Blaze

Blaze , 4 months ago

I skimmed through it, it's actually a decent article.

Blaze , 4 months ago

Well done @scrubbles !

Also constant growth for !movies and !yurop

Blaze , 4 months ago

Interesting, thanks

Blaze , 4 months ago

Thank you for your insight. I feel like AP cares more about the community, while nostr is about the individual.

Different kind of people will choose different approaches

Blaze , 4 months ago

Nice tutorial

Blaze , 4 months ago

Nice project. $249 seems a bit high, but I guess it's like the Fairphone, they can't save as much as the large manufacturers do.

Blaze , 4 months ago

Great news, thanks for sharing

Blaze , 4 months ago

Hello guys, just wanted to chime in and say that it's good to see you three explain things in a calm manner in this thread. Nice to see you around.

Blaze , 4 months ago

Lemmy's code isn't that easy to get into, otherwise there would be much more contributors to it.

The third biggest contributor after the two main devs has 59 commits.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/contributors?from=2019-02-10&to=2024-02-06&type=c

Blaze , 4 months ago

I agree. I could see Beehaw survive longer than most other Lemmy instances, their community feeling is much stronger.

Blaze , 4 months ago

No of course not but I subscribe to the original Reddiquette philosophy. Downvotes arne’t for disagreement. They were originally a form of user-moderation to stop spam. Unfortunately about a decade ago after the Digg exodus the users of Reddit forgot that original usage and so you’d end up being downvoted and not knowing why. It doesn’t foster debate or discussion. It’s a cheap way to snipe someone down without being responsible or engaging them.

Very true, and that's why I'm more and more inclined to use an instance without downvotes. With the report button available, downvotes just seem like a shortcut for hivemind.

Blaze , 4 months ago

Good luck with this!

Interestingly enough, I always thought that Blahaj had a !trans community as they are a queer instance at their core, but it seems it wasn't the case.

Blaze , 4 months ago

Looks interesting, I find it quite clear.

Just couldn't find the creds for the demo instance, but could still see what it would look like. Thanks for sharing!

Blaze , 4 months ago

Interesting

Blaze , 4 months ago

I would suggest to find an instance in your mother language, it's the easiest way to find content in that language. When I want to see Spanish content, I go to masto.es. Some other languages use other platforms (usually Misskey forks)

Blaze , 4 months ago

Mbin has both Reddit and Twitter aspects bundled in.

Blaze , 4 months ago

will need more deep searches.

To be fair, it doesn't take that much to create an account on one instance and then see if it works for you. I must have more than ten alts on several platforms

Blaze , 4 months ago

Very interesting, thanks!

Blaze OP , 4 months ago

Is that you? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4422

Blaze OP , 4 months ago

I think that blocklist will stay very user-dependent, except for obvious spam instances which should be blocked at the instance level. But we'll see how it goes.

Blaze OP , 4 months ago

Any example of badly moderated communities? Asking because I didn't notice anything special.

Blaze OP , 4 months ago

Sad to hear. I don't read news community, that's why I didn't see it

Blaze OP , 4 months ago

True, forgot about that (luckily I woke up after it happened)

Blaze OP , 4 months ago

Your instance is still in 18.5

Blaze , 4 months ago

Good luck with this!

Blaze , 4 months ago

!movies still going strong

Blaze , 4 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ptZ1W-FRA

I skimmed through it, seems like a basic explanation of what the Fediverse is, mostly oriented on Mastodon.

The videast himself doesn't think he'll post his videos to the Fediverse as it lacks monetization.

Blaze , 4 months ago

I'm well aware, just reported what the video creator said

Blaze , 4 months ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I haven't been there in a while

Blaze , 4 months ago

For example, Threads supports audio posts, a feature not currently supported within ActivityPub, so Meta is experimenting with “federating” a text transcription of the original post instead of the audio version.

Here we go

Blaze , 4 months ago

You can have a look at this article

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Long story short, Google killed XMPP back in the days by federating with it, then added some non standard features, got most of the user base to migrate to Google chat, then defederated.

Blaze , 4 months ago

we deserve to die.

To be fair, maybe we are not even that alive to begin with.

Blaze , 4 months ago

Interesting view, thanks

Blaze , 4 months ago

I've seen two trolls recently, but you can see them from very far away, and they post in general ask communities like AskLemmy or No Stupid questions.

On smaller communities, they are not around that much. And I don't go to news or politics communities.

Blaze , 4 months ago

Very good points, thanks for sharing.

Blaze , 4 months ago

Personally, I’ve done some rounds of unsubscribing from tech and politics subs on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world, and when I’ve done that my amount of toxic content and interactions went way down.

Maybe that's a recommendation we should make to everyone

Blaze , 4 months ago

Really? I thought that Reddthat and Beehaw disabled down votes while still being federated

Blaze , 4 months ago

That, and the fact that simply there isn’t enough good discussion to begin with. This community kind of has movement because it’s a meta-topic, but for everything else it’s mostly "let’s pretend we are superior than redditors because we found our way here and “let’s pretend we are not in Reddit for all the other niche communities that we are still interested.”

That's a real issue. Hopefully it will get better over time, but sometimes at the moment it feels like shouting into the void.

Blaze , 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure those two are fine without downvotes, if that can help

Blaze , 4 months ago

Thanks, you too!

Blaze , 4 months ago

To be fair, Piefed uses Lemmy communities and comments, it's almost just another interface.

The reputation is indeed interesting, example in this thread with warnings "low reputation, beware!": https://piefed.social/post/27070#post_replies

Blaze , 4 months ago

Thank you very much for sharing, I'll keep an eye on it.

Blaze , 4 months ago

I just had an issue that might be interesting in your case. You can read it up on !newcommunities, but long story short, the mod of a community wasn't happy with the way I wanted to bring some meta discussion into the community.

The main difference in this kind of situation between Lemmy and Reddit is that

• the modlog (https://lemm.ee/modlog/408863) is public, allowing everyone to see what the mod did
• it's very easy to open another community, explain what went wrong with the other one, and keep things going.

Blaze , 4 months ago

Have you tried reaching out to them to talk to them about Lemmy?