But with the way the Reddit admins are handling the website, you wouldn’t have had that sub for much longer anyway. That’s the whole point of the blackout in the first place. Don’t blame the protesters. Blame the admins. They’re the ones with the power to change things.
That’d be cool, but just a simple reminder in case not, that you can simply make an account on that instance. There’s no limit to what instances you’re allowed to have accounts on or anything like that, so you can always do that.
Still for cohesion I get wanting it all together.
I can definitely see name-collisions being an issue, where communities on different instances have the same community “ID”, but aren’t actually about the same thing. I’m still overall in favor of the basic idea though.
I’m very excited for the future of machine learning right now. I was cynical about it for a short while in mid 2022, since I got the impression that it was all going to be proprietary, privacy-invading online services, but things look like they’re changing.
A future of democratized open-standard and open-source AI sounds like a good one to me!
Yeah something like that was what I was looking for. I don’t see any mention of “Federation worker count” but… not everything is documented so whatever. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks!
Is there a wiki of Lemmy or fediverse terminology for stuff like this? I’m not sure what “Federation worker count” is, but I also don’t know where to look to find the answer.
Honestly, owning up to it being a selfish decision deserves some respect. I’m a big proponent of free expression and avoiding censorship, but I took a gander at the kinda stuff they got over there and…
It’s not even the views they hold that’s my main problem. It’s really that they’re just so needlessly rude and aggressive, and as you pointed out, they seem to be a lot more censorship happy than here anyway. I would be more sympathetic to them if they were less censorship happy themselves, and if they were less mean.
I do want to stress that I hope you keep the number of blocked instances to a minimum, since I feel that it would be better if the Lemmy software had better tools for users to control what they block for themselves better, and also maybe just having “default” blocklists that users can disable, to keep the new-user experience nice, but yeah for that particular instance, I can’t be too mad about it.
I came here because of the reddit situation, but I didn’t come from reddit. I just heard about of bunch of people thinking about going to lemmy and thought it might be fun to try it out.
This is the big thing I hate about downvotes on Reddit. Instead of downvotes, people who disagree should make a comment about it, and then THAT comment can get upvoted to show that people disagree with the original comment. It encourages conversation and discourages echo-chambers where people are punished for having a different opinion.
In my view this isn’t the end of Reddit, but it is the beginning of the end. This situation will probably pass, but the lemmy devs and instance owners have already gotten useful feedback about how to handle situations like this, and what kinds of things would help lemmy and the fediverse grow. The next time something like this happens (and there will be a next time) they’ll be just that little bit more ready.
Although for me specifically, I don’t actually care too much if Reddit dies. I’m happy as long as there’s a community here. The best thing that seems to be coming out of this situation so far is that many subreddits are now getting lemmy community analogs for people to move to.
That’s what I’ve been trying to do myself. I’m really not an interactive kind of person on these online communities. I’m almost always a lurker, but I’m really trying to push myself to be more active, because I want an open-source and federated Reddit alternative (and ActivityPub in general) to succeed!
I’m really interested in the idea of these different kinds of websites being interoperable because of ActivityPub. Like the different websites are basically different frontends for people who prefer link aggregators or micro-blogs or other kinds of websites. It’s a really cool idea!
For anyone who’s interested in an alternative, check out https://codidact.com . It’s much smaller right now, but it’s open-source and the community is nice.
A suggestion I’ve seen is to add reddit.com to your ublock origin “my filters” page. It works great for me!
I have an account, but I don’t really use it much. Not because I don’t like it, but because I don’t have much to say really. I’m more of the lurker type.
The important thing about Matrix is to think of it like email. Homeservers are like your email provider, like Hotmail or Gmail or Protonmail. You look for a homeserver, then you just make an account on that homeserver. The “main” homeserver is matrix.org, but it’s recommended not to make an account on there if you can avoid it. Remember that making accounts on these homeservers is free, so there’s no reason not to make accounts on a few of them to try out.
The other thing to think about is your matrix client. This is similar to an IRC client or an email app. Luckily, this matter even less than the homeservers since you can freely switch between these anytime with basically no issues. If none catch your eye, Element is the sort of “reference implementation” so you can just try that one if you want. It has a web version too: https://app.element.io
There’s some cool more advanced features like spaces and threads, but you don’t have to worry about those much at first.
Federation definitely feels like the next major stepping stone of the internet’s evolution. Protocols like ActivityPub and Matrix feel like a bit of a “new beginning” for communities on the internet.
Whatever it’s called, it’d probably have to have “c” somewhere in the name, since that’s what appears in the urls.
LFG that was something I’ve been hoping got added! I’m not even a big gamer, but I like it when I do game.