@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they’re salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they’re trying to “fuck your entire site up” but I imagine it’s a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they’re creating, LMAO.
The instance owner/admins are in charge of that. They’re kind of equivalent to the Reddit admins, except if you don’t like the instance admins you can go to a different Lemmy instance but you can’t move to a new Reddit instance. Also, community names are unique to each instance, so !support and !support share the same name but are two separate communities in two separate instances.
That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
This article explains it pretty well. Though it focuses on Mastodon and similar Twitter clones, which all suffer from being clones of a dog shit idea for social media.
Largest shortcoming is that in order to see any content, you (or someone else on your instance) needs to follow someone/thing else from a different instance, and the only way to do that is to pour over hundreds or thousands of other websites. This means that objectively, the best experience for a new user is to join the largest instance available, which kind of defeats the purpose of federation. Also, 99%+ of users couldn't care less about federation and there aren't (m)any other selling points so nobody cares to leave the platforms they're already established on.
This article explains it pretty well. Though it focuses on Mastodon and similar Twitter clones, which all suffer from being clones of a dog shit idea for social media.
Largest shortcoming is that in order to see any content, you (or someone else on your instance) needs to follow someone/thing else from a different instance, and the only way to do that is to pour over hundreds or thousands of other websites. This means that objectively, the best experience for a new user is to join the largest instance available, which kind of defeats the purpose of federation. Also, 99%+ of users couldn't care less about federation and there aren't (m)any other selling points so nobody cares to leave the platforms they're already established on.
Lemmy.world is being "attacked" with random communities (lemmy.world)
@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they’re salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they’re trying to “fuck your entire site up” but I imagine it’s a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they’re creating, LMAO.
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Afternoon nap (lemmy.world)
Saturday APPreciation thread (Jul 1 2023) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!
Saw some users commenting that we should have these megathreads in here as well....
Posting this while waiting for it to stop raining so I can burn these thorns (lemmy.world)
It only started raining when I arrived at the tower and it's been going on for what seems like forever. Pretty sure the game does this on purpose...
Battle of the slashes (lemmy.world)
Sync for Reddit is dead, long live Sync for Lemmy
Morning all, Just a quick update to say I'm making good progress with the development and we just hit 24k email signups!...
The price of a cinema ticket in this day and age. No wonder people aren't going to the cinema anymore. (lemmy.world)
And so it ends (lemmy.world)
And so it ends (lemmy.world)
What is everyone getting this Steam sale?
I was looking at getting some roguelikes / lites (already have ToME, CoQ), unfortunately Cataclysm DDA is not on sale....
“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
Kbin + Lemmy has just ticked over 100k active users
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
Nice try Google (compuverse.uk)