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  • To clarify, I agree that Beehaw should defederate with instances full of racist bigoted trolls.

    However, it’s hard to argue that sh.itjust.works works is one of those instances from just this. This is one guy who likely slipped under the radar. I’m just saying that we should just wait a bit to see how the situation unfolds before grabbing pitchforks.

    I’m just frustrated that not immediately jumping to an extreme response means I’m somehow complicit. And also somewhat frustrated that trying to distance myself from politics apparently means I’m acting privileged.

    I’m just tired of being angry all the time, at this point…


  • It affects me because I feel I need to keep up to date with which instances defederate with each other in order to follow communities. It feels like defederation is a cudgel that is thrown around a lot, and a lot of innocent people get hit in the crossfire.

    However, you are correct. A lot of my posts on Lemmy have, to be honest, been my attempts to fix something which can’t be fixed. It’s super not a healthy thing to be doing, honestly. I really should take a break from Lemmy, it’s done nothing but cause me stress and tire me.

    Edit: Bit of context for those late, my original comment was just a ramble about how I’m fed up of drama, etc. Nothing really that groundbreaking, tbh.


  • Of course I’m worried about politics! I’m worried about the return of fascism across the west. I’m worried about deteriorating attitudes towards LGBT people. I’m worried about active attempts to eugenics neurodivergent people. I’m worried about the massive amount of influence megacorps have on people. The world is full of things to worry about. It makes people feel helpless.

    I can ramble for ages about how I do what I can. Maybe I can do more. Maybe I’m a bad person for not doing enough? Maybe I’m a coward for wanting to hide from it, I don’t know. Wanting to have a space to step away from worrying about these things is a copying mechanism I use, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.




  • Not sure where the settings actually live, so I can’t say whether this is backend or frontend, but I have been thinking that nsfw post handling could be improved.

    Specifically, I’ve been thinking about (and actually been considering implementing) some new per-user settings:

    • Don’t show nsfw posts from other instances in the “all” feed.
    • Don’t show nsfw posts in the “local” or “all” feed at all.
    • Always show nsfw posts from communities the user is subscribed to, regardless of the above two options.

    Should cut down on any drama caused by someone registering on a random instance and subbing to gfur. :P

    EDIT: Looking at the replies, it looks like a simple site wide toggle a-la Furaffinity might be easier to implement and more egonomic.


  • So, I don’t disagree with the decision to fork (especially because of the hardcoded donation URL). I am concerned about fracturing of the codebase, so I have a few questions:

    • Will this fork always be a sequence of commits based on some Lemmy version, or do you expect history to diverge (git rebase vs merge)?
    • Will there be an effort to upstream useful changes into Lemmy proper (a lot of the changes suggested are things that might be desirable for Lemmy in general).
    • There’s a number of other communities with a desire to use a forked Lemmy version, do you intend this fork to be useful for them, or is this purely for pawb.social?

    And perhaps most importantly:

    • Will the name be changed from Lemmy to something else if there are significant changes.




  • A lot of comments from people with social anxiety; as someone with social anxiety and aspergers, figured I may as well throw my thoughts into the ring.

    I’ve been through the “approval process” dance a few times now, both for Mastodon and Lemmy and honestly, I don’t really find it that bad. The secret is internalizing that mods have so many applications to get through, so they won’t really scrutinize your language or overanalyze it to too much. I know easier said than done, but really, the fact that you’re putting any amount of thought into it is probably more than most people.

    Honestly, I think approvals is a good system and should be the norm for social media sites; it slows down trolls/bots ability to make accounts, and IMO is better than all the alternatives. Email is problematic, capchas aren’t really accessible, and screw Instagram requiring you to take a photo of yourself when you sign up. One site I signed up for actually wanted you to ask another user to “vouch” for you as not a troll which means talking to scary strangers.

    I think there is a “cultural” miscommunication though. A lot of us are deeply ingrained in “fediverse culture” where this sort of thing is the norm, and so we intuitively understand that it should only be a sentence or two.

    However, if you look at where non-fediverse people have seen this type of requirement before? Job applications, university applications, that sort of thing. I think this is why people think that they need to write long, intricately detailed posts saying why they deserve to join what feels like an exclusive club.

    I think Beehaw could make it clearer that they are only looking for about three sentences demonstrating that you’ve read the documents (actually, do you need to fully read the documents? It’s a bit unclear), and that you aren’t being “graded”. Out of interest though, would “I just want to lurk and read posts” be acceptable as an answer to the third question?




  • It’d be interesting to see how much of Mastodon’s source code they actually end up using for this, because that would significantly cut down on their ability to embrace extend extinguish. I think there’s also rumours that Tumblr are looking into ActivityPub as well, which would also keep them in check.

    IMO it’s too early to really get upset about this, and I don’t think “big company uses X” is sufficient reason to block them. But I’m not an instance admin or anything, so my thoughts are just rambling.


  • I’m honestly pleasantly surprised to see the growth of Lemmy. I joined like a week ago when the Reddit drama started, but didn’t really expect it to take off. And to an extent it hasn’t yet, there’s certainly a lot of users and a lot of communities (especially on lemmy.world), but not a lot of content in most communities yet.

    However, even if half the people that joined end up staying, that’s enough to keep it “self sustaining” and keep conversations going on the bigger communities, which is what we want really. It’s like Mastodon; even though the migration from Twitter was apparently a “failure”, I recently got back into it, followed a hashtag and was surprised at the amount of quality content I got.

    I still don’t think that Lemmy’ll keep growing at this rate for much longer though. The confusing nature of the platform and the lack of maturity of the tooling and apps will turn away a lot of non-techy users. I’d be pleasantly surprised if we managed to hit more than about 50k people. Instead, I think we’ll see a “slow burn” over the coming months of Reddit slowly losing people due to their decisions or just fatigue, and they’ll probably end up here.

    At least, hopefully they’ll end up here, rather than Tumblr, Telegram and Discord which aren’t really the best platforms for Reddit like content, IMO.

    Anyway, thanks to the mods, admins and developers! Having the platform you were working on suddenly grow this fast is really tough and not something I would wish on anyone. You are all doing great work, and we all appreciate it. <3