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possum,

Auto/allo come from the ancient Greek words for self/other. It’s one of those pairs like cis/trans, hypo/hyper, in/ex, etc.

Leaving Lemmy World

I enjoyed my time being here and helping to grow this community. My plan was to keep things such as book of the month and show discussions going indefinitely. It’s sad to say goodbye as I would love to continue to try my best at facilitating discussion and help this community become a great resource for science fiction fans...

possum,

Kind of weird that they locked (and unpinned) it because that makes it impossible to actually find new mods. This post also doesn’t show up on lemmy.world anymore (edit: modlog says they purged it 18 hours ago).

I looked at 2 weeks of their history and found absolutely nothing

I assume that’s because those comments got deleted but who knows.

What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right?

Me personally? I’ve become much less tolerant of sexist humor. Back in the day, cracking a joke at women’s expense was pretty common when I was a teen. As I’ve matured and become aware to the horrific extent of toxicity and bigotry pervading all tiers of our individualistic society, I’ve come to see how exclusionarly and...

possum,

Interesting. Lemmy.ml has a filter that replaces slurs with removed, so I guess that’s what @Event_Horizon saw

possum,

It’s still accessible but new comments/votes won’t go through properly anymore

possum,

It’s funny how you can often tell a comment came from Mastodon because the way people type is just different somehow

possum,

Sounds a lot like how Lemmy communities show up on Mastodon. Maybe one day we can have the reverse as well (Mastodon groups showing up as communities)

possum,

For this reason, I prefer light theme + inverted colours when it’s late. During the day I just use light themes

possum,

I’m changing my diet (to have less meat, especially beef) because of climate change

possum,

I can easily separate them, but I choose not to when any money spent on the art still benefits the artist

possum,

Mastodon.world said they won’t pre-emptively defederate (but are prepared to do so as soon as they notice something bad), so I’m guessing lemmy.world has the same stance

Do you find that you're on the fed more than you were on r/ just because you're really really excited to watch your favorite communities become more active?

I do, but as more people join I’m also feeling a little republican - i got my spot and this is good; everyone on the outside can go fuck off now. I don’t want it to get so big that it’s what we left. No intended disrespect or lack of acknowledgment to those who were here before.

possum,

This is awesome! Hopefully it’ll help spread the load among instances. Definitely going to use this to see which instance to move to (and which to avoid)

possum,

Can you give an example outside American politics?

possum,

what action can it enforce beyond banning or blocking?

Defederation, that’s one of the key concepts of the fediverse

possum,

Has this ever happened? From what I can tell asking people to fix their issues is the first step, and defederation only happens when they can’t/won’t fix them yet

possum,

From what I see, that specific post was only because it sounded like lemmynsfw would allow loli. For me the biggest issue is that the porn would occasionally flood my front page because of that one bug (that got fixed), I really don’t want to see porn when I’m just browsing (but I have nothing against it existing on Lemmy).

For me what makes something porn would be the intent: is it made/shared for sexual arousal. Something can be porn without any nudity, and you can have any amount of nudity without it being porn.

possum,

How small are your shits (or how big are your meals)?

possum,

I know this wasn’t your point, but I’ve actually been looking for a Simpsons shitposting community. Thanks!

possum,

Even on mobile I always just used the desktop version of (old) Reddit. I just love seeing the fediverse prosper.

possum,

Mastodon doesn't have posts and (tree-style) comments as a separate thing, or upvotes. That's probably the biggest thing for me

AI scraping of Lemmy

Since Reddit content being used to train AI was part of what triggered their Dumb Actions™️, is there a way to deal with this on Lemmy? If there's a way to license API access or the content itself under, say, LGPL to prevent commercial AI from using it that would be awesome. With the way ActivityPub works I'm not sure if...

For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?

I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?...

possum,

Links kind of break things because they take you to a different website, even though it's content you can access from the one you're on. I think there are people working on fixing that.

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It's like there is an r/technology and an r/tech with only small differences. Hopefully they'll either become more different or somehow merge

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