From the PR comments:

Maintainers MAY merge incorrect patches from other Contributors with the goals of (a) ending fruitless discussions, (b) capturing toxic patches in the historical record, © engaging with the Contributor on improving their patch quality.

I asked around and asked in the C4 specification matrix room.
And the reason is actually simple. If you merge bad code, have a record of proof in git (pull requests aren’t forever it’s only a github/gitlab thing).

So the idea is if you merge bad code you have proof in the git record that there is a bad actor. You can always revert the commit again or fix it. And the record can act as a proof in case the community want to get rid of bad actors.

Hmm, that seems like not such a good look from Ernest. According to google translate:

I know, honestly it was on purpose. I noticed that forks sync changes immediately with /kbin. I wanted to check how they deal with this much-announced community-based qualitative code review. Answer: they can’t cope. Quite an obvious bug was accepted in PR and domerged into the main branch :P It now works properly on the rifle ;)

Hopefully everyone can play nice and work together productively.

It looks like they’re still working out what they want their process to be:

https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/34

Seems like your concern is addressed there:

Pull Requests require at least one (1) other maintainer approval before the PR gets merged (built-in peer review process).

The mbin fork happened when kbin development was looking a lot less active. In any case, it’s not necessarily bad to have a diversity of approaches. Due to their differing organizational structures, mbin will likely tend to have more features and more rapid development, but also potentially more bugs, while kbin remains more stable.

I think especially Lemmy.ml should rather focus more on cleaning up their Tankie & moderator issues

As much as I would love to see it, I don’t think the lead devs of lemmy, who own both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, are going to ban themselves.

What are you on about? Dessalines said “No, that is full of CSAM.” I would like to know how they came to that conclusion.

or do the .ml admins have a more broad definition of csam?

Their definition seems to be “I don’t like anime”.

OP is lying through their teeth, nothing was found.

Literally any evidence at all beyond “dessalines said so” would be a good start. Hell, even dessalines specifically describing what he saw would be great.

Domain blocking isn’t instance blocking. It’s for if you don’t want to see posts that link to, for example, imgur.com. It’s also broken and will just hide random posts from you.

Are you blocking the individual users, or the domain? I’ve heard that domain blocking is buggy, so try unblocking any domains and see if it helps. It also isn’t supposed to block instances, just posts that link to the blocked domain.

I feel like the microblog feature would be more useful if we could get a separate feed/filter that doesn’t include the tags of magazines that you’re subscribed to. For example, I’m subscribed to /m/fediverse because I want to see the threads that people post here. I don’t necessarily want to see every mastodon post tagged #fediverse, though.

It also looks like we can’t subscribe to a tag by itself, without subscribing to a magazine that includes that tag. So yeah, some more separation there would be nice.

but as failed experiments go, this one hasn’t cost anyone $44bn

Zing

Added you to the list of specialized instances

I went ahead and created it: https://kbin.social/m/specialized_instances

Yeah, basically like newcommunities/communitydiscoveries. I figure since new instances are less common, it would be feasible to maintain a master list there. Whereas newcommunities gets several posts per day.

Now that I’m thinking about it, I keep noticing these: ani.social, “A Social Hub for Anime Fans”.

Is there a community for posting links to topic-focused instances? If not, I may start one.

Also just found mtgzone.com, for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering

• cdda.social, for the survival horror roguelike Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
• bookwormstory.social, for the anime/manga/LN Ascendance of a Bookworm
• lemmy.dbzer0.com, not strictly topic focused, but an instance run by the former head mod of r/piracy, so focused on their interests

People on the threadiverse only talk about 196.

I liked this bit a lot:

As Robert Caro wrote:

“We’re taught Lord Acton’s axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don’t believe it’s always true any more. Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.”