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lol fair. Whats good for me is more people educated on the benefits of open source!

I actually think users who click ads are probably the ones who most need to learn about the alternatives!

Yes absolutely, I just wanted to highlight that that problem has an existing deterrent in place.

That’s what “subscribed” is for, no?

If a server is going so far as to modify their code to better enable harassment, then that is a bad server and should probably be defederated from.

Thanks I think I better understand what you’re proposing now. I’m reminded of how on reddit, mods could be added a-la-carte with only specific duties like the ability to add/remove posts, or respond to modmail.

Speaking as a former Reddit moderator myself, the main problem we faced when adding anyone who didn’t have “full control” was that those people were unlikely to feel a strong sense of independence and autonomy to do much of anything. I learned that without a sense of control over the direction of the community there is not much incentive for people to feel responsible for it’s wellbeing. We found it more sustainable to maintain a “smaller” but more dedicated core team, and swap new members in and out as needed. This also made it easier for us to stay on the same page policy-wise.

We were “only” 400K users by time I left, but I could see a system like what you’re proposing working to a degree once a community gets up into the millions.

I did read the links, and I still strongly feel that no automated mechanical system of weights and measures can outperform humans when it comes to understanding context.

It’s also, as I described, wholly unnecessary on platforms that do not allow themselves grow beyond an ability to monitor themselves.

A system like this rewards frequent shitposting over slower qualityposting. It is also easily gamed by organized bad faith groups. Imagine if this was Reddit and T_D users just gave each other a high trust score, valuing their contributions over more “organic” posts.

Human moderators (and human Admins) who understand context are the only answer. If they’re feeling overworked they need to add mods or stop growing. Big, loosely moderated instances are arguably worse for the overall ecosystem then small, bad faith ones.

Yes. You do it from the “copy” of the community on your instance.

So if you’re on Lemmy.ml and want to subscribe to “c/StarTrek” on StarTrek.website, you can do it from Lemmy.ml/c/StarTrek@startrek.website

If you’re using an app you don’t have to worry about it, also there are browser extensions that simplify it too, the way I describe is without any tools.

Some of the bullshit is just kinda human nature. But it’s been interesting to compare the difference vs a place like Reddit which encouraged a lot of the toxicity in order to boost artificial “engagement”.

Yeah, a not-insubstantial portion of Lemmy users are people who were banned from Reddit and unwilling/unable to adjust behavior to different communities. Good mod/admins should alleviate this over time hopefully.

Same. Would have switched many times over if there was a viable option (not Tildes lol) and was/am very happy to see the Lemmy network establish itself.

Better tools will open the door for instance admins who don’t come from a network admin/developer background to responsibly host their communities, too.

For the Lemmyverse to truly thrive, Admins should be relatively free to focus their time on the social elements of running an instance, which is a wholly different skillset than systems administration. Right now in order to be an effective Admin you need a heaping of both, (unless of course you’re interested in running an unmoderated instance).

Can’t be done (outside of apps) without a browser extension. I can imagine a feature like that getting baked into some browsers in the future but for now you need to set it up yourself.

If two instances defederate, then the servers aren’t “talking” to each other anymore, meaning anything after defederation doesn’t get synced. So yeah, if you had an account, then your instance defederated, and then you deleted the account, your posts from before could still be theorhetically readable on the defederated instance. Admins can easily purge accounts from the database, so it wouldn’t hurt to reach out if you said something regretfull that was still visible.

I don’t think the second scenario is capable of happening (yet) since ActivityPub is backwards compatible.

How long ago did you delete it? Deletions are federated just like anything else, so it can take a while for deletions to federate out to all instances sometimes. Deleted accounts are particularly hard-hitting on instance resources because it’s a lot of changes all at once. Small instances can actually go down for a few seconds when a large account gets deleted somewhere on the Fediverse.

As with all things open source it’ll probably improve slowly but steadily over time.

Conservatives are always trying to make themselves seem “cool and different” like the middle guy in the meme. Being anticonsumerist, pro-privacy and pro individual liberty is far from actual conservative policy goals but they obviously have to pretend otherwise.

Been daily driving Zorin a few months now. Once I got past three very large hardware-related hurdles (that unfortunlatey would be impossible for normal users), it has been much better than Windows. I do recommend it if you’re like the middle guy in the meme (but not conservative lol)