While I think this is a good point, it feels like most of them usually don't even know where they are. Look at the recent discussion on Threads for example. It's mostly outsiders using the posts as a place for general discussion, and has totally drowned out any instance specific discussion.
Just because it's public does not mean they have the rights to sell it. Some over on Mastodon seem to think they likely would lose if it ever went to court (definite illegal in the EU but Threads is delaying launch there) but until then they plan to monetize your interactions.
This is so true and people seem to have a really hard time seeing this. The cultures on other social sites are far more manufactured than we'd like to believe. I think the human driven systems of Lemmy and Mastodon are brilliant but the true killer feature of the fediverse is going to be an open content recommendation algorithm. A collectively developed non-profit driven algorithm would undoubtedly be better at surfacing positive impact content than either system.
This is crazy to me. All this time there's been a 20k user instance out there just chilling by itself, and we may all start talking to each other one day.
I understand the desire to automate this sort of thing and I can understand the utility at first but I think we should absolutely be afraid of that in long term use. Instead I think people should use the built in cross posting function to link conversations from different communities. I think this is a great way to build slow diffusion of communities into the fediverse.
You can't both sides the existence of a community of people. Anything that doesn't explicitly reference the long history of academic gender and queer theory is trying to do just that.
It's interesting how the so called hyper progressive spaces are simply the LGBTQ communities. As usual this sounds like a clear elevation of antiqueer views and people over the lived experiences of a community that has an intrinsic right to exist.
Edit: A reminder to everyone reading this, claims of being neither left nor right are nearly always made by the right. Particularly when the left in this instance simply means people who are queer.
I think this is pretty unreasonable. They should not have allowed themselves to become one of the biggest instances with the existing moderation team. That was never going to work. Placing the blame on the open registration instances and mod tools seems silly. That said I hope this does lead to an improvement in mod tooling.
I think I'm pretty comfortable pointing people to !feminism@beehaw.org right now. Probably for the best for it to be on one of the more popular instances.
spaduf @ spaduf @lemmy.blahaj.zone Posts 45Comments 234Joined 2 yr. ago
While I think this is a good point, it feels like most of them usually don't even know where they are. Look at the recent discussion on Threads for example. It's mostly outsiders using the posts as a place for general discussion, and has totally drowned out any instance specific discussion.