Ada

Ada, 9 months ago

@thedavemiester Well, this is the first time the fediverse has been how I first learned about a local disaster, so that's something...

Ada, 10 months ago

Not really. I used to mod /r/brisbane, but basically stopped interacting with reddit around 6 months ago. I've been on the fediverse and threadiverse ever since!

Ada, 10 months ago

I mean, to me, it sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't deal with marginalisation in any real way. No unique selling point? The fact I can exist here without being constantly harassed by bigots that have a green light from a mega social media platform that doesn't give a shit about me is a pretty strong selling point. Strong enough that having experienced it, I will never return to a centralised social media platform that isn't aggressively supportive of minority rights.

Ada, 10 months ago

@xray I wear pride gear, because my queerness often isn't visible to people otherwise, and I want the other closeted and scared queer folk out there to know that they're not alone. So I tell the world who I am loudly and proudly

Ada, 10 months ago

@briongloid Not admins. Users should be able to do it.

As an admin, there is no way I can be across all of the niche subtleties and naming schemes of communities I'm not involved in. If I have to group them, I'm going to get it wrong.

If it's going to sit anywhere above the individual level, it should be at the community mod level, not the instance admin level. But of course, many community mods aren't going to want to actively point people at other larger communities that overlap with theirs.

@timbervale

Ada, 11 months ago

@beto It might be a good idea to not do that thing that happened with Mastodon, where everyone thinks the Mastodon is the Fediverse. There is more to the #threadiverse than just lemmy!

Ada, 11 months ago

tbh, there is no such instance. Not blocking any other instances is often a reason to be blocked by other instances.

An instance that blocks no one is in effect a "free" speech instance that prioritises the right to be bigoted over the need to provide safe spaces for folk. And that means that instances that value the need for safe spaces over "free" speech are going to block the instances that don't block anyone else as a means of creating and maintaining that safe space.

Ada, 11 months ago

As an instance admin, the instances that I block are explicitly ones that I don't want my users to be able to subscribe to for any reason because they are full of bigotry and hate.

If I have a user that really wants to subscribe to a blocked instance, then chances are my instance is the wrong one for them.

Ada, 11 months ago

@Designate6361 We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning.

@nutomic

Ada, 11 months ago

@Generator And just like Mastodon and the fediverse at large, after initial growing pains, we will find a way

@nutomic

Ada, 11 months ago

@gun There is talk of allowing user to group multiple communities together in to a sort of virtual community.

@Poot @bacteriostat

Ada, 11 months ago

https://browse.feddit.de/ to find new groups to follow. My default view is set to communities that I subscribe to, sorted by new comments (though I will likely change that to new as growth continues).

After I've been through the stuff I subscribe to, I have a look at everything else

Ada, 11 months ago

@BrooklynMan Cory Doctrow's enshitification process at work

@hedge

Ada, 11 months ago

@da_peda They explicitly allow hate speech. There is no world in which I will put myself in a social media space that allows that ever again.

Ada, 11 months ago

@can_i_be_serious Not yet. We are starting to see things like account migration in the microblogging fediverse space, so I imagine it will arrive in the groups/communities space one day. This area of the fediverse is a lot less mature though, so I imagine it will be a while, as they'll be focused on essential features first

@sexy_peach

Ada, 11 months ago

You can create communities on your local instance, and they will be available to everyone else on the fediverse! You don't need to host your own instance to create a community

Ada, 11 months ago

@Melody As a reddit mod, it made my life easier, because I stopped being a mod

@hedge

Ada, 11 months ago

@SafetyGoggles The difference between those two is the moderation policies of the instance. Beehaw doesn't federate with the same instances that lemmy.ml does, and has an explicitly more inclusive and less generalist approach. They both cover the same ground, but you couldn't just merge them.

Having said that, it would be nice to see a user level feature that lets end users combine communities in to one "virtual" community in their interface.

@g7s @DudePluto

Ada, 11 months ago

Guess I'm done with reddit then it seems...