This approach is incredibly open to abuse. Reddit implemented this to a lesser degree and abuse already started happening. By blocking everybody who disagrees with you, you can start threads that are only visible to lurkers and your supporters, creating a warped perception of public opinion and false consensus.
What are you talking about? Nobody's disputing that. You seem to have lost the thread of the conversation, which is about preventing people you've blocked from seeing your posts. At that point you're not cutting BS out of your stuff, but other people's.
At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
nobody can respect that others are allowed to have different opinions.
It's the paradox of tolerance social contract. I will respect their right to an opinion as long as they uphold that contract. Unfortunately, many don't.
It would be great if nsfw content can be blocked from appearing in the all/community feeds. Not blocked globally. Content should be visible if you go direct to a community which contains nsfw content.
Yeah it's not showing up for whatever reason. Anyway, your reply boiled down to 'Something that doesn't exist yet'. It's probably a good idea to get the replacement tech up and running, and work out the kinks, before cheering for the death of our workhorse communication method.
Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a "resilience" ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.
I can see many articles from other instances that end up in m/random instead of the actual magazine they were posted in. Why is this so? It's pretty annoying to be unable to view, subscribe to, or block those magazines.
Just realised your hypothesis doesn't work, as many of the posts I see ending up in m/random have 0 comments, thus there is no way they could have been referred to by a comment/reply before they were federated.
Hey all, I recently left reddit like many of you. I have a question regarding lemmy and the fediverse on the history of banning and defederation. I have noticed several posts calling for varying communities to be disconnected. were these removal requests as prevalent before the mass migration? Usually I am all for communities...
Satire doesn't work as well on fedi when everybody has to check what instance they're on AND what instance you're posting from to figure out if you're serious
I have to say that there's a level of irony in asking for bans and central controls on content on a platform that in its very nature decentralized and supposed to be empowering.
There isn't any irony. That's the whole point of the decentralization - it empowers everybody to be part of the communities they wish to be in, and not participate in those they disagree with. We have the power to leave any instance where we disagree with the admins and move to a new one.
Or maybe there are already instances out there that don't defederate and leave it up to the individual?
It only takes one to defederate. Any large instances that stay neutral will eventually be defederated with by other instances, as per the beehaw example recently. So your best option would indeed be to host your own small instance.
Twitter is now completely "walled" (dont wanna rattle cages with a wrong title whoopsie)
On this moment you'll need an account to view anything on the platform.....
OC Porn Historically Decides Tech Adoption... Fediverse?
Historically, porn has organically decided which platform or formats become dominant. It's incredibly anti-censorship, but walks many fine lines....
What was the subreddit that represented to you the best example of downspiral of quality? To me it was /r/dataisbeautiful
At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
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feature request: block nsfw from main feeds
It would be great if nsfw content can be blocked from appearing in the all/community feeds. Not blocked globally. Content should be visible if you go direct to a community which contains nsfw content.
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GMail is Breaking Email (www.igregious.com)
Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone... unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t...
First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news (phys.org)
Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a "resilience" ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.
Are PMs to other instances not possible?
I just tried sending someone on a lemmy instance a private message (solution to a riddle) and got redirected to https://kbin.social/sub instead....
OC I'm seeing a lot of "beardy guy with glasses" profile pics, some alarmingly like my own. How many of us are there?
When the little "active users" photos rotate, I begin to feel I'm a cliche, as it seems like solidly 50% of you look the same.
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Sorry about breaking the rules, I'll read them more carefully from now on. I've deleted and edited over the post.
Why do federated articles end up in m/random?
I can see many articles from other instances that end up in m/random instead of the actual magazine they were posted in. Why is this so? It's pretty annoying to be unable to view, subscribe to, or block those magazines.
National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers (www.washingtonpost.com)
Netherlands euthanizing autistic and intellectually handicapped people, researcher finds (www.foxnews.com)
Dutch assisted suicide programs have euthanized an increasing amount of autistic and mentally handicapped youths, a British study found.
Will we ever have a kbin app for Android or IOS ?
Seems like lemmy is getting all the love and kbin only got the add to home screen on ios and android. any updates that i'm not aware of?
banning and defederating communities
Hey all, I recently left reddit like many of you. I have a question regarding lemmy and the fediverse on the history of banning and defederation. I have noticed several posts calling for varying communities to be disconnected. were these removal requests as prevalent before the mass migration? Usually I am all for communities...