Character_Locked @ Character_Locked @lemm.ee Posts 2Comments 41Joined 3 days ago
You could create a Fediverse-critic community here
I wouldn't go that far lol. It's just interesting watching how people vote on certain posts and opinions. I'll most likely still speak my mind regardless, it'll just be one of those things that I know will be 'controversial' around here every time lol.
Thanks, I guess I'll just try doing homework this time to find exactly what I'm looking for. An instance that just doesn't do any de-federating whatsoever is also kinda scary because I don't want CSAM and shit ending up in my feed. I also don't want to end up cut off from places like Blåhaj because of admins not taking action over certain things.
So I need something more like world or ee. But without any limits on image uploading either because I'd rather find an instance that can be both message board and image host than look for some third party image host platform to use that may or may not work nicely with various apps.
My problem is not reading properly. Because I was taken by surprise by the no downvotes thing when I signed up on Blåhaj and I was taken by surprise here on lemm.ee with the 4 week wait and 500kb limit on file uploads. So basically I just need to do my homework and read properly.
Thought I'd just ask you here in this comment chain seeing as you're pretty extensively well traveled in the Fediverse lol. What other good options are there for instances that don't do a lot of de-federating (and give you the general 'Reddit' experience) but also aren't completely unmoderated? I don't want to end up somewhere that half of the Fediverse de-federates from for whatever reason. Is it just lemmy.world and lemm.ee?
That's a fair point. So I guess the purpose that it actually serves is bookmarking and saving the page at the same time. I can definitely see the use in that actually.
The feddit.org interpretation of that law is debated
Sure but that doesn't change that they interpreted it the way they did and now they're enforcing that interpretation. Theoretically any instance could do whatever they want but in reality this instance did the thing that everyone worries about centralised platforms doing.
I get that you can leave links to your old profile and communities, you can also do that on forum sites and any other platform when you switch. I still don't see any difference or benefit here. As an end user that just wants a place to shit post and isn't trying to run a server or write code or whatever, the experience is the same, whether I'm trying different Lemmy instances or different centralised platforms. And it'll be the same until I can take my online presence and all of its history, pack my bags and go elsewhere with it. Not sure how that would work though, I'm just spitballing here.
Anyway, I think this is probably a conversation that I'm gonna avoid and ignore in future here though. I get the sense that the only place to discuss certain aspects of the Fediverse without people getting angry or taking things personally is somewhere outside of the Fediverse. Because people are weird and defensive about it and make it part of their personality, which I think is the reason for at least 50% of the hate towards Bluesky.
Weird gimmick that I've literally never used or even ever considered using. There's already this obscure thing that you can save articles and pages in for later called "bookmarks".
Based on everything I've seen across DC adaptations, this kid could be DC's answer to Spider-Man and he should've been pushed as such long ago. If they weren't so busy making 90% Batman and Batman related content. Looking forward to seeing him get his own actual series, so we can all get to know him better.
I'd still rather there be more choices personally. Not everyone is going to go for the Fediverse, so in that case rather Bluesky than Twitter or Facebook.
Also, recently feddit just announced that they're going to be using their subjective discretion to remove "anti Israel, pro Palestine" comments and posts, out of fear of regulations back home. So it turns out that Lemmy instances are just as vulnerable to government censorship and / or bad actors being in charge as any other platform. There's nothing really stopping any large instance from deciding to monetize or whatever that I can see.
And it's really not as simple as just moving to another instance if the one you're on becomes questionable because then you lose your entire comment history and if you mod a community, you lose everything you've built and have to start over. Just like if you moved from any platform to any other platform, decentralization isn't a benefit here.
2 or 17. Sometimes (rarely) 20.
People here are going to celebrate when Bluesky fails and people are left with less and much worse options again. People here have been clamoring for Bluesky's downfall since I got here and it's pretty ridiculous. At least women didn't have to scratch and claw and fight just to exist on that platform. For all of the pearl clutching and purity checking that goes on here on Lemmy, there's a lot of neckbeards that are terrified of cooties who can't understand why someone would choose to be somewhere else.
Yeah it's not too bad but pretty annoying. I'd rather just answer more complicated questions and wait 1 day for someone to confirm my account when signing up than this 4 week limit personally. Quick signup but then you're locked out of one of the most common functionalities around here for a month first.
But yeah, it's nice getting to see the underbelly of this place myself. Not as filthy as I expected lol. Also started using a new app, Summit, that goes beyond any other app I've tried so far. So I've been having fun tagging users and making multicommunities.
Thinking of looking for another instance where I don't have to wait 4 weeks just to upload a profile pic lol. But otherwise it's interesting getting a more unfiltered look at Lemmy. And eye opening seeing downvotes again. People downvote the dumbest shit, like there's people around that haven't realised that there's a third option instead of upvoting or downvoting - just scrolling past and ignoring if you don't personally like it.
That's actually a very good point. Usually Christians be like "god is infallible and has a master plan and everything is according to 'his' will and divine vision. Except for gay people and trans people and cannabis plants and dinosaur bones. In that case, fuck god's plan."
Good to see you around again, you've been scarce lately and I used to see you everywhere. This is @Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone btw. Currently in between usernames and shopping instances.
Just two pointless things:
- I want to finally finish my Terraria guide so that I can stop making lists and start playing.
- Started using a Lemmy app that has multicommunities, want to finish up sorting all of my subscriptions into categories. I might actually try another Lemmy instance again because not being able to even upload a profile pic for the first 4 weeks on lemm.ee is just stupid.
Also today's mission:
- Find the person that sold me two joints yesterday and buy some more and hopefully get her number this time lol.
Other than that, all of my actual real goals are longer term and this isn't the week where I announce something life changing yet.
Anything without a boss breathing down my neck. I want to be told what needs to be done and when it needs to be done by, then leave me the fk alone to achieve that however I see fit.
As a kid already, my three dreams were music, writing, or game dev. I'm really over the rockstar thing, I wouldn't mind jamming in a band again but I don't think I'll look for success in that avenue again.
As far as writing goes, the state of 'journalism' and AI these days makes me almost glad I didn't get a career in it, and being a successful author seems like almost as much of a longshot as being a successful rockstar.
So these days my dream job is game dev. Something that I could put music and writing and art and any other creativity into at the same time. I don't want to make the next Skyrim. Goals for me are someone like the Stardew Valley dev that is now successful and can spend all his time working on his one love if he wants, or tinker with something new without any pressure, if he wants.
South Africa, Western Cape. Pretty shit actually. There's like one month in the year that I actually get to dress up nicely without sweating and stripping off layers. And there's barely any autumn or spring to speak of. It's just hot weather into hotter weather into less hot weather again and into a month or two of cold. I preferred the weather on the eastern side of the country in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Winter and summer are more defined and there's at least a hint of autumn and spring.
Ultimately I want to be somewhere cold though. I feel like the older I get, the more I hate this endless fkn summer. I want to be cold and cozy and comfortable and wear all my jackets and cool shit daily.
I feel like they've probably all got pros and cons and probably require a little research. I recently signed up here on lemm.ee and the sign up process seemed pretty quick and simple. And they seem to do minimal de-federating. But the flip side to that is you can't upload any images for your first 4 weeks on the server. 4 fkn weeks.
And if I'd read that first, I might have reconsidered joining here. I think I'd rather be inconvenienced by sightly more in depth questions and a 1 day wait time for signing up than a 4 fkn week wait before I can even upload a profile pic and banner image.
Edit: in fact I'm gonna go as far as saying that it's false advertising. They advertise as general purpose instance but seemingly can't even handle a thing that about 50% if this type of social media entails. They should change their blurb on join-lemmy to "We would like to be a general purpose reddit-like instance but our servers catch on fire every time someone uploads a meme, so we should actually be doing something smaller scale instead of pretending that we can hang with lemmy.world".
Yeah, also forcing it to sit or stay somewhere. And getting angry at retaliation and that sort of thing.
Obviously there's exceptions like children or people who maybe just genuinely don't know how to handle animals but I think a lot show their true colours when it comes to something that can't really fight back or speak for itself like a pet.
Some people are very forceful with animals and disrespectful of boundaries with them. I think that cats especially are good at making it clear what they would like or not like you to do.
Maybe it's an unfair criteria to judge people on but people forcing animals to do things or otherwise treating them like objects is a red flag to me.