we think flat earthers should be more respected than leftists on our instance
People rush faster off lw
lw harrases people posting elsewhere
Does lw have the same PR philosophy of musk and spez?
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I've seen a lot of LW users behaving like this.
They want a single comm per topic, preferably in LW; and everyone should go to that comm, no dissidence allowed. Always talking about "not splitting efforts", or some FUD like "unless we gather together Lemmy will never succeed".
And, when you tell them a clear "no", they throw a tantrum. Like Serinus did there.
I think that they got out of Reddit, but they didn't get Reddit out of themselves. They still behave like this was a Reddit-like monolithic platform; so when they see decentralisation - like multiple comms for the same topic, in different instances - they treat it as a bug, when it's a feature.
~~Anyway, I'd call that FAPTB (failed attempt of powertripping).~~ EDIT: wow, they removed your mention of the other comm! Talk about pettiness. PTB.
I think that they got out of Reddit, but they didn’t get Reddit out of themselves. They still behave like this was a Reddit-like monolithic platform; so when they see decentralisation - like multiple comms for the same topic, in different instances - they treat it as a bug, when it’s a feature.
Maybe we should point them out to Discuit and their 181 weekly active users: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/NlAdOWAp
Some people indeed don't seem to understand that if Lemmy has 43k monthly active users, it's thanks to the different instances and community. Would ml been a single forum, most of the people wouldn't have even registered. LW could have a decent following, but the regular debatable policy updates would have probably pushed people away.
Sounds like Discuit should add apub integration. At this day and age it honestly baffles me that people like the devs of raddle and discuit go all like "No we don't want to talk to anyone else. You have to join our walled garden!"
There are at least 4 or 5 forums on /r/Redditalternatives which could definitely benefit from ActivityPub, but they don't see the appeal.
One of them even asks for people credit card information to avoid bots
There are at least 4 or 5 forums on /r/Redditalternatives which could definitely benefit from ActivityPub, but they don't see the appeal.
Ye I know, it's fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn't have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.
One of them even asks for people credit card information to avoid bots
Lol, at an age where people are preconditioned to assume this means a subscription lock-in and the rest don't even own one, I wonder how many people took them up on that offer.
I also love the naivety of thinking $3 once will stop spammers. As if that wouldn't be a perfectly cheap amount to pay to spam all their users if they had a lot of them. Twitter has $8 a pop and it's innundated with spam
Ye I know, it’s fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn’t have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.
Well put. It's a bit disheartening, because people put time and energy in those projects, that could be used to develop the existing open source platforms...
Software devs and their "I can build this better from scratch in one weekend" mentality, mate...
Maybe its old age and laziness, but at least 99 times out of 100 I think "someone else built this better from scratch in a weekend, I should check some git repos first".
If I find nothing, start a project, get it functional, and then randomly run across exactly what I'm looking for (or close enough with minor updates I can send upstream).
.world mods and admins are just seething right now because they were unsuccessful in moving 196 to .world. The whole community just fucked off to !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This behaviour will just continue, its what .world is destined to do because they think we need them.
Y'all are assigning way to much maliciousness to the people running a non-profit.
I usually trust LW, especially Ruud. One point I just don't get is why staying federated with Threads
I do think the L.W. position is a bit too status-quo, but being misguided isn't the same as being a mustache twirling villain 
i think it was ruud who banned me for antiwhite racism from political memes, purely because Iinked readsettlers.org .
I trust him as a sysadmin. Not sure he does that much moderation these days
I actually think that's part of the problem. If you don't eat your own dogfood, you don't know where the problems are.
ruud isn't and hasn't for a long time been involved in LW moderation at all. the last moderation type site admin action taken by ruud was september 2023. all LW site moderation is done by the LW site admin team and to some extent our community team.
the LW team operates more or less independently from the rest of the instances we have at FHF. some topics are discussed in the wider circle of moderators across instances (same role, just different terminology depending on the software) but decisions are generally still on the LW site admin team.
Makes sense, thank you for confirming
True, but at the same time maybe he doesn't want to talk on Lemmy that much. Also I think they also manage Mastodon, that would be something to stay active there regularly too
Yes, but again, this is part of the problem. Ruud deciding to host and maintain a dozen fediverse services he doesn't use personally is a choice, which has these sort of effects.
I personally run lemmy and only lemmy because I use it all the time and know exactly what's happening here and what the drama is and can put my development time into improving my instance.
He is the only person hosting general purpose friendica and sharkey servers right now.
Why is a decentralised instance in a decentralised social network infrastructure wanting to be the centralised instance.
IMO, Lemmy.world is a greater risk to Lemmy than Meta's threads.
i think the sublinks dev is ongoing, they said they wanted to switch to that and eventually cut ties to lemmy. They probably want the largest userbase to take with them
i think the sublinks dev is ongoing,
It's halted at the moment. !piefed_meta@piefed.social is usable
oh god whats the story on that? Why are people so adamant on splintering?
Sublinks main dev got a child.
Piefed dev knew Python and not Java
Yeah duh, thats why everyone is pissed at .world. Their admins also didnt sign the anti meta petition (fedipact) and for that and many other reasons are defederated by other instances.
Imo the fedipact is silly. It shouldn't be a reason to defederate from someone
Nobody is deferating because someone didn't sign the fedi pact, but people do bring that as a con for that instance.