Well that aged like fine wine (talking about Embrace Extended Extinguish and how Google abandoned XMPP):
In theory, a company like Meta could run that playbook here. It could launch Fedigram or Fedbook or whatever, gain a lot of users, and then slowly shut out the broader ecosystem.
Heavenly Bodies
Because both those instances have open signups, so trolls troll Beehaw, get their accounts blocked, immediately create new accounts, then continue to troll Beehaw (and by troll I mean post unsavoury stuff that explicitly goes against Beehaws Safe Space goal)
Still, de-federating is a big hammer that’s usually reserved for the extremist instances like you’ve found, so de-federating 2 mainstream general instances is an extreme move.
It’s a very bad user experience for users on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, especially since Beehaw has hosted many of popular Communities. So I can’t help but think it’s bad for the Lemmy migration as a whole to splinter users from Communities, even if it’s good for Beehaw to protect their own users (which is explicitly what they set out to do, and well within their right)
Hopefully this is a one-time hiccup due to rapid expansion and lacking moderation tools, and not a sign of things to come. Beehaw did state in the announcement what it’s a temporary measure until better mod tools come along, I just hope more technical reasons to de-federate don’t keep coming up.
I also can’t help but wonder if enabling downvotes on the instance would reduce the modding requirements drastically. Isn’t downvoting undesirable posts to oblivion essentially crowdsourcing moderation?
A major instance (in terms of comunities) like Beehaw changing from denylist to Allowlist would be devastating for users on small and single-user instances, so I hope it never comes to that. Unless there’s some process to get hundreds of tiny unknow instances in the Allowlist
I think some people see Lemmy as a way to host their own self-supported community on their own server, with users identifying strongly with the values of the instance, and with cohesion among the users of the instance.
While other people (me included) see instances more as something to just host the account, so we can participate in Commities across “the network”, where “the network” is basically all the Lemmy instances except the de-federated extremists, or other walled gardens. User-cohesion is more on the Community-level and less on the Instance-level.
Do we want a small network of instances that have proven themselves trustworthy? Or do we want a large network of instances that have yet to prove themselves untrustworthy? Different people will have different answers
You do bring up a good point about needing to trust your federated instances because you’re essentially mirroring their content
Yeah this ruling sounds beyond stupid , its throwing net neutrality out the window.
But what do you find stupid about the USB-C ruling?
NixOS base + flatpak for Desktop apps sounds very interesting, one of the Linux Unplugged podcast hosts have been doing that setup for a while now, they also had a NixOS challenge some months ago
For your base building survival fix, I highly recommend Raft or Subnautica Nitrox, the unofficial multiplayer mod
If you hate your friends or want to hate your friends, try Pico Park or Overcooked. Also the space game Heavenly Bodies, but it’s only 2-player
Tiny Tina’s Dungeons’n’Dragons campaign had us cracking all the way through. It stil stands out as an example of what good DLC can be
100% can recommend BroForce
I love OpenTTD, came here looking for it.
For the uninitiated, it’s a reimplementation of Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Build a transportation empire of trains, lorrys ships and planes.
There’s also a modern spiritual successor in Transport Fever (commercial, not open source)
The Youtuber TheLinuxExperiment did a Quick start guide to the fediverse video 6months ago, focusing on Mastodon Peertube and Pixelfed. I think Lemmy was only briefly mentioned though
While not a video, there are a few posts with concrete examples:
Guide to help new lemmy users find and subscribe-to (remote) lemmy communities
Its so obvious now, Apollo and RiF are saved!
Extortionist API providers hate this one weird trick!
Is this credible? If so isn’t kinda huge?
So Twitter continues to fuck around… soon they’ll find out
PixelDroid for Android. It’s available on F-Droid too