I'm Calling For the Fediverse to Ban UniversalMonk
Today I noticed a huge wall of spam from UniversalMonk from 2 different accounts and didn't initially think much of it and blocked their communities but more spam came from different communities.
At this point I checked and saw that they had created several communities which then led me down the rabbit hole to discover that their posts had almost entirely covered the new posts page of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee. Later on I discovered that they're posting right-wing propaganda and misinformation from breitbart, foxnews you name it.
He's already caused and stirred shit 2 months ago and clearly I can see why now.
At this point it's difficult to believe that UniversalMonk will learn proper netiquette in: not post spamming, being considerate to others, and not sharing right-wing extremist content that no one wants.
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China's imports post surprise growth in December, exports beat expectations as higher tariffs loom
China's imports post surprise growth in December, exports beat expectations as higher tariffs loom
Economists are expecting exports to make a notable boost to China's economic growth last year when the figures are released later this week.Anniek Bao (CNBC)
When u got no other topic but still wanna chat with her
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Your post is buggy. Anyways I tried these pickup lines on some apps, like "What temperature is your microwave" or "what color is your sofa" and I got responses like "I don't have a fridge, it's winter, there's no need for it" and "We don't have a sofa".
Am I fucked anons?
I wanted to find her but I couldn't. Most likely yeah, I was so stunned I didn't even realise that she could also be pulling my leg. wow. This happened months ago and this somehow never crossed my mind. Thanks lmao. I'm usually fast about these.. You know the "When I lie and my friend starts adding details" meme? Well, that's usually me and my homies.
A girl with humor?? And I lost the chat??
Trump transition considering D.C.-area showcase immigration raid in first days of administration
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/21363728
The raid under consideration would target immigrants allegedly living in the U.S. illegally at a workplace in the metropolitan Washington area.
Trump transition considering Washington D.C.-area showcase immigration raid in first days of administration
The incoming Trump administration is considering conducting a high-profile raid targeting undocumented immigrants in its initial days.Julia Ainsley (NBC News)
Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux
OK, maybe you wouldn't pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?
Besides, why not use native Linux as the primary operating system on this new chip family? Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn't. It's that simple.Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.
Even Linus Torvalds thinks Nvidia has gotten its open-source and Linux act together. In August 2023, Torvalds said, "Nvidia got much more involved in the kernel. Nvidia went from being on my list of companies who are not good to my list of companies who are doing really good work."
that runs DGX OS, a customized Ubuntu Linux 22.04 distro
Sigh...not that I'm mad, but I'm not interested in running a corporate fork of Linux. If I get any computer in the future I'll be throwing my favorite Linux distro on it anyways, this doesn't help me at all.
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California Has Not Requested Help from Pentagon to Fight Fires
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/21363599
Hundreds of Marines and ten Navy helicopters stand ready to help fight fires but California has not requested help from the Pentagon.
California Has Not Requested Help from Pentagon to Fight the Los Angeles Fires, Spox Says
Hundreds of Marines and ten Navy helicopters stand ready, but California has not requested help from the Pentagon to fight the raging fires in Los Angeles, according to a Pentagon spokesperson on Friday.Kristina Wong (Breitbart)
Randomly batman pulls up out of no where 🦇 #batman #night
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Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux
OK, maybe you wouldn't pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?
Besides, why not use native Linux as the primary operating system on this new chip family? Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn't. It's that simple.Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.
Even Linus Torvalds thinks Nvidia has gotten its open-source and Linux act together. In August 2023, Torvalds said, "Nvidia got much more involved in the kernel. Nvidia went from being on my list of companies who are not good to my list of companies who are doing really good work."
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Yes, Microsoft now offers Windows on ARM (WoA). However, WoA is not a first-class citizen in the Windows world. Many Windows programs won't run natively on WoA [...]. In particular, Windows games run poorly on ARM.
Interesting news! Sadly I imagine Windows games on Linux on ARM won't perform any better than on WoA. But maybe this will be more incentive for game developers to ship ARM builds.
It would be great if there were a way to translate x86 binaries for ARM without emulation. Has Valve found some way to do that? From a bit of searching I see they've been testing games on ARM, and that testing involves a version of Proton/Wine that runs on ARM. But it looks to me like they're testing with ARM binaries for those games?
I'm as enthusiastic as anyone about more Linux usage, and I agree that Linux support for ARM is a good selling point. But the reason Linux works so well on ARM is that we use all this open-source software that anyone can compile for ARM. I don't think it's honest to point to closed-source software that we can't recompile, and imply that it will work better on Linux because other software runs natively on ARM on Linux.
Valve’s ARM64 game testing points towards new Steam hardware, if vaguely
Valve could be working on new, ARM-powered gaming hardware, according to hints on SteamDB.James Archer (Rock Paper Shotgun)
It would be great if there were a way to translate x86 binaries for ARM without emulation
That's called "emulation".
It's a very difficult problem to solve.
Different architectures are more than just translating op codes. They have different ways to address memory, different types, sizes and number of registers. Compiled binaries use offsets within the code to jump, loop, etc. which all changes when you start changing instructions. It's much easier to emulate the platform at runtime.
It requires a near obsessive understanding of the architecture being emulated, but generally the process is "relatively straightforward" (though not necessarily "easy"). A CPU is a relatively simple device compared to the software built on it. Your basic steps are:
1) Read an instruction
2) Perform the instruction
3) Jump to the next instruction
Throw that in a loop and voilà! You have an emulator. Granted I've handwaved over a lot of complexity (I don't mean to trivialize the effort)...
To translate a binary is very different. Compilers optimize output to behave in a specific way for the target CPU that simply may not work on the new CPU. What do you do, for example, if the code was compiled for a platform that had 12 registers but the new one only has 6? You'd need to re-write the logic to work with fewer registers. That's difficult to do in a way that is generic for any program. An emulator can just present the program with the 12 registers it expects (emulated in memory at the expense of performance).
From what I’ve seen of Asahi Linux’s progress on emulation, Windows games are running pretty darn well on Apple Silicon - there’s still work to be done, but a lot of recent, complicated stuff is playable.
This gives a bit of hope for gaming on other ARM platforms.
I'm sorry, I wasn't completely clear. Yes you can run games on ARM on any OS with an emulator. When I said "won't run any better" I meant you'll get the same emulation slowdown on Linux as on Windows.
The point of the article is that stuff runs faster on Linux because you don't need an emulator, and it implies that that includes games. That's disingenuous because any games that require emulation on Windows will also require emulation on Linux. If there's no ARM build, there's no ARM build.
Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.
No, they're not, and I wish people would stop repeating this. If you want to do anything in userspace, it's still proprietary, Nouveau, or NVK, the second of which has never been comparable and the third of which is still in development (though showing a lot of promise). What is basically at feature parity is the kernel drivers, which if the author had read their source, they'd already know. Kernelspace ≠ Userspace.
However, I will agree that even with the proprietary driver, most people will have a comparable experience to anyone with an AMD card. Hell, I can even use my old laptop with an integrated 960M to play the same games it has always been able to play. Linux has become more available to more people than ever, and it's only going to continue to get better.
NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver Review
With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products.www.phoronix.com
As someone who doesn't follow this stuff closely, I appreciate the clarification!
Its nice to hear from someone with more hands on experience. Hope you have a good one :)
I can only speak from personal experience, but NVIDIA with Wayland has been an absolute mess. My system seems to be stable right now, but there are still weird graphical glitches and artifacts when running games through WINE. Every third or fourth driver update seems to break something.
Also, I’d generally be skeptical of claims that the drivers work well due to “benchmarks.” A benchmark isn’t going to tell you that, for example, certain window elements fail to render entirely until you drag the mouse over them, at which point they suddenly flicker in.
i had a terrible experience too but this is with laptop mind you.
since people are often saying nvidia is just fine I'm starting to believe my problem is the mux switching and not even the gpu itself... but since I'm not an expert i can't be sure...
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We just had a flashpoint, right?
Discord's native linux screensharing is now on the stable branch.
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/26986197
Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts
Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux
Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch for the moment, this isnt lazy either, they changed the whole screenshare flow to suit linux's permission prompts
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because it's the communications platform for gamers™.
But seriously discord screenshare was a massive painpoint for gamers switching to linux, so it's very nice to see it finally, properly, solved.
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In my opinion GitHub is seriously good software, but it is awkward when FOSS software is developed on it instead of on Codeberg, Gitea or another FOSS platform.
Discord is actually a security risk, it walls information off the outside world (compared to a forum or IRC server) and incredibly difficult to find information in even when you're in the server (as opposed to documentation or a forum)
Matrix has 2/3 of these issues, so it being FOSS aside I very much would hate it when development discussion and software documentation is done through Matrix, as well.
MS GitHub doesn’t do anything the others can’t besides the social media features which do not need to be so prominent. If you must, it can be one of multiple code mirrors but should not be the exclusive one, or even the primary option.
Matrix is ass. You cannot reasonably scale an eventual consistency model without centralization & it will be a wasteful network like many of the blockchain projects. We already have had IRC & XMPP MUCs for ages that run on toasters & did not need to be reinvented. Chat has its place tho to help steer folks into asking the right questions, but such questions once formed need to be triaged as bugfixes, issues, FAQs, or forum posts to benefit everyone on the discussion.
Screen sharing is a big social thing for my friends and I, lacking this functionality would mean I wouldn't be able to interact as much sharing goofy game moments and watching movies together.
I tried Vencord for a while, but my friends said that the quality of the stream on their end was consistently stuttering, an issue which isn't happening for me in the official client, so the release of screen sharing on Discord stable after working so well on canary is a welcome update for me.
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Hyprland and kwin I think.
The hyprland dev is doing a ridiculous amount of work.
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They don't work for discord in hyprland unfortunately, it only works when I have discord tabbed in (I tried passing the shortcuts in the hyprland config file)
AFAIK kde's way of doing it is kind of hacky because it was called something like "legacy global keybinds" in settings but I switched off KDE a few months ago so I don't remember the exact details.
wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/… that's a bug then, it should be working according to the docs.
honestly if this is for push to talk, i have a mic mute toggle in my config that might honestly be better depends on wireplumber and ripgrep though. If you bind it to something and then have it run again on release you can make it a proper push to talk key for every single application.
$micmute = wpctl set-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle ; wpctl get-volume @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ | rg -q 'MUTED' && notify-send ' Mic Muted' -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:mic-state || notify-send --urgency=low ' Mic unmuted' -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:mic-state
Binds
Basic bind = MODS, key, dispatcher, params for example, bind = SUPER_SHIFT, Q, exec, firefox will bind opening Firefox to SUPER + SHIFT + Qwiki.hyprland.org
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You can stream the audio using PulseAudio volume control. (pavucontrol)
Click in the Recording tab, find the discord input (it should be called WebRTC engine or something similar) and select the audio device you want to use.
To stream audio from your computer, just click the 'monitor' version of the device you want to use.
Dang, looking into Revolt seems like it'd be more in line with your use case. I wonder if it also has separate voice chat rooms?
I'd love to be able to get people to switch to something like this.
Revolt
Find your community, connect with the world. The chat platform that puts you first.revolt.chat
That forwards to a shadily different URL.
Why does Boost turn that into a clickable link in the first place..?
I'll see if I can raise an issue with the devs of Boost because that didn't fix it.
A \ might, but it seems simple enough to me to exclude readme.md from being automatically marked as a link. And that phrase basically never refers to a link (:
tbh if you're on linux there's kind of an easy workaround
pactl load-module module-combine-sink sink_name='Stream' slaves='easyeffects_sink'
^^ I have this aliased as "gamesound"
easyeffects is great for this because it'll just be the default sink, plus easyeffects makes your mic sound good anyway. (if you configure it for that)
then when the game opens i set it to output to "stream" and bam i can output game audio in a stream without capturing anything else, since i'm on hyprland i can also stream just the window, discord screenshare with audio everywhere.
Well, "nice" to have that feature, but you still shouldn't use Discord, or at least limit your time on it as much as possible.
Remember, when you use it, you're part of the network effect that makes Discord big. You have to resist that. Take a look how Discord compares to pretty much any other messenger or communication tool in existence: messenger-matrix.de/messenger-…
Avoid it whenever possible, get your friends to leave it and weaken its network effect.
So, some of the drawbacks (there's probably more):
* Discord has weak security (see URL above)
* Discord has non-existent privacy
* Discord has an incredibly vague privacy policy which means they do what they want. Even companies with strong privacy policies screw users over routinely. Guess what companies do who don't even care about good privacy policies. They even weakened it further a while back because they need to train their new AI features on your data as well, and probably even their weak privacy policies were in the way before. Well, good thing that the users agreed that they can change it at any time for any reason and be fine with it.
* You grant all rights of everything you write, say, share or do on Discord to Discord, and everything you type, say, upload or share is being processed by their servers
* Discord tracks what you're typing before sending it
* Discord suspended accounts and required even more user data for "verification", such as telephone numbers which is completely unnecessary except for tracking and data selling purposes
* Discord shares chat logs with law enforcement (and they can share everything because they're collecting everything)
* The Discord client app tracks what programs you have running so it can for example display what games you're currently running. That means it contains a process logger. It has to scan every running application and then finds games out of those, and then you have to hope that only the game-specific bits are uploaded to their servers. Maybe that is the case, but can you trust them, and also to never change that? No.
If you have to use it:
* Never use their desktop app, always use the web version from a secondary browser (web apps running in the browser have much less rights than locally running applications), and even then limit what the site can access to the least amount of stuff necessary. If you never use your mic or camera then block it in the browser settings. Don't trust Discord's own mute setting (this also applies to other proprietary software).
* Use a fake e-mail alias / telephone number when creating your account, generally give them the least amount of data possible. Opt out of any options or features which are tied to you exposing more data to them
* Don't give them additional money e.g. for their premium stuff (you already pay with data they gather from you)
* Block at least these API endpoints which are purely used for tracking purposes (there may be more though, and they might change) [easy to do with uBlock Origin for example]:
https://discord.com/api/v*/science
https://discord.com/api/v*/channels/*/typing
https://discord.com/api/v*/track*- You can also block these related hosts safely without impairing Discord's main functions (again there may be more):
crash.discordapp.com
status.discordapp.com
b.stats.paypal.com
app.adjust.com
client-analytics.braintreegateway.comMessenger-Matrix • Kuketz IT-Security Blog
Messenger: Comparison of security- and data protection-relevant features of messengerswww.messenger-matrix.de
I haven't looked too deeply into existing alternatives, but I have a feeling they all miss features Discord has and are just not as good.
Revolt
Find your community, connect with the world. The chat platform that puts you first.revolt.chat
SpacebarChat - Selfhosted, secure communication that you're already familiar with
Spacebar is a free and open source reverse engineering and reimplementation of Discord, including both the backend and frontend. It's a chat platform similar to Slack and Rocket.chatspacebar.chat
did you even read the post??
edit: like seriously i get not reading a long article but the post body is 35 words long
What about video acceleration though? Cause last time i tried it as soon as I moved the camera the screen share's framerate would drop like crazy making it essentially useless. On AMD anyway
I'll prob check later today cause im interested
from a project of its size
Ok but you know that people don't care about this part at all when they're looking for alternatives to actually use, right?
Ok, that's true. But what I'm saying is that you aren't considering the value of convenience and user experience at all. It's possible for those benefits to outweigh the downsides.
Also encryption wouldn't prevent your first example
I would also argue that it's "dumb and shortsighted" to not care about user experience, because then you lose the users and they go back to the unencrypted environmentally-disastrous service.
There's currently about 600 lemmy instances, in many different countries, and those countries each have different laws regarding the protection of speech. Some of it is also just power-tripping mods or left-wing / right-wing censorship.
If this is happening to a community you like, you can always switch to the same community in a different instance. Eventually, the "official" community will have the most subscribers and the community with the censorship problems will wither and die.
Mods will always be a problem.
I’ve yet to encounter a well adjusted human who voluntarily mods.
My preference is for completely community moderated platform.
People essentially vote for content moderation. Likely susceptible to gamification but I’m still interested in seeing it in practice.
Confirmed, Cowbee is an AI but with good takes!
Fr though, are you really a leftist if you don't respond with a wall of text occasionally?
Noooo you found it out....
But fair, lol. I've been trying to cut back on the walls and get to the point more, lol
Yes.
federation-checker.vercel.app/
This link lets you type in an Instance name and it will tell you what other Instances allow it and which ones block it.
There's also this site, which gives you more options for filtering, but also seems to throw up errors pretty consistently in my experience.
In terms of figuring out which instances are cool with one another, this site is also quite useful. It's a web of trust model that a majority of major instances participate in.
It shows which instances endorse one another, with those instances obviously being federated. It also shows how instances choose to describe/tag themselves, which can give you a better understanding of their general vibe. And it also shows which instances are viewed with suspicion, as they are hesitated or censured by other instances.
@Martineski pinging you
Defederation Investigator
Discover who has defederated your Fediverse instance with the Defederation Investigator.defed.xyz
Instances are like islands, with bridges between others. Some instances sever their bridges to other islands so their citizens can't see any of that content and the other island's users can't comment.
Lemmy.world is defederated from instances like Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml, so you can't see their comment. Hexbear is mostly an Anarchist and Marxist hangout, Lemmygrad is specifically Marxist-Leninist and takes itself a bit more seriously. Your "All" feed doesn't show anything from them.
Instances also matter because some have great local feeds based on niche interests, that's part of why I like Hexbear and find it great to browse locally. .world is more of a Reddit replication.
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It’s so inefficient to have these different instances defederating from one another. We should prevent defederation and make it illegal to have redundant instances.
There should be a Chief Efficiency Overlord to make all this happen.
Blahaj can start fostering an inclusive community and stop legitimizing trolls whenever they want drama to stop
Edit: Anyone who's seen what happens when mods legitimize trolls knows it kills communities. I wish i could have stayed on blahaj but it's just as toxic as reddit lgbtq spaces now...
Not sure I agree as it seems like black and white thinking.
I.e. I could imagine a scenario where someone is very obviously/admits to using neopronouns disingenuously and that would break my social contract with them to honour it.
If I make an assessment of neopronoun usage on a case by case basis I can still avoid witch hunts. It’s similar to how I determine in real life if someone is an asshole or not.
Another way; I can support a person who I genuinely believe uses neopronouns while denouncing and excluding someone who doesn’t.
It’s just basic maffs, Cowbee:
- Any given opinion can only be held by one person in the universe.
- Admin Ada @ blahaj and you have the same opinion regarding neopronouns.
- Therefore you and Ada incontrovertibly must be the same person.
Hi again Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Also why was your davel ml and hexbear accounts banned from so many places for "Defense of pedophilia"?
The other day I was on all and ended up reading a comment chain and saw something like "Cuba is a democracy, and for proof just look at the official website of the central party."
I found it ridiculous to essentially say "Doug is a skilled electrician, for proof look at this note Doug wrote saying he's a skilled electrician."
This made me a dirty shitlib (I guess the instance I signed up on makes me a liberal). The reaction seemed intense so I checked and it was .ml, so I assume it's a rivalry thing.
You'll see me venting and shitting on eg conservatives but I don't go around calling people these things. You probably don't either. But clearly there are users categorizing us into labels and associating us with our instances regardless of merit.
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You were given the official outline on how Cuban Democracy works. What genuine reason do you have to not trust the structure reported? It isn't in dispute or anything. Further, there were other non-cuban sources listed on that thread. When you were asked what source would count as valid for you, you were silent, but now you're complaining in an entirely different thread, which is kinda funny.
It wasn't your instance, it was your attitude.
How do elections work in Cuba?
The country is immersed in an election process that will conclude in April. Granma International explains the keys to the Cuban systemen.granma.cu
Okay but in post A, people from B won’t chime in, and conversely for things posted to B.
I guess instance C can make posts where both people from A and B can chime in. So would people in instance A be able to talk to people in instance B in the instance C’s comment section? Cause A people don’t want to hear from B people.
So we would still see less active posts as interactions would go down.
Aren’t liberals and leftists the same thing? Everyone seems to agree that capitalism is bad, the government should provide more social services, our democratic leaders suck (but we should vote for them anyway because republicans are worse), etc.
Honestly Lemmy seems more like a circlejerk than a divide, the only divide I see is how far we need to go to fix/destroy the system. I don’t think I’ve seen a single conservative voice, which is pretty surprising considering Trump apparently won the popular vote, and I’d expect I’d at least see someone from the other side.
there are multiple instances whose domains end in .ml. lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml and the ones that i'm aware of.
lemmy.ml is the primary instance where Lemmy was (and is) originally developed from and that's usually what they're referring to when they say .ml
I'm not complaining, I'm giving you a relevant example of where these labels come from. It's .ml and .world and I just don't have any recent memory of this on .world. I'm sure there's an example or two, just not recent.
I was silent because I wasn't sure what people were saying. I don't think people who disagree with what I say are necessarily misinformed, or less intelligent, or mean. So it comes down to how I am certain people (including you) know that what is written on paper and what flows in reality are not 1:1 matches. But they tell me something they wouldn't accept if they were in my shoes.
Maybe that skepticism sounds ridiculous? But if structure is important and reality can be different and everyone knows this I think it's odd to see officially meaningless official material in the room. Why can't we throw it out?
Edit: imagine we're pointing out that America is controlled by billionaires and someone links the official site saying "No, it's still three branches and the will of the people." You toss it immediately.
Liberalism is the ideological component of Capitalism. It supports things like private property and whatnot, so Capitalist ideologies typically fall under its umbrella.
Leftism is a broad anticapitalist categorization of ideologies like Marxism and Anarchism.
What you describe as "everyone" is the more progressive side of liberalism, but not leftists. Leftists go farther and say that to fix those issues, we need Marxism or Anarchism, generally.
To speak of the Cuban system, it's important to recognize that your skepticism almost certainly originates in perceptions formed by Western media. The structure itself is honest, it's what they literally have. Whether or not this is sufficient, or working well, is a separate argument, but not the one you made. Your argument seemed to be that we can't even trust the Cuban government to report on its own legal structures, which is as silly as saying going and looking up US legal code could be fake because we don't trust the US government.
What reasoning did you have to distrust the Cuban government on its own structures? What source would have been better and thus more reliable for you? No source is free from bias, but things like legal structures tend to be fairly straightforward. Now, if I were linking an article where the Cuban government was talking about how its democratic structure is the best in the world, that leans heavily into opinionated territory and the bias shines through more clearly. However, again, we were talking about the literal structure, which is evidently democratic.
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As a Dutchman representing the Dutch, we fully agree with the statement made.
Obligatory: G E K O L O N I S E E R D
I think I'm mixing up your statement of a basic datum, the way Cuba is written to be, with the idea that it's indicative of what you'll likely find. Hence, I was skeptical of the utility of using the written system as meaningful to the statement that Cuba was democratic. Like if people are going to talk about that, I assume it's not a technicality they are referring to, they are talking about real people living in a real country... so what good is the official parties word on how things are operating?
Also didn't even realize you were the same person from the other thread, didn't mean to show up here and bother you.
Quick correction: you didn't bother me, I saw you commenting here about the meme I posted and wanted to set the record straight on my end. I am a different person from the one you initially replied to on this thread, so no worries.
As for Cuba, there is a large variance in what people who think Cuba isn't democratic actually believe. There are many people who think they don't even have elections, or are otherwise entirely unfamiliar with the Cuban electoral structure. For these people, looking at what the Cuban government says about its structure is massive, there's really no reason not to trust their stated legal structure as reality just like there isn't much reason to think US legal code isn't reality either.
Once we are aligned on structure, then we can talk about how well the structure performs, or what hang-ups it may or may not have. Once everyone knows at least what the Cuban system is, then we can discuss how it works in practice. Without evidence of the system not working well, though, all that remains as a negative opinion on Cuba is through the lens of a media apparatus under the control of an Imperialist regime that seeks to recolonize Cuba.
Does that make sense? To use your own example, I would trust DPRK legal code to be enforced as it says it is, the effectiveness or net results are what can be debated on.
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It might help people to see some local journalistic coverage of Cuban elections. Seeing the kinds of things Cubans say publicly about and during the elections can give people a more intuitive understanding of what Cuban democracy is actually like for the people participating in it, as well as start to reveal the outlines of the overton window there.
Journalism is my preferred medium for understanding the political landscape of other countries; for an example I like to watch friendlyjordies on youtube for a peek into Australian politics. I'm not sure if it would be very easy to find English translated Cuban sources though.
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The microblogging format is truly awful. I've seen professors and incredibly smart writers get into childish feuds with each other, because the format almost encourages it by rewarding dunks and gotchas.
Forcing people to try to communicate over text without paragraphs, or any way to make themselves more clear, is not a good system.
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- YouTube
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very liberal leaning and defederated
For me, "slight liberal leaning" is more appropriate for them
Thank you. Spot on.
I’m also seeing bizarre infiltrations of instances by likely paid teams of saboteurs who know exactly how to deFed the federated.
Instances are like islands, with their own cultures and rules. Hexbear.net, for example, is for Communists and Anarchists to hang out and talk about news, gaming, art, etc, while dbzer0 is an instance focused on piracy, AI, and has a techie anarchist slant, Lemmy.world is very much Reddit 2, etc.
Each of these islands has their own communities, but other islands that are federated can visit these communities. Some instances have strict federation policies like Hexbear.net, which it uses to protect its large trans userbase, while others take the opposite approach like lemm.ee, allowing users to subscribe to any comms across the fediverse they like (that aren't defederated from lemm.ee, which is generally few).
I recommend finding some instances you are interested in, and browsing locally to see if it would be a good fit for you. Then, check if other instances you are interested in are federated with it, so you can see what you want when sorting by all. In my opinion, the biggest strength of Lemmy is in having niche userbases on the same general page, that can then interact with other instances.
Wait....you can browse instances without making an account??? Whoops, lol, I guess I was a little too eager to get Boost for Lemmy working with an account of my own immediately following Boost for Reddit getting nuked.
Is there a good way to browse instances? (Particularly through Boost?)
Also, what are the instances.... literally? Like, I've never seen social media have groups like this (tied to the account, and separate from the communities, that is)
Yep, you can browse instances just by visiting their sites! It's how I signed up to the couple I use, not sure how Boost handles it, I just use my mobile web browser (Hexbear has emojis you can use if you use the web version, so I just use that). I am sorry about not knowing Boost specifically, my fiancé uses Voyager.
As for what instances literally are, they are their own websites and servers, but they can talk to each other, think email. Gmail can talk to protonmail, etc
Yep! There's also a bunch of inter-instance drama too, but by and large it's a much better experience than Reddit, and if all else fails you can find an instance you really like and just browse locally, avoiding most of that drama. A big source of that drama is generally along political lines, Lemmy generally has 3 camps: Marxists, Anarchists, and Liberals, and each instance is more or less friendly with each of those, or hostile to them, so picking an instance that generally aligns with your views will dramatically smooth out your experience.
I recommend sorting this server browser by "most active" and checking each out locally.
Trudeau says Trump’s 51st state talk distracts from cost tariffs will bring
Trudeau says Trump’s 51st state talk distracts from cost tariffs will bring
In an interview with CNN, Trudeau pushed back again on the idea of Canada becoming part of the U.S., which Trump has continued to push in comments to media.Sean Boynton (Global News)
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I definitely wouldn't have thought to label him terrible. Just emotionally delicate enough to not be able to handle dissenting opinions and harboring a sense of powerlessness that has made him want to create an environment where he gets to control the people that try to participate.
I can relate. I might start a "somethingsucks" community and may the Gods help anyone that tries to usurp me.
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This is most likely his villain origin story: He tried linux making him a hacker in his mind, broke it and couldn't fix it, the Arch forum told him to RTFM and pointed him to the wik so he reinstalled Windows and has made the entire linux community his ~~arch~~ nemesis.
Admitting some people aren't savvy enough to run linux is his kryptonite.
Hey now, linuxsucks doesn't do that anymore!
...because every post is locked, nobody can comment.
(unless they are banning due to votes, I can't find it in the modlogs if they are)
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unless they are banning due to votes, I can't find it in the modlogs if they are
That community is on .world, which on Lemmy v0.19.3. Moderators there cannot yet see who voted.
But you'd assume that the two managed by the official Lemmy developers, including the default one for web included with basically every Lemmy instance, would have the feature.
Not to mention, the dev in that GitHub specifically said:
I just added this to jerboa also.
So in theory it should be there. I just can't find it. Unless it got pulled out at some point more recently...
And it looks the change was merged into main, so yes, I think it should be supported by the app: github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/pul…
I am not a mod, so I can't check, but it sounds like on a post/comment, you tap three-dots > Moderation > View votes
Adding admin / mod view votes. by dessalines · Pull Request #1331 · LemmyNet/jerboa
This is tested and working now. VID_20240123_181945.mp4GitHub
it sounds like on a post/comment, you tap three-dots > Moderation > View votes
Unfortunately not. I havet he "Moderation" sub-menu, but it only contains "Remove Post", "Lock Post", or "Feature in Community" on posts, and only "Distinguish Comment" (if it's my own comment) or "Remove Comment" (otherwise) on comments.
I know, but it still not being on the Lemmy Web UI makes it basically unusable for the vast majority of mods.
And I know about Tesseract, I was the one suggesting the change: feddit.org/post/6649095/404565…
Saw someone with their own instance say on another post (not on their instance) that they could tell that said post had 5 downvotes by users they had tagged.
Not sure that it's true, but I do find it a bit unnerving. I was on (the now defunct) Kbin and the downvotes were public, which didn't bother me as much because it was at least transparent/equal (though I also had someone pester me over a few votes spanning weeks on their just-them-posting-a-popular-comic place, said it was an error with their averages and then they still silently banned/blocked me after).
First point is correct.
Actually, you can still use Mbin today to see upvotes on Lemmy communities
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Communities made around hating a specific thing are always awful.
Except FuckCars because that's really just pro-urbanism.
US society (IIRC you're a US citizen) definitely is car centric. The issue people have with FuckCars is how it puts the responsibility of the situation to the cars (and their owners) rather than the policies leading to that situation.
!publictransport@slrpnk.net could maybe a less "fuck them" alternative
Except FuckCars
Unfortunately, the community is still populated and run by some Grade A types.
Like, the sentiment is good, but you still end up with people who have no communication skills piling in.
Slowly becoming an echo chamber of toxic one-ups-manship has never resulted in anything bad happening to a board moderator or its members.
Just ask Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka
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Linuxsucks isn't a community. It's one guy on a mountain of shit.
Honestly, he doesn't deserve the attention he's getting right now.
To be fair you literally asked to be banned
Ban me too since Vegan Pizza called you out on your nonsense.
My response:
ok! I have banned you per your request. If you ever want to come back, just send me a DMWRT Vegan Pizza, they only down vote, they did not start a conversation. I'm not sure down voting counts as being called out
EU fears Donald Trump rolling back Biden-era measures
EU fears Donald Trump rolling back Biden-era measures
Bloc concerned about president-elect reversing US sanctions against Russia and other policiesHenry Foy (Financial Times)
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I just wish more people were willing to try out the alternatives
Or any political content at all. Most people just want to look at funny cats or memes.
Other people want absurd humor without the racist degeneracy of other outlets.
If all the average users were here, it would be just as awful as Reddit became when it hit mainstream acceptance level.
Remember that subreddits there were quality when small but sort of became too large to have character after a certain threshold, I seem to recall 300k subscribers and up being about where that delineation was.
Lemmy could stand to be more popular, but not too popular or it would attract the bottom feeders that make stupid one liner comments and upvote wrong answers.
Enjoy the smaller lemmy while it lasts
Edited for clarity, gotta drop the reddit shorthand
I seem to recall 300k subscribers and up being about where that delineation was.
Interesting number, but why not have it based on active users rather than subs?
~~I think "subs" in this instance refers to subcommunities or subreddit, not subscribers.~~
NM. Missed the word subscribers in the original comment.
Because that’s just an easy metric you can eyeball to gauge a subreddit community
I remember it being roughly true but I have no data other than anecdotal to back that up
"The problem isn't corporate, the problem is audience size."
Shut the fuck up about this.
Lemmy isn't anything right now. No impact or relevance, no practical effect in terms of community and influence. It's just small conversations and mild entertainment.
If you enjoy that, go ahead. But don't campaign to hold the whole fediverse project back.
Just get together in a niche instance with your small town types and defederate if the project successfully becomes a full fledged alternative. The Internet needs a successful full scale alternative to corporate social media to have a chance at recovery from enshittification.
It's not a campaign, its an observation based on whats come before. It'll come for lemmy the same as it did for reddit.
I'll adapt as it grows like before, but the fact remains that online communities are at their best when it isnt 3 million subscribers shouting over each other. On the flip side, 3 million users would likely spawn enough interest for super niche communities to self sustain themselves. The broad interest communities though, those will become just like reddit is now.
Both of you can be correct. Some communities (e.g. technical subjects like photography, self hosting, etc.) can work well at lower numbers. Some others might be more social were numbers might allow more organic interactions.
Here like Reddit, the best experience is achieved by trying to find the ones you are interested in and following them. It is more apparent here I think since there is not as much content.
Out of curiosity, how come you don’t recommend your own instance, feddit.org?
Even if feddit.org is bilingual, the main language is still German. The sidebar text is in German first, !main@feddit.org is name "Haupteingang" and is mostly in German, the Matrix chat is in German, etc. It makes sense, it's the successor of feddit.de, but probably not ideal for a non-German speaker. My main account is on sopuli.
By presenting people with “here’s an instance if you’re American, here’s another if you’re European” might support the idea that people will get differenct experiences based on their location.
Indeed, I guess I'll add a short "using a server on your continent is better for latency, content is the same"
I do wonder whether instances should be scored by a few factors and recommended that way?
I kind of did a similar assesssment a while ago (feddit.org/post/5215276/339674…)
Long story short, there is no ideal generalist instance. If you open the top 20 instances (fedidb.org/software/lemmy/)
- Lemmy.world is too big
- Lemm.ee is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad, something that is not very welcoming to new users (see this thread: sh.itjust.works/post/28798607/… )
- sh.itjust.works names contains "shit", which can deter users
- lemmy.ca is Canadian-centric
- feddit.org, as you mentioned, is German-centric, but technically English speaking too
- dbzer0 federates hexbear
- programming.dev is topic-centric
- blahaj is queer-focused
- discuss.tchncs.de has a difficult name
- lemmy.sdf.org does not defederate anyone
- lemmy.zip is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad
- beehaw is way outdated
- infosec.pub is topic-centric
- aussie.zone is country-centric
- midwest.social is region-centric
That's how I came up with sopuli.xyz (neutral name, stable, defederated grad and hexbear) and discuss.online (same)
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The problem with more generic communities is that you might be sharing it with more people, but they're not people who are engaged with the topic. And that's what I really miss. The deep conversations on theorising, community drama, etc. that can only come from a large number of people who are really interested in the subject. Posting to a generic community limits the type of discussions you can have to those that are more accessible to a generic audience.
As another example, just now I've been playing Kerbal Space Program for the first real time (I toyed around with it briefly many years ago, but didn't try career mode and completing contracts). Right now, I'm struggling to understand why something I'm doing isn't working. I would love to be able to go to !kerbalspaceprogram and ask an audience of people who know what they're talking about. Sure, I could try my luck in !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works or something even more generic like !games@lemmy.world. But neither of those are really the appropriate venue for something that's so specifically only of interest to people who know about KSP. Posting "I've been playing KSP lately and really enjoying it" makes sense on patientgamers. Posting a detailed scenario of what I've been doing and what I've done in the past, and asking why it doesn't work for me right now even though it seemed to work before...probably doesn't.
Another example: I've been posting every useful or interesting guide or analysis of Age of Mythology I've come across to !aom. It wouldn't really feel right to post that kind of thing to patientgamers. But I probably will post when the upcoming expansion comes out to more generic communities
Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe posting niche game-specific content to generic communities is a good way to bring attention to them for more people who would be interested in it, while also bringing attention to an audience that didn't know they might be interested in it. I'd love to hear others' thoughts on this. Maybe I should put a post in !fedigrow@lemm.ee for this discussion?
I understand this perspective, and I occasionally flirt with it myself, but mostly I disagree.
My main view is that content should go in a community that will be interested in it. There's a balance to be struck here to avoid getting hyper specific (for example, I've stopped using !brisbanetrains@aussie.zone in favour of just putting train stuff in !brisbane@aussie.zone), but I also think content that is fundamentally not about the topic of one community shouldn't go in that community. I wouldn't post Brisbane-specific local council politics in !australia@aussie.zone, for example.
My view is that subscribing to a community costs nothing. Creating a community costs nothing. Even moderating a community doesn't have any very much cost for the moderator on a per-community (as opposed to per-post or per-comment) basis. There's no actual harm caused by having 10 communities with 1 post per day, compared to one community with 10 posts per day. Instead, doing the former simply allows people to more easily filter for the content that they are interested in and avoid that which they are not.
I've given a more detailed reply to Blaze about the specific discussion at hand here, but since you brought up the general principle, I thought I'd reply to you with my general principle.
At least we have tankies, so there's that.
I jest, yet that's a real worry that a large number of people have, like on Reddit when people (Blaze) promotes Lemmy that is quite often their first response ("hey, isn't that the one where tankies who got booted off of Reddit went and made their own Reddit software?").
That, and the fact that we are first and foremost, primarily a "Linux forum". We do have general communities like AskLemmy and I even helped start an AskUSA so I'm not saying that there's nothing else there, but we definitely lack the breadth and depth present on Reddit.
Maybe we can find better talking points, like "we have less content but our discussions are more worthwhile, where people tend to be kinder and also real rather than bots btw".
Although Lemmy.World's massive policy change announcement is definitely going to absorb all of our attention for the foreseeable future.
"Can I see everything across Lemmy, or will I be getting a fragmented experience?".
This is 100% a huge concern for Mastodon. But for Lemmy isn't that figure closer to like 1%?
People who don't even know what things like "Beehaw" or "Hexbear" or "Lemmygrad" are, aren't going to be put out so much that access to them is barred.
Lemmy.World has ~80% of all Lemmy users last I checked though I expect that will radically shift in the next couple of months (due to their policy change announcement yesterday). Like it or not, Lemmy is far more centralized than other Fediverse offerings like Mastodon, PeerTube, and I would presume Friendica.
Also, doesn't Mastodon still lack an All feed? In contrast, the default sort option of discuss.online/ is to show All, so how is this really all that fragmented? The default sort option for lemmy.ml is Local, so without pressing any buttons the fragmentation effect is far greater there - they will see no posts to communities like !tenforward@lemmy.world or !AskUSA@discuss.online or anywhere else until they start poking around to see how the software works. But even there, unlike Mastodon (at least historically), pressing one button will instantly show the majority of the Fediverse content (well... minus everyone who got banned from that instance, which actually... is quite a lot).
Am I missing something though: what are users worried about in terms of fragmentation that applies to Lemmy? (That is actually true I mean, bc from what I can see, while it's true for other Fediverse offerings, it's not for Lemmy?)
Am I missing something though: what are users worried about in terms of fragmentation that applies to Lemmy?
I think it's that they don't know ANYTHING about it, other than it's a bunch of different servers that seem to operate independently. So they have no idea how the whole thing operates. I've been on Lemmy for about 18 months and I don't know how the federation works for Mastodon or Friendica - I actually looked up Friendica the other day but just gave up after looking at the list of instances. I don't know what it means to use a specific instance for Friendica, even though I know what it means for Lemmy. These people won't know what it means at all.
Oh okay. Though you said "I do wonder whether instances should be scored by a few factors and recommended that way?", and wanted to point out that Blaze has already done that work, which culminated in the list of those instances (discuss.online and sopuli.xyz). It's just that there are only a few instances (~20) that are most highly worth mentioning to someone who refuses to engage in such technical details, and beyond Lemmy.World that compromises ~80% of all users on Lemmy, everything else combined is part of that remaining 20% anyway.
So this list of two instances to check out is a highly optimized, extremely streamlined statement crafted to help people avoid exactly what you are referring to in analysis paralysis. Though perhaps a statement could be added that Lemmy specifically, unlike other Fediverse offerings, does not need to worry as much about the fragmentation effect?
The really cool thing about that list is that you can simply click and immediately get to browsing the entire Threadiverse (minus Threads:-P). You don't even need an account, and so to lurk this is all you need to know to get started. After that, if someone wanted to join an instance other than these, then yeah your list recommendation would help, but also keep in mind that it would need to be maintained as well as made in the first place, and then people made aware of where to go to view it, the latter of which imho is the chief problem since admins mostly refuse to update the sidebar text even to point to entire communities dedicated to discussing such matters, like e.g. !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca. But if you are interested in making such a list btw, I'm saying just in case, that is a great community to post it to for a start.
Edit: I've often thought about making such a post with such a list, but (a) Blaze has already done it in the past, (b) it would keep changing e.g. Lemmy.World's huge announcement yesterday, and (c) I'm legit not certain what the point is really, bc most people (except those of us who discuss such matters inside of the Fediverse:-) don't seem to care so much about such details. The chief barriers to people joining seem to be: (a) where content at (we simply don't have the sheer amounts that especially Reddit does); and factors like "there be tankies there" or "I needz my free speech" (aka I'm a MAGAT and I would prefer Truth Social). In that regard, Lemmy.World's announcement might actually help bring more centrists here, rather than them being turned away by interaction with a power mod, though I leave it to others to judge if that will be a good thing or not.
It became my primary. Had never heard/understood federated-internet anything before lemmy. And it's been a really good time here
Reddit is now just a Quora for me, when I'm using a search engine. I don't scroll Instagram, but just look at what (3) people send me. Facebook is for rare use-cases, so I haven't deleted my account. YouTube I watch, rarely scroll, and don't interact. And I think that's about it currently
Lemmy has it's own issues/flavor for sure... but I dig it. I learned my first forum basics from Something Awful, and there's a certain vibe here that reminds me of that. The fediverse (threadiverse? I haven't heard that term) feels like an internet community center or something
Lemmy.World has ~80% of all Lemmy users last I checked though I expect that will radically shift in the next couple of months (due to their policy change announcement yesterday). Like it or not, Lemmy is far more centralized than other Fediverse offerings like Mastodon, PeerTube, and I would presume Friendica.
15667/41874 = 37% of Lemmy monthly active users on LW: fedidb.org/software/lemmy/
256908/777047 = 33% of Mastodon monthly active users on Mastodon.social: fedidb.org/software/mastodon/
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Lemmy.World that compromises ~80% of all users on Lemmy, everything else combined is part of that remaining 20% anyway.
15667/41874 = 37% of Lemmy monthly active users on LW: fedidb.org/software/lemmy/
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It's always a question of balance. How many people will see your niche community? How actively do you promote it? Is the userbase even large enough to have enough people interested in your community?
You mentioned Age of Mythology, I actually posted a while ago about it on !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works : sopuli.xyz/post/14540736. I got a few comments there, so probably people you can try reaching out or pinging in your community.
I just had a look, you have 74 subscribers on !aom@lemm.ee. The userbase might be there, but if they are, they don't know about it. You can try promoting it on
- !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
- !games@sh.itjust.works
- !gaming@lemmy.world
- !rts@reddthat.com
- !strategy@lemmy.world
- !strategygames@sopuli.xyz
The last three communities aren't that active, but they have between 200 and 300 subscribers, so that could help building your userbase.
As a side note, I don't know how popular AoM is. Games like !stardewvalley@lemm.ee and !factorio@lemmy.world are doing fine, but they are quite popular and active.
For Kerbal, have you tried !ksp@lemmy.world? There is also
- !ksp@feddit.de
- !ksp_academy@lemm.ee
- !kspuk@feddit.uk
Might be worth it to choose one of them as "the one", and promote it to the other one, as well as the gaming communities above.
As you can see, it takes quite some work to get a niche community going, and that's why personally nowadays I stick to very generic communities: shows, pokemon, leagueoflegends (niche if you want, but still one of the most popular games worldwide), patientgamers.
My view is that subscribing to a community costs nothing.
It does, to an extend. People don't want to subscribe to dozens of different communities to get their content. As I said in the other comment, there's a balance to be found, and usually more generic communities benefit from not having to be promoted in a lot of places to get known, people just see them from All or a post in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and subscribe because they see it as active and generic enough.
This is not entirely true, at least as phrased here.
- Our quality of discussions is way higher, in our opinions, even though yes their topic range is so much more narrow (Star Trek, Linux, various Fediverse aspects, etc.).
- There are no ads, for some that is VERY noteworthy, especially those less technically inclined.
- As others mentioned the apps here blow the official Reddit one out of the water.
- (Edit: there is much more, I did not intend this listing to necessarily be comprehensive, e.g. one that I see people mentioning is a focus on user privacy.)
So all of this is not "nothing", even though yes it is also not "everything" either.
If you’re a company and you’re oblivious to ethical problems related to social media.
A platform with 20x the active userbase as the alternative is the obvious choice.
It's transit. Your users will go where you tell them to go.
Even better, the open APIs will allow them to build whichever portions they want into their own apps. Or they could adapt an existing, open license third party app into their own platform using 90% existing code.
Wow, that dropped FAST! I expected it to fall, but not by that much, and definitely not that quickly. Total MAUs also down from 43 to 41.9k. Hopefully someone has time to offer a post showing how the trends have changed recently.
In particular I started to notice it drop perhaps a month ago but wondered how "real" the effect was, vs. some kind of measuring glitch. Although the sidebar and other monitoring tools (the Datadog link in it) seems to support all of it.
At a guess, it could be a combination of many factors from the super old software that continues to fall further behind (0.19.13 vs. 0.19.18 already) to all the drama that continually spills forth from there. People, particularly non-technical ones, have a resistance to moving, but once that resistance is overcome...
I guess congratulations, you almost single-handedly helped make the Threadiverse (or whatever we are calling ourselves) more decentralized! 🎉🥳👏
For Kerbal, have you tried !ksp@lemmy.world?
Ah, no, I have not! I did try searching "kerbal space program" in the Communities search, but it only came back with a result from a dead instance. Looks like that instance completely lacks any reference to the full name of the game, which is why it didn't show up. Rather incidentally, that's why I made a deliberate choice to have the AoM community be !aom but have its display name be "Age of Mythology". I knew people might search for either and wanted both to work.
Looks like the KSP mod is absent, or I'd suggest they do the same.
Thanks for those other community suggestions. I might take the opportunity of the upcoming expansion (I'm expecting a lunar new year release date, given it's a Chinese civ) to share in those communities. I'm just very wary of being seen as overly spammy. Most of my promotion thus far has been looking for threads where I can respond by talking about Age of Mythology in the comments and linking it from there.
I don’t know how popular AoM is
Definitely not as popular as those others. That goes back to my original point. There's a significant network effect in a site as big as Reddit, and it's hard to blame individuals for not leaving if their smaller, more niche interests are not catered for on the new site yet. Even though, chicken-and-egg style, if they did all move at once to Lemmy, there would instantly be all the space for all the same communities to thrive.
Yea but can lmy run on Lynx browser?
...seriously asking cause I want to start using the Lynx browser for more.
I can't even blame spez for becoming that asshat. Trying to ride herd on something as large, diverse, and popular as reddit has become, requires someone who is willing to be an asshat.
If you ever find yourself in charge a group of diverse people remember that you will never satisfy everyone. And a lot of the time the best you can hope for is to piss off everyone equally.
You can be benevolent, but you can't satisfy everyone. Those are two different things. I can care about people, but I can't feed every starving person. I can work to rescue as many as I can, but I cannot save everyone.
And the larger the group you are trying to lead, the less likely it is that you can satisfy the needs of all of them. And sometimes, you might even need to be cruel in the moment to be kind over the long run to do the most good.
Oh okay. Though you said “I do wonder whether instances should be scored by a few factors and recommended that way?”, and wanted to point out that Blaze has already done that work, which culminated in the list of those instances (discuss.online and sopuli.xyz)
Yeah fair enough, I didn't know !Blaze@feddit.org had done that before I commented. My only feedback is that I don't think they need to be categorised as "for Americans" and "for Europeans" - more like "here's a couple of great, healthy general purpose instances to get your feet wet in Lemmy - don't worry, you're not restricted to just those servers, you can vote, comment and subscribe to communities across Lemmy!"
Whilst we're on this topic of "sign-up friction" - here's a good example of some struggles that "regular" people face - it's about Pixelfed but I think the same logic applies:
Just installed it, clicked "Login" and I have to pick a server? Why do these new apps trying to replace Insta/Twitter/etc all have this without an explanation for people who don't know what they're selecting?Does it matter what you pick? Are you "locked in" to a server? Do you only see the posts of people within the same server? Does everyone else see what server I choose? Can the servers shut down, leaving users stranded?
There needs to be a better intro for these decentralized services if they want more people to adopt. 99% of us want to click Sign Up, make a username/password and be in. Adding extra steps creates frustration which leads to just not finishing signup and loading up Instagram instead.
My only feedback is that I don’t think they need to be categorised as “for Americans” and “for Europeans”
On top of the latency issues, privacy laws and regulations are different between the US and Europe. Also, a lot of LW users were surprised to learn than LW is European managed and hosted during the whole jury nullification LW ToS discussion, so I prefer to make it a clear statement from the start.
We live in a time where you could have a really good alternative FOSS Platforms with all the cool bells & whistles
But they'll never join it because, "It ain't Youtube" or "muh favorite creator is not there" or that there's no large userbase
It's not just Americans vs. Europeans in general. Aussie.zone says "Lemmy for Australians and those that love Australia", and lemmy.ca says "A canadian-run community, geared towards canadians" Feddit.org says "Wir sind eine deutsch- und englischsprachige Lemmy Community und entwickelten uns aus feddit.de heraus.", which if you scroll down far enough is also translated as "We are a German and English-speaking Lemmy community that evolved from feddit.de."
All of these will welcome people from outside of their space, but then definitely have obvious themes going on relating to their nationality, which may cause some people to feel like they don't belong. Similarly, Lemmy.zip says "A Lemmy community for everyone, with a focus towards tech, PCs, and gaming." There are so many others for LGBTQIA+, climate change, NSFW, anime, specific show series like Star Trek, etc. And Midwest.social combines both a location and non-location based theme with "A lemmy server for, but not limited to, leftists in the Midwest USA." So leftists in another country or even region, or centrist libs, will feel excluded.
That's one reason why discuss.online is so great, "A general purpose Lemmy instance for discovery, fun, & sharing. It's a Lemmy place for all." And it has superb uptime, prompting me to move there when my previous instance startrek.website kept having so many connection issues. Though latency halfway around the world might be an issue? (I would not know, I haven't tested, and it legit might not be?) And as Blaze mentioned, different laws e.g. Donald Trump could demand that all negative mentions of his name be scrubbed, at which point any USA-based instance is going to have to comply or else face his (hand-picked) Supreme Court-backed wrath.
And then there's issues that would never be written down, or change too often even if they were, to be kept updated. e.g. all the database corruption issues that have been going on for months at programming.dev, see !meta@programming.dev for details.
One resource that helps me look at things is lemmy.fediverse.observer/list. However, there is no way to share a URL that sorts that list by Monthly Active Users - so when you click that link, you won't recognize a single name there, and will have to onboard yourself with how to make use of that tool before you can begin to use it to see the top 20 or so instances.
And after all that effort, it still won't tell you some CRUCIAL details like whether an instance is only run by a single admin or not. I used to tell people about quokk.au as one of the only 3 instances across the entire Fediverse that had defederated from the big 3 tankie instances, but someone said that they had requested an account and after several days it was not accepted (a week? sorry I don't recall now how long they waited but the comment is here, lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/1138… although the time resolution info is now gone I believe, or at least I don't know how to get higher precision using the web UI).
And then ofc there's the situation of prickly admins, most notably lemmy.ml that routinely bans people for opaque rules never written down anywhere, plus you can be banned from communities that you've never even heard of much less visited or interacted with in any way - it's just how they like to do things over there.
We who are here are okay with such complexities, in an ever-shifting landscape (can you post from Lemmy to Mastodon? okay, how about now? is Lemmy the only way to access the Threadiverse? I'm typing this from PieFed btw so definitely not anymore:-). But the mainstream person is not, and talking with Blaze to see all of these complexities I am convinced that they are too numerous for a simple explanation to suffice. Unless that is, someone is willing to do that kind of effort to understand and then make the post and then keep making new ones as time passes and things change - e.g. when Sublinks is released, Lemmy.World has strongly hinted at wanting to switch to it and thereby leave Lemmy software behind, bc of the association with it being tankies and dependent upon lemmy.ml for the listing of communities.
Given such complexities, the simple list here of just two alternatives for links to click on and check out even without needing an account signup to look and see what we are about, seems ideal.
But you are correct: the next layer down is still very much lacking. And then it all continues further with community discovery, after picking ah instance. For myself, I'm pinning my hopes on PieFed rather than Lemmy, for so many reasons but to name just two: Categories of Communities helping onboard new people without having to choose between simply All or Local, and it being written in Python rather than Rust. It has a long way to go yet to even catch up with some Lemmy features like searching for posts, yet in some ways it's already ahead of it so...
Fediverse Observer checks all servers in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home.
Lemmy Servers Status. Find a Lemmy server to sign up for, find one close to you!lemmy.fediverse.observer
And then there’s issues that would never be written down, or change too often even if they were, to be kept updated. e.g. all the database corruption issues that have been going on for months at programming.dev, see !meta@programming.dev for details.
It got fixed yesterday, FYI.
I might have to do that then, thanks! Might make my experience a bit better.
Also something I didn’t think about, there are enough users on Reddit to let the garbage comments sink to the bottom and not be seen. Here, you see them all
It looks like the site has gone down 3 times in the last week. I hope this effort fixes its former issues:-).
If so, will it now be part of your recommendations? I note that it hasn't defederated from lemmygrad.ml - see e.g. this post. Plus it's themed, though the former is a bigger turnoff for me to want to recommend it even to someone interested primarily in posts about that topic area.
Still think something like multireddits for lemmy communities would a game changer. I also think there's enough instances with similar enough values to agree upon a defacto 'main' community for some stuff that can be ported to another instance if someone loses their mind.
Other thing I wonder about (please feel free to call me a dummy, people, I promise to think harder about it/read stuff this evening - this is a lunch break comment on a brutal day), other than just lower numbers how did Usenet get around this kind of problem back when it was actually for discussions and not just the superior medium for piracy?
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lemmygrad isnt defederated from but many of their communities are hidden from the feeds by default (so you dont see them unless you subscribe to them)
same thing for some other instances like lemmynsfw
ones that are more recent wont be hidden since I havent been able to due to the issues but I should be doing another hiding round soon
Just that there’s nothing keeping Bluesky from enshittifying the same way Twitter (and all the other centrally-corporate-owned social media platforms) have.
Could you elaborate on what you mean?
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[…] [1] dustycloud.org/blog/how-decent…
Thank you so much for putting in effort to try and cite your claims and for providing a references section! This is a practice that I think should be much more common. PM me if you're interested in the citation style that I use.
I'm not sure what else I can say about it. Bluesky is a shareholder-owned company started by Jack Dorsey, one of Twitter's co-founders. Current CEO of Bluesky has promised not to "enshittify" Bluesky with ads, but there's nothing really holding them to that. There's no federation, yet. Well, there is, but not the kind that makes platforms like Mastodon and Lemmy decentralized. That kind will require at best a lot of work and funding. There's no guarantee it'll happen. And no guarantee of interoperability with the Fediverse.
At any time, they could decide they've locked people in well enough that they can change all the rules and fuck over the users without any negative reparcussions to them. Just like Reddit and Facebook and every other platform that has enshittified lately. They could flood Bluesky with ads, sell your data, align politically with fascists, sell to Twitter, just straight shut down, or any number of evil things that leave their users with the choice to quit the platform and lose all their connections or grit their teeth and bear it.
On the Fediverse, if you don't like something about your instance, you can switch instances and mostly still have contact with all the same content and other people. (For instance, on Mastodon, you can switch instances and keep your followers. The first Lemmy instance I joined shut down permanently, so I switched to Lemmy.World with basically no problems whatsoever.)
I’m not sure what else I can say about it. Bluesky is a shareholder-owned company started by Jack Dorsey, one of Twitter’s co-founders.
To be fair, Bluesky is specifically registered as a public benefit corporation ^[1]^. Whether that will mean anything positive in the end, I guess, is to be determined.
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1. "Bluesky". Wikipedia. Published: 2025-02-04T19:39Z. Accessed: 2025-02-05T03:13Z. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky.
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[…] It is owned by Bluesky Social PBC, a benefit corporation based in the United States. […]
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Just saw some of your comments and really like how you’re using the spoiler tag. Will try to emulate it going forward. […]
FYI, I've heard a couple reports ^[1.1][1.2]^ that the spoiler tag isn't rendered properly on some front ends currently. Despite that, I haven't altered my usage of it, as I don't have any viable alternative at the moment.
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1. Title: "Happy #GlobalSwitchDay". Author: @squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de. "Fediverse" !fediverse@lemmy.world. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2025-02-01T09:08:40Z. Accessed: 2025-02-05T03:24Z. URI: sh.itjust.works/post/32046509/….
1. Comment: Author: @apex32@lemmy.world. Published: 2025-02-01T14:05:20Z. URI: sh.itjust.works/post/32046509/….
I wish Boost understood the collapsible spoilers.On my client, it's all expanded and I see all the formatting characters. It looks/works great in a browser though.
- This is in reply to a comment that used a collapsible spoiler.
2. Comment: Author: "Victor" @victorz@lemmy.world. Published: 2025-02-01T15:39:09Z. URI: sh.itjust.works/post/32046509/….
Same with Sync, unfortunately.
- This was in reply to a comment saying:
I wish Boost understood the collapsible spoilers.On my client, it's all expanded and I see all the formatting characters. It looks/works great in a browser though.
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[…] Will try to emulate it going forward. Appreciate your […] style.
Keep in mind that my citation style is still very much a WIP 😜. There's a few things that I'm not sure exactly the best way to handle, at the moment. If you see inconsistencies in my citation style, it's likely because I'm trying out a change in formatting to see if it works. I'm trying to not let perfect be the enemy of good, so I'm developing it as I use it. Eventually, if I can get it to a satisfactory state, I'm planning on publishing my citation style (likely in some git repo). That way, I can standardize it and version the changes.
GPU Screen Recorder 5.0.0 now has a Shadowplay-like UI
You can see static pictures in the Flathub UI page.
You can see a demo someone else posted on Reddit here: reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comm…
Install GPU Screen Recorder on Linux | Flathub
A shadowplay-like screen recorder for Linux. The fastest screen recorder for LinuxFlathub
flatpak update not tell you before installing it?
Stashes of Emirati weapons found in Sudan's Wad Madani: Report
Videos and photos have surfaced online reportedly showing a warehouse of Emirati ammunition and missiles in Wad Madani, Sudan, after the country's military captured the strategic city from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The videos show members of Sudan's military walking around the warehouse, which is filled with large boxes, and one Sudanese soldier saying the weapons all originate from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Israeli coalition downs proposal to form commission to probe October 7
The Israeli government coalition on Wednesday rejected a proposal in the Knesset to establish an "official" inquiry committee into the failures of October 7, 2023, according to Israeli media reports.
Out of the 120 Knesset members, 51 voted against the proposal, while 43 supported it. The vote reflected the presence of those members who attended the session.
During the session, opposition leader Benny Gantz, head of the National Unity party, criticized the Israeli government, stating, "Israelis see your hypocrisy." Gantz accused the government of attempting "two dangerous actions: evading responsibility and eroding trust in the rule of law systems," as quoted by the Israeli Walla news outlet.
Israeli coalition downs proposal to form commission to probe October 7
The Israeli occupation's coalition government votes against a draft proposal to form a commission to investigate "Israel's" October 7 fiasco.Al Mayadeen English (Israeli coalition downs proposal to form commission to probe October 7)
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in reply to recursive_recursion they/them • • •oh, that tard's still around? I blocked him months ago.
I can affirm my experience has been all the better for it, so yes, the rest of the fediverse should throw the Nazi out of the bar.
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Unknown parent • • •I didn't analyze his posting habits all that closely because I'm not obsessed with stalking and persecuting everyone who thinks differently from me, but it's always been apparent to me that he's a real person with ahem an unconventional belief system, to say the least. He seems to come from an era before the internet, when people didn't care as much what other people thought of them. Some people don't neatly fall into the buckets of left wing and right wing, as currently defined by the mainstream media. That's a good thing, imho.
As far as I can tell, he mostly just posts to communities that he created, and if OP wants to hunt around and subscribe to those communities and read the posts, that's their problem. He actually seems like a pretty nice guy imo, reminds me of my uncle who believes all sorts of wild conspiracy theories but is ultimately a stand-up guy in his daily life.
To address the alleged ban-worthy offenses directly @recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca:
... show moreI didn't analyze his posting habits all that closely because I'm not obsessed with stalking and persecuting everyone who thinks differently from me, but it's always been apparent to me that he's a real person with ahem an unconventional belief system, to say the least. He seems to come from an era before the internet, when people didn't care as much what other people thought of them. Some people don't neatly fall into the buckets of left wing and right wing, as currently defined by the mainstream media. That's a good thing, imho.
As far as I can tell, he mostly just posts to communities that he created, and if OP wants to hunt around and subscribe to those communities and read the posts, that's their problem. He actually seems like a pretty nice guy imo, reminds me of my uncle who believes all sorts of wild conspiracy theories but is ultimately a stand-up guy in his daily life.
To address the alleged ban-worthy offenses directly @recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca:
He can spam as many posts as he wants to the communities that he created, although 2-3 posts per day doesn’t even remotely qualify as spamming. If you choose to subscribe to them and refuse to block him, you have only yourself to blame.
Is it considerate to hunt through another users profile for reasons to permaban them from all of Lemmy? Is it considerate to LARP as a mod in service of a personal grudge? I think you could actually learn a few things about being considerate from Mr. Monk, he seems quite polite in most interactions.
Fox News and Breitbart are not extremist content, they are mainstream news outlets regularly consumed by a frighteningly large proportion of the American population. It is what it is, I'm not happy about it either but you can't simply label everything you don't agree with as extremist content.
I will not be banning users simply because some of their beliefs could be described as right-wing. If those beliefs lead them to treat other users in a hateful or toxic manner, that's another story, but I see no evidence of that.
On the other hand, banning users for stirring drama and harassing other users is always an option. I don't like to ban anyone, but I would argue this kind of behavior is far more problematic than Monk's behavior.
PhilipTheBucket
in reply to imaqtpie • • •After spamming many others and getting banned, and then sending harassing DMs once he was no longer able to post most places he hadn’t created. And then creating new accounts on new instances so he could get around bans he had received on the old accounts.
If only someone would take some time and kindly put together an effective analogy for why the issue is not his beliefs.
If anybody had to hunt to find him, he wouldn’t be an issue. There are plenty of accounts quietly posting their own brand of weirdness to their own weird communities, and it is always fine.
OP actually specifically brought up that the impetus for this post was seeing a whole new fresh batch of UM spam in some definitely
... show moreAfter spamming many others and getting banned, and then sending harassing DMs once he was no longer able to post most places he hadn’t created. And then creating new accounts on new instances so he could get around bans he had received on the old accounts.
If only someone would take some time and kindly put together an effective analogy for why the issue is not his beliefs.
If anybody had to hunt to find him, he wouldn’t be an issue. There are plenty of accounts quietly posting their own brand of weirdness to their own weird communities, and it is always fine.
OP actually specifically brought up that the impetus for this post was seeing a whole new fresh batch of UM spam in some definitely not private community.
Your whole comment reads like an example from a narcissistic personality disorder handbook, about how to create a whole alternate reality that makes whatever-it-is justified, and then act so reasonable, and so confused, about how anyone in the alternate reality you described could ever think something negative about whichever person it is, when all they did was…
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in reply to ThePowerOfGeek • • •“I’m from Texas! NATO is the absolute worst! Zelensky is corrupt! I’m from Texas! Trump is okay, I don’t see what the big deal is. I’m a socialist!”
Based on real events.
Edit: Actually, I should make clear. I don't think mods should be trying to ban all the propaganda accounts. There is too much grey area, it's impossible to do perfectly, and there is a real risk of censoring someone who is not propaganda but is just saying some unpopular thing. I do think that it's worth making fun of the propaganda accounts when they are laughably obvious.
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Unknown parent • • •I dunno what they've done on other accounts, I don't have any control over that. They haven't done anything banworthy on SJW that I can see. I haven't even received any reports that I can recall.
What is your evidence for this? Everything I see on their profile states that they voted third party in the election. Criticizing the democratic candidates does not imply they are a conservative propagandist. Ffs we have thousands of tankies on Lemmy who did the same shit. Are they right-wingers as well?
Encephalotrocity
Unknown parent • • •Nah, this whole trend to censor anything and everything that isn't exactly what you want to see is worse for the community.
I say leave him alone. I don't have him blocked. I don't ever see his content unless I actually do search to see what he's been up to (spoiler: he was a far right nutbag all along the end). Even IF he is spamming articles, that behaviour can be modded by communities he isn't modding for, and those he is modding for can be blocked. Hell if he pisses you off specifically you can block him yourself already! This isn't a community needs to step in issue.
GreenKnight23
in reply to Encephalotrocity • • •PhilipTheBucket
in reply to Encephalotrocity • • •How many of this comment do I need to respond to?
You guys aren’t even trying to make it make sense. Moderators blocked him, so he made new communities of his own. Then people blocked him and instances banned him, so he made new accounts. Now he’s showing up again for people who have taken the steps you describe. He is actively evading people’s attempts to not have to listen to him. He talks about how proud he is of himself for doing it.
imaqtpie
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •People keep seeing this but I haven't actually seen any evidence. Kindly provide the screenshots. Having accounts on different servers is a complete non-issue, most people have multiple accounts on Lemmy.
What do you mean? Just come right out and say what you believe the issue is, I honestly don't know what you're alluding to.
... show moreI'm literally the admin of his server and I haven't seen his name in over a month. I haven't seen him get reported and I haven't seen any of his posts because I'm not subscribed to his communities.
People keep seeing this but I haven't actually seen any evidence. Kindly provide the screenshots. Having accounts on different servers is a complete non-issue, most people have multiple accounts on Lemmy.
What do you mean? Just come right out and say what you believe the issue is, I honestly don't know what you're alluding to.
I'm literally the admin of his server and I haven't seen his name in over a month. I haven't seen him get reported and I haven't seen any of his posts because I'm not subscribed to his communities. He is exactly what you just described, an account posting his own brand of weirdness to his own communities.
Where? 90% of the posts in the screenshots were made to communities he created, that have almost no subscribers and very few upvotes and downvotes. Please link the fresh batch of spam, because I honestly don't know what you're talking about. I just scrolled through his 40 most recent posts, and 38 of them were on his own communities, one was on c/conservative and the other was on c/twosentencehorror, with 11 upvotes.
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Unknown parent • • •Ok so what is the issue cos op hasnt seemed to have addressed it.
... show moreI like ur metaphor it presents a very visceral image of a particular behaviour. Ur forgetting just 1 things
Ok so what is the issue cos op hasnt seemed to have addressed it.
I like ur metaphor it presents a very visceral image of a particular behaviour. Ur forgetting just 1 things lemmy has that a bus doesnt a magic button to make them disapear (the block button). Also nothing wrong with talking to anyone u want about anything u want thats how free speach works.
U can also talk to anyone else u please about anything on this list or not on this list, it doesnt havr to be your friends.
Free speach requires that u allow people to be obnoxious, as long as ur not calling for actionable violence i say let em speak.
Why should anyone be forced to change how they choose to express their beliefs. What if everyone in a neighbourhood decided that rainbow flags where obnoxious, that does not grant them the right to deny the gays there right to express their beliefs however the fuck they want. (So long as its not violent or callibg for actionable violence etc etc).
If this is true which it quite probably could be then op should have started with this. Ill be in full support of instance bans if i can be shown verifyable proof this is true.
Thats how an open platform works good luck stopping it. Ie the technology of Activpub has made the capability to deny any individual their free speach impossible.
I hate the concept of the social contract. I was forced to sign it under duress (i didnt concent to being born etc etc). The politicians, the billionares, the dictators of the world, the thieves stealing food to survive, etc etc etc they have not integrated within the social contract. If there is no enforcement then why follow the rules?
I believe in a far simpler system that perfectly describes every system far better than the social contract. Darwinian evolution. Given that i would say its pretty arrogant to assert that following the social contract 100% of the time is always the most advantagious.
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Unknown parent • • •If the trouble was so bad that you believe they deserve to be banned on sight, post the damn evidence.
As far as I know, half the accounts commenting on this post could be and probably are OP's alts. What the fuck do you think this is, mob justice? You're not standing firmly with anyone, you're actively harassing this guy because of some personal grudge from months ago. Let it go.
Or alternatively, show me what he did that was so unforgivable.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to imaqtpie • • •They browse the All feed.
For additional context on the previous ban on LW: lemmy.world/post/21115183
Encephalotrocity
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •As many as it takes to get you to understand censorship is a worse means. UM can 'evade' all he wants but he can't take away your unsubscribe and block buttons. Did you know they aren't single use? Amazing!
PhilipTheBucket
in reply to imaqtpie • • •Multiple accounts is fine obviously. Multiple accounts to get around a ban and continue the behavior that led to the ban, doubling down on how right you were in the first place, seems like something that it would be better not to allow.
lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&user… and search for "harassing users in pms". I don't know the specifics beyond that. If you read the modlog, down below the massive list of spam posts that were removed, you can see some of the types of comments that presumably, when he was making them in DMs, got him sitebanned.
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Multiple accounts is fine obviously. Multiple accounts to get around a ban and continue the behavior that led to the ban, doubling down on how right you were in the first place, seems like something that it would be better not to allow.
lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&user… and search for "harassing users in pms". I don't know the specifics beyond that. If you read the modlog, down below the massive list of spam posts that were removed, you can see some of the types of comments that presumably, when he was making them in DMs, got him sitebanned.
I commented here, explaining for the sake of people who keep insisting that he got banned because of what his beliefs are:
ponder.cat/post/1293130/147886…
If you don't know his history on lemmy.world, the analogy might not seem all that hard-hitting I guess. It was never a problem that he was, among other things, claiming to be a socialist who supported third parties. It was a problem that he was posting basically the same 3 or 4 types of articles about it, 10-20 times a day to the same communities, and aggressively attacking anyone who disagreed with him about it.
If he's had a change of heart, and realized that he was being obnoxious and now wants to be a good citizen, it would be fine. Maybe. Instead, what he's done is pivoted to posting MAGA stuff, instead of socialism stuff. He's now posting breitbart and the NY Post, on things like "Here's why wokeism will be the downfall of America" and "Trump can use Russia’s space program to end the war in Ukraine."
He loves drama. He posted third-party stuff before the election, and is now posting diametrically opposed stuff to /c/conservative. Is it deliberately to piss people off? That seems more likely than that, right as the election happened, he suddenly shifted all his focus and discovered that wokeism is the main problem, instead of the genocide in Gaza being the main problem. That's what people mean in calling him a troll.
I just looked for myself. I get your point. He's got a right to "spam" in his own communities, or post sources I don't think are credible, even after being banned from doing so in the main news communities on some other instance.
The issue I think OP is trying to bring to your attention, which I think is why he had what might seem like a disproportionate freak-out in response to seeing 9 suspect posts all in a row all from UniversalMonk on the "Local New" feed, is that this guy has a proven commitment to obnoxiousness that is probably only temporarily in abeyance.
You can do what you want, obviously. If he's actually changed, then great. I would look at his behavior in the present as an indication of what he will probably continue to do. I think his main goal is probably going to be to spread disinformation on your server and ramp up to being obnoxious up to the limit of what won't get him banned, and what might look like an overreaction based on that little series of posts is based largely on how much drama and antagonism he managed to cause on lemmy.world before they kicked him out.
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Unknown parent • • •What words has he said that are cuasing harm. Because if it isnt calling for actionable violence then it isnt causing harm.
I didnt realise free speach was a right wing idea. I though free speach was a basic liberty of free independent people.
Free to say as he pleases and get downvoted, judged, resonded to negatively.
What tos violations has he made? Im gonna assume innocent until proven guilty.
imaqtpie
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •You're absolutely off your rocker, my friend. If you don't know the specifics, then stop acting like you do. I'm not going to go hunting through the lemmy.world modlog, you're the one who's making outlandish claims of harassment and spamming. You're just repeating the same things over and over in increasingly verbose fashion without providing any new information.
Find the evidence, screenshot it, and insert the screenshot into your reply. It's not rocket science. Or better yet, block the guy and move on with your life. Jfc you people are like actual IRL energy vampires.
PhilipTheBucket
in reply to 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖 • • •Talk to the lemmy.world admins, they're the ones who know the details.
lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&user… and search for "harassing".
PhilipTheBucket
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PhilipTheBucket
in reply to imaqtpie • • •I... what? I thought a link you could click, and a specific thing to Ctrl-F for to find the specific entry, would be "evidence", but if you want some evidence in image format, that's cool too.
Harassing in private messages:
Other assorted behavior:
That's only from the first two pages of the modlog, it keeps going. That's also not all of it, just some stuff that's pretty self-explanatory in the screenshot, and a good variety of different types of things he likes to do.
They dealt with him at length trying to do temp bans and just remove the content when he did this stuff, and talk to him and be reasonable with him, for far longer than I would have. Eventually they figured out they had to permaban him. That's when he started making new accounts and further hyped up his banner talking about how his enemies were trying to silence him but he remained unbroken.
PhilipTheBucket
in reply to jordanlund • • •PhilipTheBucket
in reply to Encephalotrocity • • •PhilipTheBucket
Unknown parent • • •There's always an xkcd.
I thought imaqtpie asked a very relevant and fair question about what the big even deal is, if UniversalMonk posted a bunch of stories to one of his one-man communities. I thought I addressed it from that perspective: Yes, it sounds like OP is making a disproportionate freak-out about this, because you're right that it really isn't a big deal on the face of it. Here's where from my point of view that sudden and over-the-top reaction might come from. Then he said I was off my rocker.
jordanlund
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •remotelove
Unknown parent • • •Yeah, it's a common pattern with the "victim" crap. Same stuff I was just testing, actually. (Check my comment history with UM over the last day or so; re: define propaganda)
Very nonsensical responses, no discussion and just absolute crap posts. If it is LLM assisted, it's tuned to respond to people like they are hating on the acual article and UM. It's an easy formula: post a shit article and just argue with everyone about anything while assuming they are commenting against the post.
But I have met people just like that IRL and it usually comes with some serious mental disorders or poorly prescribed medications. (I am being extremely serious with that comment and no joke is intended, at all.) It's probably for that person's benefit to get kick-banned at all turns. Assuming it's actually one real person, social media is not where they need to be spending their time.
PhilipTheBucket
in reply to 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖 • • •Mods from lemmy.world and lemmy.ca have been in these comments saying that yes, it happened and was a TOS violation.
You're free not to believe them. I don't think asking them to expose someone else's private DMs to you to prove it to you is realistic.
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in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •Which ones and can i get comment links?
I dont trust anything i verify
I think its pretry sus if ur willing to claim someone has sent abusive messages but not reveal what said abusive messages where.
Thats a bit like claiming u have proof of someone stealing your car but will not be providing said proof as u just have to "trust me bro"
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What part of "not publishing other people's private communications" doesn't make sense?
This is, in fact, exactly the same way stolen cars work. Someone steals your car, you get the police report, you show it to the insurance company. If you don't have a police report, then they definitely will have questions.
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What part of "not publishing other people's private communications" doesn't make sense?
This is, in fact, exactly the same way stolen cars work. Someone steals your car, you get the police report, you show it to the insurance company. If you don't have a police report, then they definitely will have questions.
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That's the police report. The insurance company doesn't say, "Well, I won't know it was stolen until I see it for myself. Yes, I know you explained there's a specific reason you can't show it to me, but I just don't trust anything, I verify. The report from the person who investigated it using the extra abilities of their position, and then wrote formally that yes, it was stolen, isn't good enough."
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in reply to recursive_recursion they/them • • •type of trolling or harassment
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in reply to imaqtpie • • •imaqtpie
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •Well first of all, thank you for doing that. I can see he was banned for harassing users in PMs, but without knowing the content of the PMs, that doesn't mean too much to me.
I'm looking for stuff like hate speech and serious toxicity, not just running afoul of various moderation rules. The spamming of comments is mildly annoying, but again nothing major in my eyes. Posting in the wrong communities, getting banned from lemmy.ml communities, this is pedestrian stuff when it comes to being a moderator.
I've seen people post absolutely horrific, disgusting things on here. They would get banned immediately, and then continue to create new accounts and post the same horrific shit. That's what banning on sight/IP banning is for, not for this middling stuff.
Most importantly, he seems to have learned from this and is no longer doing those things on his SJW account. Have you considered the possibility that his behavior escalated in such a way because he was repeatedly being moderated for minor reasons, and thus began to act out in increasingly disruptive ways? Perhaps he
... show moreWell first of all, thank you for doing that. I can see he was banned for harassing users in PMs, but without knowing the content of the PMs, that doesn't mean too much to me.
I'm looking for stuff like hate speech and serious toxicity, not just running afoul of various moderation rules. The spamming of comments is mildly annoying, but again nothing major in my eyes. Posting in the wrong communities, getting banned from lemmy.ml communities, this is pedestrian stuff when it comes to being a moderator.
I've seen people post absolutely horrific, disgusting things on here. They would get banned immediately, and then continue to create new accounts and post the same horrific shit. That's what banning on sight/IP banning is for, not for this middling stuff.
Most importantly, he seems to have learned from this and is no longer doing those things on his SJW account. Have you considered the possibility that his behavior escalated in such a way because he was repeatedly being moderated for minor reasons, and thus began to act out in increasingly disruptive ways? Perhaps he has been less problematic on his SJW account because we let him do his own thing so long as it's not bothering our users and generating tons of reports, which it isn't.
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in reply to remotelove • • •PhilipTheBucket
in reply to imaqtpie • • •You are, of course, welcome to your opinion and to run your instance however you like. Moderators from both lemmy.ca and lemmy.world have stepped into these comments to tell you that he is a problem, and the new steady flow of abrasive political posts he's been doing recently in his own little corner of sh.itjust.works is likely to continue and escalate, to no one's benefit. That's my opinion.
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You are, of course, welcome to your opinion and to run your instance however you like. Moderators from both lemmy.ca and lemmy.world have stepped into these comments to tell you that he is a problem, and the new steady flow of abrasive political posts he's been doing recently in his own little corner of sh.itjust.works is likely to continue and escalate, to no one's benefit. That's my opinion.
If someone's reaction to being moderated, whether fairly or unfairly, is to "act out," and you feel like catering to them so they won't feel the need to do that, then you and he deserve one another. I just feel bad for your users who will have to deal with this guy's crap.
imaqtpie
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •imaqtpie
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •I'm not catering to anybody. Not to you guys, and certainly not to him. He's subject to the same rules as any other SJW user.
In my opinion, it would make more sense for you guys to be responding to the absurdity of the OP asking for a permaban across all Lemmy servers, rather than dedicating your efforts to chastising me for being skeptical of that plan. But instead, OP got 200 upvotes and a bunch of highly upvoted bloodthirsty comments in full agreement, and I'm the one who has to prove the validity of my entirely reasonable position one painstaking comment at a time. But you have at least acknowledged my points, which is more than I've come to expect, so I'll take it.
Blaze
in reply to imaqtpie • • •Filtered word: nsfw
Why do you think such a large amount of people upvoted this? Based on the comments, a lot of people ran into him at some point, and the vast consensus is that he should be at least blocked, if not banned.
I saw you mentioning above that all of the commenters could be OP's alt, are you serious on this? All of these accounts are well known commenters, with years old accounts and plenty of comments.
Do you think Lemmy.ca and LW admins would be agree to ban a user without doing their due diligence? This is why OP is asking for a Lemmy wide ban, because this user is known for ban evasion: sh.itjust.works/post/31017252/…
Also btw I had to use my SJW account to comment here as the first commenter used a lemmynsfw account, that quite a lot of instances defederate. You might not get feedback from a high number of people on this specific thread due to this.
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in reply to NSRXN • • •UniversalMonk you mean? Hm... maybe not. Mostly I just talk about his actions, and how they negatively impact everyone else on the network, and how it's appropriate to react to his behaviors. I do think about his motivations, and my read on him and why he's doing these things, but maybe it is out of line for me to be talking about his mental state when the truth is that I have no idea.
I wasn't intending to be putting him down, actually. More saying that in that aspect he is being real. I have some sympathy for him, and at least partly, I was trying to express that there. But you're right, speculating about something like that when I really have not the slightest idea about it is maybe not an appropriate thing for me to do.
Lemminary
in reply to imaqtpie • • •I see someone's been watching Doublelift lately lol
PhilipTheBucket
in reply to NSRXN • • •NSRXN
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •hankskyjames777
in reply to recursive_recursion they/them • • •Also take note of !naziparty@lemm.ee aka "conservative"
Edit: !naziparty@sh.itjust.works and !naziparty@lemmy.world also
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in reply to sag • • •No but only few of them. I didnt see its users commenting getting mad everytime they see some news posts against the cons
And "NaziParty" did get almost all of their posts downvoted
I also see the communities with the same name in sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world, all with the same users and downvotes
PhilipTheBucket
in reply to NSRXN • • •I want you to fill in the blanks:
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tobogganablaze
in reply to recursive_recursion they/them • • •So ... block the all of the entire two accounts and be done with it?
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in reply to recursive_recursion they/them • • •Oh wow, that's the first time I've seen this person's userpage and read... whatever that is.
So fucking cringe.
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Unknown parent • • •RandomGen1
Unknown parent • • •I want to push back on this just a little. Clearly UM isn't the bastion of consistent good thought, but others that were maligned like return2ozma have been pretty consistent in what they post.
This is to say, "Great, one person is a fuckup. Why are we attributing this to the whole group?"
NSRXN
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •JonsJava
Unknown parent • • •Not as much as you'd think.
Parent bullet point is the user. Child bullet points are communities they run/ran
- hilariouschaos.com/u/universal…
- futurology.today/u/universalmo…
- lemdro.id/u/universalmonk
- lemmy.libertarianfellowship.or…
- lemmy.radio/u/universalmonk
- eviltoast.org/u/universalmonk
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Unknown parent • • •Matt
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x1gma
in reply to recursive_recursion they/them • • •It's just your average nazi spammer on the internet. You've read that "bio" this person has. Even if they get banned, they'll come back just on principle. Just block him like any sane person would do, leave him shadow banned like that with his nazi friends, and call it a day.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to x1gma • • •Do we have that on Lemmy?
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in reply to x1gma • • •Nazi bar - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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in reply to JonsJava • • •TORFdot0
in reply to recursive_recursion they/them • • •100% if he is breaking the ToS on multiple instances (and I would argue that spamming most likely is, not to mention the substance of the content)
He can always create his own instance and anyone who wants to see his content can join it as well. Instance admins shouldn’t feel obligated to give anyone a platform (ahem, .world), the fediverse is decentralized and democratic.
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in reply to Skeezix • • •Thats right for some of the reasons op gave
But op is trying to use the fact he posts right-wing content as a reason to get him banned.
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Unknown parent • • •Shardikprime
in reply to recursive_recursion they/them • • •This is harassment directed towards one specific user.
If you find direct offense to their posts, you should let the instance admins manage that through reports. If there is many instances, do that many reports.
But this is basically fascist harassment. A witch hunt.
What, no one can dissent from your ideology? Is it that weak that it cannot and will not handle criticism?
The reverse applies as well. If you want, open your own instance echo chamber and talk to yourself.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to Skeezix • • •woelkchen
in reply to recursive_recursion they/them • • •I agree with the sentiment but this here is not a complaints forum.
Please report that user and his communities to the admins of the instances he's registered at. A quick look at the sidebars of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee would suggest that their admins banning him is a slam dunk.
Maybe ask at !support@lemm.ee and !main@sh.itjust.works what to do?
On the grounds of !fediverse not being a complaints forum, I'm going to lock this post.