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It's strange to think that there is going to be any sort of rough consensus in the fediverse about federating or not federating with any particular instance large or small.
We've put a ton of effort into making sure the Web doesn't fragment at the protocol/interop level, but the most important part of the entire Fediverse exercise is how that interop level empowers people and communities to make their own choices.
I think that a Balkanized fedi is the best, healthiest possible outcome.
'Latin America is taking on a pioneering role in this. In Latin America, scientific outputs are considered a public good. Free-to-publish and free-to-read cooperative publishing is supported by non-commercial and publicly funded infrastructure. Ninety-five per cent of Latin American journals are diamond open access: community-driven and collaborative platforms with no article processing charges. Their example shows us that research is a more global and diverse enterprise than is typically acknowledged. By including diverse voices, they contribute substantially to the academic landscape and the accessibility and dissemination of research3. Unfortunately, these journals tend to be excluded by indexing systems, which causes science published outside of the Global North to not receive the attention that it deserves.'
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The future of academic publishing - Nature Human Behaviour
Academic publishing is the backbone of science dissemination –– but is the current system fit for purpose? We asked a diverse group of scientists to comment on the future of publishing.Nature
Reddit perma-banning account promoting Lemmy has Streisand effect
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Reading criticisms of Lemmy from Reddit and other platforms like HackerNews reminds me of reading criticisms of Reddit from Digg back in 2007-2010, except they're more based on architecture instead of "it looks ugly".
Now there are things that will turn away users. There's obviously a strong leftist culture here, there are less users so less content, and obviously federation is a stumbling block for many people.
But I really think that's ok similar to what people are saying in that Hacker News thread. I wouldn't want all of Reddit to come over, and I think it's better for the culture and growth here to get a self selected trickle/stream of users instead of a deluge.
I don't think Lemmy will necessarily have the same issues as Mastodon because Twitter/Mastodon requires you to know people or know accounts to follow to be useful. Lemmy just requires communities you're interested in and a critical mass of users to drive posting and engagement. We're already seeing greater activity as more users arrive
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That second comment by goplayoutside says it well: "Maybe the modest technical hurdles are a feature, not a bug."
I think it is a feature, and the same is true for Mastodon and the Fediverse as a whole, imho.
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I also see it as a feature. If instances have a natural active user cap, then server-based communities can't get so big as to outpace moderation. And admins have the ability to moderate local users' behaviour on off-site sublemmies by enforcing their own codes of conduct.
The internet used to be small, but expansive. It became big, but concentrated.
I liked the former. I know many people like the latter. Those people are welcome to their corporate slums.
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I liked the former. I know many people like the latter. Those people are welcome to their corporate slums.
You've worded it well. I think the technical nature of it is to its benefit, and many server may not want to make the signup process easier, for the reasons you mentioned.
Very much so. It shares the load, both from a technical point of view but also from moderation and maintenance point of view.
It's actually pretty great, all of this.
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Yeah, but none of the Twitter people were using hashtags, and a lot of them where hyper-fixated on finding their Twitter mutuals. They were just trying pretend Mastodon was a drop-in replacement for Twitter.
They didn't want to create their own space in the new place, and they didn't want to integrate with those who were already there. They just kind of wanted to ignore the fact that anything was happening, while still, I guess, engaging in slacktivism.
The most disturbing thing I've seen is the evidence that Lemmy.ml is controlled by a genocide-supporting red fascist/third positionists. If that's true, its a massive issue and makes the platform hard to trust.
Very open to learning that this isn't true, if it isn't.
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When I joined Lemmy a year ago (with another user), Lemmygrad was not my piece of cake, Lemmy.ml was too big (similar to mastodon.social), Lemmy.ca was not in my continent, and I didn't notice about beehaw. So, sopuli was the only one standing: small, from Finland and not tankie.
Creating a instance can be difficult, but it's a good way when you don't like what you're offered, and it can help other people to find their home.
What concerns me just now is whether join-lemmy the website is controlled by them or not. So far I don't know if it is- But if the entry points are guarded by genocide-supporting (not denying) left-fascists, then that does pose a significant issues.
BTW, these ifs I'm using aren't rhetoric devices. I'm not stating this as fact. There seems to be indicators of concern- Is what I'm saying.
Having been a lemmy resident for a while (this being my second account and someone who doesnt visit lemmygrad at all) is that in my experience the Devs conduct themselves professionally, impartially and generally have the patience of saints.
If you decide to stay here for a while you might form the same impression.
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The evidence I've seen is compiled mainly in these posts:
raddle.me/f/lobby/88428/so-the…
raddle.me/wiki/why_raddle
raddle.me/wiki/history
raddle.me/wiki/QnA_with_Emma
It stems from the fact that lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml cofederate, that the project leads are communists, and the claim that lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml off of the same IP address.
The first two points are not in contention, but I haven't, personally, been able to verify the third.
Now, lemmygrad is absolutely a trollish, auth-left hellscape. And I say that with... well, not respect, but not specific derision, either. That genuinely seems to be the aesthetic they're going for. They're not here to make friends with anyone but themselves, and they'll play apologetics for China, North Korea, and Stalin's takeover of the Soviet Republic all day long.
But even if the project leads are genuinely involved in that, it doesn't really change the fact that the project is not inextricably tied to them. It's an open source project. It can be forked, and forked again. No one actually needs lemmygrad or lemmy.ml. Or lemmy, for that matter. Everyone can hop over to Friendica and still access all of the same communities.
Shit, they're accessible from Mastodon and Calckey.
And besides, it's not like people avoid using software when it's made by white supremacist capitalist techbros. In those cases, we all basically just go "yeah, but I'm not a white supremacist capitalist techbro" and carry on with our day. And those products generally can't be wrenched from their control or oversight.
Most people chose Elon over learning that multiple websites exist...
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The evidence I've seen is compiled mainly in these posts:
raddle.me/f/lobby/88428/so-the…
raddle.me/wiki/why_raddle
raddle.me/wiki/history
raddle.me/wiki/QnA_with_Emma
So your "evidence" is 4 different links from a "competing" platform, all of which should be considered "one source" not multiple individual sources, one of which is a user post with no actual evidence shown or linked -- at least not in the body of the post, I didn't care to follow through checking the comments -- and an article from... Vice.
Not exactly what I would call reputable sources. I'm not DENYING what you're saying, I just don't see any specific evidence to support your claim. Just... Be mindful of what you're using as "source material" when you claim there's evidence.
Maybe you're confusing with lemmygrad?
I'd like to read more on this, if true
The evidence I've seen is compiled mainly in these posts:
raddle.me/f/lobby/88428/so-the…
raddle.me/wiki/why_raddle
raddle.me/wiki/history
raddle.me/wiki/QnA_with_Emma
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Hm really? I saw a few links to posts on reddit with the same username as the lemmy.ml admin. Those posts were extremely Yikes.
Edit: The lemmy.ml admin was removing my posts critical of the Chinese State, so it seems true.
Very open to learning that this isn’t true, if it isn’t.
That's not how this works. If you're going to make serous accusations like that, the onus is on you to provide evidence to support them.
FWIW, I have no particular loyalty to lemmy.ml, I just joined the first instance I saw.
There's obviously a strong leftist culture here
That depends on what instance you create an user on. For example, Lemmygrad.ml and Lemmy.ml are not the same thing, despite both belonging to Lemmy. The issues I see are having a tankie culture, and not having more points of view.
There are less users so less content
That's something we can help with, although it's not so easy. I mean, the users that are already here, we can create more content and interact more with each other, so eventually more users will come. It can be boring and tiring, but it's not impossible.
Federation is a stumbling block for many people
That's something absolutely new for the vast majority of people. I felt myself confused the first time I joined the fediverse too. But after some time, I felt myself less confused. Some clarifications, tutorials and support can do the real trick.
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Edit: Seems this is unfortunately unlikely as the lemmy.ml instance appears to be moderated by a genocide denier and authoritarian.
Who has reportedly been banning people for calling out said genocide denial and authoritarianism.
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So are we seeing the end of of an era of massive centralized social media?
God, I hope so.
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There isn't at all. Reddit is liberal at the very best and even then it's mostly Obama liberal, which is center right outside the most conservative parts of the world.
The leftist communities are much smaller, easily ignored, and often ridiculed in the mainstream subreddits. The gaming spaces complain about "wokeness" and criticisms of female representations among others. Thinly veiled racism and explicit transphobia abounds.
In contrast, Lemmy is full of anarchists, communists, socialists, and other anti capitalist. It has been and remains a dominantly leftist community.
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UX is whatever. Would like to see more decentralization of large hosts to avoid it inevitably being 1 or 2 big lemmy hosts with everything.
Also cross federation logins. I was so confused why my logins weren't working on other servers.
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but the majority will put up with shit
The majority of people in Reddit don't provide any value to conversation ~~of~~or information. We shouldn't really be sad that passive consumers don't follow the migration to Lemmy or more accurately to Fediverse.
I used reddit to get information and read news from active users and to engage in conversations within these topics.
People who won't follow us from Reddit, wouldn't have anything good to offer to this platform anyway so I don't think we should care to be honest.
Nothing of value was lost.
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I think to an extent that depends on how much effort/funds the devs are willing to put in to keep sites online. Say 100k people want to come and have a look on the 12th. ~1/10 of those would create accounts, if the server falls over at 11am and stays down then only 10k people will see the site, maybe 1k sign up.
If the server is up all day then I think you'd see much larger adoption.
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Yeah, even some documentation sections look like manifestos but you can't disagree to be honest.
Reddit and the top media brought it on themselves.
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Hilarious that a #HackerNews top voted comment on a post wrt #Reddit censoring mentions of #Lemmy effectively argues that the latter is "too geeky and hard to use" and that the former two won't be displaced because they're well known and easy to approach.
These people have ZERO self awareness. Never mind understanding about the legacy of their forums.
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the same will happen with kbin, even tho its interface is hyper similar to reddit. pretty sure that's gonna be another case of "too geeky, unusable, unstable, useless, sh!tty reddit ripoff and bad".
the "useless", as one guy said (not on here) when i mentioned lemmy: "Another sh*tty reddit ripoff? Useless"
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I just chuckled because the longer they stay away, the better the fediverse will be (for me).
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This is how to treat Billionaires:
"Swiss billionaire jailed over asbestos-related deaths in Italian town
Stephan Schmidheiny found guilty of causing deaths of 392 people in Casale Monferrato in Piedmont"
12 years in jail for a 73-year-old, Italy isn't messing around
'CURATOR - Animated Short Film' by Ali Hoff
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CURATOR - Animated Short Film
A short film I made over the course of a couple of months. It’s the first time I’ve attempted something of this size and learned a lot in the process. The texturing is all shader to RGB stuff in eevee along with freestyle for the outlines.Blender Artists Community
Ten years ago, Edward Snowden revealed details about US mass surveillance, including the role of the UK's GCHQ in gathering comms data globally.
Our Exec Director @jim marks the anniversary of the revelations: what they told us then and where we are now.
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Snowden Revelations: Ten Years On
Ten years ago, the first revelations about US mass surveillance were published in the UK and USA.Open Rights Group
New #Calckey
release candidate!
⚠️ Edit: A hotfix was released as v14.0.0-rc2b! Please update to that!
So... this took a while. But without further ado, here are the:
v14.0.0-rc2 Release Notes
We are thrilled to announce a major release, including over 900 commits from various contributors, featuring an array of enhancements and new features.
Major changes:
Post Editing: 🧪 You asked, and we've delivered. Now you can view post edits from other Fediverse platforms and edit your own posts, making it easier than ever to correct mistakes or make updates. The ability to view post history is coming soon. @supakaity@blahaj.zone@april@calckey.social
Post Imports: 🧪 We've reintroduced the ability to import posts from other Misskey and Calckey instances, as well as Mastodon and Pleroma/Akkoma instances. Twitter archive import is coming soon... @april@calckey.social
Expanded Post Design: Introducing an improved and expanded post design, now with the added feature of tabs, making distinguishing between different interactions on posts seamless. @freeplay@calckey.social
New Header Design: Our sleek, new header design gives you more options for engagement, makes navigation easier, and just overall looks better. Centered icons ftw! @freeplay@calckey.social
Accessibility: We've taken big strides to make our platform more inclusive. Expect improved navigation with focus trapping, comprehensive aria labels, accessible form inputs, more control over UI animations, and much more. @freeplay@calckey.social
Server Silences: No longer do you have to choose between only federating and purely blocking another server. Admins can now silence misbehaving but non-harmful instances. @nmkj@calckey.jp
Modmail System: Moderators will appreciate this: mods can now send anonymous messages to users with moderation notes. This feature is still early in development, and may change in the near future.
New MFM effects: We've introduced two new MFM effects: $[fade ] and $[crop ] (and the new .delay modifier for all animated effects), and people are already doing really cool things with it! @Kiko@calckey.social@freeplay@calckey.social
Performance upgrades everywhere: with more Rust on the backend and heavy optimizations on the frontend, Calckey feels snappier than ever!
MeiliSearch: Servers with more resources can enjoy a faster search engine with filters! @privateger@plasmatrap.com
Channel Search: Discover new channels with our new channel search feature. It's often frustrating to not be able to find channels on large servers, and this should make it easier. Even better channel discovery is coming soon. @naskya@post.naskya.net
More Translations: We've added more translations in over 10 languages, all with the help of people like you. If you know a non-English language, we accept community translations over at our weblate.
Dev Server Template: We've revamped our server template for developers, making the development process more intuitive. @pyrox@social.pyrox.dev
Improved System Emails: We've refined our system emails to be more informative and user-friendly.
Numerous Bug Fixes: We've dedicated significant effort to squash many bugs in this update, enhancing the overall performance and user experience.
cuid2 IDs: the old ID generation methods have all been deprecated in favor of cuid2, which leads to better security and less chances of errors. @nmkj@calckey.jp
Notes:
Full changelog: codeberg.org/calckey/calckey/s…
Upgrade instructions:
git pull --ff
git checkout beta
pnpm clean-all && pnpm i
NODE_ENV=production pnpm run build && pnpm run migrate
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Concept Art Tutorial: Creating an Organic Creature with Digital Painting
Let's design and render a creepy organic creature. I'll go through my process of using value edges to create believable musculature, skin and all kinds of fl...YouTube
The new report found that this past year, out of a $1.8 trillion federal discretionary budget, the U.S. spent a staggering $1.1 trillion – or 62% – of that budget on militarism and war.
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New Report: $1.1 Trillion Was Spent On Militarism And War Last Year
Washington, D.C. – On May 24, the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies released a critical new analysis of the militarized budget in the United States, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises our Welfare…Christopher Johnson (PopularResistance.Org)
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Every day we become more ignorant until we see definitive proof that the rich are exploiting us.
This is that proof.
Where the Rich Use Public Transportation…
I ran across this quote while reading about what makes Tokyo work as a city: A developed country is not a place where the poor hakottke.org
He was probably quoting Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, right?
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A Love Letter to the Delhi Metro
A warm reminder of just how well the international citizenship of public transit translates.Bloomberg
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Totally agree, that's how the real world works. Representation at the local level, human scale...think "Monkey Sphere"
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