Spanish guy, who likes open source software and has just discovered the fediverse (as of 28th of April, 2022). I like video games, and indie and retro music. I’m a student. I’m officially diagnosed with ADHD and ASD since January, 2023.
Mastodon user: https://masto.es/@ignaciocg
Peertube user: https://video.hardlimit.com/a/ignacio/video-channels
I was about to left Lemmy/Kbin for good when some stupid fascists from Lemmy(grad).ml called me names and harassed me, despite the fact that I’m neurodivergent (like that would stop them from doing such actions, but anyway). And then I started blocking every community and user from those places, as well as any community/magazine about US politics or about any US topic because I don’t give a damn heck about that place. And my experience improved really well.
The federal government sets the bare minimum protections for people in United States, not in other countries of the world. And internet covers the entire world, not only United States. That’s how I see it.
Too many fascists harassing, bullying and arguing in bad faith have this effect too.
Specially politics. Even meme communities are becoming a politics cesspool, at least that meme community of lemmy.ml, or 196 of lemmy.blahaj.zone (in a lesser way, but still), or gaming communities. Damn, do I have to block every single community of every single instance to really enjoy lemmy/kbin without being bombarded 24 hours with politics? And the funny/sad thing is that moderators and administrators don’t even care.
How can we make it more popular?
Defederating tankies, nazis, fascists, bigots and other awful elements; forcing moderators and administrators to do their job when bad behaviours occur, and respectfully disagree with other people instead of calling them names or mocking them.
I agree that bots shouldn’t spam content, but help people on command, like the TL;DR bot. But why was Reddit garbage? Was it for its bots, or was it for its toxic environment? Because, in my own opinion and experience, bots weren’t a big deal over there. Instead, who was the brave enough person able to comment and face all kind of shit just because his/her comment?
Don’t ignore the whole garbage hiding under the carpet half of it and expose the other half to the people claiming “I don’t want this filth.”
Why don’t we, instead, sacrifice u/spez to the gods, so they have mercy of us?
Wow, old reddit UI for lemmy! That’s freaking awesome!
One more thing. I read that Flickr is also considering to support ActivityPub.
The issue is that the page where the screenshot was taken from doesn’t allow to list both Lemmy instances and Kbin instances at the same time. You need to take two screenshots to show both services, or to use another listing source that shows all services you want to be shown, and I don’t know whether it exists or not.
Kbin is a link aggregator independent from Lemmy. It’s like talking about Mastodon and Pleroma.
Here is an example of awards on Kbin.
Obviously, we’re only guests in the admin’s house, as long as the admin wants us to be there. But during the time I was on Mastodon, I saw some (de)federation discussions, and the admins said that most of the time: facts, not assumptions.
There should be a way to block or hide specific topics, like it can be done on Mastodon. The only way I see is to unsubscribe from communities/magazines where the Threads topic is or can be discussed.
Defederating must be based on facts and evidences, not on imagination.
when they leech as many people to their platform as they can from the rest of the Fediverse
That’s users’ fault. Whose responsibility is it if I go to Threads? Is it mine, or is it Meta’s? It’s supposed that we, users, are mature enough to know where is our place and where we’re treated better, as users, as humans, and as data owners. If someone from Mastodon or another place decides to go to Threads, it’s their fault (that someone’s fault).
Will threads mainstream the fediverse?
Well, if you want to be treated like trash, or if you want to be harassed for your sexuality, then yes. But, honestly, who do want such things in their life?
Only me?