wagesj45

@flatearth

lol no

and if the content is not interesting, it falls by the wayside with no votes. the creme rises, the cruft falls. with more volume, your will get more cruft, but also more creme.

reddit gets tons of spam and absolute garbage posts, but the volume and user voting brings good stuff out.

there will be some shitty blogs, but i think that’s an ok price to pay for more content being posted.

It’s time to start posting links to our own blogs, again. Reddit brainwashed us into thinking that “self advertisement” was a bad thing. What they actually wanted you to do was instead turn your content into text posts on reddit itself so that we’d get locked into the platform.

Self advertise. Write interesting things on your blog and then share your posts here.

They’re certainly shitty instances. They’re free to block them if they want, since you can always just fork the source and remove that bit.

But I don’t think that the project is associated with any particular instance that it allows you to log in to. They’re taking a definite negative stance. They’re associating themselves, just as anti rather than pro.

Personally, I think it’s a little silly. Despite the term being overused (and not even being a bad thing usually), its a classic example of the annoying kind of virtue signaling. Doing a silly little thing that makes no difference at all while trying to make yourself look good to peers. It’s like they want credit for taking on the “extremist” instances, by doing a bunch of nothing other than some mild finger waggling.

Husky is a good alternative.

They have hard-coded list of domains to disallow logging in. Logging in will redirect them to a rickroll video instead of the instance’s login interface.

and a regular fediverse instance

what exactly is this other service you’re running?

Gotta get yourself weened from those engagement algorithms. The early internet was a wild west of links and word-of-mouth and reputation. That’s what we’re going back to. The withdrawals will be worth it in the end.

The nature of venture capitalism and the demand for infinite growth is going to grind the humanity out of any corporate project over a long enough time span. We’re gonna have to learn the old ways of what the Internet is supposed to be.

All those reasons boil down to “I don’t feel like learning anything new at this point in my life. If it isn’t easy enough for a toddler I don’t want it.”

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don’t want one of these new fangled devices.

I wouldn’t want to get my news from a source that may be lying to my face.

I have bad news for you lol.

it is the fediverse destroying itself from the inside

welcome to the fediverse :3

It seems to be planned. Might even be implemented in their code, but federation is currently disabled.

looks good

Sure, I guess. Truth be told there are probably lots of vectors for spam to come in until the moderation tools get a big overhaul.

You’d probably open yourself up to magazine poisoning that way. Would be easy enough for a troll to spin up a new community or entire new server that helpfully drops spam into magazines with the same name. I think I would prefer users be able to create meta-magazines that will aggregate posts from multiple federated/local sources.

kbin is still in its growing pains phase. there are tons of little user experience items that need to be worked on. good thing is that @ernest is working hard on it.

You’ve just encouraged me to post some of my old(ish) blog posts here. Thanks man. That “no self promotion” thinking really was toxic for a site meant to aggregate links. But having information in a single source is still super helpful, especially on a system that ranks content so that the creme can rise to the top. But nothing says we can’t cross post with the full text here as well.

As long as it is an option you can toggle. I much prefer pagination for most things.

Many people that I talked to about it think that this will be Meta’s attempt at an “EEE”.

probably. but the normies wouldn’t have joined a federated service anyway. and when the “extenguish” part comes, it will just go back to the status quo (i.e. normies on private FB service, the rest of us on federated instances)

Some Mastodon instance admins that I chatted about it say that Meta will “likely attempt to pull their user data”, and they “will defederate immediately”.

got bad news for anyone that thinks meta wouldn’t just run a crawler and scrape anything they want from your server.

at worst i’d see this as a net-neutral to the fediverse.