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"They want to take away your hamburgers!"

Obviously not.

I've used a lot of different forum types and it's sometimes impressive how much of a systematic difference some decisions can make. By not putting your scoreboard on your profile, simply just not adding a couple of numbers to the page, 'karma' just isn't on my mind and there's no incentive to farm it.

It's degamifying, and it's a good thing.

Joined about a year or two before the reddit API fiasco.

• I really don't like ads+tracking and didn't want my posts supporting a company like reddit
• I'm an advocate of FOSS
• reddit has inherent pressures to censor content based on mass media pressure and profit, and to permit anti-social far right trolls
• reddit punishes proxy users, where many instances here allow me to protect myself while posting here
• didn't like the new reddit layout - even before I came here, I was lurking for a year or two on alternate frontends
• I believed federation was a good strategy at building a better reddit alternative

But also, it actually had some communities at the time. If it were more dead, or unfederated, I'm not sure if I would have put as much effort in building communities.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder

If minor grammar mistakes must bother you, politely explaining them will help educate readers and ensure they occur less often. This kind of reply is rude and unhelpful, especially since many people posting are not as experienced with the clusterfuck known as the English language, but also since this isn't a formal setting where properness matters at all.

if you used someone like MLK Jr. the power would turn off the second we started being nice to black people.

Well, maybe a little while after that, if their Letter from Birmingham Jail is still their position. A notable part is about how people just being polite moderates doesn't cut it:

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

well I’d say since non-federated Lemmy is just a forum with a bunch of stuff for federation that you won’t use

It's not the same as every other forum software, or even every other content aggregator.

with only one instance, it’s little more than a mediocre forum.

What would make it mediocre or not is the community, and pre-federation Hexbear, or even reddit itself, is proof that you don't need federation to have an active community, it simply makes it far easier.

Federation doesn't make the rest of the software worse.

It's not like wanting a car to solely generate heat with the exhaust, it's closer to using a four-wheel-drive car on regular city streets.

I haven't checked around since the reddit API fiasco, but there were unfederated Lemmy instances. As Diva mentions in more detail, Hexbear used to be unfederated and it was the largest of all instances. Even without federation, it's a viable, actively developed content aggregator. So I wouldn't call it silly, it's a valid choice.

and wasn’t it revealed that that Trump’s garbage dump was running defedded Masto?

Gab is also a Mastodon fork, which was originally defederated before being blocked from most instances and bullied by the remaining freeze peach instances, so they mechanically removed the federation code.

I've also heard some special interest communities on Mastodon intentionally defederate from the broader network for privacy reasons.

“Sorry, I got to return this video”

You say that, although it's pretty close to the recurring joke in American Psycho, so if you're lenient this kind of sentence was said in this comm only days ago. https://lemmy.ml/post/24140732/15784014

I personally don't value the microblogging format and never really gave it a shot. It's just personal preference. In my opinion, the site format mechanically encourages low-effort junk, and there's enough of that on sites like this. I only use microblogs as an inconvenient feed for specific niche news updates I can't get elsewhere, like I would an RSS-type feed.

With that said, I support people posting on fediverse microblogging sites rather than on xitter or bluesky. I have to jump through a lot of moving hoops to even view xitter feeds without an account.

Nah, I'm just bored of pointless sarcastic replies being at the top. It's bloat!

Mexican Missile Crisis has a nice ring to it.

I completely agree. It's tiring to ask a question and then have some low-effort absurd answer every time.

any advice on washing my cat without her scratching me?

is it two metres long and has orange and black stripes and are you in a jungle? try a tranq dart first

park it on the driveway and get a hose. oh wait u said 'cat' not 'car' #oops!!

ez bro just dress in a SWAT bomb defusal outfit. works every time.

yeah jeez thanks. It's worse than no replies.

Every person and every platform has its biases and values, so it's not as helpful to think of moderation and control as more-or-less, so much as what is being controlled.

For example, reddit's revenue model led them to censor moderators during the API fiasco, and some of the communities on Lemmy since its early days are continuations of quarantined or banned subreddits. Meanwhile, most Lemmy instances take a stand against bigotry which would fly without a worry on reddit. This is a result of each platform's values, what they as a community (or in reddit's case, business) consider tolerable. reddit has the added constraint that they can't alienate their advertisers and other sources of income, and face increased scrutiny from mass media (news articles are usually the cause of controversial subreddits finally getting enough attention to cause them to be banned).

I felt that way too, but testing it for a few days on one device changed my mind. Their pitch rings true, it has so many basic QoL features that make you wonder why this wasn't added to bash two decades ago.

For me, the only bash->fish gripe I've had was it took me a little while to get used to having to put quotes around URLs with a ? to stop it trying to wildcard, but again, their rationale makes perfect sense and really I admit it was bad for bash to simply accept that string in the first place.

Cool blog post, thanks for sharing.

There are a few nitpicks in my opinion (e.g. the uBlock Origin page hints to donate to list maintainers or at least that's the message I got, K-9 Mail has a relationship with Thunderbird Mail and so I believe donations are possible, I think rule 4 is too strict by disallowing any project where cryptocurrency donations are an option because despite its issues the main ones are legitimate ways of donating to projects without giving personal data to other corporations like PayPal/Stripe/etc.) so I would use this blog as a useful exploration rather than an ultimate who-to-donate-to guide.

I'm glad they didn't just stop at the number and went on to explore scale and that being able to donate an impactful amount for more than a few tools is a privilege. While I disagree that UBI is a realistic solution (it's a reformist coping mechanism) or that taxes are likely to go towards this kind of critical infrastructure, it's great to see the discussion was brought up and integrated, alongside critique of so-called philanthropy.

Also, I've never seen the yin-yang symbol used as a light/dark mode button, I really like that.

Sure, although the response was to the question: "What FOSS projects are most in need of funding? I’d like to help if I can."

Plus, it's not easy to assist/succeed critical cryptographic development. I don't think it's something most of us can really help with.

Also, at least where I live, it's much more casual and less sterile and stilted than the verbose "I was made to feel upset".