I finally caught the idea why fedi feels superior to other platforms (besides the obvious) - reacts.
where did you see a dislike button last time? i only see it on stackexchange where it serves only functional purposes and disqus where it serves only social purposes.
here we have a bunch of conditionally negative reacts and full freedom of expression. my favs are woozy cats and wrenches. they also can be completely ironic, can you imagine an ironic dislike button? i certainly can't
platforms with only likes absolutely suck. fuck you for your "positive engagement" farming, my people need TOOLS to express ourselves, we need WRENCHES 🔧🔧🔧
@forza4galicia People often boost it, then toot "LB: <thing I have to add> and then you have to dig through their profile to find the last boost before the toot.
@argv_minus_one They also do it as a way to convince people, including sometimes themselves, that it is "okay" to not like something.
Someone has a squick and rather than acknowledge that "this is a squick and I should just put filters in place" they try to find a way to make it Problematic™ and blame others for their feelings, because then it is "okay" for them to hate it and demand that others remove it.
It's the dance of "someone (who is not me) should be protecting me."
so misskey.io announced they're introducing a temporary measure against the spambots by ignoring all posts, boosts, replies and whatnot from other instances, UNLESS a user from a different instance is followed by someone on misskey.io
if you wanna maintain communication with misskey.io's users you should make an account from there and follow your main that is on another instance (the announcement itself recommends this method)
I'm (not) sorry if this sounds like gatekeeping, but if you aren't technical enough and/or don't have the time to administrate an instance properly, please do not host a fediverse server. At the very least, don't allow open registrations or keep it single-user.
I've seen users losing their entire social graph due to instances randomly shutting down or losing their data, which is unfair to those users and paints a negative light of fediverse. And now, we're seeing the entire fediverse bogged down with spam because of instances that fail to mitigate bots, affecting the experience of everyone else.
In a related light, it's concerning how a small group of actors (at least based on our internal intelligence) can degrade the experience of the fediverse this effectively. It signals that we have a have a long ways to go in terms of the technologies, strategies, and tools we use to mitigate bad actors in the fediverse. What we currently have isn't enough for a resilient fediverse.
@lea For personal instances go and deploy unstable git commits or patches you wrote yourself for all I care but I agree, as soon as you start publically accepting users you need to be a bit more careful. I will make an exception for private signups where an instance exists for the purpose of general testing.
I'm so tired of the idea that people we listen to have to:
a) Have opinions on every topic (especially those outside their expertise)
b) Opine those opinions publicly or else be accused of participation in whatever someone doesn't like
c) Parrot exactly what someone else already believes or be accused of being a plant for, not just the other side, but the furthest extreme of the other side
This is not how human beings work.
People may not have well considered opinions on all topics- I certainly don't.
People may choose to stay out of a conversation for a myriad of reasons.
People may have opinions that are right in some areas and wrong in others.
We need to get away from the idea of someone not fitting a mold exactly as a moral failure. It's not a moral failure to be a person.
@serge these people are the roadside IEDs on the highway to information. You can do your best to avoid them but you're probably still gonna take some shrapnel from being in their vicinity.
It may be that, or a different prioritization, or lots of things.
And it's tricky when it's really core stuff to you- I certainly have my core issues. But we can't be entirely consumed with demanding complete agreement. It's harmful to ourselves, to others, and society.
Some people seem to think that maybe on the Fediverse, Threads will engage in reasonable moderation, or generally behave like a decent company. This despite the fact they've engaged in so much evil that's been amply documented.
so lately ive been bouncing between the evil one (threads) the slightly less evil one (tumblr) and of course here
threads still feels meh and i dont like the demographic that much, the algorithm seems to be pretty good actually but the algorithm can only do so much when the content is lacking
tumblr i dont get enough engagement to say anything lol i thought i was using popular tags but i guess not? but tumblr is tumblr i still love writing there
Would Fediverse admins like a presentation by Babka folks on antisemitism on the Fediverse, specifically what mainstream Jews/Jewish organizations consider hate speech and why?
If you're an instance admin or a moderator and you'd be interested, I'd like to hear from you. If there's enough interest, I'll put together a signup, but this is just a feeler for now.
If you're interested, please reply or DM me, thanks!
If you're not an admin, please boost or let your admin know about this! Thanks!
I really need to start keeping links around on Fedi meta conflicts. If only to have a chance to figure out whether the side currently calling bullshit on the other side is actually telling the truth or trying to gaslight me into questioning what I read a week ago.
This idea that the people voicing complaints or criticism over the Fedi HOA are somehow “scared” because they’re racist bigots and are getting found out is foolish. Actual terrible people doing terrible things are not afraid of some silly ass block list or the jokers that are running it.
People that are trying to exist and build a community, however, are concerned and worry about it. Because their connections and community are in constant risk of dissolving over fucked up whims.