Draconic_NEO

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

It’s funny how they can attack a software and all instances on it but turn a blind eye to the wrongdoings of the developers of the software they’re using. It shows a lot of very personal and emotional bias, and also quite a bit of hypocrisy because they are basically saying to all the instances that use Lemmy that one can’t use server software without agreeing with the developers, and yet they use Mastodon while fundamentally disagreeing with its developers.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

No, you’re misunderstanding the nature of the Fediverse. The fediverse concept centers around independent servers interconnecting and communicating with each other over activitypub, not all servers everywhere, just simply independent servers (AKA there is room for defederation and bans in that model). There will be servers which choose not to or won’t be allowed to interconnect and that isn’t antithetical to the goal because the goal is having servers be able to do it. If you were told that fediverse means all activitypub servers interconnect they were either misunderstanding or lying.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

It’s not even needed to do that, banning or removing from the DB directly bypasses the modlog, and also password and email resets aren’t recorded in the modlog and also won’t even show up as ‘banned’ on profiles, so if they wanted to ban people without others noticing they could just remove their email and reset their password to something they don’t know and never respond to support questions.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Rescuing home partition from ZFS, actually that doesn’t really count since I did have to reinstall (was no longer booting), but recovering the Home partition from ZFS and to the other ext4 drive was much harder than it should’ve been and that’s why I would never recommend people use ZFS.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Also those with a huge amount of cognitive dissonance who do mind but bear it anyway for… whatever reason.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

I don’t think it’s accurate and actually a bit disingenuous to lump WordPress and Flipboard together with Facebook/Threads, because these entities behave drastically differently, Flipboard and Wordpress are sharing their content with others on the Fediverse (plus wordpress is hosted software, people can run their own versions of it independently) without trying to compromise and manipulate users, Facebook is trying to recruit Fediverse users onto their platforms, that’s why they’re doing one-way Federation and banning Keywords related to Fediverse related platforms. To say “iT’S All cOrPOrATe” is ignoring these key facts, which is why I say it seems disingenuous.

Bad instances are going to be a struggle always, that’s just the nature of a federated network, there will always be bad actors, compromised nodes, and malicious users that we have to deal with, that’s never going to end no matter what happens. Even if it becomes infrequent it’ll still always happen.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Weirdly they do seem to allow right wing users, or at least used to at one point (there’s a lot of users here on lw with incredibly alt-right post/modlog histories but they are still here and active) because of neutrality, although I think that is weird because I feel like maintaining neutrality is a pretty good reason to exclude them, as they skew neutrality heavily towards their audience while forcing all the normal non-extremist people out.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Just click the X on your terminal window.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Their definition of evil was insubordination, their way of telling people to listen to them, while also trying to legitimize their message.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

First Debian, then Ubuntu because people said it was better, then back to Debian because it wasn’t (snaps really suck and break things), then to Pop OS (bc new laptop preinstalled with it). I also got a SteamDeck semi-recently if that counts (still use the Pop OS laptop).

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

I could also just block the threads.net domain, no?

Nope domain blocking in Lemmy only does anything for communities. Plus blocking on Lemmy isn’t even really blocking, it’s a more extreme mute function that is deceptively called “block”.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

specifically the turtle flat earth theory

I guess that’s a no to Discussions around the DiscWorld novels and DiscWorld universe then?

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Haven’t had many experiences like here, most people seem either positive or indifferent (both furry stuff and femboy/gnc). It doesn’t come up as much here though so it’s possible I just missed it.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Yup, and this time it seems like they’re getting more support from the community than downvotes (or they’re upvoting their own post).

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Well you see, since Lemmy.world is a large instance, the vast majority of the Lemmy network actually. Such decisions ultimately affect everyone else because they slash your engagement severely in all affected communities.

So even on other instances the decisions of a behemoth like lemmy.world can still affect users there, in way more indirect and annoying ways.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Just early upvotes.

I was a bit worried because those early votes had a very large positive ratio and that could mean a very drastic culture shift since the last one of these posts, which obviously wouldn’t bode well, not just for Lemmy.world but for interactions from it as well on other instances.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Trying to avoid people seeing it because they’ll get more backlash and probably lose donators and rightfully so. These types of knee-jerk reactions combined with the refusal to address feedback are very concerning.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Great question, see when instances have management level disagreements like this there really isn’t any purpose to using their communities from a remote account.

Unlike a lot of people who “migrated” I realize it ultimately doesn’t make a difference using these communities from a remote server because they are controlled by this one and ultimately will be affected by defederations and bans. So I only migrated my non-lemmy.world subscriptions to the other instance accounts and left the local ones on this account.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Plus it allows users to anonymously express disdain towards somebody, not just to their comment or opinion but them personally I’ve seen this happen on Reddit where people were mass downvoted for seemingly no reason other than being openly trans/queer.

It only gets worse when you use that as a reputation system for restricting users because then it’s a social credit system.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Yup corrupt companies likely do it all the time. Technically it’s perjury to lie in a court but outside of being caught or going to hell it’s not much of a deterrent.

There isn’t much recourse against that other than trying to skirt detection by these companies (not possible or feasible in the long term) or to be in a country that is strongly against or an enemy of the one(s) those companies are in or allied with.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Are you suggesting some sort of digital ham radio networking? That is honestly a good idea but it probably wouldn’t be well suited for a platform like Lemmy and your device would have to be listening all the time which for internet devices is fine but can be challenging with two way radios. Then there’s licensing costs since governments try to control radio spectrum usage, yes pirate radio stations are a thing but they have their own challenges. Also radio is at the mercy of the weather so that’s yet another thing to keep in mind.

So with all those challenges despite the fact that it is an interesting idea it just doesn’t seem feasible. What would be better would be coming up with more decentralized systems of trust to work on the internet, since one major point of failure is that our TLS security model is based on centralized entities, in addition to the domain registration systems.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

I see, it would be nice to ask someone who knows for sure.

@Rooki is this the case? Is the ModId field a custom config that needs to be enabled and/or is it a feature added specifically to Lemmy.world (If you don’t know would you mind asking someone who might know and getting back to me then?)? If that is the case I’ll edit my responses with this new information.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

It’s just one of the preconfigured Lemmy theme options.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

Rooki said that there’s an option called “Hide Mod Names”, it’s likely a default value in the standard Lemmy package, likely the reason why it isn’t on more instances. I’ll ask the other instance admins I know about it later.

Draconic_NEO, 2 months ago

I made an issue on the Lemmy github for a solution to this problem. It allows for reports to be controlled by users just like they are on Mastodon. Would allow people to effectively bypass community moderators entirely, or bypass forwarding to remote instances.