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  • He creates shareholder value. That's all that publically trades companies do. It's their goal.

    Everything else is just ways they attempt to do that, and someone like Elon does it with hype, since the agencies that are supposed to prevent such nonsense abandoned their responsibilities a long time ago.

    Tesla stocks are now a ponzi scheme. At some point, someone'll be left holding the bag.

  • It's not unsocial. It's just not mirroring multi-gigabyte files by default. It's perfectly social if you use the website.

    Everyone has to stop conflating the technology with the network. Lemmy is a website engine. PeerTube is a website engine. The ability to mirror content is not inherent to running a Lemmy- or PeerTube-based website. The network is not the primary object here.

    It is a construct that arrises from content-mirroring.

    Remember, federation is copying, not creating some kind of remote view. If you're federating videos, you're letting other websites consume terabytes of your storage space amd bandwidth.

  • No. I think it works to hide the distributed nature of the fediverse, and works to make things that are inherent to a distributed model seem uncanney and broken.

    It also strips some value out of the 'local' experience, communicating that each Mastodon-based website is the same as any other, and presenting something that looks like a dumb terminal, rather than a stand-alone website.

    Ultimately, I think it's bad for the fediverse.

  • They shot themselves in the foot by trying to topple the government early and now by telling everyone that Trump's coming for our health care.

    They can't read the room worth a damn, and have lost all ability to tap into what people are feeling. So, they're collapsing

  • I mean, most of the communities are on .world, and if they're not federating with .world, they're just not going to show up in the majority of comment sections.

    But also, HB is much more of a communal space than most of the big instances, and much more aligned on how they engage with off-site content. And as the fediverse grows horizontally, a significant part of it probably going to be through focused instances, rather than more general purpose sites. We have those covered already, and most of the people interested in something like that aren't going to leave Reddit anytime soon.

    They have what they want.

    This means there will be more "we don't want to host this kind of content" discussions over time, not fewer. The fediverse will look more patchwork, not less.

  • Others have told you how to access communities on other sites, so let's focus on why it is this way.

    Websites that use ActivityPub -- that is, websites running things like Lemmy, Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube, BookWyrm, FunkWhale, and even some WordPress sites -- are engaging in an auto-syndication or auto-mirroring system. If I have an account on lemmy.world (LW), I can post something to a community on lemm.ee (LE). That post will be sent by LW to LE, and then LE will send it out to every other website that is subscribed to that community. That means that you, here on lemmy.ca (LC) will be able to see it once LC receives it.

    What you will be looking at, though, is a copy of the post on LE. And, indeed, what LE is hosting will actually be a copy of the post that originally got posted to LW. Everything's happening locally here. We're all interacting with local copies of material that is being syndicated to hundreds or thousands of other websites.

    When you comment on my post, that comment first lives on lemmy.ca. LC will forward it along to lemm.ee, and then LE will distribute it to all of the other sites. That way, my account on lemmy.world can see that you said something.

    This is all really neat, but sometimes it can seem too clever by half. For instance, these websites do not syndicate with every other Fediverse website in existence. It can't. There's no central directory of websites, there's no phoning home, so one website cannot know about the existence of another unless someone goes out of their way to introduce them. If I were to start a new Lemmy-based website today -- kichae.social -- I would not be able to find any communities hosted on LC, LW, LE, or any others using the search feature. My website wouldn't know they existed, and would not have a list of communities they host. Similarly, none of those website would know about mine, or any communities I'm hosting.

    The network grows by direct, personal intervention by users. If I want to see !lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca on kichae.social, I need to copy the community's URL and then paste that into kichae.social's search bar. This will tell Lemmy to go and fetch whatever it finds at that address, assuming it's a community or post. Once it's done that, though, I can subscribe, and content will start to flow from LC to kichae.social.

    Well, at least, content from this community. Syndication on Lemmy happens on a community-by-community basis.

    Fediverse subscriptions also, generally, work the same way magazine subscriptions do. You don't get the back catalogue once you've subscribed. It's point-in-time-forward only. Some sites do pull in a sample of posts -- I believe Lemmy-based sites work this way -- but not all will.

    On larger or more established sites like lemmy.ca, this isn't really an issue. But if you find yourself wanting to run your own site, or think you'd prefer the experience on a smaller, niche fediverse site, it's good to keep in mind. You should be able to access stuff from other websites, but you might have to put in more legwork in a more rarefied space.

  • So, I gather what you're encountering is communities that are tossing out posts and comments that do not break any laws, on the basis that they find them distasteful. And you're looking for an instance where communities will not do this, but that is also federated with all of the instances hosting the communities that are doing this.

    But to what end? If you are still trying to interface with those communities, the posts will still be removed. Being on a "free speech instance" doesn't insulate you from the rules of the communities you are engaging with. There's only an issue if you're finding yourself under pressure to change your own behaviour under threat of the admins banning you from the site.

    You're looking for a space where you will feel welcome, but where one of the key defining elements is making it easy to ignore that local space.

    I'm not sure you're presenting a coherent desire here.

  • The polls are all starting to show the Liberals gaining on the Conservatives, they're just showing the trend starting at different times. Ipsos, Nanos, and the others are even showing the rate of change being similar to the EKOS polls (the most recent of which have the Libs and Cons in a statistical tie), just starting several weeks later.

    There's enough runway to make this interesring, and enough Trump to keep the trends going.

  • Downvotes are already a questionable design choice, which encourage passive-aggressive drive-by behaviour rather than engaging with and countering challenging ideas. They're kind of a dark feature, which give the user a sense of participation, or worse, the sense of being a cop, while contributing nothing.

    They are catharsis without praxis, and they almost certainly contribute to online toxicity.

    Actually giving them forum or site moderation power is... Well, it sure is doubling down on that feeling like a cop thing.

    And what are all cops?

  • There will never be "a lemmy". There's no canonical "lemmy" out there. There is only 1000 independent websites, sharing select content with select neighbours.

    We either accept this, or we return to corporate social media.

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    Dr. Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs for Pathfinder 2e

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    Verdant Sorcerer Bloodline

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    Expectations for Player Core 2?

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    New Errata Released

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    Surprise! Pathfinder: Dragon's Demand CRPG Kickstarter Page Found

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    Saving Throw Survey Results!

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    Legend of Zelda Monster Core for PF2e

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    Paths of Hyrule (formerly Adventures in Hyrule) 1.3 for PF2 Released

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    We Be Goblins Free! Conversion Guide Released

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    BattleCry Playtest is Live!

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    Commander Teased on Morning of Play Test

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