YSK: In addition to Reddit, StackOverflow is on Strike
YSK: In addition to Reddit, StackOverflow is on Strike
Note: as part of the strike organization, this post is a mirror of a post on MSE Introduction As of today, June 5th, 2023, a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around
Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit's mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow's failure to address it's promises and provide moderation tools
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I really hope protesting social media/websites owner's BS becomes a regular practice
I agree, but on the other hand if we moved to decentralized platforms no strikes would be necessary. People only do this, because a company is holding their content as a hostage.
Striking will just be replaced with defederation. For example lemmy.world has been defederated by a bunch of instances because it allows anyone to sign up for an account.
If stackoverflow was a Lemmy instance, I think people would just host a new one and move there?
Some people might do that. But lemmy.world is a very well run community that has never done anything offensive, and yet it's still defederated by some of the biggest lemmy instances.
That proves defederation is for more than just spam/illegal content/harassment. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's pretty disruptive. Like a strike.
I thought only beehaw.org defederated it?
Yeah, they're the one that makes you answer 3 vague open end questions and then manually approve it.
If you don't write enough, or write something they dont agree with... You dont get denied, it's just like it's still pending indefinitely.
Lemmy.world requires a valid email instead (something beehaw doesn't).
There's no right or wrong way to go about it. Which is the biggest benefit of Lemmy. Somewhere out there, there's an instance being ran like how you want, if not, just make your own.
I'd say that leaving your request pending forever is definitely the wrong way They are trying to hide their rejections
But the great thing about federated instances is that even if you are wronged, you have options You're never between a rock and a hard place
What I plan to do is just create accounts in the server I'm interested in, and link between accounts so people know I'm the same person. It even works as a backup
There will be instances that will delete your account if you have an account at other instances, however my life experience is that I'm better without the kind of people who does that, so their self-revelation as such an agent is also a plus
But that is exactly the problem with the federated media... there is no one place to find something - there is thousands of places to find thousands of different things. You don't get that one wonderful resource where you can come and expect that no matter how niche your question or hobby is you can always find someone who can relate or help you... you are left wandering from place to place searching, always wondering if there is the right community for you somewhere or perhaps you should just start a new one.
But that is exactly the problem with the federated media… there is no one place to find something
Huh?
Eventually one community becomes the "main" one.
Maybe the best one about world news is on one instance, the one for your fav show on another, and the one about your fav band on a third.
You don't need to make an account on all three instances.
There's a bunch of them now, because people have coalesced around one yet.
If you don't write enough, or write something they dont agree with... You dont get denied, it's just like it's still pending indefinitely.
That's a Lemmy issue. It doesn't show some errors or registration denials for some reason, and just fails silently, pending/loading forever.
It will also happen if you try to register an account, but the account name already exists. It will get stuck loading, since it doesn't display or receive any errors.
Youtube needs a lot of creator strikes to get back to the way it used to be!
While I agree, I think this is unlikely because unlike Reddit and StackOverflow modding, YouTube content creators rely on YouTube for their livelihoods.
And this is of course because youtube actually pays its creators. Youtube is a far more just platform and is nothing like the social media sites that rely on free labour.
That should give them more incentive to want to move to the fediverse. I'm sure many youtubers can afford to host their own PeerTube instance.
But then they'd have to coordinate directly with advertisers.
The biggest can probably do that, but not 99.9% of content creators.
It can be a gradual switch. They could publish to both platforms and keep promoting PeerTube. When PeerTube gets enough uses, make the switch.