Still, it should help the fediverse as a whole :) Pixelfed is a different use case from Lemmy

Edit: I see what was being replied to, my bad

thanks

Amazing

Although I read it as “befriend the houseplant mobster”

There was a post earlier today with an explainer on who is doing it: https://lemmy.ca/post/15935073

I’m not sure why this particular instance was chosen, but from what I can tell the spammers are doing it for the memes anyways.

The best you can do for now is to keep reporting them. What you can also do is see if there’s a pattern, such as one instance popping up more often than others. Chances are that instance has open signups or something, and lemmy.world (and everyone else) should defederate

If we do, we should probably do it well. Otherwise the ads would just be annoying

I continue to love this style

The takeaways are great

I haven’t read it all yet, but I noticed a bit about pressing charges.

With decentralized social media, currently there is not a risk of some big social media company coming after you when you cause damages. It doesn’t have to stay that way though.

What might coordinated legal action look like for the fediverse? They caused a LOT of harm to a lot of people, even if we’re just looking at server costs and time spent by volunteers to clean up the mess.

I don’t quite understand, is this just the backup file or the file being used? I’d be worried about conflicts if some transfer doesn’t work perfectly, since then it might all break

Picking specific subreddits is my preferred method as well. It takes time and effort, but it has a better impact.

The biggest selling point to most users might be having an official backup community.

• Reddit goes down? Check for updates here
• Reddit does something you don’t like? Move here

The problem I’ve faced is that even if the subreddit wants to build up a community here, users eventually stop posting if no one from their original community is seeing the content. I still post on Lemmy fairly often, but I don’t post anything (expect big announcements) to !ubc@lemmy.ca for example.

However, I think a mirroring tool has a good chance of solving that issue. We’ve seen some mirroring projects pop up with different implementations, but I still think that it could help a lot if implemented correctly. My vision for what that involves consent at every level, otherwise it will run into the same issues as the previous ones:

• During setup, the mods of BOTH the Lemmy community and the subreddit need to manually establish a connection. Both should have the ability to end the connection. I’m thinking a bot account on each side should do the trick.
• Users should manually flag their post when they want the bot to mirror it. The tool should check if the OP of the post included a flag (ex. !mirrorMeBot or !mirrorBridge) either in the title, post body, or as a top comment. When triggered, the bot’s counterpart in the other community will make the post, then post a link to that post as a reply to the first one.

This feels like the best way to get cross-pollination going. Users will be able to use the platform they prefer, while constantly having access (and being reminded of) the other community. There will be next to no downside for posting in Lemmy over Reddit. It would also be an easy first step to get the ball rolling on future collaborations.

Now the biggest issue here (and with any collaboration tbh) is malicious use of the tool. Having the tool be opt in could be a start, otherwise maybe account age / karma filters?

Wow I really like this style, I’d like more

The premise makes me think of this: https://falseknees.com/comics/282.html

potential spam bot?

https://kbin.social/

Link

Thank you, I didn’t look carefully enough :)

Interesting

What does the money go towards, since it’s all online?

Yep pretty much!

I was thinking that there could be a weekly pinned challenge, and on top of that people would be free to make their own challenges whenever. The name was inspired by the PhotoshopBattles subreddit since it’s a similar format, (where there’s some kind of theme or idea mentioned, and then the replies to the post are different attempts at creating it).

I was initially thinking of leaving it open to any kind of generation, text included, but image posts would likely be more popular. I haven’t played around with generating poems or stories, and I don’t know what the quality would be like.

I tried setting up a community since I thought it would be more organized. Another way could be to use a specific phrase and include it in the title

[CONTEST] Photo of a dreamscape with…

but it might be harder to find new contests/challenges with everything mixed in a big feed.

Regardless I’m happy to transfer that community, help promote it, or whichever format you’d prefer. I’d like more posts like this

This is cool! Reminds me a bit like that old game Acid Factory

As for the prompt exchange, I was actually in the process of making a community for that kind of stuff. Never got around to promoting it, so it’s been sitting unattended. You could use it / take it / change it if you wanted :) I’m happy to transfer it over to you to get going

!promptdesignbattles@lemmy.ca

Yea I was curious about that. I have to jump through hoops and do things like saying it will harm me physically

Would love some tricks to speed up the process

See you all yesterday!

Simply because there was no controversy on first place

To add on:

Most of the discussions I saw were highlighting the differences and discussing what the pros and cons were, so that users could make an informed decision when picking the instance to migrate to.

That’s generally a good thing, as long as you don’t harass others for what they want. There’s a lot of different ways to do the fediverse