Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
Here’s what I do:
I really haven’t had any issues on the two I mod, but they’re pretty small communities. And honestly, at Lemmy’s scale, if you’re feeling the need to use tools, you’re probably moderating too strictly, or you’re moderating a massive community.
I prefer dogs, but have cats, and I like cuddling our cats (when they let me). I’m pretty sure it goes the other way too.
What’s that about Gitlab? I use it hosted, and it can be self-hosted, so I’m not sure what the issue is.
Honestly, I don’t find a lot of value in the fediverse generally. I guess it’s kinda cool that things connect together, but URLs also get the job done pretty well, and cookies and password managers handle logins and stuff between platforms. The real value is in being an alternative to the big, centralized services.
I’m not here because of the fediverse, I’m here because Reddit pissed me off almost a year ago and this is a suitable-enough replacement. Seeing my posts on other platforms is honestly a little odd (in theory) because having a post from one context (say lemmy) appear in another (say git hosting) is often not wanted. So I want separation between different types of social media (e.g. I avoid Mastodon because I don’t like that form), not more sharing. But that’s not a real concern, it’s just not why I use it.
That said, I have no idea what kind of social media project you’re working on, so maybe federation is the perfect fit. The fediverse is certainly a good way to quickly build an audience and generate content.
For my social media project, I’m looking at p2p, because I’m more worried about scaling and longevity. Lemmy can get expensive to host due to duplication, so a big instance going down due to funding can fragment communities (though old data will live on any instance federated with that community).
My project will use user devices for most data storage and retrieval, and a handful of (hopefully community funded) storage instances for availability and backups. There’s a lot less duplication, so hosting will be a fraction of what Lemmy costs since most data will be served by people near you.
The only infra I’ll need is:
And since I’ll only be handling text at first (pictures and whatnot will just be URLs), it should be really cheap.
And that’s it. If I lose interest, someone probably already has their own storage nodes (lots of data hoarders out there) and can easily take over.
Second line of Mama Told Me by Three Dog Night.
self-sustaining
I’m hesitant about that. It’s still run by volunteers, and that’ll end when the volunteer gets tired of paying the bills for whatever instance.
I think Lemmy needs to find a way to disassociate instance hosting from some individual kindly paying the bill. It doesn’t need to be profit driven, just a way to get people to donate enough to keep the servers going.
There are only two official ones though:
Set the bar in one or both, and others will likely follow.
The list is super long, any good ideas on breaking it up? Or just allow typing to filter?
I’m a fullstack dev, and I wouldn’t be opposed to throwing a PR up for something like this. No promises though.
Why would you deny that? I think they have some valuable contributions to make to the community.
That it, I’m starting my own instance.
I really like the spoiler text block.
It’s just triple colon and description, then your message, then close with another triple colon. If you forget, click the spoiler button (at least on Jerboa, probably on web as well).
Inline spoilers would be nice too, and there’s room for both.
Yeah, that would work within lemmy, and it would make it easier to detect whether a link is to lemmy or something else (look for /c/<community chars>@<hostname chars>/<rest>). But you’ll still have the issue of clicking a link elsewhere (say, a blog post) to an instance that’s not yours, so you still wouldn’t be able to directly comment w/o copy/pasting part of the URL to your instance.
That said, that change alone would reduce a lot of friction for users. My point is that it still doesn’t fix the root of the problem. I guess we could use a browser extension to auto-redirect to your instance of choice, but that’s just yet another barrier for users.
No, I’m pretty sure that’s a quirk of how the fediverse works. Posts, comments, etc are in two places:
You’ll want the first (the permalink) for general posting, and the second for your own use. However, lemmy doesn’t handle the first very well, so both options kinda suck.
I honestly don’t think there’s a good solution to this. We can make improvements though, such as lemmy figuring out that a link is a lemmy link, either through special syntax (like @user@instance or !community@instance) or checking a list of known instances, but the real problem is that users need to be aware of instances, and that’s poor UX imo.
I’m working on an alternative to lemmy that solves this (and has a bunch of other drawbacks that I hope are acceptable), but I hope it’s not necessary and someone more clever than me can solve it.
Yeah, I was confused about what it was (I thought it was some indication of how fresh the comment was for sorting purposes). A percent isn’t interesting when most comments have like 5 votes or whatever, and it’s still not that interesting even if there are more.
That’s sick. We’re getting a new fiber network in my city and we’ll top out at 10gbit. I’m probably not paying for that (would be >$200/month), but it’s nice to know it exists. Who knows, with the rate of web bloat, maybe I’ll eventually need it…
I mean it’s possible, but lemmy only has ~50k monthly active users. Reddit, on the other hand, is in the millions (>400M monthly active users last year, and >50M daily active users). Lemmy just isn’t anywhere in the ballpark of being a threat to anyone.
I also think Lemmy has some architectural issues that will make it very difficult to scale to anywhere near Reddit size, even if it somehow gets the users.
It’s a cool service, I just highly doubt it’s the target of any big campaign. And that’s a big part of why I’m here, it’s big enough to have interesting communities, but small enough to avoid most of the spam.
I highly doubt it’s an org attack, Lemmy just isn’t popular enough to see something like that.
I don’t know if Lemmy has the ability to shadow ban, but those can be pretty effective for cases like this. It obviously wouldn’t help with a botnet attack, but it would help with your average, run of the mill pranksters.
That takes more effort though, especially if accounts require some kind of “not a robot” thing, like email verification, submitting an “essay,” etc. I’m not a fan of that and think a different moderation system would be preferred (prefer to not go into details here), but it’s easy and should be quite helpful.
It’s not a “fix,” more of a mitigation.
It is an opinion, but it doesn’t drive additional discussion so it should just be put into the post body.
I would only top comment on a post I made if I’m asking a question and want to provide my own answer for discussion’s sake.
Nothing, but laughing at your own jokes is a bit… odd.
If I comment on my own post, it’s because I have an opinion about it that I want separated from the post to have a separate thread of discussion. This isn’t that.
I’ve considered it, yeah. There aren’t many posts, and I’ve been thinking of posting a bunch there to get it more popular.
Or maybe I’ll make a new, related community with a little broader appeal, idk. I find avoiding lemmy.ml is usually more enjoyable.