PascalSausage

browse.feddit.de for Lemmy communities.

New fear unlocked: unknowingly signing up to an instance that federates with servers hosting CP 🤢

Tech bros are a scourge on society.

Seems like there's some cages being rattled at Reddit HQ regardless of what spez claims.

Proud to be a card carrying IWW member. Unions work, it's why bosses will work so hard to defang them.

Easy solution to this would be introducing a feature similar to multireddit where you can group smaller communities together as one. It could be on a global basis where everyone gets the same communities or on a local basis where users can add or remove communities as they see fit. I really don’t think it’s ultimately going to be as much of an issue as Reddit users think. The alternative is doing it the way Reddit does and then you just have…Reddit again. I keep seeing people who left Reddit because they don’t like the way things are being done complaining because Lemmy doesn’t do things the way Reddit does. That’s bizarre to me. You don’t solve the problem of a few people holding all the power over a platform by moving to a new platform but keeping the same architecture that caused the problem in the first place.

Fragmentation is certainly a problem if you’re looking for Reddit-style cohesive communities, how much of a problem it is remains to be seen in my opinion. The risk with trying to do things the Reddit way is that one or two large instances become dominant and you’ve just got Reddit all over again.

One potential solution that I’ve been turning over in my mind is the concept of “meta communities” - collections of smaller related communities across the fediverse that can be subscribed to and interacted with as if they were one, sort of like multi-Reddits. Users could potentially vote on a smaller community being admitted into the meta community, or there could be some other requirement. It could even be done locally/on a per user basis through a browser extension or their account on their home instance. It’s not perfect but it’s maybe something to explore.

Alternatively we just get used to more compact communities again. Let’s be honest - do we really have to know everything, all of the time?

Forgot to set my alarm, missed my bus to work, got fired as a result for being late, found a new job, started dating a colleague there, we’ve been together six years and she’s now my fiancé as of last month. I sometimes wonder where I’d be now had I set that alarm.

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Still amazing to this day.

I'm old aren't I

I swear people have completely forgotten how the internet worked before Reddit. If you didn’t like a platform you could just…leave. Walk away and make your own and if enough people shared your feelings on the matter, another community would form. It happened all the time, there wasn’t really a monopoly. The fact that we can feasibly do that again (even better in a lot of ways) and people still act like one volunteer-run community drawing a line in the sand over what is acceptable and what isn’t is some catastrophic blow to freedom of expression truly shows how deep the centralised social media brain worms have burrowed.

Exactly. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean that anyone is obliged to allocate their server resources to you.