Instead the microblog view is a view of the comments in all the magazines without being organised under posts.
No, that's absolutely not the case. From the microblog feed, I'm able to find my own posts from Calckey and PixelFed (e.g. https://kbin.social/u/@kichae@pixey.org), neither of which have touched or in any way interacted with n a kbin magazine.
You can follow users on kbin, but AFAICT you don't have home or local timelines, only federated/global. Instead, these stream of posts that are not addressed to a Group actor can be mined for hashtags by magazines, and those posts with matching tags get shown in a magazine's Microblog tab. Any posts that are untagged, or which cannot be assigned to at least one magazine, get dumped into m/random's Microblog feed.
Threads are specifically addressed the Group Actors. Comments belong to whatever they replied to. Microblog posts neither address a Group Actor nor are in reply to a thread or thread comment, and so are fundamentally detached from the core threadiverse ecosystem.
I'm looking at beehaw communities on both Lemmy.world and Beehaw.org,and they're totally out of sync with each other. There's the rare post from a beehaw user that breaks through somehow - possibly boosted from a kbin or Mastodon instance? - but for the most part, you're getting basically none of the content from those communities.
Because beehaw isn't sending you any updates.
Is it that you're seeing beehaw users who are posting to communities hosted on 3rd party communities? Because that's absolutely possible.
And that's absolutely the issue with federating with sites that continue to federate with instances you've defederated from. You're blocking direct communication in both directions, but there's a lot of indirect communication going on.
Yes, exactly. People know the street is hard. People don't dive head first into the asphalt on the regular when they're standing still.
They don't expect water to be any different when going fast than when not.
And, like, obviously people have a sense that getting out of a speeding car is dangerous. They intuitively know that the road is speeding past them and that that speed differential will cause pain, injury, or worse. But I don't think they really understand themselves as a moving object in all of that.
The car is moving fast, and "getting out of a moving car" is dangerous, as opposed to "being a high velocity object" is dangerous.
The mental model is different, and incomplete, so some things seem like they should be possible when they're not.
Even if they did, most people don't really grok what that means. Most people's mental models for reference frames are intertial and without transition, so the idea that they're still travelling at the speed of the boat, say, when they hit the water, and not the speed of the water, doesn't make intuitive sense to them.
They left the boat. To them, that means they're no longer moving with the boat.
I think it becomes pretty intuitive if you can hold in your mind the model of each instance as a totally separate, independent website with no inherent ties to any other.
The problem is, everything here kind of vaguely looks like a place we're used to being a single website, and each instance looks more or less like each other, so that sense of independence and difference is lost. But if you think of it like, I don't know, Facebook or something like that having the possibility of communicating with mydumbwebsite.com, it becomes a lot clearer that that communication needs to be initiated somehow.
Depends on what system I'm emulating. I have a Retrobit N30 for NES games, an SNES 30 for SNES games, and an M30 for Genesis games, and a Retro-Bit Tribute64 for N64 games. For GCN titles, I use WaveBirds with a USB adaptor.
Because effectively moderating hundreds of millions of active users is expensive and unprofitable, and because we can look at Meta's existing platforms to see what their standards of moderation are.
I don't get what would defederating with Facebook-federated instances gives you, though.
Site A hosts communities that serve vulnerable people. They see Meta as a threat to those vulnerable communities, as they are not well moderated, and have no issues with hate speech and harassment, so they defederate.
Site B federates with both Site A and Meta. They act as a pass-through for content from Site A to reach Threads.
Bad actors on Threads see content from vulnerable people on Site A and engage with it. People from Site A cannot see the bad actors on Threads doing this, but people on Site B do, and bad actors there get alerted to an opportunity to be proper shit stains. Now, vulnerable people on Site A get targeted by this induced harassment coming from Site B.
What does Site A do?
They defederate from Site B.
The question is just about whether they wait until the harm has been done or not.
For many people, it's not about whether people can take the effort to see what they've posted online. It's whether people who would harass them have a friction-free path to do so, and Threads is such a path. It will be all but totally unmoderated with respect to hate and harassment, and will be the biggest Nazi bar on the block.
Protecting the vulnerable means keeping the assholes away. If we can't care about the vulnerable, then I guess we deserve Zuck.
Tying financial incentives to enabling bullshit is how you end up with bullshit-filled spaces.
If online communities are important to you, support online communities. If commercialized doo-dads and thingamajigs are what's important to you, Reddit already exists. You not only can have what you want, but you can see what it leads to.
"We have failed as a society to help small communities. Instead of seeing this an choosing to be better, it's OK to let billionaires fuck up space."
Seriously. Small towns and rural communities could have high speed network access already if they stopped voting for people that refuse to fund infrastructure spending and that bend over backwards to prevent community-based initiatives to create high speed networks! Elon's not helping them, he's exploiting the fact that they've backed people who actively keep them in the stone ages.
Replace "rewards" with "emoji reacts" and "needs money to handle growing server requirements" with "appreciates your donations to help cover hosting costs" and I think you may be on to something.
Is this a euphemism? Because it sounds like a euphemism.