I’ll be moving mine to Cloudflare

I was lucky enough to be a Discord early adopter, so I was able to keep my username. But not everyone else could. So right now there’s a lot of people having to part with long-established handles and it kinda sucks.

I’m going to be standing up a Revolt instance, but I’m giving myself a break after spending days and nights getting my lemmy instance up.

I dunno, there’s a particular instance here in the fediverse that seems like an alt-right bot operation. I don’t want to mention it directly to avoid the ire of said community, but once you find it your Head might explode.

Right? This was always bound to happen. The only way it wouldn’t be innevitable would require Reddit be a non-profit or co-op or equivalent. Which it certainly isn’t.

I also agree, the sudden breath into the fediverse (I’ve been poking my head in since I ran a nextcloud instance and they had a plugin for the fediverse called nextcloud social.). This place isn’t just a handful of OSS developers and enthusiasts anymore, but something starting to resemble a community of all types.

It reminds me of when Reddit was good, way back in like 2010 (for me) - but it feels more consequential now!

Honestly? I used to not care. I usually have internet connectivity and have at least one backup method of getting online.

But now my father is psuedo-homeless and there’s so many games he’s missed out on because his Van/RV didn’t get enough cell signal to work.

After that I understood the problem in a far deeper way.

Games were accessible to me as a kid, not because I could afford them, but because I could just pop in my neighbors CD (and enter their CD key if needed) and be off to the races! If I were to grow up poor now, it would be miserable.

Always-online “single player” games, huge downloads, and if you happen to avoid all that you STILL need to check in online occassionally to use your own Steam Library.

I mean, if 15 year old me existed today, I’d still be pirating things but it would be through a network of friends with Blu-ray burners and good internet connections.

These days, I try to buy on GOG only, and only their non-DRM titles. Then I can throw them onto a samsung t5 and sneaker net it to my dad without worrying if Steam/Origin/Blizzard/Epic will get in the way.

It looks like the fix for this is to disable IPv6 - not all of us can do that (or want to do that).

Lemmy.ml will need to fix their AAAA record likely.

It’s down for me to - southwestern U.S.

AWS Outage should be resolved now (it impacts my job, I would know).

IMO, looks like something else is up with this.

Yeah, that tracks. I’ll grant you that there are those left spaces on reddit that can get really tankie really quickly. (I don’t go to the ones in the fediverse - might eventually lurk tho with a critical mind of course).

I just find myself dismissing them pretty easily and making my own space. Left politics got really weird and counterproductive, so I found /r/TraumaAndPolitics and made that a small space that had some pretty interesting leftist conversation through a language of trauma. (I had made /r/TraumaInformedPolicy, but only found /r/TraumaAndPolitics a few days later, but we made the subs around the same time, oddly enough).

I suppose I shouldn’t dismiss the experiences of those who stayed at the expense of authoritarian communist propaganda and have likely been damaged in some way because of it.

It’s just that I find this fear counterproductive when it comes to building communities, if we’re betting that most people aren’t going to like Authoritarian Communisim (and that’s a damn good bet) then the idea is to get as many people into the community as possible as fast as possible.

I have some on-the-ground ideas that I’ll experiment with for tucson.social and report back when we see how that works.

Yeah! Definitely, I understand that! But in my neck of the woods “tankies” are more just boogeymen that people throw around when they want to cast an entire group as immoral. It’s not that they don’t exist, but they aren’t gaining power either. It just seems like an appeal to fear (a reasonable one at that), but using illogical framing that doesn’t at all represent reality. That’s the fundemental crux of it for me. It may come to bite me in the future too! Growing up in conservative parts in the U.S. I’ve grown numb to people claiming others are communists - it comes across as more a technique for division than any real concern of community harm.

I’m not trying be an apologist for the devs opinions or detract from them as much as I’m trying to state that open source, and this project - given its git history - doesn’t appear to spread authoritarianism. I didn’t sign an agreement to violently seize the means of production upon cloning the repository. Had this information not been swirling around on reddit (and now lemmy) I would’ve never known that I had to “cancel” yet another thing.

I mean, personally, I’d rather fork it and make it into a vision that the people of Tucson want in their social media experience. Lemmy is a bit better architected, and I think the codebase is a bit more mature for such thing.

Gosh, I felt like I was going to make this post, albeit not from a username titled “communist” 😅 .

Now, I always implore anyone who’ll lend an ear - please, hold your horses on labeling devs as “tankies”. Let’s not instantly stamp them good or bad. Rather, let’s mull over the behavior of a community that decides its course of action based on whether it’s supposedly tainted by a particular ideology. Try to think of the bigger picture of how people act as a whole based on information and what those actions benefit.

Let’s level with each other here. The GPL? It’s got more than a dash of Marx, if you ask my humble self (and heck, I think that’s a good thing). But has that deterred folks from assembling magnificent creations under the banner of a collective project? So, where do we end up if we tread down this logical path? Do we forsake Open Source software, just because its bedrock principles share a striking resemblance with Socialism/Communism? Is this selective ideological litmus test the norm now? And what fuels this selective disposition?

Now, just imagine, if I were a bigwig at a deep-pocketed corporation, wouldn’t it be a walk in the park to sow the conspiracy that ALL Lemmy devs are rabid tankies (ALL of them, seriously? If I pitch in, does that make me a hardened communist?). Couple this with the palpable fear that Reddit might just bulldoze their way to victory, and voila, you’ve got a fearful, active amygdala ready to perceive an “enemy” - no matter how illogical. Outrage, my dear friends, is among the most contagious of emotions. Curiously enough, this entire conspiracy/misinformation hinges on just that - unbridled outrage.

It’s almost as if there’s no call for outrage, provided one possesses even a smidgen of understanding about open source development, its inherent messiness, and the swirling ideologies around it. Now, those are the nuggets worth pondering. But, who am I to say, right?

Yyyyup! I’m doing it now! Hello from tucson.social!

Just know that us server owners can add servers to blacklists if they become an issue. Alternatively, we can function on a whitelist only for further security. We can also ban individual user accounts at the server level. At the end of the day, it’s up to the server owner as to what’s allowed and what’s not. Personally, I’ll make sure the community of Tucson has a voice in their instance, so most of that will go to a vote.