nyahlathotep @ nyahlathotep @sh.itjust.works

Not a sentient pile of alley cats in a trench coat. You ask a lotta questio

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It is sort-of in the next update. Users can "block" instances, what this means IIRC is that they will not see posts or communities from the blocked instance, however they will still see the blocked instances users posts on communities on other instances, as well as their comments on posts on other instances. This feature should work to block the spam you're talking about. We haven't upgraded to that new version on sh.itjust.works yet because it introduced a bug in the federation system that hasn't been fixed yet.

See the posts column in this screenshot for context:

That testimonial community at the top is the only spamming one as far as I can immediately tell. Every user is able to easily block that community with two clicks. I'm personally not inclined to defederate from an instance without multiple communities/whole instances dedicated to spamming, tons of bots, rampant and/or admin-sanctioned bigotry, rampant trolling, illegal content (that the admins already defederate automatically on their own), or something causing an existential crisis within lemmy (like threads). I don't think lemmy.staphup.nl qualifies on spamming. If I were admin of that instance, I'd definitely ban the testimonial community though.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/agora

It's the voting community of this instance. Users (or admins) post discussions on rule/policy changes like your post here, they're discussed for a while, then an admin posts a vote thread for sh.itjust.works users to vote whether we should accept the change. Your post should go there.

You can misspell could, wanted, and school. Hell, you can wish to blow the school up. But I'll be damned if I'm going to let you disrespect the great state of Kentucky!

I haven't downvoted you, but I think people that have did so less because your opinion is unpopular, and more just that you come across as such an asshole.

They're talking about the top 1% of Germany VS the top 1% of the world. If you reframe your thinking to be about the world instead of just your country, you might find your position as one of the 99% percent changing. I don't make much in the USA, I certainly wouldn't call myself rich, but just being employed, above minimum wage, and single means I'm probably above that threshold.

Aye

This is a thorny problem. I think that most instances of for-profit companies intruding into this space would be detrimental to the "culture", for lack of a better word, of the fediverse in the long-term, if not it's independence and general well-being.

I can foresee the possibility of some being positive, but I definitely do not think that a huge, multinational, multi-billion-dollar-per-year-earning megacorporation like Meta, Microsoft, Apple, or Musk Industries, would be.

The way I see it, we have four options.

1. Do nothing. Users will bring up discussions in the Agora that will trigger votes to defederate commercial entities organically.
2. Open discussion threads on the Agora automatically whenever a commercial entity arises.
3. Automatically defederate all commercial entities upon creation. Possibly with an automatic discussion thread as to whether we should reverse this on a case-by-case basis.
4. Establish rules for what kind of commercial intervention would be allowed. IE, "Only companies which make less than $x per year" or something. Defederate the rest automatically.

There are probably other options, that's just what I came up with over the last few hours. Personally I don't really like the fourth one, it seems wishy-washy. I'd have to be convinced by a well-worded rule to vote for that. I'm partial to option 2, but wouldn't be opposed to 1 or 3.

I'm one of those girls that are obsessed with ghost types.

I don't particularly care for ghost pokemon, but it's important to have goals

You shall remain in this world and talk about water heaters heat pumps*, forever.

See also the latent heat of vaporisation and toasters.

Edit: and dishwashers. And microwaves. Basically any home appliance.

To anyone reading this, do you find yourself unable to keep from nodding off in the middle of the day? You might have sleep apnea. If you can see a doctor, you should. I got a cpap and it changed my life. I went from being able to fall asleep anywhere at any time (and having to take a nap on my lunch break), to being truly well-rested every day for the first time in years.

It's literally only because this way whenever anyone says anything about Trump being impeached they can say "But Bibem was aslo impeached!"

He smiled as he typed.

'Our printers are made to be less hated.'

"Lol," he said. "Lmao."

🤡

"yOu DoN't LiKe CoFfEe, YoU jUsT lIkE tHe TaStE oF iCe CrEaM"

A couple of thoughts:

• More community interaction is nice, but this is like the ghost of community interaction.
• I don't really think the stated goal of getting lots of people on Reddit to move over is a great idea. I don't have a problem with people from Reddit coming (I came from Reddit back in June), but slow organic growth is the better way to go in my opinion, rather than trying to force it.
• What it really comes down to is that it's spam. It might have been ok if there were an easy way to block it, or even if the coming update's instance level blocking would work for it, but it won't.

For some more personal opinions:

• I'm kinda sick of hearing about Reddit. I wish those of us who've joined because of it would move on.
• I don't know the specific details so I may be wrong, but from what I understand this is all the work of one guy. I don't like the idea of one person unilaterally deciding to do something that could end up heavily influencing the entire platform.

I'd vote to defederate.

Ugh, I hate that this is something I think about every time I send an email.

I intended that to be T and under games with premeditated murder by the player in them, but I realize looking back that I didn't say that so you are correct. They are, however, both M rated. Although, Oblivion was famously T rated before being rerated to M because of some PC mods with nudity in them. Even the console version was changed to M, which I remember thinking at the time was BS. So I'm going to call that a T rated game with murder in it.

FF is typically self defense and/or war, but there are probably some murders in there somewhere I guess