RxBrad

I just finished migrating over to your instance from lemmy.world. I’m liking what I see. Everything seems nice & snappy. (One suggestion: consider turning on email verification to shut down potential bot accounts a bit more thoroughly)

It takes a bit more effort to setup your subscribed /c’s on a smaller instance (if you’re the first on the instance to sub to a /c, you need to already know the address for it). But once you’re subbed to everything you want, it’s business as usual. And without constant downtimes!

(EDIT: Had to log in to my old .world account to find this post to comment on it, since I had it bookmarked here)

My work uses zScaler for its Internet web filters. zScaler has everything *.ml blocked.

So yeah, it’s fairly well-known to be sketchy.

Just looking at my list of subscribed communities… There are a lot on lemmy.ml.

They’re toast if Mali yoinks the domain name.

This seems really, really bad for Lemmy…

Right. This will basically make nearly every /c live in .world as all of the .ml /c’s go defunct. That, or Beehaw, which is walled off from everyone else.

(Side note… my work’s firewalls block everything *.ml – and that’s the only thing that saved me from creating my account there)

I also bailed on mas.to, and made my own single-user instance…

Mastodon migration is still somewhat limited.

Your posts don’t transfer over, being the big catch.

(Most everything else does, though)

Just setup my own Masto server for myself. My initial thought was, “Crap, I can’t follow anything by hashtag anymore,” since I’m the only user and nothing would get pulled in by federation.

Then I learned about using https://relay.fedi.buzz to create a whole bunch of relays based on hashtags. And now it’s pretty much perfect for how I use it.

My federation feed is just stuff I like, and my server doesn’t get filled with random crap from federating with hundreds of full-ass servers like typical relays give you.

You’re totally right. Edited.

So, this article claims that moderation should be secret, so trolls can’t find sneaky ways to get around it.

But in my opinion, having moderation be completely secret allows moderators to mold the discussion to be exactly what they want it to be. That’s bad when it’s done by big corporations, and it’s also bad when it’s done by a handful of volunteer moderators on a website like Lemmy.

But have you actually tried it? Here’s a sample. Go take a look. (EDIT: My link is worthless unless you are logged in to mas.to. Go look up username fediverse@lemmy.world in your Mastodon client of choice)

It’s a completely unmanageable firehose of comments, spewed only in chronological order.

Honestly, the link between incompatible types of social media like Lemmy and Mastodon could be severed in my opinion, because it’s mostly just novel with little benefit.

Cryptospam ≠ Fediverse

Time to test Lemmy’s report function…

“Ma’am… this is an Arby’s.”

Threads is not a Lemmy issue. Mastodon is where the concern lies.

It surprises me how many people apparently just dive right into to “All” feed. There’s waaaaayyy too much stuff I really don’t care about getting blasted into my eye-holes doing that.

It’s even more surprising when people claim they view the All feed on Mastodon. I mean… a good chunk of that is just bots barfing data that’s not even remotely related to me.

To me, “All” isn’t much better than letting The Algorithm pick what I read on Twitter/Reddit/Facebook/etc. Gross.

I probably agree. It’s also unlikely, given that the entire reason many of us are here is that Reddit didn’t want anyone having ad-free access to their site.

Unless, they only did it for the express reason to eat Lemmy, then slink back into their hole. I think Lemmy is much more EEE-susceptible than Mastodon.

But it’s literally the one time you’ve done so. Because it’s probably a royal pain to make it happen.

I can technically eat soup with a fork. It won’t be easy… or pretty. Much like I can force Mastodon to happen here on Lemmy.

I’d much rather use a spoon/app that was intended for the purpose I’m using it for.

Honestly, maybe the incompatible protocols should just be severed from each other.

It’s novel that Mastodon can technically talk to Lemmy. But why? It’s such a hassle to make it happen – and the results are so messy.

If you want Mastodon to happen on Lemmy, it just ends up being easier to post a URL to a Mastodon post than it is to try and use the “official” federated methods. Just like people could post a link to a tweet or Facebook post.

I’ll say it again…

Threads is a MASTODON-type app. Not Lemmy… Mastodon!

I truly don’t understand people in the Lemmy-sphere getting their panties in a bunch over this.

This seems like a more viable argument than much of the EEE stuff, in regards to Threads v Mastodon.

But I simply don’t understand the ins-and-outs of how Threads stuff gets federated, and how much toll it would actually put on other servers.

Threads is a Mastodon analog.

Reddit is a Lemmy analog.

There are no Threads communities!