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why do honest communicstion when yould instead make people feel guilty and coerce them into coming back

yall a buncha dumbgoblins

16 year old rapidly putting their dick away

I’ve really appreciated the work the admin team has done to document issues with how the Lemmy World instance is being run. I’ve been thinking lately about how when you look at how the world operates what you see a lot of is tribes. We all align ourselves into tribes according to convenience, upbringing, and environmental needs (which could be argued to be an factor of convenience). Part of being human is staying up to date on the news that impacts your tribe (who might include your family, school, local community, work, or other online communities) including what other tribes are doing. For the Lemmy federation the two biggest places to keep a journalistic sort of eye on are Lemmy.ml (where the developers of Lemmy operate) and Lemmy.World (where the majority of Lemmy’s population operates) because what those two instances do will have substantial impacts on any instance participating in the federation.

I’ve seen some people complaining about our slrpnk admins being who documents this but the fact of the matter is, someone has to, and who’s more likely to do it than someone with the most invested (via time, emotional labor, and material resources) in the overall topology of the federated system. It was probably always going to need to be admins doing it because they’re who’s put in the time and has the technical expertise to really dig into this stuff, and I applaud our admins for stepping up to the plate. It is also my observation that I don’t think they could have realistically handled it any better than they did. They’re not being trollish, they’re not being JAQoffs, they’re asking relevant, data informed, questions about how instances are to be run so that people can figure out if maintaining their main instance is right for them.

Now for the bummer thoughts I have from observing all this. First. The bummer that is the way Lemmy.World as an institution has handled all this. Having interacted with Ruud in the past before his instances got so big, I can’t help but say he got lost in the excitement of seeing his little hobby project to host part of the fediverse to donate to something he loved and is now stretched too thin without recognizing the harm that being stretched too thin is doing to both his users and to users who interact tangentially. The fediverse works best when individual instances stay small. That may have costs early on when you join finding interesting people to follow, but it also means that every admin staff and every instance can maintain their own unique moderation stance and every individuals philosophical views on proper online moderation can be met, even if that means doing it on one’s own. The .world ecosystem indicates a view of online moderation that devalues the worth of staying small and emphasizes the importance of market capture.

The .world ecosystem, unfortunately, cannot ever be one of the best run sets of instances on the fediverse because it doesn’t put the emphasis on giving people incentives to be their best selves, but instead in setting up a low barrier to entry into the fediverse. I think there is value in this to get people started exploring mastodon, misskey, Lemmy, or mbin, but I think in this current moment, that low barrier to entry is starting to do harm that ripples across the fediverse due to .world’s sheer scale. The moderators cannot possibly avoid getting overwhelmed simply because there’s too much to moderate. They can’t spend time making reasonable decisions because they feel pressure to always be taking action lest they fall behind on how much moderator action is genuinely required.

If Lemmy.World is to be a good instance in the long term, I think they need to move away from fully open registration, and to put restrictions on community creations until they can get their scale nailed down better. There are other instances out there and if new people want to join the threadiverse, it doesn’t need to be via Lemmy.World

What?

Storage is cheap. Losing valuable data is expensive

There’s gonna be at least a few companies who correctly assess that there aren’t many because it wasn’t a good idea giving third party access to corporations to Ring 0

They do long term contracts. They’re not gonna see many renewals but before then they’re likely to continually see cash influx from monthly current subscribers. But I view them as a dead company walking, like LastPass

Yeah and when people were like “hey, this decision sucks, can you not?” They were like “where was this feedback before, we’ve been discussing this on our forums for months” and its like… Obviously most people who use your app aren’t on your forums. The usage patterns of people with that much dedication to signal will be different from people who are just using the app to talk to their friends and family and treat it as a tool.

This situation to me is it seems like it’s a echo chamber bubble situation. The way Signal gets feedback for their app is kinda bullshit. It disproportionately values the input of their own developers and the very most evangelical signal users. They don’t request feedback from users at all before making changes. They push out notifications of upcoming changes through banners at the top of the app, but they never use this same mechanism to be like “Hey, doing a quick poll. Whatchu folks want?”

I don’t think it’s malice in this case. Just blind incompetence.

Their justification for that is so bullshit to me. They let perfect be the enemy of good

It’s true. They got that shit on lock down. And the thing is… If their goals were actually what they say they are they’d let more other services access that, but instead, no. It’s actually about locking you into their ecosystem

I’m using Quik SMS which is a continuation of QK SMS. I’ve found that the current state of SMS apps on Android kinda… Sucks. Fossify messenger is probs my second favorite

Man someone came and down voted all us. Who’s still stanning musk on the fediverse in 2024?

Okay but like… Maybe I need his karate based medicine? Maybe the solution to my UTI is a swift hard karate chop of justice?

Also. Why would an allegory for fascism driving your dumbass tiny pp truck be an endorsement? Why is that something you’d want for yourself?

Thank you! I was just wondering about the Isle of Man

Grieve so you can move on. I feel for you. I went through something similar. I’m still healing and grieving. It’s not easy and I won’t tell you it’s going to get better because you’ve heard that and I’m assuming you have the emotional maturity to already know that you will meet new people. Just whatever you do don’t deny the hole in yourself you feel right now. It’s real, and you’re right to feel the way you feel. The best thing I found to do was to dive into something I was passionate about. For me, it was motorcycling and music. For you, it will probably be something else. And don’t pressure yourself. Just make your life about you for a little bit. Embrace people still around. Play games with people. Pet some dogs. Run barefoot through a field.

Oh. Oh noooo.

Gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. You are not understanding right.