Nope. It's far too US-centric, both in content and cultural norms enforced by censorship. What's really great about the fediverse is to be able to find not just niche content about "the outside world" but communities literally run under different cultural norms.
/m/politics is basically unmoderated, and the trolls and other ne'er-do-wells are starting to find it. I'm not even particularly interested in following it, but that's one topic that you don't want to leave unmoderated. It's a troll magnet for obvious reasons, and that starts to affect the rest of the instance (and the...
This question comes to me because since we cannot hop through instances (AKA transfer from one instance to another your account) I'd like to create an account into another instance, for research purposes, but if this 'feature' comes in a near future I'd love to bring my main account to said instance, preferably with the same...
You need to adjust your thinking a tad. The instances are all separate servers / websites that have agreed to talk in a certain way, that happen to use identical software. So it's like going to Amazon and creating an account and then going to Imgur and creating an account. No one cares that there are two identical usernames as it's two entirely separate databases.
Where it gets more relevant to Lemmy is that your username has @instance.abc after it.
My first experience with Lemmy was thinking that the UI was beautiful, and lemmy.ml (the first instance I looked at) was asking people not to join because they already had 1500 users and were struggling to scale....
I think the devs openly stated they aren't backend bods and asked for help optimising the database as a priority. There's a bit of work going on on github to sort that out I think. Anyone reading this who can optimise postgresql or contribute to a database agnostic retool should probably speak to the devs as I imagine you'd be welcome.
I wish I could help so much but I doubt they're going to retool into .net haha.
The short version is that beehaw was struggling with the (currently) limited toolset available to moderate user content, and they saw a heap of users posting things they don't allow on their instance were coming from the two other big instances, so it was more effective for them to defederate to try and stem the tide.
I imagine regeneration will occur in future when the lemmyverse stabilises a little, and when better mod tools are available
I was commenting on a Japanese sub to guide them to Lemmy and my comment becomes "[ Removed by Reddit ]" after a few seconds. Was this always the case?
I imagine they are in damage control mode and are hoping to stem the outflow of users' attention spans to the Lemmyverse while their current actions are the Current Thing.
I reckon they are budgeting for a 1-2 week martial law period to try and stabilise and will probably force open all the closed subs and make use of repost and chatGPT bots to simulate decent engagement, possibly even paying for comments too.
It would also be very interesting if they roll back on their censorship of open discussion of certain topics to attract back previously "resettled" users.
Currently the admins have to curate this for you through federation, although you can try and whack a mole individual communities from an instance. Heaps of people are asking for user level control of blocking instances and I hope it comes soon as there's a couple instances I keep seeing federated into my feed that I find abhorrent, and this growth phase of Lemmy means new communities on those instances keep appearing.
Oh I didn't mean blocking users, to me a user's home instance is a matter of convenience and not a cross for them to bear as a member of some perceived village.
It's baffling how having a home instance makes you subject to the whims of the instance admins ref. banning your user across the lemmyverse or deciding what you will and won't see by their Federation choices. It's like, I despised Reddit for its blanket censorship and statistical-minority rule, and Lemmy has chosen to kind of replicate that?
I'd much rather my user profile and preferences, feed settings just be a lightweight, mobile or transient thing that can be moved around as the nature of each instance changes, with admins just housing an agreed number of users as part of the "cost" of being a Lemmy instance, and not having any pastoral role in their governance.
There are one or two instances which I have no interest in any of the communities on, to the extent that I don't want to see them in my All feed. How do I filter or block them in my feed?
Actually I misunderstood the solution and it doesn't meet my needs. I wanted to block an entire instance as a user. I actually don't really care much for the admins managing this for me...
I work in a space adjacent to change management (ERP implementation) and honestly, be happy and kind. These questions are the absolute default ones of humans attempting to puzzle out a paradigm shift. And the fact they're here and they're feeling loved enough to actually ask for help with their new mental model of it is about eight degrees better than it could have been.
So my answer is: it's just like r/games, r/gaming, r/videogames, r/patientgamers. They are all the same subject matter with overlapping content and userbases, with potentially wildly different moderation biases and groupthinks. And that was all on one centralised Reddit! You subbed to some, or all of them, as you saw fit, you maybe even managed a multireddit to group them! It's just the same here except they're on different instances and soon, enhancements to Lemmy pending, will be just as seamless to manage.
The most in-depth video I was able to find regarding the invention of the steam engine spends 15 minutes on the topic. I can safely say that steam, iron, coal and pistons are involved, but I never learned what a piston is (I know they exist and are in engines) in school, so I can't grok the engine as a whole because of the...
I think what will most likely happen if Lemmy gets past the inflection point and gains popularity is that a layer of aggregation services will appear. Either third party sites letting users curate their feeds from communities across different servers or the userbase will demand the aggregation feature be built into Lemmy itself.
For example you'd search from your app for Cats communities, and you'd get a listing of Cats@linkedserver1.com, Cats@server.linked, Cats@obscure.server and you'd just tag them all and get an aggregated Cats content list in your feed on your app or browser.
Edit: lmao it already does this. Leaving this up as a last desperate attempt at retaining some dignity
Hypothetically speaking, if Reddit back tracks on their API plan and meets all of the communities expeditions- would you go back to Reddit?
I myself am really on the fence about this....
Anon analyses hubris (sh.itjust.works)
/m/politics has no moderators other than ernest
/m/politics is basically unmoderated, and the trolls and other ne'er-do-wells are starting to find it. I'm not even particularly interested in following it, but that's one topic that you don't want to leave unmoderated. It's a troll magnet for obvious reasons, and that starts to affect the rest of the instance (and the...
Can I delete an account from "X" instance and re-create it with the same username?
This question comes to me because since we cannot hop through instances (AKA transfer from one instance to another your account) I'd like to create an account into another instance, for research purposes, but if this 'feature' comes in a near future I'd love to bring my main account to said instance, preferably with the same...
Does Lemmy really benefit from Rust? Is code execution speed the bottleneck?
My first experience with Lemmy was thinking that the UI was beautiful, and lemmy.ml (the first instance I looked at) was asking people not to join because they already had 1500 users and were struggling to scale....
What’s the deal with lemmy.world and beehaw?
I don’t get what the problem is? Anyone can elaborate....
Reddit just auto removed my comment with a link to Lemmy.ml
I was commenting on a Japanese sub to guide them to Lemmy and my comment becomes "[ Removed by Reddit ]" after a few seconds. Was this always the case?
Can I block entire instances?
Is it possible to block entire instances? I see I can block by user or community, but not by instance....
What's the best moment of non-verbal communication in a (reasonably well-known) movie?
I was hoping CineFix would do a video on this but I thought why not ask here?
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” (www.theverge.com)
Suggestions to simplify Lemmy for the average user who just wants a Reddit clone
Tl;dr...
How do I block an instance from my All feed?
There are one or two instances which I have no interest in any of the communities on, to the extent that I don't want to see them in my All feed. How do I filter or block them in my feed?
Redundant communities across instances
As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this....
Tafkars: Reddit-API proxy for Lemmy (help wanted) (imgur.com)
cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/768790...
Free online courses/YouTube series on the technologies of the Industrial Revolution?
The most in-depth video I was able to find regarding the invention of the steam engine spends 15 minutes on the topic. I can safely say that steam, iron, coal and pistons are involved, but I never learned what a piston is (I know they exist and are in engines) in school, so I can't grok the engine as a whole because of the...
Idea/Draft: A common set of instructions for new users that could be pinned across instances.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827...