Someone made a nonviolent luigi post and it was deleted.. wonder why?
Someone made a nonviolent luigi post and it was deleted.. wonder why?
Post had nothing to do with murder or violence. It is clear who reddit serves.
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Because they own the platform.
Hence, why Lemmy was needed.
Lemmy's security is largely in its obscurity. If the community ever gains the degree of popularity or prominence as Reddit, it will succumb to all the same socio-economic pressures.
Hell, Reddit's origin story isn't far off from Lemmy's. A left-wing FOSS guy pioneers a novel means of aggregating information in a relatively decentralized and community-oriented way. But then the capitalists move in, he's arrested, the administration of the site is auctioned off to VCs, and the site is slowly mutated into an echo chamber for neoliberal propagandists and reactionary agitators to scream at one another, drowning everything else out.
Lemmyites want to believe they've engineered a technical solution to what is ultimately a socio-economic problem. The human labor that makes Lemmy work can be attacked and replaced, the communities that form alienated from one another and censored by moderators and dispersed, and the popularity monetized here just like has happened elsewhere.
This isn't a safe social media space. Its just a lingering redoubt in an internet that's been under siege for decades.
As I understand it, the fediverse as a whole is composed of instances, each one communicating with whichever other instances it wishes (the instances acting as social medias of sorts). Each instance is created by people making their own thing, so if one large instance (such as Lemmy.world) were to get taken over by filthy capitalists, someone could simply make a new, separate instance and choose not to federate with Lemmy world. Is this not the case?
if one large instance (such as Lemmy.world) were to get taken over by filthy capitalists, someone could simply make a new, separate instance and choose not to federate with Lemmy world.
Websites get traded on the backend regularly without hemorrhaging their userbases. A large site is going to have a degree of inertia. People aren't going to all simultaneously pick up out of .world and go to .world2 because someone on le.mee or .shi.tjustworks talks shit about the mods. There's too much of a trust deficit, just for starters. And it would be a two-way street if it wasn't (people in .world claiming le.mee was the one that got taken over and you should decamp from them to our instance).
Past that, you can always make a new website even before federation. The trick is then getting a working community to include you in their network of links and shares. Federation makes that process more explicit and more pronounced. But most local instances have learned not to federate with everyone in the fediverse (because there's so much gnarly shit out there), which means doing promotion and negotiation to get your new instance recognized by the survivors.
In a single case of a single instance getting taken over, migration is possible if a bit painful. But if it happens repeatedly, thanks to a professional business team going after instances strategically while individual largely-ignorant users have to respond organically, then the Fediverse doesn't have a chance over the long term. Eventually, the business interest gets control of enough high profile domains and pollutes the means of interpersonal communication to such a high degree that you either trust your instance or you abandon the Fediverse entirely.
It becomes a game of "Who Is The Werewolf?", which strategically favors the werewolves.
Did you follow the 196 controversy at all? An entire community just upped sticks and left because they got shitty with the mods.
I can see an entire instance being largely abandoned in a matter of days if they got offside with their users badly enough. Add in the loss in traffic from being defederated by everyone, and it would be a big loss for whoever bought the instance.
An entire community just upped sticks and left because they got shitty with the mods.
That wasn't a one-and-done. The community had been bleeding for years, thanks to the increasingly reactionary vibe on the site. Mods built a life-raft (not unlike CTH or The_Donald after the purges in 2020) and decamped eventually. But it wasn't spur of the moment, and it certainly wasn't with the original user base intact.
I can see an entire instance being largely abandoned in a matter of days if they got offside with their users badly enough.
I see entire instances shut down overnight. But, again, this tends to be after the admins have purged the mod crews and the community at-large has either splintered or evacuated. Users tend to be sticky within their communities, even after a great deal of disruption.
I was thinking more of the community leaving 196@blahaj, and moving to onehundredninetysix@blahaj, that was a much more organic reaction.
It's also propaganda. The more the recipients, the more valuable it becomes to dump huge amounts of money into controlling the narrative with propaganda posts, for which you don't need admin control over the servers.
it will succumb to all the same socio-economic pressures.
The fediverse's decentralized nature means that while some parts of it will succumb (maybe even most), there will inevitably be parts of it that don't (or at least to a much lesser extent.)
It's quite possible that the parts of the fediverse that avoid commercialization, though, are the ones that allow things that businesses don't want to be associated with, like saying the N word.
Could be a great resurgence of free speech, although you'll have to tolerate people saying things you don't like.
Reddit was never FOSS. Linux is still going stong, even with vested financial interests.
Most importantly, wie have already made the decision to leave traditional social media and build something better. If worst comes to wiorst, we'll find each other again.
Reddit was never FOSS
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit?tab=License-1-ov-file
It was licensed under CPAL which is an approved license by both the FSF and OSI.
Reddit was never FOSS.
Reddit went full open-source in 2008 with a Github repo, did a (possibly deliberately) poor job of maintaining the repo despite this source code resulting in a plethora of 3rd party site enhancements and feature suites, then ultimately close its code nine years later.
Linux is still going stong, even with vested financial interests.
RedHat did Linux extremely dirty, and they're hardly the first. It also has a significantly larger, more skilled, and more international userbase.
Most importantly, wie have already made the decision to leave traditional social media and build something better.
That's a beautiful lie. Lemmy's federation has been its pioneering feature, but it continues to backslide into Reddit-with-Extra-Steps. If anyone could claim they were building something truly novel, it was Mastadon. But that complexity and novelty has been an albatross around their necks since day one.
If worst comes to wiorst, we’ll find each other again.
:-/
Reddit went full open-source in 2008 with a Github repo
I stand corrected, although it seems to have beern a corporate gambit.
I can see where you're coming from, reading you're other reply in this thread, but I'll just try to hold on to my idealism a bit longer :)
Like, don't get me wrong. Lemmy's a better place than Reddit ever was. There's reason to be hopeful. But I see a lot of reflexive naivete and simple ignorance surrounding what this community functionally is and how it works.
The biggest threat to Lemmy isn't a security vulnerability or a procedural defect, but the simple value it accrues through its own success.
If worst comes to wiorst, we’ll find each other again.
:-/
I'll find you, UnderpantsWeevil. Under every rock, under every pant I'll look, till I find you precious weevil.
💘
hubzilla is probably the most novel fediverse software.
That it literally why we have Lemmy and other AP sites. Big corporations cannot take control of our spaces.
Likewise reddit was never decentralised.
Big corporations cannot take control of our spaces.
There is no particular reason why a committed group of business professionals couldn't work their way onto the largely volunteer Lemmy team and hijack the project, buy out major site administrators, or point the Feds in their direction like they did with Aaron Swartz or Ross Ulbricht.
There's nothing magical about the Fediverse. Its still the product of human labor and hardware, just like every other online space.
yeah, and even lemmy.world deleted some comments in this thread for inciting violence that were, in my opinion, completely non-violent. So, i deleted all my comments and account and moved to another instance. it is nice to have options.
Agreed! There is no reason to congregate on lemmy.world.
They've already shown their "rules" don't really matter; they'll just ban whoever they want and keep whoever they want.