JasSmith

@JasSmith@kbin.social
JasSmith,

They are infuriating. Apple forums are just as bad.

JasSmith,

The Lemmy developer and Lemmy.ml owner, Dessalines, is a Marxist-Leninist who is banning anyone critical of China and Russia. I was banned because he denies the Xinjiang genocide is occurring and I questioned him. He’s been careful to remove any mention of his political views from the signup process. So my first discovery of the cult-like community he has cultivated was in a meta post where all the users were speaking about how amazing and democratic China is, and how the West is evil. I feel more people need to understand that they are fucking nutjobs in Lemmy.ml.

JasSmith,

Inflation is slowly abating everywhere, but it looks like it's mostly thanks to decreasing energy costs (directly and indirectly). The moment there is another supply shock, or OPEC drops production, or Europe has a cold winter, and it will spike again. Core inflation is coming down, but very slowly. I can't believe the U.K. still has 7.8% inflation. For such a developed economy with such a strong currency and financial sector, what is going on over there??

JasSmith,

I'm not seeing any federated content in my feed, and I'm subscribed to many communities.

JasSmith, (edited )

Reddit changed their policy yesterday with this post.

We also want to reiterate that we respect your decisions to do what’s best for your community, and will do what we can to ensure you're safe while doing so. However, we do expect that these decisions have been made through consensus, and not via unilateral action. We ask that you strive to ensure that your moderator team is aligned on community decision-making – regardless of what decisions are being made. If you believe that your community or another community is being subject to decisions made by a sole moderator without buy-in from the broader mod team, you can let us know via the Moderator Code of Conduct form above.

It's old fashioned union busting tactics. Try to foment internal discord and break the strike. Until yesterday, the head mod was king and could do whatever they wanted. Administrators have upheld this standard for literally 15 years. Interesting how radically it changed yesterday.

Long and short term, which features would you like to see implemented?

For me flair is probably the most important. I follow a lot of organized sports and being able to quickly identify which team someone supports helps the conversation move along without having to write "as a fan of..." in every single comment. And this isn't a like talking shit, sports guy thing. It's genuinely extremely useful...

JasSmith, (edited )

  1. Collapsing threads. That's quite important for navigation.

  2. I would also like to be able to save comments and threads.

JasSmith,

Thank you for the suggestion. It might solve my immediate problem, but extensions are not a good solution for missing functionality. Most users will never download the extension (if they even hear about it), and will have a poor user experience.

JasSmith,

Thanks! Those were all turned off.

JasSmith,

Thank you! I thought I was going crazy. Is federation disabled because of server load?

How can we smooth out the migration and help promote kbin/lemmy to subreddits and redditors?

I think the biggest thing we need to figure out is how to make it sound easier than people say it is. People get too hung up on the technicalities of how the fediverse works, and they never try it out and see that it isn't as confusing as it sounds. If we could write up a simple blurb to help promote kbin to subreddit moderators...

JasSmith,

Lemmy.ml is extremely user hostile. I was banned recently without any explanation or warning. The Lemmy developer and Lemmy.ml owner, Dessalines, is a Marxist/Stalinist who is apparently banning anyone who criticises Russia or China. He denies the Uyghur genocide even exists.

JasSmith,

Active users are much lower. People made accounts then didn't stick around.

JasSmith,

I don't agree. Reddit was a buggy mess with a reputation for pretentious conversations, a terrible UX, and a lack of content. I believe the exodus succeeded because:

  1. Kevin Rose was so far up his own ass that he refused to rewind the extremely unpopular changes. The changes all happened at the same time, and he didn't give users a way to opt out. He didn't boil the frog like Reddit has been. This is, IMHO, the largest and most disruptive move Reddit has taken since Digg v4.

  2. Reddit was "capable" of handling the millions of monthly users. The content followed. For years we had to contend with a much worse UX, including frequent crashes, but we did so because Digg's design was worse. For the Fediverse to succeed, someone needs to invest heavily into infrastructure to support a large migration.

JasSmith,

I heard some analysis on Breaking Points recently where they discussed how this might play out. Carlson isn't an idiot. He's not going to open himself up to a $30-100 million lawsuit so he can have a Twitter show. It's common in the industry for talent to have exceptions in their contracts for Twitter. That is, they retain control over their Twitter feeds. They can tweet about whatever they like without corporate control. Until recently this made a lot of sense. Presenters boosted their content and base and this promoted their viewers on their syndicated show. No one has ever tried to launch a show on Twitter until now. If Carlson has this clause in his agreement, I think he has a defensible position.

Really interesting case of technology evolving faster than social convention and law.

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