Great writeup comrade, I also wanna share this really interesting article from Roland Boer, going over this history a bit, and also outlining the historical intersections of communism and christianity.

Keep going. At this rate every country is going to see massive protests of the US military bases and embassies in their countries in like a month.

If like every bog-standard anticommunist, you’re going to impute cynical motives on every objectively good thing communists do, we’re not going to take you seriously.

The USSR was also the first country on a large scale to move unpaid domestic labour into the paid socialized sector: it created communal kitchens, communal child-care, all paid for by the state. The PRC followed that same model.

How are you liberals this ignorant of these attempts? Marxist feminists started the domestic labor debate, and were the only ones who attempted to put solutions into practice.

Way to turn the communist acheivement of women’s empowerment into something negative.

Once its mature, I personally wouldn’t be opposed to moving issue tracking off github and into a federated one like forgejo.

Sure, and be sure to link that closed github issue.

I think slur filters, tracking param removals, and local link rewriting are acceptable, because (with the exception of the slur filter) they’re non-moderation actions, and also applied uniformly regardless of who made them.

It also ignores that savvy-enough admins can edit user content with SQL queries.

That’s unavoidable of course, anyone with DB access ultimately can edit things. But if people catch on, I doubt your server would gain many users or last that long. Most importantly, we shouldn’t allow that to happen via the API.

You’re free to start a “Should mods be able to edit user’s data?” discussion, but I doubt it would get much support, especially from reddit allowing this and it souring everyone to it.

Thx! Hard to pick a fav, but meercats are pretty cool.

Thx! Really appreciate it, and I’m glad someone thinks its worthwhile work we’re doing.

You can just use magnet links. I wrote a guide for how to use them here

Like here’s a Joan Crawford movie I like: Sudden Fear 1952 . A super-beginner way, is to install stremio and click that link. Boom, you’re now watching the movie.

We have an issue discussing non-local community discovery here.

My vote there is to extend our lemmy-stats-crawler to crawl communities also, host that file somewhere, and build in a scheduled job to refetch and populate missing communities periodically. Its centralized, but if that file is unavailable, it wouldn’t break anything.

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Who controls this universal community name system?

Editing posts - the main issue is misleading titles

Moving posts to different communities

You can read over the discussion here, but we will never allow mods or admins to act as / impersonate users, or edit their content.

We also can’t rewrite history in the fediverse (unlike a forum) so “moving” a post would also entail deleting and recreating content other people made.

Splitting comments into separate posts

Merging posts

These ones sound really strange, but its similar, I don’t want mods to be able to rewrite user history or move it.

IP check

We don’t store IPs so that’d be impossible.

I still don’t follow you. In the very first link, we direct people a page that lets them explore or join a server. You don’t need to know anything about federation to use lemmy.

Lemmy already uses recommendation algorithms for most of its sorts.

As far as a “personalized” one that isn’t the communities you explicitly subscribed to, I don’t think its really necessary, but it wouldn’t be impossible to add (someone could probably come up with some good adjacent-community queries based on the most partipipated communities of users who you’ve liked comments and posts of. Make an issue for this on the lemmy github if you would like.

It’ll likely continue to happen organically: niche communities on reddit will keep getting fed up with the changes, and migrate to lemmy.

I don’t know if we’ll ever reach a tipping point, because redditors have shown that there’s almost nothing they won’t tolerate, but its also likely they still don’t know that alternatives exist. There’s a general conspiracy of silence about most fediverse software. Even with all this recent reddit drama, not a single article bothered to mention lemmy or other alternatives. The info is out there, but interested people have to go out of their way to find it.

We’ve also added a scaled sort to boost posts from smaller / less active communities, so that should help some with discovery. It’d also be nice for instances to use the sidebar, pinned posts, or site taglines to highlight smaller communities to help them grow.

What is your opinion on Bluesky being more popular than Mastodone because it is easier for most?

It shows only that like most open source tools, US media institutes a general conspiracy of silence about platforms like the fediverse, and mastodon (or lemmy). Not because they’re not user-friendly enough, but because ultimately it’s not something the US can control. Bluesky is really just a rebranded twitter, founded by the same people, but with owners more friendly to the US democratic party, as opposed to musk who is more friendly to republicans. Both are US corporations subject to its laws and beholden to push pro-US foreign policy lines.

I hope most of the world will choose to escape all these monopolistic US-controlled platforms, and for countries to fund open source, and encourage their own citizens to use community-run alternatives.

Lemmy won’t become bluesky, because we’re a community/topic-focused link aggregator, not a person-focused microblogging platform.

more structured mod queue, allowing to filter by community

The upcoming combined modlog has this, as well as other more detailed filters.

You can read through these issues related to modmail, but the short version is that it’s way out of scope for us, and not something we have time to do. Replicating private group chats is better done by other services like matrix, or using a shared email inbox.