I'm being cheeky to illustrate a point - Threads will almost certainly harm the overall health of the Fediverse in the long run, with users relying increasingly more on Threads' instance[s] to use Mastodon services and connect to people.
In Reddit's case it's simply a moron aping another; I don't think that Huffman has the depth of thought necessary to evaluate the impact of his own actions.
I'm curious on how a federation would handle an Eternal September. If we [the community] play our cards right, we could get "newbie instances" - in those the newbies would either adapt themselves to the rest of the culture of the Fediverse or forge their own, in a non-conflicting way with the others. It would be kind of cool.
I usually complain about the usage of the word "toxic" but at least here it's well-defined by the article. Still unnecessary though.
Their finding is interesting though - that "online political discourse tends to be uncivil because the people who opt into such discourse are generally uncivil".
And that begs the question why. My hypothesis is that it has to do with stupidity: political discussion offers a safe space for the stupid, and uncivil interactions usually have at least one side being stupid. Doubly true in Reddit because stupidity there is seen like a badge of honour.
NOTE: when I say "the stupid" I am not talking about a well-defined group of people. I'm talking about a set of behaviours (assumptiveness, context illiteracy, a tendency to oversimplify things, wishful thinking, lack of logical "parsing" etc.). Everyone is "the stupid" once in a while, but some way more often than others.
That reminds me the ginger I was growing in my yard. Just as a curiosity. It spread wonderfully in the summer... and when winter came it said "nope, screw this tsundere climate." [Protip: if your homeland's weather is a rollercoaster, don't bother growing ginger.]
Funnily enough even in my chunk of the southern hemisphere those spices end a bit associated with winter, I believe. June and its mulled wine (or mulled rum for some - I find it distasteful, but you do you).
“Content not found in lemmy.ml’s single instance is not present in lemmy.ml as a whole at all”
A more accurate equivalence would be "Content not found in the lemmy.ml instance might be found elsewhere in Lemmy." I'm talking about the federation vs. the lack of.
It’s not like Reddit represents the entire Internet, IDK why you’re giving them special treatment to exclude content without criticism.
I did not claim (or even imply) that "Reddit represents the whole internet". And I am not "giving them special treatment to exclude content without criticism". It is just that this content exclusion and the criticism are not relevant in the context of this discussion.
I heavily encourage you to re-read the title of the post (just the title is enough), for context, and contrast it with your own comment. Do it. Please.
It might reduce the problem but I don't think that'll solve it, as in some situations instances will still defed each other. For example, where an admin says "users from that instance break my rules, I don't want to deal with it, defed time".
It's interesting how, by hosting your own instance, your view over Lemmy changes. I hope that self-hosters like you become more common.
I would rewrite the second sentence into “As such, content it doesn’t like is not possible to be hosted on their single, general-purpose instance.”
Or rather, "content not found in their single instance is not present in Reddit as a whole at all".
That's the point here - it's true for Reddit but false for Lemmy, as content available in one instance doesn't need to be hosted yet again in another.
Instance creation and management does not require coding skills. It’s a very different skill set, one of system administration and web hosting.
I phrased it poorly. What I tried to convey is that easier instance creation and management should be a priority for coders, so other people have an easier time hosting/managing their Lemmy instances.
That [interface devs should expect users to have 2+ accounts] is just a ugly workaround, I hope we can come up with something better.
Ugly workaround or not, I believe that this would be still sensible given the current state of Lemmy. Because when people want content from non-federated instances, here are their current solutions:
Register on both, and keep two separated and partially overlapping feeds. It's a bother, and eventually they will ditch the smaller feed.
Look for an instance that happens to federate with both, and register there. That may or may not federate with a fourth instance with desirable content.
Register on one and give up the other. Usually the one getting the short end of the stick is single-purpose, smaller, or more careful on whom they federate with.
So the current state of the things actively encourages you to hop into big, general-purpose instances. That is bad for the federation, and it aggravates the "three groups to rule you, three sets of rules to follow" problem.
Do you happen to have an alternative for this idea? Preferably, one that would work with the Lemmyverse now?
Both are great steps in the right direction, I believe.
And eventually I think that "A federates with B" should boil down to "you can post in A using a B account". With the combined feed being handled by the front-end, and all activity in B being hosted by B itself (not just images).
That word was originally a verb, it's the perfect participle of Latin dirigo "to lay straight", "to direct", "to steer". The verb itself kicked the bucket; if it didn't, it would've been something like dereger in Spanish, with the past participle derecho.
So "driven straight to the right" would've become "derecho en derecho a la derecha".
(Thankfully the verb got replaced by its own reborrowed version dirigir "to drive", "to direct", so the sentence is a bit less maddening: dirigido en derecho a la derecha.)
[inb4 I'm not a native speaker so if anyone finds a mistake please do tell me out. I'm a bit too prone to portuñol.]
I like it in small amounts in sushi, plus in a few other dishes (like my "undead raising" lamen. It gets wasabi, black pepper, red pepper and ginger. If whatever you have ends killing you, don't worry - the mix will make your body move again!)
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Don't be a liar. Or worse, assumptive trash eager to put words onto the others' mouths.
I did not say anything remotely interpretable as that. I literally said "Perhaps, in Twitter's case. I don't know."
I'm not justifying the claim that you're lying (or assuming) that I made.
Please go back to Reddit, where assumptiveness and illiteracy are praised and cheered.
[I apologise to other users in this community for my tone, but I think that it's warranted here.]