Nah, the Fediverse is based on freedom of association while most people live in countries they were born in and leaving one is really hard in most cases. Not to mention that ‘self-hosting’ a state just for yourself would be considered an extremism by existing states.
The Fediverse is clearly a libertarian idea.
an even better thing would be to put more emphasis on user controlled blocks.
And force your instance maintainers to deal with the amount of bigoted content they won’t be able to moderate? There’s already a huge amount of stuff any other instance would be blocked with no hesitation.
Reminds me of this comment by one of the Lemmy devs: https://lemmy.ml/comment/6744852
Technology won’t save us if we allow unethical companies to mess with us.
Isn’t the entire point of federation to remove closed spaces?
Not necessary. Your instance still can just not federate with anyone.
By blocking Threads, it basically means that the sole interaction many people will have with the fediverse is that it’s a closed ecosystem
Yes, and by not blocking Threads we let it to become a de-facto standard way to consume content on the Fediverse. If users want to avoid closed ecosystems, they can just create an acc on one of many mastodon or lemmy instances.
If your fear is that Meta will control the fediverse, then you’ve built a closed ecosystem that’s essentially no different to Reddit.
Blocking a single bad actor = being fully centralised. Again, create an account on the instances that don’t feed on your data and mental wellbeing.
Thanks, LOVE is great!
I wish I will one day use on a real hardware!
Yep, although there’s no themes like with gtk and qt, you choose colors manually.
Doesn’t Debian Sid count as a rolling Debian?
OS: Linux Mint DE: Xfce Colorscheme: Catppuccin Software on the first screen: LibreWolf, NeonModem Software on the second one: KVM, Pe, preinstalled terminal on haiku
I don’t think the reasoning is privacy, because people would instead need to go to the other site where they can be tracked even more easily.
When you go to a privacy-hostile website via a link, you know what you’re doing. But with embedded videos you can be easily deceived to open a link before you learn it’s hosted on an unethical website.
But we switched from Reddit…Not really known for being privacy friendly… People that are concerned about their privacy will know what to do/not to do.
The fact that people were abused before doesn’t mean we have the right to continue abusing them. That’s unethical. And that’s weird to distringuish people who ‘conserned about privacy’. That’s people who know how embedded videos can be used to track users, and those who don’t know nonetheless deserve privacy online.
Thanks for sharing, I’ll give it a shot. Glad to hear I’m not the only one having trouble with microblogging - it seems people nowadays are really quick to adapt to a new platform, while my social ineptness holds me back.
basing everything on following people gets pretty messy and annoying pretty quickly.
What about following tags? I heard you can do this on mastodon.
it actually shits me that the two platforms can’t interoperate better, as there isn’t any good reason other than the two platforms lacking appropriate features, with mastodon kinda being the more annoying culprit in that IMO.
I have my hope for kbin, although they still have a lot to improve, I think they’re moving in a right direction.
I don’t think I ever realised how much Reddit users were after a lurking doom scrolling experience. I understand it, but honestly, at some point you surely look at yourself and wonder whether this is worth doing. But then I hear about people here scrolling through All and wanting the slickest mobile app and realise that that’s what some people here want too.
Actually I never thought of Lemmy from doom scrolling perspective, although I had awful experience with “all”, even after blocking all politics- and news-related communities. Nowadays I try to not leave Subscribed tab at all, to not provoke my anxiety.
I believe filtering by keyword is a way to go. I do it with ubo and feel safer than ever - even if something could sneak into my subscribed feed, it’ll be blocked by ubo. But it sometimes doesn’t work for some reason, so I still can’t browse all.
Which, I suspect, comes back to karma farming … who’s making posts suitable for doom scrollers? People who want upvotes? It’s not a great culture overall TBH
I disable score visibilty and sort posts by “new comments” - I believe there’s no need for scores in Lemmy. Well, at least we don’t have karma thing, it was really annoying on reddit.
and it’s something where a microblog platform really does have a leg up.
I never used twitter or any other microblogging social media. How is Mastodon compared to Lemmy? I can’t wrap my head around microblogging for some reason.
But I think there’s a lot of links here without much discussion in the comments, which kinda defeats the point IMO.
Music communities are a good example of this - wall of links with no discussion whatsoever. They’re basically useless. It was like this in Reddit, and it’s basically the same shit here.
The main difference between link aggregator and classic forum is a tree-like discussion that creates the idea of OP - a central part of the discussion, as opposed to more organic discussions on classic forums, where every post is equally important.
Basically, nowadays Unix (or more formal POSIX) is a standard for operating systems to follow. Most modern operating systems are either derived from Unix (modern MacOS and Solaris), inspired by it (Linux and open-source BSDs) or at least POSIX-compatible (Haiku). Windows is neither of this - being monopoly they basically don’t need to follow a standard when they can force everyone to implement their solution.
So yeah, Unix is an OS and Windows doesn’t count.
Use UBo filter lists https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1633853
Comments should definitely be sorted by new, but why most comments when there’s a new comments sorting option?
“Yeah, just block every bigot in existance and you will achieve a somewhat good experience”
Spammers also exist, and they can go long ways to avoid blocking by e.g. creating many accounts. There are people out there who could do this just to troll and harass a single user. If you’re fine with blocking every piece of shit there are - good for you. But it doesn’t mean it should be a norm.