rainfern 1y ago • 100%
I don't think reddit started out as a for profit company. iirc it started as some dudes sharing links. I knew a site like that back in the day. Link aggregator and forum made by one dude because he liked the community.
rainfern 1y ago • 80%
Oh they're absolutely tankies, dessalines website is crystal clear on that. To me this is simply a test of the fediverse. If it works as intended, the devs political orientation shouldn't matter. We'll see.
rainfern 1y ago • 0%
That blue light thing is pseudo-science. Bodily activity though, yup, that's a big one.
rainfern 1y ago • 100%
Indeed. Email is a good analogy to explain the federation principle, not to argue about the finer details. But going along with it, spam email is being blocked. Whole IP ranges are blocked ("defederated") by spam filters, because otherwise, good grief...
rainfern 1y ago • 100%
We absolutely do not need meta. The fediverse is doing just fine. There must be exactly zero tolerance for their likes. Nothing, absolutely nothing good can come from meta if you have been paying any attention at all. They do not benefit users, they milk them.
As the saying goes...
KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS
rainfern 1y ago • 100%
I mean sure, good news is always welcome, but if I'm bombarded by a website by cookie request, download the app AND fullscreen newslettersignup popups... I'm out. Jesus christ.
rainfern 1y ago • 100%
We have socialism in europe and it's pretty great. Just leave us alone with forced upon communism before we're technologically ready.
rainfern 1y ago • 100%
:'|
rainfern 1y ago • 50%
Exactly. Those are the kinds of personalities that can commit atrocities.
At least lemmy wasn't started by tankies... oh wait.
rainfern 1y ago • 0%
See my response to the other person.
rainfern 1y ago • 58%
Read for yourself what he writes on his website. It's pretty grim shit. https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md#did-mao-kill-millions-of-people
rainfern 1y ago • 71%
Conspiracy? One of the devs has a website where he literally openly denies the Uyghur genocide, Tiananmen square massacre, "Mao did nothing wrong", "Ukrainians are Nazis", denies every single critique of USSR and China, and a whole lot of other vile shit. Read for yourself: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md#did-mao-kill-millions-of-people
This is the real test of the fediverse. Can software written by a piece of shit like that exist without being influenced by their garbage political views?
I think it's possible and I like Lemmy to thrive but it's important to keep an eye out for tankies and to not close your eyes to the reality of who started this.
rainfern 1y ago • 100%
While that is true, I anticipate that as a user you can choose to block all of that, just like I could have a reddit experience without r/conservative and without ads. We will always be able to find our niches, the size of which is determined by how many people share your values.
That being said, it's indeed up to us to make sure the largest communities don't end up on some weird fork that has ads.
rainfern 1y ago • 23%
The way it works in practice is that the largest instances are where most people go. What is stopping those devs from imposing their views on the community, e.g. by censoring?
rainfern 1y ago • 21%
You leave reddit because the ceo introduces shitty pricing but you don't mind the main devs being literal fascists?
I'm using Jerboa and while I was able to comment initially, it first started saying "deleted" immediately after posting and now it says "language_not_allowed" and the comment is gone, irrespective of content. What's up with that?
rainfern 1y ago • 100%
That's an interesting thought... haven't considered that!
If my instance were to go offline, do the posts/comments stay visible by the other instances?
Without that level control over my feed, I'll probably go back to the _other place_. I thought self-determination is part of the fediverse mission, but so far that is much easier on reddit. Is that feature in planning for any of the major hubs (kbin/lemmy/beehaw)?
rainfern 1y ago • 100%
Ahh! No (android) mobile app is yet able to access kbin, right?
Yes, so I want to browse all but actually control the content, block instances, block keywords, etc... currently using Jerboa, but not married to it.