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blue_berry
blue_berry @ blue_berry @lemmy.world
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Instance Protectionism in the Threadiverse happens because of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (protecting one's own instance is currently more sensible than increasing overall discussion quality)

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  • Remember, there’s no revenue to compete over here. Analyses that depend on standard capitalist competition should be expected to not only be inaccurate here, but incoherent. They simply don’t describe the actual incentives for people’s behavior.

    Maybe, but its just a model. You need to be more specific. I want at least a counter-example ;)

    From a game theory perspective: You have no reason to believe that this specific payoff matrix actually describes the situation here. There are lots of other games besides the Prisoners Dilemma. Are you really sure you’re not looking at a Stag Hunt, or a Battle of the Sexes (terrible name, but that’s what the papers call it)?

    Oh, I think you are right. Stag Hunt does fit better ... But I think it doesn't change anything about the overall argumentation (I think I actually accidentally used the numbers of stag hunt in the picture)

    • What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate?

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  • Actually the overall Star Wars episodes I-III (maybe exclude episode III, which is kind of ok)

    • What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate?

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  • Jar jar binks. I found him actually funny as a kid

    • We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed

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  • But that's possible, simply go to the instances website

    • Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy

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  • But then you are on another well moderated instance

    • Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy

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  • Oh my bad. I'm using it on the phone and its not showing which instance users belong apparantly ... :(

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  • I love Lemmy but I find the extreme pro-FOSS bias and hatred of everything else to be pretty abrasive and not conducive to useful or interesting discussion. And that’s coming from someone who both loves to use and contribute to FOSS. But my preferred desktop OS isn’t Linux which apparently according to the Lemmy hivemind is a big no-no.

    I guess that will come over time once Lemmy's feature stabilize and it will attract more people.

    • We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed

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    • What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did?

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  • Sounds interesting, maybe I will check it out sometimes. Ananasi was one of my favourite characters.

    I loved the Sandman Series on Netflix, design and acting were great. I personally think the comic gets better with every book so I'm strongly awaiting the next ones :) I hope they can keep the quality.

    I kind of wouldn’t have minded if the added more of the short side stories because I feel they inform the larger main story.

    Altough I think they did a good job on the cat story.

    • We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed

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  • Why does it presume that?

    • We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed

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  • That's fine. I also think it works okay at the moment, but I'm a critical person and I think this could become a problem in the future, so I think about how it could be solved.

    If I want to browse content from another small instance, I just subscribe to their communities.

    I'm just not sure the average user does that. Especially casual ones.

    Also I think the average user doesn't want to use third-party websites to discover new content, especially on the phone. These services just appear to me to be workarounds.

    • Fediverse or Decentralisation?

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  • Please call it "federated network" and "P2P social network"/"full dezentralized network"

    The Fediverse is dezentralized

    • Fediverse or Decentralisation?

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    • Fediverse or Decentralisation?

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  • I think the point of Nostr is that its that dezentralized by default, for which I think: why force that much dezentralization on to everybody? What's the merit?

    • Fediverse or Decentralisation?

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  • That's a very narrow defintion of decentralization. Nostr is more dezentralized than the fediverse sure. But its not like going full-steam dezentralization will necessarily result in the best service. For example content moderation would be pretty difficult then I imagine.

    • Fediverse or Decentralisation?

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  • Bluesky, Nostr, the Fediverse are all decentralized but have their respective protocols.

    I personally hope that the Fediverse will be widely adopted because its not corporate-owned but its not a given at this point.

    • What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did?

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  • House of Cards

    It especially began to suck when it swapped over to real life :(

    • What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did?

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    • Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy

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  • Why are people wondering that lemmy.world gets bigger and bigger if everone is told to stay on their local/subscribed feed

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  • But we do need to learn from our mistakes. Mastodon for example now adapted search, because they hope it will be a useful feature that was missing - what if they hadnt learned from their communities feedback? In the worst case, another fediverse service takes over. There is also competition there and corporate owned social media e.g. bluesky also already knocks on the door.