MeowdyPardner

I think this answer is the most accurate. People get too hung up same names on different servers. There will always be multiple versions of a community whether they have the same name on different servers or whether one of them snagged the og name and others prefixed with Real_x / True_x. Imo I like it this way better because there’s less favoritism to the one that comes first / people can’t universally squat on a community name

At some point I exceeded 500, but I also have firefox simple tab groups (formerly known as panorama) so I’m usually not looking at a window of more than 100 at a time, and any tabs I haven’t visited since last launch aren’t loaded into ram until I click over to them so they behave more like bookmarks except instead of creating/organizing/cleaning up bookmarks in addition to tabs I just browse/organize/close tabs. Each rabbit hole I go down gets a tab group so if I’m done with a topic I can just close the whole group.

Swipe typing is the only thing that keeps me using google keyboard. Their implementation is the only one that works well for me. I think I used to use Swype before, that feels like forever ago

The only realistic thing that the NDA could have contained was stipulations around leaking details about Threads. Who cares. Some admins probably wanted an inside look so they agreed to not leak any details. That does nothing to put their instances under the control of Meta. Yeah sure the admins are “controlled by the contract”… to not share any secrets about Threads. Again who cares.

People dreaming up scenarios about the NDAs including clauses that let Meta control instances or their admins are delusional. As someone working in tech I sign NDAs all the time when I visit my friend’s companies. It doesn’t mean they have any control over me besides stopping me from leaking stuff that I see inside the company.

I am excited to see the community become more active as someone who periodically lurked on .ml for a few years. But also I’m much more active here because I just don’t scroll r/ anymore unless I follow a link to a specific post. I’m all in here now, I feel like it’s crossed the threshold to be sustainable and interesting to daily users even if it doesn’t immediately take over.

Random thought related to gold, but I wonder if it would be feasible to make some kind of fediverse tipping system that allowed people to give tips that showed up as something gold-like or award-like. Could be neat, but validating the payment when multiple instances are involved could be challenging without getting instances involved with payment gateways and finance regulations. I’m sure it could be done with crypto but that would probably be offputting to most people.

Hmm that’s weird, I use the kbin site in Firefox on my pixel 5 and haven’t had this happen anywhere

That video has become required watching material / hazing ritual for new roommates. Mostly for the detailed explanation on the importance of pre-wash soap, but also for the tips on preheating the water.

The more anti-consumer shit they pull, the more of my friends I get to join my Plex server, for marginal cost since more users barely means any more used electricity.

Last I checked, Reddit being “cucked and left wing” wasn’t one of the reddit protest complaints.

I also used to cancel often, I would accept 30 day trials and then immediately schedule cancellation for the end (it’s really nice that they actually let you do that instead of making you wait until just before the end). They just kept offering 30 day trials so I kept doing that. Nowadays I use ebay as much as possible first, and accept 30 day trials if offered when I have to resort to Amazon. To help make up for it I always make sure to use the included twitch prime sub on a streamer I like, also surprising that prime trials include a twitch prime sub.

Yep, having a bunch of front page posts complaining (not trying to put it harshly) about the content just makes it look like the problem is worse to outsiders and doesn’t help perceptions. Let people talk about what they want, but vote accordingly and people will get tired of talking about reddit as less and less people engage with those posts. This post being here is causing more reddit-related engagement. Upvote the kind of content you want to see and it’ll rise up higher, becoming more visible and creating a virtuous cycle of positive engagement.

Likewise, my only time spent on reddit is to upvote reddit drama discussion. Doing so will help push people who are “just tired of the drama and want to post” to find the fediverse a more enticing place to participate in.

Someone with too much time on their hands. They’re literally spending time in a place they don’t like, just to antagonize people.

The irony that I read this reply and then found the exact same reply under the next 4 comments in the thread lol, for a second I thought you were making a joke

When I say bidirectional disconnection I’m talking only about directly between the defederated instances in question since some people are suggesting that the instances are still directly sharing content in one direction. In your example the instances are still bidirectionally cut off, you’re just suggesting that a third instance could relay content between them. That would be theoretically possible but I don’t think it works like that currently, because that idea gets shot down in Mastodon for several reasons, including the fact that trusting content relayed to you from an intermediate server could open up the possibility of the relaying instance tampering or impersonating user accounts or faking content.

Yes this, and I could totally see the startrek instance growing into a hub for sci-fi related communities for example. More important than whether we are spread out is that the possibility and capability we have to spread out or migrate instances keeps instances in check by ensuring they don’t have leverage or lock-in over the communities. Currently I think the main risk is communities living on 1 instance, but better instance migration tools would mostly mitigate that - imagine if you could migrate a community (which in underlying activitypub terms is very similar to a user account) to a different instance, the same way mastodon accounts can migrate between instances and keep followers.

This is the correct answer, lots of people think defederating is one-directional when it’s not. It’s 100% blocked communication both ways, meant to be the nuclear option as a last resort (sadly the lack of other moderation tools makes it a second resort after reaching out to the other instance).

If defederating still allowed any communication, it wouldn’t be useful if a remote instance was malicious and exploiting protocol-level bugs and trying to exploit other instances. Defederating should protect against that too, hence 0 communication whatsoever.

The uni-directional option would be limiting a remote instance, which unfortunately isn’t implemented here.

kbin.social has 29K currently: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0 , fedia has 2.9K

fedidb.org has roughly accurate stats or you can check the nodeinfo url for each instance to get a count of only local users to that instance

Someone should open an issue on the git repo for lemmy & kbin to add a community-wide nsfw option, so that nsfw communities can just force all posts to be marked. Also allowing instance admins to do the same for remote communities or even entire instances (for example a nsfw-dedicated instance) would also be a very good feature to have.

The only tragedy I see here is that there aren’t more granular tools to allow beehaw to create the space they want without needing to deferate wholesale. But I agree, user choice is a critical part of the fediverse, and that includes the choices of instance admins. We should try to avoid fragmenting the community not by criticizing differing moderation styles and trying to force everyone to federate, but by making a gradient of moderation tools that allows admins to curate their spaces how they want without having to resort to the nuclear option, which sadly seems to be just about the only option in Lemmy’s moderation toolbox, which has never been stress tested like this before so it’s neither Beehaw’s fault for using the hammer they have, nor is it Lemmy/kbin dev’s fault for spending their time working on features that the previously miniscule community needed. The onus is on us to work with the devs to communicate where the deficiencies are and to help them bring moderation tooling up to speed , similar to the wide range of tools available to mastodon admins.

That imo is the way to move forward and fix things here