Decentrilization is both a blessing and a curse.
If there’s an issue you can make your own community with blackjack, and hookers.
Submitted 2 days ago by sho@ani.social to [deleted]
Decentrilization is both a blessing and a curse.
If there’s an issue you can make your own community with blackjack, and hookers.
MBin reportedly combines them. Seeing as how the content is identical, Lemmy could too if someone would code it up to make it happen. (Though Rust is a difficult language, unlike Python.)
needs more porn
Lemmynsfw does pretty well. It’s a shame that the main instances don’t federate with the porn instances, but it does nicely prevent either from overwhelming the other.
lemmy.world federated with lemmynsfw. I have blocked probably 50 communities from there already because I don’t want that but if you want it, make a .world account
Some people here take themselves way too seriously. Not every conversation needs to be an argument.
Well, I completely disagree! Taking things seriously is the only way to have meaningful conversations. If we don’t challenge each other’s views, how will we ever grow and learn? We need the “battleground of ideas”!
/s
Okay, now explain to me which is the best Star Trek captain and why anyone who disagrees needs to die by cheesegrater in a three-day ordeal.
🙂
I like that it’s moderated fairly lightly but reasonably. Often I can have an actual discussion with someone who doesn’t agree with me without either of us getting banned by a mod who likes one side or the other. From what I see generally a user needs to be very obviously abusive/racist/violent before a mod steps in, even if the content is controversial.
I dislike that I haven’t been able to have those discussions in a while because I have heavily restricted my use for my mental health until after the election. A lot of people (not all by any means) believe it’s ok to bully and abuse other users so long as they’re sure the cause is righteous. The most obvious example are the daily posts/comments, with a lot of upvotes/support, that label anyone who disagrees with or criticizes Kamala (used to be Biden)/Democrats a bot, idiot, worse than useless, foreign agent and so on. Just to be clear I’m not talking about downvoting which is a fairly benign way of expressing disagreement - I’m talking about outright insults. The attitude of “vote with/support me or else” has no place in a democracy founded on free voting without persecution, even if the bully is sure they’re right. If I didn’t mention it, perhaps even if I do, I’m willing to bet someone will say a version of “but it is actually ok this time” and give reasons why. It’s happened before.
Guess what? Very few “policy bullies” think they are evil - they’re positive they’re justified. Christians demand abortion bans, Muslim deportation, religion in schools/government and so on because they truly believe they are saving eternal souls. I was raised in that environment. That a sizable amount of Lemmy users believe it’s correct/admirable to insult others into “proper” behavior makes them very similar in character to those religious extremists IMO. Apparently when the issue is really important abuse is ok.
I’ll just end by saying Gaza is incredibly important to me - I am legitimately very upset frequently by the stories and media. However, I was convinced to support Biden and then Kamala by Bernie Sanders. Bernie laid out his argument with logic and facts and did not once insult my position. I also doubt the posts/comment insults I see all over are winning over undecideds. “I wasn’t sure if I should vote Democrat until I was called a harmful idiot and had my concerns dismissed as being in bad faith”.
The sidebar says email is optional but it’s required to sign up, and your required to wait for approval before you can post.
The mods: self-important, dense, and often pushing their own agendas.
The thing I dislike the most is that my bot got banned. I made a bot to post carefully categorized articles into their proper communities, but it was banned without warning or explanation. All the communities I was modding dried up shortly thereafter because I didn’t manually post in them instead.
What? and that stupid brainwashing bot that comments in every news post is still around? Fuck 'em.
Im pretty sure most people including mods don’t want to see a bunch of soul-less bot postings. That is straight up community manipulation. Please don’t use bots, use your human mind to interact.
Like: pretty much everything
Dislike: wish there was more activity in the D&D comms
What I like: It is definitely nicer than Reddit was.
What I dislike: It lacks some of the communities I was frequenting in Reddit when it was good.
I think it’s the best at what it does. That problem space doesn’t have a lot of good options.
I’ve been impressed with the number of people who understand this pretty esoteric and fundamentally game-changing bit of technical voting system knowledge:
About first past the post and third parties for those who aren’t going to watch. But do watch! Required viewing for everybody!
Here’s a whole playlist from that same author that is amazing: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrttDbiWQ1XO1iHAszAsPo…. The first one there will probably fuck you up though - it did me - as paradigm shattering is supposed to do, but hey, I did want to warn you in advance (to be absolutely clear: yes it is SOOO worth it!).
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s still in the honeymoon period before it gets crapped up by redditors who compulsively shit on everything.