This was posted before TheDude’s response, so it wasn’t clear whether this was something that had just slipped through the cracks or not.

However, I agree his response is concerning… Perhaps it’s more due to inexperience than “malice”, but it’s still problematic…

I’ve not seen it myself (not being an admin), but I think there’s a “remove” (not purge) button on the community page. It clears all the posts from that community, and prevents new ones from being received.

To clarify, I agree that Beehaw should defederate with instances full of racist bigoted trolls.

However, it’s hard to argue that sh.itjust.works works is one of those instances from just this. This is one guy who likely slipped under the radar. I’m just saying that we should just wait a bit to see how the situation unfolds before grabbing pitchforks.

I’m just frustrated that not immediately jumping to an extreme response means I’m somehow complicit. And also somewhat frustrated that trying to distance myself from politics apparently means I’m acting privileged.

I’m just tired of being angry all the time, at this point…

It affects me because I feel I need to keep up to date with which instances defederate with each other in order to follow communities. It feels like defederation is a cudgel that is thrown around a lot, and a lot of innocent people get hit in the crossfire.

However, you are correct. A lot of my posts on Lemmy have, to be honest, been my attempts to fix something which can’t be fixed. It’s super not a healthy thing to be doing, honestly. I really should take a break from Lemmy, it’s done nothing but cause me stress and tire me.

Of course I’m worried about politics! I’m worried about the return of fascism across the west. I’m worried about deteriorating attitudes towards LGBT people. I’m worried about active attempts to eugenics neurodivergent people. I’m worried about the massive amount of influence megacorps have on people. The world is full of things to worry about. It makes people feel helpless.

I can ramble for ages about how I do what I can. Maybe I can do more. Maybe I’m a bad person for not doing enough? Maybe I’m a coward for wanting to hide from it, I don’t know. Wanting to have a space to step away from worrying about these things is a copying mechanism I use, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.

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“We here at Meta take people’s privacy very seriously and are committed to protecting our users. Unfortunately at this time we can’t discuss what measures we’ve put in place.”

Meta could probably mitigate at least some fears about this if they did any planning or discussions out in the open.

I get they want to have a massive “reveal event” or something, but come on…

It’s entirely possible (but perhaps unlikely) that this is a passion project by some engineers and Facebook is just sponsoring them “hands off”.

While I hope Lemmy/Kbin takes off (heck, I’d love early internet forums to come back in style) and kicks off a second internet renaissance, the imminent collapse of Reddit legit is giving me anxiety. Hope y’all don’t mind if I vent a bit.

Firstly, there are a lot of “niche” communities on Reddit, mostly dedicated to individual games and the like. The kind of thing where fanart, announcements and discussions happen. In the short term, I don’t see them surviving the collapse. And if they do, they’ll probably move to a not-great platform like Discord or whatever Facebook comes out with.

Secondly, with SEO optimized AI generated garbage topping search results, Reddit has become an important reference when looking for reviews and opinions on things. As well as that, it has become somewhat of an archive of internet culture in a way. With subreddits moving to black out permanently and a push for users shredding their own data, there’s a very real chance that all of this content will be lost forever.

Agreed, but I think the best way of doing that is to have an instance setting where NSFW subs/posts don’t appear in the “All” list or similar. So people can (if they so choose) subscribe to these sorts of things from other instances, but it doesn’t appear in public feeds.

I think one thing Lemmy is lacking is “Limited” federation a la Mastodon, where you can designate some servers (or communities?) as “limited”, meaning that their messages don’t apear in public feeds.

Of course, at the end of the day, instance admin makes the rules and if they don’t like anything (NSFW or otherwise) they can just ban federating with it.

In addition to nobody really wanting to set one up for (non furry) smut, some instances don’t allow you to subscribe to NSFW communities on any instance. I think lemmy.ml is one that doesn’t allow it, but I’m not sure how you would check.

5 for me. I remember being a young kid and not really understanding much about the game worked, and spending hours just wandering around Kokiri Forest and Hyrule.

Currently using vanilla Firefox with https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix to make the tabs look like actual tabs rather than weird floaty bubbles.

Used to use Chromium, but switched because they made it so that sites could autoplay videos in response to “user interactions”, whatever that means.

TBH, not that happy with the current state of browsers; too much telemetry and not enough customizability.