Kichae @ Kichae @lemmy.ca Posts 69Comments 1,456Joined 2 yr. ago
Hard coding other website engine names into the structure of your own website engine seems... not great.
Lemmy doesn't show posts from Mastodon for the exact same reason it doesn't show posts from Loops. Or PixelFed. Or Miskey. Or Bookwyrm. Or other Lemmy users.
A "Mastodon" feed would encompass all of those things. And it would promote the idea that all that exists outside of Lemmy are the most popular wish.com versions of existing mainstream services. It neither leaves room for acknowledging less popular options, nor anything that's genuinely new.
Plus, there are already website engines that let you follow both groups and users. If that's something you want, mbin is right there. Why not use that?
We have to stop sending end users to software solutions for web admins. We don't send them yo "nginx" or "apache", after all.
Someone throw up a website using this software and give the site a sensible name, and then direct users to that website.
And even if they did, you can't reply from Lemmy. You can't even load the post from Lemmy. You'd need to use something that actually interface with Mastodon posts.
Nova Scotia is the only province with a US border
Well, this is an embarrassing display of geography.
Now apply this logic to healthcare so I can tell just big of a problem you are for society
Functionally all, if they're the Prime Minister of a majority parliament. A good deal if they're PM in a hung parliament where the NDP isn't dead set on skewering itself.
We can stop sucking the US's dick without replacing it with Russia's, China's, or... North fucking Korea's?
Seriously, making hating the US your whole personality doesn't make the fake communists a) worthwhile or b) communists.
Free speech means the government can't sanction you for unpopular speech. It says absolutely nothing about private citizens.
You're not entitled to an audience, or to anybody else's platform.
They have too many thoughts of too low a quality already. I'm not lending them any of mine.
Pick a smaller, focused website and focus on Local. Then you can ignore what's going on elsewhere.
Lemmy isn't a community, it's a technology. And ActivityPub is madw with the goal of letting anyone and everyone use it and participate. Just like HTTP. Griping because "the wrong kind of people are showing up" is the kind of thing the wrong kind of people do.
You don't get to build your gate in the public square.
Rewarding the employer for underpaying the employees is not, in any way, the right direction, though? Not tipping is just telling the employees "I don't care if you get paid, so long as I get what I want"
The social network that hides your mutuals worse than YouTube hides your subscribed content, and which explicitly and openly advertises first party bot accounts as a feature is what you consider the "best social network"?
What's the worst? Your actual friends and family?
I don't know. I don't want to play apologetics for the tankies, but showing up in a tankie community and telling them that they're supporting fascism just sounds like trolling to me. You know what you're doing, and them taking the bait isn't power tripping.
Social awkwardness
This level of splitting hairs and borderline decision paralysis is itself a symptom of autism, FWIW.
I mean, there's limited content, and Lemmy hasn't attracted the same kind of personality as modern Reddit. It makes total sense that things would be upvoted quickly, but comments would be sparse or short.
People patted themselves on the back when they showed up for being "old reddit" and "power users", but most of us were just cranky phone users who didn't want to use the official app. Lemmy users are not the boistrous, verbose philosophers people wanted to believe they were.
We're scrollers, sitting on the toilet.
Well, the different "instances" are different websites, each hosting and serving their own copy of the original post and comments. You're interacting with your local copy, and your comments are forwarded along to the original website. The original website then sends out copies of your comment to all the other websites that have requested updates.
If your website has banned someone, it will reject content from that user. That's what being banned means: I refuse to host your posts. Just because your posts are being routed through a 3rd party doesn't mean I want to host them.
Like, if you got banned from Reddit, they wouldn't let you post there, either. If you commented on a mirror of a post, hosted on a different website, you wouldn't expect that comment to show up on Resdit, would you? Well, that's what the fediverse is: a network of content mirrors. Yes, they're mirrors that, generally, tey to synchronize with each other, but they're still mirrors. And independent mirrors at that.
They will never be perfectly synchronized. There's no true Lemmy to reflect. No whole. There is only what is locally hosted.
I feel it’s odd to ban people I don’t like for their behavior outside the community.
If you're polite in my house, but I hear you're talking shit behind my back, you're not welcome in my house anymore.
I'm glad you're OK with it, and I get not wanting a space to become a billboard, but there's a wider trend of the fediverse being somewhat hostile to creatives who make a living actually creating things, because everyone hates how they're being treated by corporations.
There's no alternative to big corporations if we strangle independent producers. I'm sure you know this. The rest of us have to understand it, too, though.