Ulu-Mulu-no-die

Thank you for reacting so quickly!

They’re not telling (rightfully so) and hopefully won’t until all instances are fixed.

The performance improvement is very noticeable, thank you so much everyone for the excellent job!

Fantastic news! Can we please do the same on lemmy.world? Please?

Fantastic write-up! Thanks for sharing so hopefully other people can avoid the same problem.

Fantastic news!

Nor did any spam problem eventuate (yet?)

It would seems so, you can see how engagement is still growing regardless of number of accounts declining, that shows spam accounts didn’t actually start spamming yet IMO.

many of these accounts never actually materialised as they never went through email verification

But in that case they shouldn’t be counted in the account number, do they?

Well, it’s obvious that any public data can be “harvested” by anyone, but with federation there’s also the thing that data gets replicated among all the federated platforms so that each server has actually a copy of that data on it.

I wouldn’t want my posts being stored on their server as a consequence of being federated with them.

you can consume content from their users without being on their platform

Wanting to avoid them and then go getting their content nonetheless, doesn’t seem very coherent to me.

The point of the article is not that defederation should be used as a management tool, but that it can be very effective in protecting the fediverse from becoming a monopoly play among big corps only.

See, you said it yourself, “don’t see tier 1 ISPs de-peering each other”, “don’t see major providers blackholing major providers”, “major players don’t de-peer other major players”, you talk about big players only not blocking each other, but that misses the point of small players being blocked out by the big ones.

quote from the article:

Blocklists for email exist and are shared across services – and blocking is often pre-emptive, not based on suspicious behaviour of that server. Sure, email is an open set of protocols, but it’s also highly restricted by large companies and not at all open to either smaller providers or individuals.

This isn’t just an abstract issue: I know of friends who have had to abandon email servers they ran themselves, sometime literally on a box in the corner of a home office, because the big corporations that dominate email simply wouldn’t deliver anything they send.

That’s the risk, corporations are not stupid, they see the potential in the fediverse right now but they have the nasty habit of “embracing, extending - not always extinguishing but making it almost impossible for new competitors to enter the market”.

They could totally ruin the fediverse if left unchecked.

Are mastodon users really going to to use meta alternatives? Isn’t the purpose of the fediverse to escape corporations control?

Why would anyone in their right state of mind, go from a free alternative (as in free speech, not free beer) back into the hands of a corporation?

How much do you think is the percentage of bot accounts?

Probably half of them are bots.

Is Lemmy having problem with bot farming?

Yes, and it’s quite serious.

The bright side IMO is lemmy is being recognized as a valid alternative to reddit, if it wasn’t, bots would have no reason to try and be here.

On top of that there’s also activity, I saw a server with only 7 posts for 6K users, there’s no way those are real people.

Thank you for your hard work!

The Witcher is a masterpiece, I also love Dragon Age and Mass Effect, these 2 are not really openworld but beautiful nonetheless and Bioware is amazing at storytelling.

I’m perfectly fine without Ponzi schemes thanks.

p.s. for those who don’t know

650 servers?? they were just a bunch when I joined a week ago, that’s a crazy growth!

p.s thanks for crossposting, site is very useful

I think it depends on the company.

If you think about paying big ones to have an ads-free experience, you have to keep in mind they still track you and sell metrics for ad targeting, that is they sell “your data” even if they don’t show you ads, why should I pay them if they don’t pay me for my data?

Different matter IMO if we talk about smaller companies (or small developers) that are still focused on providing a good service or app, I pay for protonmail for example, in some cases, paying a little bit might make a big difference to those developing.

Even more different if we talk about supporting opensource projects, that can’t be even considered “paying”, it’s donations to make it so those projects can go on since they’re not “monetized” in any way.

When did they do that? I tried just now and it’s not banned.

It’s possible they setup bots to scan links to lemmy and automatically remove them, if they’re really doing that, it means they’re scared.

going to grab more popcorn

relying to lots of ads and older demographics low-literacy masses to sustain

FIFY

Among the “older demographics” there are the most “nerdy” people, those born when personal computers and the internet didn’t exist, those growing up together with technology, used to a world when corporations didn’t destroy the good of sharing knowledge.

Those are the people most likely to rebel to what reddit is doing and find their way out if it, because they know it’s possible, because they’ve seen it before.

Youngest people are used to how the world is nowadays because it’s all they’ve seen, but they can be shown the difference if they’re willing to listen.

Low-literacy masses are those who don’t listen because they don’t care, people of that sort exist in every age “range” and are unfortunately the majority of content “consumers”, that’s why Facebook(/Instagram/WhatsApp) doesn’t die, and Reddit won’t either most probably.

I don’t care about fixing reddit either, I don’t care if it lives or dies, not anymore, tho it wouldn’t be bad IMO teaching the CEO a lesson in humility.