https://archive.ph/y0nY3

Summary:

The whole post seems strange to me, what do you all think?

Additional context: https://fedihosting.foundation/lw-team/

  • I’ve seen a lot of LW users behaving like this.

    They want a single comm per topic, preferably in LW; and everyone should go to that comm, no dissidence allowed. Always talking about “not splitting efforts”, or some FUD like “unless we gather together Lemmy will never succeed”.

    And, when you tell them a clear “no”, they throw a tantrum. Like Serinus did there.

    I think that they got out of Reddit, but they didn’t get Reddit out of themselves. They still behave like this was a Reddit-like monolithic platform; so when they see decentralisation - like multiple comms for the same topic, in different instances - they treat it as a bug, when it’s a feature.

    Anyway, I’d call that FAPTB (failed attempt of powertripping). EDIT: wow, they removed your mention of the other comm! Talk about pettiness. PTB.

    • Blaze (he/him) ( Blaze@feddit.org ) OP
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      I think that they got out of Reddit, but they didn’t get Reddit out of themselves. They still behave like this was a Reddit-like monolithic platform; so when they see decentralisation - like multiple comms for the same topic, in different instances - they treat it as a bug, when it’s a feature.

      Maybe we should point them out to Discuit and their 181 weekly active users: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/NlAdOWAp

      Some people indeed don’t seem to understand that if Lemmy has 43k monthly active users, it’s thanks to the different instances and community. Would ml been a single forum, most of the people wouldn’t have even registered. LW could have a decent following, but the regular debatable policy updates would have probably pushed people away.

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        Sounds like Discuit should add apub integration. At this day and age it honestly baffles me that people like the devs of raddle and discuit go all like “No we don’t want to talk to anyone else. You have to join our walled garden!”

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          There are at least 4 or 5 forums on /r/Redditalternatives which could definitely benefit from ActivityPub, but they don’t see the appeal.

          One of them even asks for people credit card information to avoid bots

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            There are at least 4 or 5 forums on /r/Redditalternatives which could definitely benefit from ActivityPub, but they don’t see the appeal.

            Ye I know, it’s fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn’t have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.

            One of them even asks for people credit card information to avoid bots

            Lol, at an age where people are preconditioned to assume this means a subscription lock-in and the rest don’t even own one, I wonder how many people took them up on that offer.

            I also love the naivety of thinking $3 once will stop spammers. As if that wouldn’t be a perfectly cheap amount to pay to spam all their users if they had a lot of them. Twitter has $8 a pop and it’s innundated with spam

            • Blaze (he/him) ( Blaze@feddit.org ) OP
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              Ye I know, it’s fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn’t have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.

              Well put. It’s a bit disheartening, because people put time and energy in those projects, that could be used to develop the existing open source platforms…

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                It’s a bit disheartening, because people put time and energy in those projects, that could be used to develop the existing open source platforms…

                Okay so while true, this is also highly ironic given the nature of the OP.😜

                I’ll restate your words as “instead of splitting our efforts, why not contribute towards enhancing the existing options…?” (I know the answer, I’m just saying it’s ironic 😛)

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              There was a plan (never successful, not actualy possible to implement) to put a price on email - a fraction of a cent per message, with proof of payment encoded in the headers to make scam spam uneconomical

              That could never work with a reddit-like service, for money spam and for ideals trolling wouldn’t care about $50 a year.

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    Am I just using Lemmy differently from these people? I want to find a community, I go to search, it pulls up all connected instances, I pick which one has the highest subscribe count regardless of what instance it’s on and use it like any other community. (Well, minus tankie instances). It’s really no trouble if it’s somewhere else and half the times I don’t even notice.

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    Not even a CLM. There’s no mod action take here. There could have been a random user asking the same. Since also YDI can’t apply here, I’m just gonna go with N/A and lock this thread as off topic due to Rule 1, sorry. I feel this is just fedi drama.

    Update after OP edit. PTB.

  • laverabe ( laverabe@lemmy.zip ) 
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    I just blocked LW, not that I really have anything against it, there is just too much drama. (IE what you’re seeing trying to migrate your community)

    90% of the posts in my ‘feed’ were from LW, even though it made up less than 20% of the communities I was subscribed to.

    Moving away from LW is the best thing for the health of the fediverse in the long run. There is too much liability on that single instance, and they’re only going to get more restrictive to cover their legal liabilities - and I don’t really blame them. If people continue to centralize there, it will only guarantee a large future collapse and migration similar to reddit July-2023.

    Decentralization = stability. It’s the whole point of the fediverse.

    Thank you for suggesting lemmy.zip btw, it’s so much nicer. A lot less stressful. I’ve been meaning to migrate some communities (I have to get the time to put a poll together to see if that’s what people want).

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        Pretty slow, I haven’t had much time to work on a bot for it (kinda outside my knowledge scope atm). Is there a dumbed down explanation/template to explain to people why a move off server would be good (on a technical basis, with a single chart/diagram)?

        I was looking at your casual conv post but honestly I don’t really understand it all, other than diversification=good.

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    Is it possible to see who moderates a particular action if they don’t comment? These sort of posts and recently having my own post moderated for “politeness” (after implying some iamverysmart tool huffs their own farts) has lead me to believe the multiple groups having issues with LW moderation have good reason for it.

    Like for this post, I want to understand people not wanting to split traffic when lemmy isn’t exactly swimming in it but I don’t know.

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        Cheers, even though I messaged both the mod of the comm it happened in and the LW admin relay bot (and got ignored by both LW admins got back to me :) ) I’m not sure I can be arsed. Feels like mod action should be more transparent but also, I can imagine that’d be shit to deal with as a mod too.

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            Hard to say, I want to strongly disagree with it for the obvious lack of transparency but again if I were a mod I’d sorta get it. Cheers for the info.

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              Yeah, tbf it’s not that alone but more in combination with both the lack of modmail and how the posts get entirely blocked after removal, unlike on Reddit where they persist for anyone who has the URL. To have all 3 of these at once makes the authoritarianism more similar to what Reddit offers, down at the level of the user experience of how moderation works I mean.

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              I spent a couple years as an admin of a massive site, and I refused to do it unless I was completely anonymous.

              I really admire the transparency of lemmy, but with volume comes nazis. I don’t have the stomach for that.

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                Yeah that’s sort of what I was thinking. Maybe assigned mod IDs. So people can still bitch about mods (and have them removed if needed) but not have an actual account to dox/spam with wild shit. No idea, I’m sure people with actual brains could come up with a solution.