I don’t hate muslims, I don’t hate christians or members of any other religion. Hating people en masse is the province of extremists.
That said, there’s nothing wrong with holding religious people to account if their idea of practicing their religion is to take away other people’s right to their own ideas or somehow ends up in the victimisation of the populace.
In fact, if theists could just learn to practice their religion in their own homes and places of worship they’re not a problem at all.
Conversely, a Nazi doesn’t have the shades of grey that a religion does. Not all muslims want to fly planes into buildings and not all catholics want to abuse kids. However, by definition, all Nazi’s want to kill Jews, all Nazi’s want their idea of the Aryan race to rule the planet and all Nazi’s are scum.
It’s an OK article but would’ve liked Max to be a little kinder in terms of an explanation as to why both Lemmy and KBin are at the state they’re currently in.
Six weeks ago, the two dev teams (and for KBin that was one person) were writing code for barely used platforms. Now all of a sudden, the code they’re writing is catering to over a million people across hundreds of instances. This is Alpha software so of course some tools and documentation are missing. These two dev teams have been in fire-fighting mode for the last few weeks I expect. There’s no large dev teams here, no billionaire backers able to throw money at an issue.
The article was good overall but it would’ve been better if there’d been an explanation offered as to how they’re being developed and why some features are not in place yet.
I think you underestimate the deep stupidity and tech-ignorance of our politicians, coupled with their burning desire to know everything that we do. This is a set of people who think hidden == illegal.
Its decentralized nature isn’t due to censorship, or a lack of it, but its structure. Of course there’s going to be some degree of censorship because instances all have individual rules which, if you break, you’ll be penalized for which can take the form of removal of content.
The only way to have total free speech is create your own instance which is a total free for all but then you’ll attract the worst sort of people and your instance will end up defederated by instance owners who don’t want content from literal Nazis federated to their instances.
I don’t like the idea of .world federating with Threads. I want no part of anything Meta related intruding into this space for various reasons.
However, the decision to rests with each instance owner and them alone. The admin of .world has elected to adopt a wait and see approach. I think that’s a mistake but it is their decision.
What you’re asking is absolutely none of your business, nor mine. .world has provided, in the very blog post you provided a (totally superfluous) screenie of outlined the finances for June for .world - something I don’t believe they’re required to do but did anyway.
You either accept these things or you move on to another instance. Descending into a fairly squalid gaucherie and requesting information that is none of your business is beyond the limits of reasonable expectation. This is not Musk or Zuckerberg or Bezos or Branson or some other mega-rich oxygen thief, this is an ordinary person like you and I, providing a free of charge service with no privacy invading scripts, no ads, no mental health destroying algo or similar activities. Whilst I believe a wait and see approach is flawed when it comes to Meta, due to what they are, I don’t extend that same approach to individual people who as far as I know have done nothing whatsoever to earn distrust. Even if they attended the NDA controlled meeting with Meta that is still no evidence of bad faith. To be honest, I probably would’ve done the same if only because I would be intensely curious as to what they had to say.
Dial this back a bit, please. You’re in no position to request such information and to do so is pretty classless.
Yes. a Magazine is the same thing as a Community on Lemmy and a subreddit on Reddit hence the r/whatever on reddit, m/whatever on KBin and c/whatever on Lemmy.
An instance is the name given to a server thats installed and run a copy of the KBin (or Lemmy) software. So kbin.social is a different server than fedia.io - both are running the KBin software but on different servers. You can create communities on one or both which can lead to overlap - there are several c/funny communities on Lemmy for example, each on a different server, modded by different users.
It really depends on your intention…if you intend to just interact with (for example) Mastodon users that appear occasionally in the Lemmy communities you’re a part of then there’s no need at all. Or if you want to communicate occasionally with a Mastodon (or any other type of software) user then you could use their Mastodon handle to do so - for example go to the Search box on your Lemmy instance and type in @Mastodon (which is the ‘official’ Mastodon account on the mastodon.social server but it can be any handle) wait for a few seconds (or longer depending on the speed of the server) and the user account with the ability to private message them appears. There are currently some issues but it used to be possible to post directly to a Mastodon user’s timeline from Lemmy. Mastodon users can post to Lemmy. It’s worth remembering that Mastodon is a LOT more mature as a product than Lemmy, which is still in its infancy.
For now, at least, Id say if you’re looking to spend a lot of time on each different software type then register an account at an instance of it. The integration will come, but the fediverse is young, Lemmy in particular is very young so it’ll take time.
Lemmy is a piece of software. Lemmy software is a link aggregator - same as reddit.
So you’re signed up to a server that’s installed an instance (a copy) of the Lemmy software. Other servers also run the Lemmy software making them also instances of Lemmy. As well as you being able to talk to users in Communities (think subreddits) on the lemmy.world server, you can talk to users in Communities on other Lemmy instances. For example, lemmy.ml, feddit.de etc etc
KBin is also link aggregator software, just like Lemmy and Reddit. Same things apply there, same software on multiple servers, all able to talk with each other.
Mastodon software is a microblogging service - same as Twitter (and Threads). Just like instances of Lemmy, instances of Mastodon can talk to each other. So a user on mastodon.world can talk to (for example) a user on kolektiva.social which is also running the Mastodon software.
There’s also Pixelfed (Instagram), PeerTube (YouTube), Friendica (Facebook), Plume (WordPress) and a large variety of others.
Now, as well as all these different types of software (Lemmy, Mastodon, KBin, PixelFed etc) being able to talk to other instances of the same software on other servers, because they are all underpinned by a single method of passing information called ActivityPub, each type of software can also talk to each other - so you as a Lemmy user can also see posts and comments from a user on a server running an instance of Mastodon (or Plume, or PixedlFed, or…you get the idea). All these things are loosely joined together making a joined (federated) universe - the fediverse.
.world hasn’t defederated from either of these two instances. They’ve blocked .world users from accessing those 3 communities from .world. You, as a .world user can still access any community across those 2 instances, aside from the 3 mentioned. Any users on those instances can still access .world communities.