Calvinball

ulu_mulu, 11 months ago

Try this: go into your user settings, change Type from Local to Subscribed and Sort type from Active to Hot (or New if you prefer that).

Then click on Communities on the top bar, switch the list from Local to All, and find communities you're interested in, you can also search for specific names.

Avoid names ending in @beehaw.org if you see them, they defederated us so we can't interact with them anymore.

When you find something you like, click on the community name to go to their page, on the right you'll find the Subscribe button.

After you subscribed to enough communities, close lemmy and open it again, see if it's better that way (it is for me).

punkideas, 11 months ago

I literally just came across an article that talks about why and how it happens https://open.substack.com/pub/catvalente/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

NewBorn, 11 months ago

Especially in the crowded lemmy instances

BlackCoffee, 11 months ago

Beehaw has a code of conduct that everyone can read.

They already said that it is hard to effectively mod because the tooling isn't there yet.

I really wish people would hamper their expectations a bit. With more people coming, there will be more people willing to contribute for tooling etc. These projects are in it's infancy so growing pains will happen.

Facebook for example pays around 500mil per year for moderating and Reddit has free labor for it. But even then, Reddit is dependent on 3rd party tooling for their moderators to effectively moderate. That is a company that exists for 18 years or so?

At one point I expect there to be tooling available to make it easier to target ban people from an specific instance or even defederate specific accounts from an instance.

But if you are a mod team of 4 people without effective tooling then I hope that people understand the predicament they are in and also support the server in their efforts and try to understand their reasoning.

At least you don't have to switch to another platform, you can just make an account on the instance and participate.

I have been toggling between instances and accounts per instance for a good week already and I encounter zero problems with it.

If you just make an account and "activate" the keep yourself logged in checkmark than you can easily switch between instances.

In this stage we are self governing to an extent. The behaviour of people can affect a full instance so everyone has the obligation to think before they post.

Just don't be a dick/troll/spammer/bigot is more then enough to keep federating for your instance enabled.

ernest, 11 months ago

For now, I'm just preparing the groundwork, but first, I need to get some sleep :p

StaticBoredom, 11 months ago

I have not seen it yet, though I have no doubt that it exists.

I believe that in real life as in the fediverse, hate speech and bigotry of all kinds needs to be very firmly shot down. Immediately downvote and block that shit. It has no place here, or anywhere.

That being said, debating or even engaging with these pricks is worse than pointless because you’ll never change their minds and will only give them a platform.

StaticBoredom, 11 months ago

It just warms but icy black heart when (former) Redditors take action on important issues and results are achieved. For me, that’s what the site was really about.

My hope with the current protests is that Reddit suffers severe consequences. Not only because “fuck spez,” but also because the internet has become one huge corporate orgy, and actual humans should at least be allowed to occupy a corner of it without having to deal with their profiteering bullshit.

But for this we will have to suffer some minor inconveniences, and we must do so not only willingly, but joyfully, in the knowledge that at least we are headed in the right direction away from a homogenized internet.

All credit to @ernest and other devs, but feel free to pat yourselves on the back for being willing to try something new and give up something old. That’s not always easy, but things that are always easy are rarely deeply satisfying.