Sounds like a fantastic option for folks that don’t like any mandatorily enforced censorship.

They should all go there.

Comments and votes are content too.

Somebody has to fill this place with content…

…I really like the sound of that idea.

I’m also likely to switch to kbin at some point. Personally I take a fairly long-term view of this project, so I’m waiting to see which projects keep going, which fail, and which new ones haven’t even popped up yet. I’m aware that devs can pivot and change their minds about things.

I picked lemmy initially more or less at random, and I do like it here, but I’m ultimately going to move to the most functional product. That broader idea of the Fediverse is why I’m here.

Yes, I was saying I didn’t see how the liabilities of video hosting with peertube are any different from any other local video hosting.

Regarding GIMP it sounds to me like you just don’t like it. lol You’re entitled to your opinion, it’s fine. Why you find the need to leave your review here is beyond me though.

I don’t see how there’s anything special about it from a liability standpoint. The main advantage I can see from it is simply not supporting google. And yes, there are definitely other options. Does people making competing solutions to problems surprise you in some way?

I mean, I wouldn’t dev it, but I see no valid reason to criticize whoever wanted to.

Certainly. Effort is important and a financial reward is certainly a strong incentive. These are advantages in youtubes favor. Moreover, the hosting cost is really where problems start to come in with peertube.

I suppose if you expected it to properly replace youtube, then I agree, it’s a poor idea. As something that exists independently with its own value, I think it’s fine though.

You can’t prevent the ad from manipulating you. It’s targeting your subconscious, your moods and feelings. They don’t give two shits what your forebrain thinks of them. They want vague associations that slip beneath memory, that pop out five years later.

They’re ubiquitous because they’re so effective though. Really is a pain in the ass.

So uhm … just don’t subscribe to those things. Not sure why you dislike the idea of having the option though.

Art isn’t required to be inherently iterative. It usually is, but that’s a casual correlation. I think what you’re talking about sounds like professionalism, which is a different thing. It encourages consistency and quantity, but not necessarily excellence, as I think the world has demonstrated fairly well.

Thank you for pointing out that the majority of the userbase does not overly like the tankies. Frankly, I find interacting with them to be very similar to interactions with a religious nut, which is also annoying.

That said, I think it is very important that we preserve their rights to be here just as we are. There is no reason they should not be able to establish their own Instances and communities. Nobody is forced into federation with them, and this overall structure can easily accommodate us all.

If not without the occasional flamewar. We are on the internet, let’s not kid ourselves.

I mean, yea. The whole point of this project is to replace traditional internet services with updated and improved ones.

So, we should probably do that. It’s not a question of the ideas being good or not, though, it’s how there’s not enough people to do all the sitting down and physically working to create these things. So, progress is slow. Just because there’s not that many of us yet, in the grand scheme of things. Especially compared to the scope of the Fediverse’s ambitions.

Juuuust keeping the lights on.

I think we’ll need a more polished, tuned, crisper product in order to actually retain a significant userbase of less techy sorts. Which is probably still some time away.

For better or for worse, though, I don’t think the social media landscape is going to change too much in the foreseeable future.

But really, this isn’t good enough. It’s lacking the layer of polish that the mainstream public expects, it’s basically still in alpha. Development takes time is all.

Try going into that specific community, and in the sidebar towards the bottom you’ll find a button for “modlog”. It should have all moderator actions in there, and they usually give a reason for why they did it. Though they don’t actually have to or anything, it’s just up to them.

Also maybe want to check the modlog for the entire Instance, on the Instance sidebar.

I’m not sure if the Sync app has things in different places in their specific UI, incidentally. But there should be sidebars with modlogs somewhere.

Defederation will result in an effective shadowban, just due to the way Lemmy is structured. If you yourself can’t find one of your own, though, that indicates it was probably removed, which is different from a shadowban.

Standard forum-system here, each community sets its own rules and moderation strictness, so best to read the sidebar before you participate. Some communities are extremely strict, others are extremely loose. Applies to whole Instances too.

Yes, yes it does.

I just want to point out that our fairly optimistic views and plans for Lemmy has very likely specifically attracted trolling attention. We have a target on our backs, because some people just like attacking nice things. Most of the internet is not very nice, so does not need to be attacked. We are trying to do something different though, and that will attract some negative attention whether we like it or not.

Since they want to have a chilling effect on the community, hopefully demotivating some of its userbase, it is necessary to embody a willful refusal to be chilled.

For each of us.

Fear is appropriate, being aware of it indicates a healthy amount of EQ. I think this will be an asset during your path.

I would be interested in any findings. If you just post here again in the future, that’ll probably be good enough.

This particular intersection of such a sweeping range of “hard” and “soft” sciences has always fascinated me, I feel like really wrapping your head around it requires proficiency in such a wide range of skillsets that it’s almost prohibitively difficult to pursue.

But if we’re going to understand it, we don’t have much of a choice.