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However, as they don’t federate downvotes (at least kbin.social doesn’t) you can only see local ones so this wouldn’t help OP.

Funny, but unironically a pretty good idea.

The series is sorta violent even before Chimera Ants, where the evil-ness is kicked up to kitten-kicking, puppy-eating, “Sauron and Voldemort would hold a villain intervention because it’s too edgy”, gorey mess. Before that it was still relatively edgy shōnen but it seemed to take a slight turn there.

They can’t, at least not while complying with Lemmy’s AGPL license.

I stand (partly) corrected, then. Apparently not all of it was (and it stopped being so long before it would’ve been relevant), but still, didn’t even know that.

No. The API debacle was fundamentally about money, after all. In the very unlikely event someone does something similarly one-sided and stupid with a fediverse offering, people will simply fork it or move to different ActivityPub compliant software. Neither is possible on Reddit, a proprietary, for-profit website.

I don’t think it’s about the term, “server” and “instance” both make sense to me. The issue is that the fediverse itself is pretty confusing.

The basics? Great: it’s vaguely “IRC but persistent”, all good.

But for starters it’s hard to keep track of which instances actually exist - new ones pop up and old ones die at the drop of a hat.

Then there’s differences in feature sets (lemmy vs kbin and whatever else) that happen to be ActivityPub compliant or whatever. kbin notably doesn’t federate downvotes, for example. And all this software is still relatively immature.

Then there’s the actual “who federates/defederates whom and why” debacle. This results in a lot of obvious and some less obvious visibility issues.

Then there’s (other) individual instance politics.

Then there’s the “meta” about all of this, which is getting confusing.

A couple of these will have parallels on e.g. Reddit - I assume this is the natural comparison to make and will keep being so for a while - like sub drama and the relationship between subs. But because the FV has this at the instance level, (and each instance has many “subs”,) it’s a whole level up in complexity.

Then there’s how all of this makes for a pretty un-reddit-like experience - and Reddit is not the king of polish, either. While Reddit has duplicate subs, it doesn’t have a design that almost automatically causes them to be created and distributed, across instances without actually correlating them afterwards. The end result is that subbing or blocking any one community will likely involve doing that manually on several instances, which is stupidly inconvenient. Also discoverability is much trickier which is worsened by the low activity.

My point is: call it what you want, but a) I don’t think that’s where the confusion is coming from - that’s just the fediverse being confusing (and outright clunky in many regards), and b) obligatory XKCD “Standards”.

It’s arguably used wrongly on Discord, but not in a way that’s radically different from how I already thought about “servers” in the sense of “something you connect to”.

It seems more like a term they picked because it has that familiar sense. Otherwise I think there’s a semi-official term, “guild”, too.

It means “this is a poorly enforced shitpile of fairly immature, untested laws - we’ll take maximum liberties to make it as annoying as possible to comply because we’re dipshits”

It would’ve been the exact same gag if these were Italian or Japanese or whatever.

It’s not important to the joke.

Home of CHALLENGE PISSING! (How does it work?!) “If you can piss six feet into the air straight up and not get wet, you get no install fees!”

Blocking the overtly political communities only takes the edge off. So many other people insist on posting it every goddamn where anyway.

It’s criminally underutilized. Of course, one reason is that it’s hard to TDD a moving target. Since it’s also hard to get people to actually fucking specify things in a lot of real world cases, it’s just one more thing you ought to do, but aren’t allowed to.

This, but unironically. That is basically exactly how it started (after “J#” IIRC), minus a few wrinkles ironed out because if you’re reinventing the wheel, might as well try not to make the same flaws the old one had. Of course things branched out from there and C# has been a very different beast from Java since the 2000s.

My exact reaction when looking into kbin source.