Should be an option to allow/disallow non-instance users to vote. That’d be really useful here in sh.itjust.works for the Agora.

According to a quick Google search (I’m no expert on copyright law), a sufficiently original email is automatically copyrighted. What constitutes “sufficiently original” seems to be pretty arbitrary.

So I guess if you post a short story, that’s automatically copyrighted. Commenting “this” is not. And then there’s a huge grey zone in the middle.

Only if the users on that server treat it like a death sentence.

Remote Follow sounds like a really amazing QoL improvement

FOR KARL!

Hey! Great to see you guys again :)

Close enough :)

It’s not unusual for employees of charitable non-profits to earn less than their for-profit counterparts. Again, I refer back to my soup analogy.

Also, digging around, I found out that patreon is not the only source of fund-raising and that they have received a 50,000 EUR bug bounty grant.

I don’t mean to imply that Mastodon devs are rolling around in a pool of gold like Scrooge McDuck, but they are getting funded.

Why aren’t admins considered part of the community? When it comes to the mastodon developers, they’re making 30,000 USD a month. I think they’re fine.

Is that an apples-to-apples comparison though? To me, that sounds like “Show me a soup kitchen that’s able to pay market rate for chefs”.

Why can’t it rely on donations? People poo-poo this, but I’ve yet to hear a substantive reason as to why.

Heh, all good :)

I haven’t really used it, so this is all second-hand:

As far as I understand, it’s a younger project with more papercuts than Lemmy, but more features. Instead of just being a link aggregator like Reddit/Lemmy, it’s also got microblog functionality so it plays better with Mastodon. For users of Mastodon, having a one-stop-shop for both services is pretty handy.

It’s much harder and more problematic to set up kbin instances, so almost everyone just uses kbin.social. This means it’s a very centralized fediverse platform compared to Lemmy, but that might be seen as an advantage to some.

Could not agree more. I said basically this, less eloquently after a day of being on sh.itjust.works.

What’s even cooler here is I feel we have the opportunity to have neighboring villages: I’m a villager in my instance, you’re a villager in your instance, and civility and understanding is promoted because we are in a real sense representatives of our respective villages. We don’t want to make our villages look bad.

As these instances & communities stabilize and mature over the coming weeks/months, I’m very excited to see what happens next.

I just checked the community browser for you. There’s [email protected], but it looks pretty dead.

GDPR is absolutely not applicable here. Their platform, their rules when it comes to what people can and can’t post (with the exception of personal information, that is covered by GDPR). If tomorrow they decide that commenting the word “Banana” is a bannable offence, they’re well within their rights.

Not yet, planning to tomorrow

Yes. For example, https://Your.Instance/c/[email protected]

For both users and communities, it’s always name@domain

I think discoverability tools can help with this. If the community browser was improved and integrated into the web-ui and app, that would greatly simplify things.

Also, visiting a federated URL of a community never accessed before should result in a short loading icon while your instance loads the content, not a 404 error

He’s not saying that YT will collapse. He’s saying that YT joining the fediverse would immediately flood he fediverse with YT videos on every fediverse client (Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, Friendica, etc) with ads included (a “firehose”, as he puts it).

Depending on implementation, they could map likes = upvotes, dislikes = downvotes, YouTube comments could be federated too, etc.

Probably a drop in the bucket compared to YT users, but it’d be a relatively quick and easy way of increasing their active userbase.