dogmuffins

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Does anyone else hope the bulk of Reddit stays there?

I think my favorite thing about Lemmy is that it feels like Reddit used to. Less negativity, more engaged users (I think). I know it will be fun to watch Reddit die, but if I put spite aside what I’m really mad at Reddit about is more about what Reddit became and maybe part of that is when the general internet user started...

dogmuffins,

You’re right in a way, but I think you’re applying a narrow definition of “opinion” when I think most people ITT are thinking about “behaviours”.

Sure, it’s not great to exclude dissenting political opinions, the intolerance paradox being a notable exception. That said, I’m not here to discuss politics.

Say for example that some users will do anything for fake internet points - post anything, say anything, there behaviour is guided by the pursuit of karma and building some kind of following. Other users will do anything for engagement, whatever it takes to get others to engage with them including trolling. I’m happy enough for these types of users to find more rewarding platforms elsewhere. Note that’s different to excluding them, it’s just being a part of a place that isn’t fertile ground for their fixations.

dogmuffins,

I think the future will be good for countries like Canada / Sweden / Russia because global warming will more or less only help them. A lot of land will become better for agriculture / more habitable. Of course they will probably have to deal with some sort of refugee crisis from the global south.

I don’t know much about this but I don’t think that this is how global warming works ?

I think this misunderstanding is why the phrase “climate change” is preferred because “global warming” makes it sound like everywhere will be a few degrees warmer which is not really the case.

My limited understanding is that the average global temperature may be warmer, but that really just means the ocean surface will be warmer, which creates more severe weather patterns.

The big problems with climate change seem to be quite nuanced, in a nutshell more severe and less predictable weather patterns. For example here in Western Australia maybe 20% of the state is arable land with predictable rainfall. Suppose next year there’s 50% less rainfall in that 20% of the state (it just rains somewhere else) - that’s a catastrophic problem. 50% of the productivity, 50% of the water flowing into dams for industrial and household use. Suppose the following year there’s 50% more rainfall than usual, falling on arable land where it hasn’t rained for a few years - it washes the dry topsoil away again destroying productivity.

There was an episode about water scarcity on doomsday watch podcast - fascinating & terrifying. There’s a phrase that stuck with me - if climate change is a shark then water scarcity is the teeth.

dogmuffins,

eventually it’ll run dry - because the contributors are leaving the site

I somewhat disagree… you haven’t considered the increased incentive for occasional posters to become more regular contributors as existing contributors leave.

As the volume of contributions reduces, each contribution is more likely to garner engagement - those sweet sweet endorphins released when someone upvotes or otherwise engages with your post.

dogmuffins,

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dogmuffins,

What about bots to talk to the bots thought?

dogmuffins,

I agree. If lemmy continues to grow, inevitably some servers will be shit, but I imagine there will be other non-federated or less-federated instances. beehaw has already started down that path.

Trolls are generally looking for maximum carnage, so I imagine there’s less incentive / reward posting somewhere like lemmy.

dogmuffins,

I think this is something reddit users generally have a hard time grasping about lemmy, including myself.

One of the fundamentals of the fediverse is that there will be communities with the same name on different instances. Users can subscribe to good ones and / unsubscribe from bad ones as they wish.

dogmuffins,

This is what I do.

If all you have is a single open port listening for wireguard connections that's a pretty small surface area to expose.

dogmuffins,

There's a whole herd of elephants in this particular room:

  • mods do what they do for ego. Sure there's a few isolated exceptions in niche communities but in general they're fief lords. As we've seen recently they will do anything to retain control of their fiefdoms, including backing down at the first glint of steel from their overlords.
  • mods are easily replaceable by the army of 15 year olds waiting in line behind them eager for their own chance at being lord of the fief. Many current mods may actually have some skill and experience but that's not essential. Think about your lawn mower guy - he's been doing it for 100 years and does a fantastic job, but if he retired and his 15 year old son made a mess or your lawn, it wouldn't be a big deal.
  • unionising only works when you can't legally just fire all the unionists, which is not the case here.
dogmuffins,

This is happening all over reddit.

Mods are posting all over the place saying "I have to bend over for the admins because if I don't they'll find someone else who will".

You do you but honestly I find this a bit weird. As an unpaid volunteer you don't have to do anything. Just resign. Reddit's not about to die but it's best days are in the past. I wouldn't want to be a part of the future of reddit.

dogmuffins,

This is pretty much me also!

IDK if I'd describe myself as a libreoffice "power user" but trying to figure out how things work in other suites is a pain.

[Help] How can I use a VPS to protect my home's ip?

I have a nextcloud instance being hosted from my home network. The URL associated with it points directly at my home's IP. I don't want to host the instance on a VPS because disk space is expensive. So, instead, I want to point the URL at the VPS, and then somehow route the connection to my home's nextcloud instance without...

dogmuffins,

These two questions are really quite different and the answers to each are completely different.

Or... to say the same thing another way, do these "multiple websites" need to be accessible by the public?

If not, then use wireguard. This way your home network only needs to expose a single port listening for wireguard connections. Not much of an attack surface area.

If so, then use a reverse proxy. This way you expose a single port 443 listening for https connections, and nginx (or whatever) routes requests to the correct internal port depending on the domain used in the request. Again, not much of an attack surface area.

No bots are going to assess your multiple websites and conclude that it's your home network, because it will just look like any other web server on the net. Additionally even if they did conclude that it's your home network an nginx server listening to https requests is the same surface area you would have if you were forwarding all the traffic via your VPS.

IMO, in all cases the VPS is just added complexity for no benefit.

dogmuffins,

Yeah. I'm in regional Australia, I'm guessing but maybe 1 in 500 homes have flags outside. I don't really know but I always assume they're "fuck off we're full" types.

dogmuffins,

They're on lemmy.ml, not even on any of the effected servers.

dogmuffins,

I came to beehaw because it seemed to very welcoming

I think they're trying to preserve that

users desire freedom to choose how they want their online experience

This hasn't curtailed that freedom in any way. You can sign up at one of many other instances (lemmy.ml for example) and interact with beehaw and lemmy.world and wherever else. In fact you might say this move affords additional freedoms for people to choose their own experience because beehaw will be free fro mthe noise coming from the instances they've defederated from.

I can only see this hurting beehaw in the future

This assumes that the objective is continued rapid growth. Like every instance wants to be a reddit alternative. The opening post pretty much says that's not the objective.

I would also add that you seem to have overlooked the difficulties OP mentioned in administrating the instance. That's easy to do coming from commercial sites where people are being paid. It sounds like there are four people who have a little experience, but very little time and resources to spend running the site. Additionally as they said in the post they're running into the limitations of lemmy's ability to moderate a large community. One of the fundamental characteristics of volunteer contributors is they're free to curtail or discontinue their services at any time. I saw one of the admins of beehaw in another post say that it's been more than a full time job over the last few weeks, on top of all their existing full time jobs. Imagine you'd poured 80 hours over the last fortnight into supporting a community, then telling that community that it's not sustainable, and that community saying "I can only see this hurting [...] hopefully this is a short misstep"

dogmuffins,

Maybe you didn't understand the question?

If your post is in whatever@forum.basedcount.com, and you give me a link to that post, but my account is at lemmy.ml, I won't be able to comment on basedcount.com and there's no easy way to find the post at lemmy.ml where I would be able to comment.

dogmuffins,

Redditors in general just aren't that into lemmy. Most redditors come here expecting to find a 1 for 1 replacement pre-warmed with millions of users and brimming with reddit culture.

Not having an algorithm to tell people what they want to see is a bigger impediment to attracting users than most people realise.

Additionally, I think mods are reluctant to direct users to any other community as they will give up lordship of their own fiefdom. Sorry, I acknowledge that I have probably an unfairly dim view of mods. I'm sure some are amazing, but certainly many are self-obsessed power trippers. They act in their own interests to preserve control rather than acting in the interest of the community.

dogmuffins,

I'm genuinely asking and don't mean this the way it sounds, but is this supposition or have you observed this yourself?

Everyone says their own instances aren't very resource intensive. Even the larger instances like lemmy.world don't seem to have huge specs.

Although there's a lot of subscriptions there doesn't seem to be an overwhelming amount of content being produced. The most active threads in /home have like 150 comments over 2 days? I don't have the data and this really is mere supposition but it just doesn't seem like that much load.

I did see they pushed a new version with some db optimisations so that's probably an indicator that you're right. Also things just feel unstable. Unusually long page load times or 500 errors just occasionally. Things definitely aren't great I'm just not certain that db linkages are the problem.

dogmuffins,

It's inevitable that some communities and some instances will be run this type of fief lord, but I suspect that the fediverse will support a more diverse range of cultures, just by virtue of there being more to choose from.

dogmuffins,

Too bad that YT, regarding content offer, lacks valid competitors and this position can lead to abuse in front of the user.

It's the same as any other platform - the network effect. People are more likely to produce content for youtube because thats where the users are.

That said, it's easier for content creators to support alternatives because unlike social media where everyone is a creator video content producers have a creator > follower relationship, so there's almost no cost to them to upload the same content on other sites.

I subscribed to nebula a while back. There's not heaps of content, and all (ok almost all) of it is available for free on youtube. However, I'm happy to pay provided that most of the revenue is going to creators, and I'm happy to support a non-advertising-revenue model.

dogmuffins,

Not wanting to pay youtube does not mean not wanting to pay creators.

dogmuffins,

this particular cat and mouse has been going on for a long time.

Although I get the impression it's not particularly aggressive.

There was a while there about a year ago where newpipe seemed to break every week and you had to install the next patch version from github. It's not like newpipe had to develop some new workaround or something, just changed class names or something.

I really want to like Lemmy

I really want to like lemmy, but it's difficult. I'm new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but... I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having...

dogmuffins,

The biggest problem I see is fragmentation, people are creating the same community in different instaces, /c/Piracy for example.

I agree, to an extent. You’re right in that if you were part of the vibrant community of /r/piracy then it’s miserable to see it shatter here on lemmy. That said, this only applies if you’re expecting lemmy to be a 1 for 1 reddit replacement. For this type of community to remain cohesive, /r/piracy would have had to spin up their own instance and in /r/piracy direct everyone to lemmy.piracyinstance.whatever.

You can’t really “fix” this in a central way because even if you did, it would be trivial to create an instance that would allow duplicate community names. Also, I can see a lot of use cases for lemmy which do not intend to be federated.

That said, it’s not necessarily as big a problem as it appears, if you just accept that this is how the fediverse works. There’s no single source of control, so of course people can create 147 different /c/piracy communities if they wish to. Once you accept that, then it’s not really that difficult to subscribe to all the /c/piracy communities you can find.

The problem itself could be diminished by a few new features which I feel certain will emerge in the future:

  • linked communities, where one communities content is syndicated to another. So if you post in !selfhosted then you also post in !selfhosted. This would work differently to cross-posting, all comments would be reflected on both instances.
  • grouped communities, where you can subscribe to a group of /c/selfhosted communities with one click, so you see them all in your feed.
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