You seem to know this person so maybe you won’t be surprised by their posting history, but for anyone else, I recommend checking it out to get an idea of what to expect from that instance and some context to these discussions.

The fact that you even hesitate to defederate from them is reason enough for me to abandon this ship before it turns into an intellectual dark web hub.

https://slrpnk.net may be a reasonable alternative for some of us who are closer to the intersection of nature, science, sustainability, and decentralisation of power and wealth.

I want to know too. It’s time for this instance to establish some basic moral framework.

Open discussion and interaction for the purpose of exchanging ideas and learning from one another is essential, and that only happens in an environment where people feel encouraged and safe. (The word safe can be a trigger for some and is often misinterpreted, so let me narrow the definition to the sense that you feel in control over your own well-being so that you can push your comfort zone on your own terms and grow as a person without having your comfort zone invaded and vandalised).

If people are made to feel discouraged and unsafe by a foul atmosphere and repeated exposure to content/interactions that degrade their health in any way (directly or indirectly; short term or long term), they will not benefit from any supposed openness or freedoms.

Whether some content technically breaks any explicit rules or not is inconsequential to the impact it has on the well-being of a community, so I don’t want to see this place moderated under some false pretence of impartiality. Just keep it tidy and healthy so that we can focus on what we’re all here for. If someone wants to go swimming with the sharks they can very well do so on some free speech instance. We all know what those are like. And there is a reason they end up that way.

This is cool! Typing with it right now. Have been hoping to see an innovation like this for a long time. (Maybe some proprietary products have come and gone but non-free software doesn’t exist to me unless I really can’t afford to abstain)

It hasn’t been updated in like a year and there is no spell correction. Am I missing something or is this just an acceptable tradeoff for you?

It’s “different from”.

“Similar to”; “different from”; “less/greater than”. “Different than” doesn’t make sense.

Different app

I didn’t watch this video but I suspect the sentiment is similar to Sabine’s (I highly recommend her channel)

The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.

It has video+audio calls but not push-to-talk and there are no “voice only”-rooms or whatever it is discord has

I don’t know if I solved it by disabling and re-enabling the repo but that’s one of the things I tried and later I could see it.

I never used Discord but used google hangouts before switching to Telegram and Matrix (the former for family and the latter for everything else).

We don’t know if axions are a real thing. This is still highly speculative.

No, only comments made after they refederate

I don’t disagree. I want to see topic aggregation as soon as possible too.

My comment was in response to the implication that people who exercise their right to not listen to everyone talking are using defederation as some sort of weapon to fulfil their chaotic, destructive agenda while free-speech instances are merely open to any and all interactions like exemplary participants in a civilised democratic society.

If you actually want to know what my perspective is, I just wrote about it: https://mander.xyz/post/739439

I don’t think of the threadiverse as a link aggregation platform but as a network of communities engaging in threaded discussion. The federated model is an answer to the problem of platform lock-in, the network effect, and the lack of autonomy communities have on proprietary/commercial/centralised platforms.

Each instance separately may fill the role of link aggregator but mainly for that community (instance), with that community’s values and moderation policies. The ability for an instance to federate with other instances with compatible policies is the benefit here.

It may actually help if you view an instance as the community, with its “communities” as its topics.

Without the possibility of creating a meta layer to let users group different communities into a single feed

This isn’t an intrinsic limitation of the protocol but a matter of UX, and given how frequently it is requested it’s bound to be implemented in some way by some project; if not Lemmy then maybe kbin or something new that crops up.

the free side, that talks with everyone

the side that talks at everyone and gets mad when people exercise their freedom from listening to everyone

Some things I think are needed first:

• greatly improved UX for handling links to content hosted on other instances: you shouldn’t have to use the inconspicuous search function to access it via your instance,
• community collections: aggregating communities by topic each with a clear overview, their own feed and a nice, convenient way to create and view crossposts between them,
• more polished and stable app(s),
• ease of migrating between instances (massive bonus if we can have portable identities),
• a change in how we present the core idea behind the federation model: it’s not about aggregation (this misconception leads to frustration over “fragmentation”), it’s about community self-governance/autonomy and error-correction (as in making it easier for communities to migrate if authority is abused).

Edit: commentes in the wrong thread due to bug