TimLovesTech

All good! The internet makes it even harder to tell because I can’t “read” anyone over the ether.

By 2035 we could be under water, or all living in a radioactive hellscape. And the argument of paying people to use a free service breaks logic.

You implied that my anti-Nazi comment from a different post was somehow a negative, thus making this thread about Nazis/fascism. It was a poor example of what I think you wanted to convey in terms of how you see political discourse on Lemmy.

You also for some reason see Nazis the same as people that disagree or down vote you about browser choice. That seems like a giant leap, and conflating the two is painting Lemmy with a broad brush. They are two wildly different issues and deserve different discussions as to why.

And my original comment came from someone that just stated that Fediverse was worse than the Commercial versions that are havens for fascists. And also the fact they track you around the Internet. So I did ask the question, and now you’re trying to turn this into some kind of douche wagon rodeo apparently.

I took your comment to mean you didn’t think we had enough Nazis on Lemmy, to which I will respond hostile towards. If you are anti-Nazi then you should not use the idea of an anti-Nazi comment to illustrate this fake idea of to narrow of political viewpoints on Lemmy.

Also, debating fascism is a whole different thing than people giving you shit over your choice of browser or Lemmy client. You shouldn’t conflate the two.

So you are saying Lemmy can’t compete because we don’t have enough Nazis? Weird take.

This fallacy that you can have a wide range of viewpoints anymore is dead, and is parroted by folks that miss the days of yelling at people on the Internet. However, Trump has taken his cult far enough Right they are beyond meaningful discussion/debate. You can’t debate things that aren’t even based in reality, and when you call them on it they dismiss it as hearsay/honest mistake/do your research.

For example, the media called Musk on his quote of the US sending $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza. His response was nonsense.

"Some of the things that I say will be incorrect, and should be corrected. So, nobody’s going to bat a thousand. I mean, any – you know, we will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes.”

In which regard? Not enough Nazis? Not enough analytics following you around the net building a profile on you?

True, but this also isn’t corporate America that needs to chase users to make the graph go up. New users will come or they won’t, I think chasing them is a fool’s errand.

Edit Oops, an important word!

I would run one if it was worth running, but for me none of them reach the default level let alone exceeds it. But I guess everyone is different, and it’s open source so anyone can see all the code and make it look however they want. So I guess we just really need someone that does frontend design and wants to make something better.

I believe, like I saw mentioned above, that that default theme is also set to change with Lemmy 1.0 release.

Same here for 99% of the time, Sync for Lemmy is how I see and prefer this type of site.

I am almost certainly not the “normal” user, but the default theme is much better usability wise than the “p” version. The one would have me looking for an alternative UI/app.

All good, social is hard and anxiety provoking!

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Nothing against Southern California =)

Thanks! I was very lucky to get it. Finding the domain (name) is the longest part of the process for me. I go through so many permutations before actually pulling the trigger on one.

My instance is small potatoes, so no new applications for me (so far). =(

Probably for most of the same reasons that IRC isn’t mentioned for fediverse chat, the main one being that they don’t use one of the newer federation protocols. They don’t talk the same federation protocol language, so you can’t really group them under the same category.

Why do the work for a for profit corp instead of just making a Mastodon server? I also wish we had a different term for these for-profit leeches that want to vacuum up free fediverse content for profit. I may be in the minority, but they are not Fediverse in my eyes. And we should not be working on ways to incorporate them, but on ways to block them off completely, and quarantine them to their own little islands in cyberspace.

Well…I don’t know why you included Twitter on that list, as they’ve NEVER been part of the fediverse.

I included it because the article title included it, and I agreed it never would be. I then went farther and said I don’t consider any of those beside Mastodon to be Fediverse because they all are corporations creating platforms for shareholders, NOT users.

It would be like saying “Dominos doesn’t make pizza. It has never been a pizza company”. With your logic being that you don’t like their pizza. Doesn’t make it true just because YOU don’t eat the pizza.

To use your analogy, It’s actually more like they have the appearance of a pizza-like substance, but eating it you know it’s not pizza and never will be because it’s made of human waste.

Because nobody owns the fediverse. Which means if I sell an ad on my instance, all federated instances will see the ad. Sure, you could defederate from my instance. But what would happen right now if lemmy.world sold ads? Is every instance going to defederate from the biggest instance, with the majority of communities? That would essentially break the fediverse.

If it was pushing ads, absolutely! I believe the majority of us came to the fediverse to escape the ads/corporate enshitification, so the moment this stuff starts creeping in we can all just defederate them. Every admin knowing this would be the outcome I think also helps keep the fediverse “honest” as well.

I do not see Twitter, Threads, or BlueSky as any part of the Fediverse since they are all for profit corporations. Fediverse is about being free of the corporate overlords.

I don’t see a link for this, but found the github page for Mentions United.

Has someone posted an argument, or do you in the future see yourself seeing an argument with someone on here taking the side of “alternative facts” and letting that change your mind? If not then it’s just someone likely downvoted to the bottom that people will ignore anyways, not worth the time to post it. I think something like Facebook works for these types of things better, as the population is generally older and more likely to see and reshare just any nonsense true or not.

Because I personally don’t see the fediverse as a great medium for trying to bring people into the cult, and the ability to bring people out of the cult is even less likely online, fediverse or not.