It’s not that hard to throw up a website that allows user uploads. The community can replace iN in a heartbeat. They bought into their brand as the important thing, and not the contributors, and now they’re probably going to slowly waste away.
NodeBB. It’s a fairly popular webforum, but ActivityPub support is fairly new. It’s really something else to see the Fediverse through a the lens of the old Internet.
Voting like this is a bit of a dark pattern, though. Especially downvotes. They come from places where the platform owners want to download the responsibility of community management to the community itself. This has a nasty tendency to silence valid criticism while simultaniously supporting brigading behaviour.
At the very least, we should be having serious, design-focused discussions about eliminating or highly restricting downvotes.
Nope. Sites hosting toxic communities should be iced out entirely. This is a content mirroring network, and no one should expect others to host copies of their toxic waste.
I asked a Llama model on Hugging Face, and this is what it said…
Was this not known? I’ve known that my fingers wrinkle the same in water every time since I was 5.
The choice to be on open-source, community-owned social media rather than corporate owned platforms is, itself, a political choice, and one that, in the absence of other focuses for discussion, will attract politically outspoken people. With no other core community here to focus discussion, everything will fall back to the things most people here have in common: FOSS, anti-corporate sentiments, etc., all of which are themselves inherently political topics.
Unpopular opinion, I know, but downvotes are an anti-feature, designed to excuse big, for-profit social media from actually moderating their platforms. They have no place in real social spaces.
There’s nothing secret about it. They told us up front.
It’s why I stopped using Windows.
No, this is a failure on that front. The Conservatives should be a non-factor now, but they’re disturbingly close. This is a tight election that has kind of crushed the left-ish party.
The country is deeply polarized, and it’s entirely the fault of billionaires and their media companies
It works the same on Lemmy, it’s just that on Lemmy you subscribe to groups, and on Mastodon you subscribe to users.
Groups just forward replies and other interactions it sees to subscribers.
Languages, famously static constructs.
Personally, I’d just like to see up/downvotes replaced wholesale with emoji reactions.
Downvotes are a dark feature designed to excuse Reddit (and YouTube, etc.) from actually moderating their platforms under the guise of “social” moderation, but it’s actually something that stifles speech that challenges the consensus, rather than preventing toxicity.
Meanwhile, custom emojis are another way for instaces to differentiate themselves.
Social media in general just isn’t a good archive of information. It’s a discussion space – a living space – not an archive.
If you want information archives, you should creating websites for that specifically.
It entirely depends on whether you want to be a shepherd or a… I’m struggling a bit to come up with a metaphore that isn’t loaded somehow. Let’s go with “blogger”.
But if there’s a topic you want to discuss, log content for, and write your own articles about, there’s little reason to not create your own little space for it all that others can choose to participate in. Such a space can attract new users to the network who aren’t currently interested in Linux news and possum pics.
But creating a space that looks like a bunch of link spam with no human engagement can look fake, and dissuade participation, so you need to really put some effort into not looking like a bot.
It’s easier to fork an active community. Being a mod is work, but it doesn’t require you to write 3000+ words per week to try and catch attention from an unknown population.
So, when you post to a community, you’re posting to the local copy of it. Your host then forwards that post to the site that houses the community. When you’re banned from a remote site, nothing interferes with this process until the local host forwards things along. By that time, you’ve already posted.
Now, the site that’s housing the community is responsible for federating content it receives back out again, so while you can continue to post to the community locally, those posts won’t make it to any other copy of the community. But because each instance’s copy of the community is quasi-independent from each other, you can, IIRC, still engage with other local users in that space.
Anyrhing you want, Ace!
As per usual, the “free speech on someone else’s dime” folks think the people running the forums they feel entitled to shouldn’t have actual moderation tools. Shocking.
Once upon a time, people overseeing web forums used to have the ability to move posts, split topics, and even shunt comment chains into other, exising posts. But all Reddit allows is to delete, and so this space that apes some of the worst bits about Reddit thinks they shouldn’t do any better than the lowest of fucking low bars.
Reddit would refuse to accept (error out) or act like it accepted and then just outright delete my comments
Oh, this is pretty standard behaviour on the site in general these days. It’s just a broken mess made by an incompetent company. Their front-end regularly silently disconnects from their backend all of the damn time.
For the most part it’s not censorship, it’s just a badly broken website that doesn’t give a shit about its users’ experience, because it doesn’t see anything else as real competition.
Sure, but that’s not what’s being discussed. Sanders is saying people deserve a 4 day work week at full pay.
Anyone can negotiate a 4 day work week for a 20% paycut. That’s not worth public figures time to discuss.