I have my own empty instance!
All the power, all to myself…
Have you considered defederating everyone for the dopamine hit?
Jokes aside, I feel like if the dopamine hit of merely browsing Lemmy and finding posts and communities you like, and enjoying good debates does not exceed the hit for defederating everyone, then you’re doing it wrong.
Few things compare to the dopamine hit of actually participating in a conversation with people
Especially in a smaller community like this
It’s pretty chill
Hell yeah
How well does it work in practice? Is that on your home LAN or a real public server instance? How much storage and growth for serving just you?
I have my instance publically available, and been using Lemmy through it since. I have a couple of local communities (non-private) that I hope people start using, but hard being discovered, it seems.
Started out with 1.6G usage day one, and since then I have grown to 1.96G.
Thanks, looks to be really light on resources.
I love the fact that even here, the mods having power over nothing gets to their heads.
Really has that reddit flavor, you know?
At least we get lemmy flavoured drama. It’s not as bitter as Reddit’s.
Yet
Yup. I was here originally, went to beehaw, they defederated from lemmy.world where most of my subscriptions were… back to lemmy.ml lol
Funnily enough I started on Beehaw and when they defederated I went to Blajah
I’m here for a meme time and hopefully some communities that were popping off in Lemmy World
Blajah’s pretty chill
Edit: Don’t get me wrong though, I agree with their decision I just wanted to still be apart of communities I had already decided to join.
I did that with Beehaw as my main and slrpnk as my secondary
And that’s what’s great about federation, no one person can ruin the whole of Lemmy.
What happened this time?
Neocon/trumpers/racists are coming on various federated lemmy systems. Once there they are posting rando crap and pushing people to ignore the basic requirements most lemmy system admins have setup. No hate, no bigotry, no racism.
The alt right runs a playbook that is built on the backbone of their enemies (anti-racists) are effectively addicted to reasonable discussion. They want to believe that everyone is a reasonable good faith actor who can be swayed by a pursuasive well structured argument. The alt right knows this and takes advantage. They do classic troll bait strategies hoping to exhaust their enemies and push them out of the discussion so that they can control the narrative and pipeline more people to the alt right. Their goal is not free speach, reasoned debates. Their goal is bad faith time wasting.
The playbook is known, and yet people keep getting drawn into these tactics
Threatening to poop is an equally terrifying thing to use as a threat
New to Lemmy,
Which instances would everyone say is the least reddit powermody? (I’m sure none is the answer, but if you had to choose)
Probably lemmy.ml, the official instance.
I know they allow some instances that sole purpose is to hate on liberals, which is annoying to see so many aggressive political posts (any extremest is annoying), but they are easy to block yourself.
Beehaw is good, but they de-federate EVERYONE. I see posts from the admins there nearly daily talking about new instances they are de-federating from today. They also disabled down-voting, and community creation.
I think it’s awesome that they are disabling downvoting. One of the worst things about reddit was that comments were downvoted and authors deleted their comments because of it. All because of sensitive snowflakes.
And as for defederation, they have 100% right to do what they want to protect their community. It’s a community that is used to being disliked or hated. It’s a very good thing that they can have their own popular instance on the web without being forced to moderate hateful posts.
Put it another way, should they be forced to moderate hateful posts so you and I can enjoy seeing their posts? I think we are fine without it, and specially knowing that they are happier this way.
Beehaw is lovely and everyone is free to do as they please, but I genuinely think everyone on social medias should be striving for something like what Beehaw is. It’s a pipe dream, but trying to aggressively foster positivity and counter outrage is just good hygiene. Negativity breeds negativity and it’s extremely difficult to keep spaces positive, but I think there’s also a path dependence here that has made the internet so much more toxic than it needs to have been, even off of other social medias which have encouraged that exact toxicity for the ease of clicks. It’s frustrating seeing all the misrepresentations of what beehaw is, out and about, but oh well. Appreciate the levelheaded view on the defederations.
So many people seem to be outright angry that Beehaw wants to control what sort of a community they (we!) have. Like federation means that you’re obligated to stay federated with absolutely everyone regardless of what your goals are for your own community, because something something “that’s what the fediverse is”.
End of the day it’s still instances doing their own thing. Some allow all kinds of… behavior, some don’t. Nobody’s under any obligation to federate with others
Cool. I signed up for the right one then.
It’s wild browsing Lemmy and it’s full of users that think reddit wasn’t biased enough in one direction.
whoo lawd.
People are wary of alt-right folk taking over Lemmy like what has happened with most alternative social media. Maybe too concerned, who knows
That’s what federation is meant to solve. And “alt-right” is a subjective, overused and regularly abused term anyway.
The first people to get kicked off of reddit are the shit stains that no one likes. It’s to be expected. Of all the reddit alternatives, the fediverse is the least extreme, IMO.
Fortunately we are now in the voluntary migration period, but it’s only comfortable for those of us that can stomach the less desirable elements and primitive UX. It’s then up to the rest of us to make the place tolerable for normies, if we choose to do so.
