Waiting for a mate

A parasitic worm

The good weather never ends.

It is a bit weird, and mostly for imaginary reasons. There’s a growing mythology surrounding our little instance.

If you think someone is breaking the rules, then report them. If you don’t want your shit to be removed, then stop breaking the rules.

It’s really not hard. We will not ban anyone because you don’t like them, but I will ban you if you keep this up. You obviously don’t care anyway, so go ahead.

I’ve done this one, let me know if you want to add other ones

Why not!

I removed your last comment because it was an ad hominem attack. I suggest moving on, none of this stuff is on topic and harassing someone across posts is not OK, irrespective of how justified you think you are.

You can debate what they say as much as you like, but don’t attack the person.

This is true, but it prevents external downvoting from influencing how posts are displayed locally on the instance (e.g. it prevents mass downvoted posts from being moved down the ranks).

To clarify: Not recently, they have been disabled for about a year.

I think everything grayscale may be a bit much, but I do use redshift to give everything a nice reddish theme at night.

I might try it sometime though.

It’s already in effect, though it probably won’t make a huge difference unfortunately, as most of the instances we weren’t linked with are very small. Ultimately we are a small instance ourselves which is why things are quiet sometimes - in time I hope that can change.

I will at some point try to see if I can talk with some of the larger instances that have defederated us, perhaps they can change their minds. That would make a larger impact, though my hopes aren’t high.

It’s not very sophisticated, we just sign up, start a community called “HC Embassy” or “Embassy of Hilarious Chaos” or something equally stupid, and start something akin to an AMA thread.

Haha yeah I’ll definitely need to be in a good mood for that one, but I’m curious too.

I was thinking I could sign up on their instances and open an “embassy” thread (or community?) to see if we can talk things out / dispel some myths.

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I think it was the right way to go about it too.

Subscribing their communities is the main thing you can do. Similarly, they would need to subscribe to ours to receive our content.

I might try to reach out to some of the instances that have defederated from us, to see if we can reason with them. It all feels very irrational, maybe we can get them to see that the kitty isn’t scary after all. That’s one for when I have the time and patience though.

The idea of down votes and people using them to disagree is perfectly fine.

As you know, they are often not used in good faith. I’ve seen people use bots to mass downvote posts they don’t like, there are people who downvote everything coming from this instance as a default stance, or follow users around and downvote everything they post, etc.

This does influence how Lemmy displays posts here, so it can be a bit annoying. You could make a great post and have it immediately buried at the bottom because someone doesn’t like you, for example.

We’re happy to review this if people feel strongly about it though, it’s been a while since we last looked at it. Maybe make a post about it and see what others think.

No, it isn’t.

Hard to say, we’ll have to wait and see who gets it.

I personally think there’s no point for them to try and get it back, they’ll most likely come back under a different domain.

sav.com’s generic contact details are on the whois, not possible to know who bought it.

The only way they can get it back is by outbidding / winning the auction, which is set to end in ~9 days.

Apparently some old admin went afk and nobody else had access. So much for being a collective I guess.