NightOwl @ NightOwl @lemmy.one

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Yeah, I think until a solution is found image hosting should be blocked, and instead rely on external image hosting sites. That seems like the best immediate solution.

Better question is why are you carrying over the obsession with karma over to lemmy? Are you the type to say before a post "I'll probably be downvoted for this but..."

Just stop caring about it completely.

Does lemmy have ability for mods to set url blocks, so this place doesn't even make it to a public post to begin with? Beware of the scam site everyone.

I need to make this for myself.

What would be the reason? Most media players I use like vlc which is well known has the play as the triangle and pause as ||. Same with YouTube.

Politics seem more exhausting than on reddit, since there's entire instances that exist soley for the purpose of spreading their beliefs. Which is a pro for them with instances helping to foster a stronger community, but then they seem so much more present every where too. /c/all can be flooded with the topics they want to push if there's a mass submission. And new instances pop up if defederated with the main goal seeming to be not just a community for themselves, but evangelizing. And lemmy isn't at a stage yet where subscribed feeds can provide enough content to avoid /c/all like back on reddit.

Connect for lemmy with keyword filtering and instance blocking has really helped though to reduce the frequency of manual community blocking. Didn't block during the first few weeks though, which was a nice period before it became necessary to curate personal feeds.

That's nice thing about rss too. With Feeder on Android it has blocking filters to apply the same keyword based filters. Useful if you have a broad rss source that pulls from various sources and find some sources useless. And there's categories you can set to separate things out so there's like tech news, game news, international news, economy, etc. And with compact view it looks like a traditional social media subscription feed, and I find myself actually reading the articles with the comments not being the draw with none to begin with.

I found rss has been the best way to stay up to date over user curated articles that itself has its own biases in what they choose to submit. Just seeing the list of news from even one source without some voting or submission based algorithm at play kind of showed how much people submit the most clickbait or attention grabbing articles to try to get karma. Especially some instances depending on how politically driven they are to push their agenda to everyone. So rss has seemed preferable for a very broad look to see what's going on with current events. Has been the best delivery system I've found on the internet so far with more a time of published based feed than a curated algorithm of social media.

I moved to RSS for overall news, so it's helped to not have to be so careful with keyword based blocklists and keyword based community blocklists. I think that's been one of the better things to come from this reddit event where I've moved towards rss over social media driven news posting.

Connect for lemmy instance block has been helpful. Helps clean up communities in one go if you find you don't like a majority of the communities from an instance and they seem too active populating /c/all and hurting discovery of communities you might be interested in from during a quick browse.

Fediverse isn't active or big enough to sustain subscribed like reddit. Some communities just die out too, so new is a way to discover new communities of interest.

Yeah it is not a good analogy because when it came to malls something more convenient and easier for everyone to use became a better option with the rise in internet shopping. It's not like malls made people angry and people left it for something that wasn't as convenient to use.

People who moved to the fediverse aren't representative of the average user who just wants a community in a niche area of interest to use, and never cared that strongly enough to abandon it. Most do not want to go through the growing pains of trying to grow a new community on a new platform and less content.

Absence of disable inbox setting for comments or threads like on Reddit is also a contributor I think, since if you are the type to have to defend your comment then it leads to a back and forth that can go longer than on reddit since you will be made aware of the reply with no ability to turn it off for either party.

I think the honey moon period is over for all instances and communities when people were motivated to comment with the goal of trying to encourage user growth by being nicer than they usually are.

Now that people are settling in they are more comfortable using the fediverse like they've done on social media. Which does change the type of posts and comments that now come out.

So arguments are expected for even trivial topics like games. It's good or bad thing depending on the viewpoint, but was expected outcome since motivations for posting was much different in the earlier days.

I've liked the approach of using pihole for local devices, and then when away using like a local vpn approach to filtering stuff out like personaldnsfilter.

Haven't really looked into paid options.

Yeah, finding the right instance can be tricky. If you want some more anonomity so you easily blend into the crowd then a general instance might offer that, but then the general community there can have problematic topics and comments trending locally that might brother you enough to want to move if you don't like the general users.

But, then if you go with a niche instance that is immediately identifiable as holding certain values then it can be harder to blend in and instantly stand out from other comments if the instance exists for a specific topic as its image.

With your doxxing issues. I'm not sure the extent of private information was leaked, but it is best to see what information shared could have led to the doxxing being possible. Finding what led to that can help to try and reduce risks online, since any publicly viewable social media can't offer protection. Only thing that can be done on public social media is to try to not share too much identifiable info or change details to try and reduce risk while retaining the core idea of the message.

Browsing an instance locally and deciding if you like the content generated from there is the best way to decide if the instance is a fit for you. It gives the best idea of the community there.

I get that too. I had stepped back from commenting on reddit and never bothered logging in most of the time when I used it. Just natural course of things as places get a lot of activity. Great for scrolling through content, but not so much for comments with how it gets easily lost among the thousands if you don't get in before the rush. And looking by new was never something I bothered to do on reddit.

Yeah, I don't think people really enjoy socializing in the comments section on YouTube. It's only really useful for finding out if a YouTube video is giving bad advice on some guide you looked up with the loss of downvotes not being public, or time stamps to skip to relevant section.

I think in general I have a really bad attitude towards engagement interactions, since I was well aware of the cliche recommended sales people tactics that any of those techniques rub me the wrong way. I prefer more grounded deliveries that don't leave me with the impression of a sales encounter.

I don't like being told what to do. And everyone does it so it becomes an incredibly over done catch phrase. I'll decide on my own if I want to like or subscribe, and I hate it when they ask at the beginning of the video. At that point they are telling you to blindly do it.