Lvxferre [he/him] @ lvxferre @mander.xyz

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at nigh

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Remember that Alt Right Playbook video about the Ship of Theseus? That's the sort of oversimplification you see both in witch hunts and in purity testing: A is almost identical to B, B to C, [...], X to Y, Y to Z, so people oversimplify it as "A is equal to Z". So if A is bad, Z is equally bad: not worse, not better, there's only "bad" and "good".

And as the video shows, it's in almost every social media platform. Plus in Reddit; I think people simply brought this into a more politicised platform, but it's the same irrationality. It is a Reddit (and Twitter, Tumblr, FB, and now Lemmy) problem.

Then you get the .ml admin team nurturing a politicised platform; that's great but it never nurtured the rationality necessary to employ that politicisation well. Perhaps on purpose, or perhaps because they didn't notice the need, dunno.

So, they let that Reddit problem in, and much like an invasive species, it's hard to get rid of it after some time goes by. And I do blame the .ml admin team for the situation, like you do, but for a different reason.

Additionally, I also blame the .world admin team; unlike the .ml it chased growth instead of politicisation, but still no rationality.

note I'm assigning the blame to the entities. It's messier to blame the individuals, as we never know their full history. Plus humans gotta be flawed.

Thankfully Rimu seems to be well aware of the problem, based on the sidebar of PieFed's main instance.

one point: I know you are a leftist, and at one point I thought I was too, but compared to the likes of hexbear and lemmygrad.ml and even lemmy.ml we are flaming right-wingers, I believe? if you [checks notes] “have a bank account”, then you aren’t leftist enough for them

I'm not sure, but I think they consider me worse than a right-winger: in their minds I'm probably a weird mix of Trotskyist with anarchist, two groups they dislike because neither plays well with their "left unity" campist trap. If that's correct it's hilarious, because it's pretty much accurate!

For a lot of the game, I was shaving the German flag's sides, top and bottom. My goal was to leave the text alone (it's cool), but with the LGBTQ+ flag as a background. After all, once the Australian flag went MIA, the largest country flag in the canvas was the German one.

However, since I was doing it by myself and plenty users were reverting my "creative deflation" of the German flag, we quickly reached a standstill.

So I thought on the best way to make at least some vandalism last forever, for a final act of defiance against my Schweinekatze Siegfrieda waking me up 3AM out of nowhere country flags. The solution was to place them in the last seconds of the canvas, somewhere it would be easy for me to plop them all together, but you had to change colours to undo it. Somewhere close to each other for visibility. The net result was a wiggling line between the red and yellow.

...I RANKED 10TH? Holy fuck I really needed to touch some grass!

And damn, those pixel maps are great.

Good ol' Revkas. No, wait, PEBKAC.

"I'm doing the no poop challenge until Luigi is free!"

Jokes aside... it depends on how you define left/right. Political behaviour and ideology aren't just a simple axis, not even two; they're multidimensional. And, for me, if I'm forced to analyse it 1D, it's all about how you distribute power: the left wants to spread it as much as reasonably possible, the right wants to concentrate it.

So, for me, the most left-wing thing someone could say is simply "nobody should have more power over another than the other has over them". Or something like this. Note how this encompasses rather well both anarchism and Marxism.

I'm glad I managed to do some change! ...beyond, you know, pissing feddit.org off with my wiggly green line 🤣

(It'll haunt their dreams until Canvas 2026.)

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm worried the next wave might make Lemmy even worse than Reddit in this aspect.

Lemmy encourages politicisation. It's generally a good thing, but politics raise the stakes of everything, so being political and irrational is way worse than being unengaged and irrational.

What would happen if you get an influx of people from a platform that actively encourages irrationality, landing into one where a huge amount of people are politicised? A: newcomers who were "eating crayons" in Reddit are given a box with 48 huge crayons, and competing to see which one eats them the fastest.

I genuinely hate karma, I think it encourages mindlessly posting common denominator stuff, but I wouldn't be opposed to that if handled like Slashdot handles it - it doesn't give you a karma number, it only tells you your karma is "good" or "bad".

Lemmy was only ever going to work as a tiny forum board - it simply refuses to grow.

I feel like part of that is scope: Lemmy as a software is trying too hard to be "federated Reddit", filling the exact same niche as Reddit, to the point advertising Lemmy means "to make it appealing for Reddit users". And, in the process, losing access to potential new userbases.

Think on it this way: most of what we do here is to discuss things. Like in Reddit and in forums, but also in comment sections of random sites. Why isn't Lemmy trying to capitalise on that, and eat a chunk of Disqus' pie too? Fuck, we could have Lemmy built into the discussion sections for random wikis out there. (And if not Lemmy, at least some ActivityPub software that integrates really well with Lemmy.) It would be an amazing way to bring in new fresh blood without it being necessarily from that shithole, or social media platforms in general.

Ah :-/ I wish I saw it, just for the laughs!

If I didn't suck so bad at recruiting people for my anti-flags faction, perhaps we would see less of them.

Fanfic = fiction written by fans of a certain work (series, book, etc.) Sometimes deviating from the original story, sometimes adding stuff or fixing plot holes, sometimes pairing characters into a romantic relationship...

Lemon = smut, sexually explicit fanfic.

In this case it's being called "fanfic" metaphorically, as if both people in the chat were characters of some work.

I remember them mentioning some technical problem, right at the start. I kind of used the opportunity to write the "fuck flags // fuck nations // we're in a single Earth" text, right where they'd make the union jack. Then I saw people actually making a background for it and thought "yeah, no huge Australian flag this time".

I'd like to thank you for hosting the event, plus everyone who helped me out with a few pieces of art! Also, the furries for being great neighbours! And the Enterprise folks, for letting me build booze on their starship!

Mwahahahahaha! Bring it on!

(It wasn't just the green wiggle - I actually managed to shave two lines off the flag, top and bottom. Plus some pixels from the sides, but those got undone really fast by Hörnchen and Comput3. My goal was to leave only the text with some border.)

You should've seen the chat. Hestia was almost writing a lemon fanfic about other two users, it was hilarious.

Ategon showed interest in the chat on making the notification chime configurable. So you could for example have it chiming when it's full, or for any number of pixels.

Brace yourself: it is about to get worse. r/RedditAlternatives has some interesting posts saying how Reddit is about to ditch their modmail in exchange for their “chat” function (that has never worked correctly… ever).

rolls eyes "Great".

I might be wrong, but I think this whole issue boils down to four vices brought from Reddit: assumptions, decontextualisation, genetic fallacy, oversimplification. Those four on their own already make social media hostile, but if you couple them with political engagement (otherwise a great thing), you'll get people who genuinely see no difference between "they euthanised a 11yo dog with cancer" and "they kill puppies".

Or between "free Luigi" and "$CEO_name needs a Luigi in their life". Both show support to the same cause, but only the later can be reasonably understood as a call to violence (to the point it'd bring the admin troubles.)

It sounds like a good idea, if you have the time+skill+money to do it.

Odds are that your instance won't be big. But at the same time, you'd have an easier time moderating it, specially if you only federate it with "cleaner" instances. (With "cleaner" meaning "that don't post content you'd remove").

We're in the same fart!!.

I'm still laughing at that. Sneaky!~

Good-looking dark elves >> homunculi 100% of the time. Plus Takuto got some great early game bonus, research tends to be a big deal in this sort of game.

Those flatearth weirdos would rather admit that the Earth is hollow than that it's a normal (albeit flawed) full sphere.