This is my main lemmy account.
Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone
I can also be found elsewhere on the fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone and @ada@embers.social.
My backup lemmy account is @ada@lemmy.ml
I’m always struck by the fact that articles “debunking” Myers-Briggs choose capitalism as their measure of validity.
“It doesn’t have a useful role in the workplace” is not the same thing as “has no validity at all”
Maybe it doesn’t have any validity, but just once I’d like to see an article that didn’t frame that discussion around it’s ability to be useful to corporations that want to categorise you
The thing is, the wider Fediverse works the way you describe, with imported defederation lists etc.
Most people setting up new Mastodon instances start with a standard block list with all of the usual suspects on it.
This is the future of Lemmy too as it gets bigger and as integration with non Lemmy instance becomes more common.
Context matters.
I agree. And I think that’s the difference. Fundamentally, Lemmy isn’t that much different to Reddit, in so far as all of the issues you highlight there exist here too.
The only difference is context.
Right, but what I’m saying is that as an instance admin, I can and do block other instances for the reasons you outline. If someone posts in a hate sub, they’re getting banned from my instance. If an instance is explicitly right wing, it’s getting defederated from my instance. If someone does "what about"ism or otherwise excuses transphobia, racism, sexism or the like, they’re getting banned from my instance.
I’m explicitly biased towards communities and people that align with my beliefs, and will happily ban anyone that is actively opposed to them. I have zero interest in “free speech” as a guiding policy that I should be aiming for.
Which is to say, I am many of the things you say reddit is, but lemmy isn’t, and yet here I am on lemmy.
The difference is federation vs centralisation. On reddit, if you don’t like it, you’re out of luck. On lemmy, if you don’t like an instance, you can find another or even create your own. But both of those versions can and do have humans with bias pushing ban buttons
I’ve yet to have that problem. Who are these people speaking to bots and not realising it?
I mean sure, I can see someone engaging with a bot generated post and maybe not realising it’s bot generated, but I don’t think there is an endemic of other consistently interacting with a bot and not realising it.
Email spam is a good example. Spam makes up the vast majority of email, but not the majority of email interactions.
Not natively, but there is a 3rd party community index somewhere. I’ll see if I can dig up the URL.
Edit - Here it is https://browse.feddit.de/
Nope, that’s what they’re trying to achieve.
They’re a very large community based on a significantly diverged fork of lemmy with some major DB differences that make federation impossible.
The work they’re doing is to bring it back inline with lemmy and allow for federation with the wider lemmy community. They have something like 20,000 members
I think people are misunderstanding this article.
I don’t agree with it, but what the author is saying is that the idea of a single federated network is already dead, and that instead, the future will be smaller islands of instances that federate with each other but are insular within themselves.
And we already see that to some extent, with a rather sharp division between the freeze peach instances and the rest of the Fediverse. But that’s not going to keep happening at smaller and smaller levels, because the reason defederation happens with any given instance is to maintain a feed consistent with that communities values. Once that is achieved, further defederating just diminishes community engagement
I think that could work well on an instance like lemmy.ml, where a new post not federating isn’t a barrier to interaction.
But on my instance for example, at the moment, there is 1 active user, 2 semi active users and around 10 registered users that have never participated. If a new user posted to my instance and their reply didn’t federate, they would get very little interaction.
Would it be possible for it to federate the person’s post with a content review flag, so that admins could decide on an instance by instance basis whether they display content from non approved new users?
This post was talking about people who end puberty at 8 or 9.
There was also zero discussion of age differences or the abuse this would enable.
It’s one thing to not criminalise a couple of horny 14 year olds, it’s another to create a system that sanctions adults sexually abusing 9 year olds.
This post is the latter, not the former
Ah, no, that sounds like something else.
A work around to try (not a fix) is to sign out of your account and then sign back in again. I had an issue around the time of the upgrade. My login session had apparently terminated, though Jerboa didn’t recognise that as having happened. I got all sorts of weird error messages until I logged in again.
Fair. But, it’s still significant