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Skavau

@ Skavau @piefed.social

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  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • Oh yeah, Discord isn't a forum replacer at all - it's a Skype/IRC/Chatroom replacer.

  • Is lemmy dying?

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  • The mods who left were quickly replaced.

    Most mod teams didn't leave. They made an example of a handful of especially rebellious mod teams, albeit I believe in most cases they had a quisling near the bottom of the mod list contacting reddit to tell them they would happily take over.

    But there's a difference between doing that dozen times, and having to do that a thousand times.

    The subreddit mods had all the power. If the top mods of all the communities that blacked out just removed all mods and shut down the subreddit, it would've been chaos on Reddits end. Most people are not well-suited to moderating.

  • Is lemmy dying?

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  • 2023 was such a wasted opportunity because the moderators chickened out. For about a week, almost every single sizeable community was blacked out. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

    A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can’t just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.

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  • Just a detail, but if rimu changing the logo to different flags every few days for a bit upsets you - you can just jump to another piefed instance rather than dropping piefed entirely.

    Piefed.world, piefed.zip etc

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  • I originally chose lemm.ee because I wanted to set up a Television community (that didn't exist), and it was the largest instance without one.

    Then it shut down, but in the interim I became more and more aware of piefed.social, and was doing a lot of feed work on there anyway. So I moved over to piefed.

  • I Have to Ask. Which Instance Was Online During the Cloudflare's Outage?

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  • Piefed was down. Or at least piefed.social.

  • Are yall okay with this sub turning into some AI led corporate icebreaker?

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  • It won't work. The user is talking about accounts that are masquerading as actual users, so they would not be identifying themselves as such.

  • Are yall okay with this sub turning into some AI led corporate icebreaker?

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  • It's not as if anyone is /allowing/ these bot posts by the way. They are being banned when they're spotted.

  • Should bots get reported?

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  • I have no idea why they allow bots. Usually websites are trying to get rid of bots, but I guess it’s backwards on Reddit and lemmy

    The etiquette on Lemmy/Piefed is that bots are tagged as bots. I doubt anyone would allow a bot larping as a user.

  • [proposal] a better content-recommendation system

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  • I already made a massive [email protected] for this. You will have to be on a piefed instance to access it.

  • [FEATURE REQUEST] Crowd-sourced category of post

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  • Piefed has hashtags, which is close to what OP wants.

  • The biggest problems with Lemmy right now

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  • Yeah, but one usually dominates because it often has the most intuitive url. And also Reddit has a much larger audience, so many very similar communities can exist for one topic.

  • The biggest problems with Lemmy right now

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  • This aren't even the OPs original thoughts, they have either looked up other grievances or just copy and pasted this from some other old post. Most of the comments are old news too.

    They don't really seem interested in discussing this

  • The biggest problems with Lemmy right now

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  • Sorry, but no private profiles please. This isn't Facebook. Its a public forum. Allowing users to hide their history just encourages trolling, astroturfing and erodes the high trust culture of the fediverse.

    This is also why I suppose public voting, and public modlogs.

    Reddit is notably degraded due to them allowing users to hide their post history now.

    Duplicate communities existing is both good and bad. It means that badly run communities can be redesigned and overtaken on other instances if enough users are angry with how its run. Although, yes, duplication is an issue. Piefed feeds and crossposting mitigates this somewhat.

    The search on fediverse isn't perfect, but its far better than Reddits useless search tools. I will hear no lectures here.

  • What is your favorite way to browse lemmy?

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  • I usually use subscribed and local, but I have notifications enabled for a bunch of feeds so I get new threads from those communities.

    Note: I am on Piefed which has more options here.

  • Lemmy is designed to fail the same way as reddit when reaching the same size

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  • I.m.o., instances should never be allowed to ban anyone sitewide, even temporarily(, except for spamming/bot accounts), or only a minority of them, explicitly stating that they want to represent a group of users, and reserving themselves the right to say that a given user makes them a bad publicity.

    And how would you ensure this type of policy is enforced, exactly? Lemmy is open-source software that can be modified by instance owners. Lemmy isn't even the only Reddit-like software in the Fediverse.

    Communities should also never be allowed to permaban, and a one-year ban should be the maximum, but only after, e.g., at least 3 one-month bans, themselves preceded with a demand to simply edit the comment/post.

    See above.

  • Lemmy is designed to fail the same way as reddit when reaching the same size

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  • Yeah, people tend to consider CSAM "problematic" and look down on the idea that it should be permitted.

    And can you show me where someone accused you of being a pedophile?

  • Lemmy is designed to fail the same way as reddit when reaching the same size

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  • Is this "Oh, we can't have a CSAM themed instance :(((((" how bad how ebil the authorities much sad

  • Lemmy is designed to fail the same way as reddit when reaching the same size

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  • There’s only the themes accepted by the authorities, due to broken federation.

    What themes are "rejected" by the "authorities" that they cannot choose for their instance?