TheSpookiestUser

I hope Lemmy eventually picks up more features like polls. I miss natively embedding polls.

Fair enough, I didn’t know that.

I agree. Some of the alternatives to Reddit are vehemently against mobile apps (ahem, tildes), so I doubt those will ever take off.

Didn’t the RIF dev just release an app for Tildes?

Is the large amount of users actually the reason for the downtime? I thought it was coordinated attacks.

We sure don’t want em here, either

Credit where it’s due, Reddit was pretty good at coming up with novel ideas for social experiments for a few years (which also drove engagement, not coincidentally).

If I were to come up with Place-but-not, for the fediverse and Lemmy specifically, I would do it like this:

The canvas would start very small and divided into plots, with each plot “owned” by a user. The user who owns a plot can determine the pallete to be used in their plot, can whitelist / blacklist other users on their plot, and has a reduced cooldown on placing pixels inside their plot. They are the admin of their plot, basically, which is to mimic an instance.

When every pixel of the canvas has been covered at least once or a certain amount of time has elapsed, it would expand with new auto-generated plots randomly assigned to users from among those who have placed a pixel. Plots could be regular squares or other irregular shapes. The most inactive plots could be blanked and reassigned to a new owner after a time.

In this way, users would have to work together to make bigger art on the canvas or seek out a spot willing to cooperate with their art. You’d see alliances of plots, users making art around an uncooperative plot, hostile plots get ganged up on, hands-off plot owners allowing anything on their plot, and all sorts of shit like that that makes social experiments like this interesting. You’d likely still need top-tier admin intervention to remove hate symbols and the like.

Anyone who uses the word woke can be disregarded.

The second sentence is the response to your first sentence.

You seem to misunderstand.

I’m cool with communists. I’m not cool with tankies.

No, I just don’t tolerate tankies. Just as I assume we both don’t tolerate fascists?

Agree, they should both be blocked

Could it have something to do with their post announcing intent to federate trying to both-sides the Russian invasion of Ukraine? https://www.hexbear.net/post/280770 (not even getting into the comments there)

Personally I’d be cool with defederation from lemmygrad too, for the same reason.

I want the place to be just big enough that the real niche communities (mostly gaming) start blooming. After that, though, I’m good.

This is true, but there are good reasons it’s shaking out this way:

• Lemmy.world has had some of the most open signups compared to other major instances

• Discovery of communities across instances is a little harder, specifically natural discovery instead of directly searching

• It is easier to just tell incoming users to sign on to the instance your community is hosted on because you know it’s safe and they won’t ever be locked out by defederation

I think the rise of more topic-specfiic instances like ttrpg.network will help spread the load out.

I tried a few different apps but I settled on just using the mobile website on my phone. The interface is solid even there, which I think is a great feat.

I don’t need Lemmy to compete with or kill Reddit. All I wanted was any one platform to get enough of an influx of users to be self-sustaining even after the outrage started to die down, which appears to have been successful.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Threads even has the ability to federate yet?

I’ve said this on another thread too: can we leave this type of instant escalation of problems behind us? Are you even actually trying to solve a problem or are you just being angry and projecting your anger out onto the site to see who else is angry?

You’re out here talking about backroom bribes and threatening to leave if your demand isn’t met - it’s just a website! It’s a cool website, and one I hope succeeds, but still just a website. We do not need to be so angry over it and make accusations with zero evidence to try and drive the outrage machine.

I used to be this angry about internet goings-on and it was unhealthy, I can see by looking back on it now. Let’s deescalate a little and maybe talk it out?

I think there is some merit to saying that a lot of people are stubborn and won’t move unless forced. The apps going down today prompted a big wave that’s for sure