In the infinite multiverse, there’s probably a dalek that’s been reprogrammed as a beautician.

EXFOLIATE!

I’ve been saying exactly this since the news dropped. I fully understand people being worried, but I haven’t seen a concrete pathway to damage that doesn’t involve meta-hating users moving over to a meta product.

Check here for the federation list. lemmy.world uses a Blocklist, not an Allowlist so anything not explicitly blocked is allowed.

You can find your admins in the sidebar of the homepage.

Finally, you can see here what’s going on with Jerboa and here what’s going on with Lemmy as a whole.

It’s not really about the content. It’s about the admins and rules. Some are more permissive about what instances they federate with, some are not. Your admin has a lot of power, and you should make sure you have an admin you trust.

Account migration is coming soon™. It’s not a thing yet, but it is on the list of features coming at some point.

I had no idea! Thanks for the correction

Technically, communities/magazines aren’t an activitypub thing. The way it’s implemented, Mastodon (for example) sees a community as just another user.

A post in that community looks like a “toot” from the community user. Comments in that thread look like replies to the toot.

Any lemmy.world user who feels comfortable using the lemmy explorer to subscribe to communities via URL should heavily consider moving to a smaller instance and subscribing to everything they want. It’ll be a much snappier experience, and will very slightly reduce lag for everyone else.

You can find instances by server location here (just change the software to Lemmy at the top), by user count here, or just look at the official instance list.

Nobody knows for sure, but my guess is they blocked any request with “Bot” in the header, and blocked the “KbinBot” by accident.

Just a guess though.

Lemme explain with subreddits.

You have /r/tech and /r/technology, right? Different subreddits, different communities. Somebody posts something on /r/tech and crossposts it to /r/technology. You’re subscribed to both. You now see the same link twice.

That’s exactly what’s happening here, cross-posting to different communities. It’s still the wild west out here, but I would expect a lot of these communities to solidify behind 2-3 “winners” over time, with the smaller ones becoming more niche.

That’s not really what happened here. It was 1 guy who made a community. That 1 guy was banned and his community was deleted for breaking the rules (specifically rule 2, no bigotry). Just before he got banned, people on other instances were freaking out like we just had the entire population of /r/the_donald join up here when it was 1 troll who broke our rules.

The Lemmy Explorer is a really cool new project to find communities