If you had put spaces after your dashes, you would have made a proper bulleted list instead of a paragraph. Just FYI.
- Takes down accounts for mass reporting without checking the issue.
Here’s a critical feature: Matrix bans people using a VPN. Fuck that. I joined a channel for the first time, said “Hello”, and was instantly banned for “Spam”.
I have to use a VPN because I get my Internet from tethering my phone using EasyTether to make it look like phone data, and connecting to stuff like Windows Update would make it really obvious I’m doing so.
How can you ever trust something like that?
You can preface a ChatGPT session with instructions on what length and verbosity you want as replies. Tell it to roleplay or speak in short text message like replies. Or hell, speak in haikus. It’s pretty clever for an LLM.
And if someone’s writing code to make a bot, they can privately coach the LLM before they start forwarding any replies between the real person.
Parenting, personal finance, relationship advice, fashion advice are topics that aren’t very popular on Lemmy… due to the network effect.
No, no. It’s because we’re almost entirely basement-dwelling nerds who are alone, have no kids, no money, and only wear clothes to avoid the shame of other people seeing our naked bodies.
Are the fake users registered as bots?
If not, then that’s a really good case for defederation. Hell, sounds like a good plan either way.
Uh, OK. I have a Lemmy client on my phone. It doesn’t work with anything else you mentioned. Those are different apps with different features. I need to know if a server is a Lemmy instance, not Mastadon, etc.
Because Lemmy is bigger than one domain. If it were just one domain it would be Lemmy.com, but since it’s federated, the names must be different, but you still want people to know it’s a Lemmy instance because they all interoprate.
“Hmm, what’s bajesus.com? Oh, its a Lemmy instance. What’s lemmy.bajesus.com? A Lemmy instance, of course.”
Lemmy is a technology where each instance follows the same rules: a compatible federation API. You want people to know your website is a Lemmy instance.
A bulletin board might one day change to entirely different back-end and migrate all of the posts and users. That’s highly unlikely you’re going to do that with a Lemmy instance. It will always be a Lemmy instance or it will go away. You’re not going to migrate the content and users to some other technology. And even if you did, you can buy a second domain easy peasy!
Seriously. Every top comment is some dumb doom and gloom, one-sentence hot take. Or at least super cynical.
Like just yesterday some post mentioned a YouTube Music strike, and the top comment was “People use YouTube Music?” What a waste of comment space. Yes, people use it, obviously.
And that is almost every thread. Just some idiot making some idiot comment. Who the hell up votes shit like that? It’s still the top comment and has even more upvotes now.
It’s your choice where to subscribe, and your choice which instance to use. Problem solved.
You don’t have to have an account in an instance in order to subscribe to communities from that instance. You only need one account and you can subscribe to any community.
people having to subscribe to both to see the content
Not a problem. Just subscribe to both. It’s no big deal.
posters having to crosspost to both
Don’t do this! The above “issue” already solves this. If I want to see posts from both communities, I’ll subscribe to both communities. Posting the same content in both will cause me to see duplicates.
I’m glad you figured it out, but you should edit your comment to take the numbers out so the links work.
Any instance could go down forever at any point. Should all cat photos ever posted to Lemmy be on one instance? Hell no.
Besides, my idea is about combining any communities into a group. They could be duplicates like you’re assuming, or just closely related, like cat communities. Or I could group together several different sports teams communities into one feed to let me just view those communities when I feel like it.
But then you have all the same federation politics and drama at the community level like we do at the instance level. It’d be such a mess.
Just make it easier for users to subscribe to each instance of a community with one tap. And let them view them all grouped in one feed.
And better yet, let people combine any communities together into a personal group; not just ones with the same name. There’s no need to get mods involved at all. I wrote more about this in another comment.
Federation already solves the issue you have. If every user subscribed to every instance of /c/cats, then they would all see every post and could comment on each of them. There’s nothing gained by having another level of federation other than making it slightly easier to subscribe to all of them at once.
Personally, I’d rather see user-controlled “multireddits”, but better. You group together any number of communities and give the group a name. Then make it easy to publish the group as a link that others can view and import into their account.
All we really need is any easy way for people to subscribe to multiple instance of “cats” with one tap. (And to unsubscribe just as easily). I think the best way to do this is with user-driven, sharable community groups.
For example, I could make a group that includes “cats”, “kittens”, “jellybean toes”, “cat photos”, “cat bellies”, “chonkers”, and whatever else. They don’t even need to have the same name. Then I can share that somewhere. Mods could put popular groupings in sidebars. Fediverse websites could have whole lists of popular groupings.
Plus you could have an additional feature: Lemmy could let you view one of your groups as a feed, just like you currently can view “Subscribed”, “Local”, or “Everything”. Sometimes you just want to see cat photos and not be bothered by world news or politics.
All 3 of those links are broken. For some reason you put [1], [2] or [3] in each URL.
https://lemmy.world/post/318115
Yeah, I think so. I downloaded the recommended app, connected to the recommended server, added a channel, tried to ask my question, and BAM! That was it.