Leraje

Free speech is a good thing. Absolute free speech is the excuse shit people use to air their shitty opinions.

I ain’t saying you’re wrong or your points are invalid, but bear in mind that Lemmy is a very young piece of software. It will evolve to cope with these kind of issues and if the lead devs don’t step up, then - as was seen in the near-recent CSAM attacks - the community will and develop it’s own set of tools/plug-ins.

All social media type software goes through a kind of perpetual arms-race with bad actors and whilst it’s not impossible, it’s often very difficult to anticipate what method the next lot of bad actors will chose to attack the lemmyverse with.

Then they don’t fall under the heading of ‘sane people’.

OK, so they’re a fucked up fool.

Sadly though, I’m pretty sure I could extend that judgement to a lot of people whose products/services I use, it’s simply impossible to go through life only using products and services who’s owners/developers have values, beliefs and opinions that match your own.

The best ‘revenge’ (if that’s the right word) is to use their stuff for activities that counteract their shitty opinions.

Well, I think the people here prior to Rexit were already producing good content and then the people who moved over from Reddit were primarily people annoyed by u/spez and who valued content quality and genuinely wanted a decent platform. There’ll be times when things get shitty but by and large I do think Lemmy had a good start. We just really need the devs to give some power to instance admins and Mods via decent tools, because the one thing that will kill progress is people not being able to curate and protect their Communities.

Never really understood the thought process “If I move to a different place, it’ll definitely be magically free of arseholes and people I disagree with.” It’s just not reflective of reality - wherever you go, there’ll be arseholes. Just build your Subscribed feed, dip into All occasionally to se what else is out there, find an instance that takes moderation seriously and aren’t actual fascists and block the strays that occasionally make it through.

And OOP is right to say Lemmy has backend issues. The dev team of 2 people is too small and they really need to make safety a massive priority ASAP. Being able to block instances as a user is a big step forward (planned in the next major release I believe) but both mod and admin tools need to be much better and they need to do a lot more to tackle CSAM hits. I hope they’re taking note of the various projects @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com has begun to tackle these issues.

In terms of the size of the Lemmyverse, I don’t really give a shit about that. What I care about is quality rather than quantity and it stands to reason that as quality continues to improve (as I believe it is) then quantity will follow in its wake.

OOP seems to forget that Lemmy only got as big as it is right now about 4 months ago - of course there’s a lack of niche communities and of course there’s a lack of tools. Poor old Ernst developing KBin got hit with tens of thousands of users for software that wasn’t even out of Alpha.

The best things we can do as users is create good content, encourage discussion etc even when it feels like we’re talking into the void. Because sooner or later, if the content is good, people will engage. We’re not at that tipping point yet but it’ll come if we put the effort in.

It was my own stupid fault for installing it - I saw the GitHub link, and assumed it must be open source so I just went straight to the Releases page and installed it. Its only when my DDG App Tracking Protection started blocking literally hundreds of calls to trackers and Firebase that I went back to GitHub and saw that the guy’s simply using it to host the apk, there’s no source code there at all. Lesson learned.

Summit.

Is this app going to be open source? Because I had a bad experience with another Lemmy app recently stuffed full of trackers that I really don’t want to repeat.

Edit: never mind, I just saw in another thread that it’s not, so it’s not for me.