined a forum and were a giant pain in the ass, they kicked you out?

Large, monolithic social media sites like Facebook and Reddit got away from some of that, just because they’re too big to police. But the fediverse isn’t. Not yet, anyway. Bad neighbours are defederated from, and bad actors are banned.

Don’t be a giant pain in the ass if you don’t want to be shown the door. Or go back to spaces that are too big to GAF about you.

Because it abandoned the idea of the site admins being responsible for moderation, in the name of expanding to unmanagable size.

On Reddit and Facebook, groups do not have a common moderation team, so they lack the right to dump a post in someone else’s group.

I mean, most of the communities are on .world, and if they’re not federating with .world, they’re just not going to show up in the majority of comment sections.

But also, HB is much more of a communal space than most of the big instances, and much more aligned on how they engage with off-site content. And as the fediverse grows horizontally, a significant part of it probably going to be through focused instances, rather than more general purpose sites. We have those covered already, and most of the people interested in something like that aren’t going to leave Reddit anytime soon.

They have what they want.

This means there will be more “we don’t want to host this kind of content” discussions over time, not fewer. The fediverse will look more patchwork, not less.

Downvotes are already a questionable design choice, which encourage passive-aggressive drive-by behaviour rather than engaging with and countering challenging ideas. They’re kind of a dark feature, which give the user a sense of participation, or worse, the sense of being a cop, while contributing nothing.

They are catharsis without praxis, and they almost certainly contribute to online toxicity.

Actually giving them forum or site moderation power is… Well, it sure is doubling down on that feeling like a cop thing.

And what are all cops?

Pick a smaller, focused website and focus on Local. Then you can ignore what’s going on elsewhere.

Lemmy isn’t a community, it’s a technology. And ActivityPub is madw with the goal of letting anyone and everyone use it and participate. Just like HTTP. Griping because “the wrong kind of people are showing up” is the kind of thing the wrong kind of people do.

You don’t get to build your gate in the public square.