arcturus

tumblr isn’t dead??

communism is when…

people use adblockers, apparently

All those defederations have their reasons and while they surely partition the “remaining fediverse” on one way or another, they actually establish the resilience to keep our shared virtual living room free of assholes, racists, fascists and other ppl we don’t actually like to read alldays in our stream…

which was like the point of federation, at least with Lemmy; it gives instance owners the choice of who to associate with

right? it wasn’t anywhere near a big deal or an insult to other instances

it’s “we don’t have the resources to handle any possible bad actors from big instances with loose registration requirements, so we’re defederating from them until we feel that we can handle it”

the correct response to this is “oh, okay; hope they figure it out such that they can federate with us again in the future”; people are blowing this out of proportion

why not? the thing about the Fediverse, once again, is that you get to choose who you want your instance to associate with

they temporarily don’t want to associate with big instances with loose registration requirements, and it’s because they’re afraid that they wouldn’t be able to handle any possible flows of bad actors from those instances with how small their team is and how barebones the Lemmy mod tools are currently

which sounds really reasonable to be quite honest

like they point out why they’re doing it in their comments, and they point out that it’s not necessarily permanent too

I think people are blowing things a bit out of proportion

I think this would work even better if account migration is ever added later down the line; if you find out that you like a certain instance better or if you want to access an instance that your current instance blocks, you can just migrate your account over there

but that’s not immediate and requires some work and effort (to figure out how federation works, to figure out how Lemmy works, to learn how to create an instance and to make one, to start over with an entirely new community); many on Reddit want the easiest path to get their content

which again, understandable, but still annoying to see

a lot of people back on Reddit could not give less of a shit about the issues and just want their content; they even see this as just mods powertripping again

it’s kind of annoying to see that, tbh, even if I sort of get it

Oh, cool; more reason to use Piped and Invidious lmao

It is; I’ve seen some Reddit users complain about how the fediverse isn’t immediately easy to use and is too complicated and confusing

which is understandable, but also it feels like some of those who are complaining about it (I am stressing right now that I don’t mean all of them) straight up don’t want to have to learn about it; they want their content immediately and they want it as simple as pushing a button

Though, take care to factcheck what you get from it; all it really is is just a word predictor, and it can be pretty good at confidently telling you absolute nonsense that sounds right

by who, though? Itself?

It’s very interesting so far, and the idea of being able to access this via Mastodon is really cool to me