WhoRoger @ WhoRoger @lemmy.world

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Yea true, Lemmy devs and community overall are a bit too concerned with nsfw in my opinion.

I dunno what to do about that though, except maybe occasionally remind people to check if they have it disabled.

Everyone except me is an apprentice forever.

It is... Acceptable, but don't you have enough communities to mod already?

Btw I'm going to bed so I'll get back to questions/pings when I get up

People get banned from sports for less.

Idk about this phone specifically, but a common ducktape fix for shitty fingerprint sensors is to scan one finger onto multiple finger scan spots, even all 5 available. That should improve accuracy.

Another example: !law@lemmy.world

Interesting point. I've seen that some country instances have a !europe community. And I wouldn't be against a full instance either. It could be useful.

Well guess what !slide@feddit.uk

What, are the bots on strike?

Podcasts are already decentralised. You can use a podcasting app like AntennaPod (Android) and if you search for a podcast, it'll look through several databases and feeds to find it. Afaik most podcast apps work this way, and there's also a standard format to import/export subscriptions.

As for music, as other suggested - piracy, haha.

Pretty sure it was in direct response to you specifically.

Ah yea, guess you did. So that was my bad in return, I thought that was someone else.

But I still maintain it's totally weird. There are general purpose Fediverse and Lemmy instances based in the US. All that's needed is for one to step up and try to be the local default. Again, if other countries can have that, and they are also paid for with donations...

And I guess its news to me that you can moderate a community from a different server.

Oh yes, you can moderate from another Lemmy instance no problem. No real problem there aside of general federation bugs, but the modding tools aren't affected by this, from what I see.

There used to be a bug that could brick a comm's visibility if a remote mod edited the sidebar, but that was fixed weeks ago. No issues since then that I know of.

Only kbin <> Lemmy inter-modding doesn't work afaik.

I guess I just don’t understand the point of view of wanting to filter out non-local topics.

It's not about blocking non-local topics specifically, but about blocking any topics I know I don't care about. If I don't care what's happening in Switzerland, I should be able to block feddit.ch. If I know I don't care about sports, I should be able to block fanaticus.social. If I don't want to see nsfw, I should be able to block lemmynsfw and pornlemmy. And so on. There already are tools to do it at least partially via apps and browser scripts.

If I don't care about what's going on inside US, whether it's farmers strikes or school shootings or NFL or some random local laws, I'll always be stuck with blocking every darn community individually, because US = World.

My time on this planet is limited. If I have half an hour to browse /all and I want to find some new stuff while also avoid stuff I know I don't care about, then it's a real annoyance. My blocklist is 10 pages long and most of it is US stuff... While I still keep bumping into new and new posts about this NBA team and that city. It's crazy.

Ed: and I don't want to sound too hateful (maybe that ship has sailed), but it simply is true that most stuff I don't care about is specific to some country, and most of that is indeed tidied up in separate instances.

Ed 2: as for search, well you can go to e.g. lemmy.ca and have everything about Canada in one place. Or mander.xyz and have all their science topics... Doesn't that make it easier to find stuff?

Not yet.

Beehaw doesn't federate with .world. I'm starting to think they have a point.

What limitations, that you can't make a comm on another instance? I literally did.

If you can’t make a new community there, ping an admin to make it for you.

You're also totally failing to see the upside:

locals can find it more easily, and the others won’t be bothered by it by default

And worst of all, you, nor anyone else apparently, can address this:

For real, how is it that every bloody country can make its own instance, but only the US can’t? Doesn’t it strike you just a bit weird?

Just explain how is it that Britons, Aussies and Canadians can make their own instances even if everyone is speaking English, but everything US has to be dumped onto lemmy.world and everywhere else? Why do you think people from around the world are more interested in Texas than Melbourne or Ontario? If you can't see why it can be annoying to people, well... I'm not surprised I guess.

I'm a dude beyond my 30's at this point. What would you guess is the demographics? I'd say that a typical being a 20s/30s M is about right, although it seems there's a higher portion of women and trans people here (or at least describing themselves as such).

You just fail to see anyone else's point besides yours. I already addressed your objections, and you're unable to address mine, so I won't be repeating myself.

You can stay if you learn other worldly dialects. Repeat after me: Cunt. Bloody Yanks. Fa- (ok maybe not that one). Guten Tag.

Blocking an instance doesn't help if everything is piled on Lemmy.world... Unless I'd want to block this.

I mean... As it is, lemmy.world is shouldering all the cost, so it can't be impossible.

I don't know why some people are treating my complains like I'm some sort of Judge Dredd that wants to shoot everybody who makes a community I don't like.

I'm saying, be reasonable. I wouldn't be making a community on .world about some random 4th league football club or a hike trail in my country, I'd use an instance more suited for it. If you can't make a new community there, ping an admin to make it for you. It's not a big deal, and better for everybody: locals can find it more easily, and the others won't be bothered by it by default.

The reverse is also stupid, creating general-purpose comms on country-specific instances. Once instance blocking becomes an option, nobody will find them.

For real, how is it that every bloody country can make its own instance, but only the US can't? Doesn't it strike you just a bit weird? I'm no more interested what's going on in Oregon than in Frankfurt.

It's negative discrimination - when you try to limit the overwhelming power of one group over all others. That's the reason why lots of governments have laws that mandate e.g. the minimum number of female employees etc. It is to mantain some balance.

All kinds of world news is dominated by USA relations anyway. People don't need that and to read about every school shooting and presidential fart as well.

Another topic, but related: I mod at !playstation@lemmy.world. Since basically all the ps-related news is about the PS5, I'm asking people to post news and stuff specific to PS5 into its own community. Am I discriminating against PS5 users? Perhaps, but what's the point of having two comms with 99% copypasted content, with anything else being drowned?