After I made a few jokes in the comments, I shifted.
One fascinating aspect of Lemmy is that it won't solely be the mods or admins choosing instances they associate with. As a user, you can too, isn't that pretty cool? Let's say in the future you find yourself disagreeing with what a particular instance is promoting or allowing. You have the freedom to join another instance instead. It's empowering to be able to switch instances as a user; just like that meme I imagine dramatic lemmings exclaiming “I’m leaving those gate keepers at X”
This concept signifies that you shouldn't become too attached to the identity of your accounts on a specific instance, which is probably a healthy mindset anyways. It also means that on Lemmy, everyone, including users, admins, and mods, has the flexibility to choose how and with whom they want to associate. Some instances may prioritize user privacy or choose to exclude certain types of content that contradicts their core beliefs. While some may label it as gatekeeping, it's important to recognize that people naturally gravitate towards communities of like-minded individuals.
What's really neat is that as a user, you don't even need to seek approval for this. You can create multiple accounts and join multiple instances, where all that’s required is for you to behave in a manner aligned with the code of ethics or conduct defined by the community. Ultimately that means the power lies in the user's ability to switch instances, to find the best home for themselves. So there is no need to worry what other instances are doing and it adds an interesting dynamic to the overall experience.
I'm really hoping that someday we'll have a process to enable migration like a DHT and a user private key that allows them to send out a message like "i was [email protected] but now I'm [email protected]"... I heard talks about cross-fediverse account linking (maybe like keybase?) So hopefully something like that
Man, what would be perfect! Because as far as I see it, it’s one of the few inconveniences of federation on the user level, and that kind of aliasing would totally solve it.
You can set something exactly like that to be your bio.
My main problem is, that the community I started gets less exposure now. That would be fine, if it was just people on instances like lemmygrad, where people congregate with whom I won't get along, anyway. But the beehaw people are not bad folks.
Heck, even an alt account of a tankie on a different instance might behave completely differently when they're not associated with the tankie account (hence no peer pressure).
With how things stand right now, I can't even do mod things remotely without bugging the community out, so while I personally am not tied to any instance, the community is, and right now, I'm hampered, too, whenever I wear the moderator hat.
I hope there's gonna be solutions for this some day, that let us move instances around. Communities are the reason people don't go elsewhere, it's probably also the reason many redditors don't leave that place.
One of my problems was that I started out on Beehaw and posted some worldbuilding to the Lemmy.world community. I was getting feedback but then it just got cut off, so I had to make a Lemmy.world account to continue, but the ongoing conversations got cut short.
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I love the fact that even here, the mods having power over nothing gets to their heads.
Really has that reddit flavor, you know?
I have my own empty instance!
All the power, all to myself...
Hell yeah
How well does it work in practice? Is that on your home LAN or a real public server instance? How much storage and growth for serving just you?
Yup. I was here originally, went to beehaw, they defederated from lemmy.world where most of my subscriptions were… back to lemmy.ml lol
They also defederated from sh.itjust.works, but I got a community to care for here, so I just made some "alts".
Funnily enough I started on Beehaw and when they defederated I went to Blajah
I'm here for a meme time and hopefully some communities that were popping off in Lemmy World
Blajah's pretty chill
Edit: Don't get me wrong though, I agree with their decision I just wanted to still be apart of communities I had already decided to join.
I did that with Beehaw as my main and slrpnk as my secondary
And that's what's great about federation, no one person can ruin the whole of Lemmy.
At least we get lemmy flavoured drama. It's not as bitter as Reddit's.
Yet
We'll get there. I have full faith in us.
almost as if that's just human behavior
What happened this time?
Neocon/trumpers/racists are coming on various federated lemmy systems. Once there they are posting rando crap and pushing people to ignore the basic requirements most lemmy system admins have setup. No hate, no bigotry, no racism.
It's probably about how beehaw defederated lemmy.world or something
Beehaw didn't defederate because .world is a cesspool. There were a handful of idiots trolling, using .world accounts (and sh.itjust.works), and Beehaw cut contact until the mod tools are up to the task.
Yes, the behaviour of a few hurt a large number of people, but they knew no better way to solve it. It's also not a permanent defed, just a bandaid fix until the tools are better.
Is it this time about the explodingheads one?
Lol kinda true
I wish the Lemmy instances would realise the ultimate ideal isn't just deferated instances but federated logins too - in combination!!
So rather than being signed up to 1 istance plus an alt. You can just be logged into Google/FB/Twitter and access all the sinstances.
New to Lemmy,
Which instances would everyone say is the least reddit powermody? (I'm sure none is the answer, but if you had to choose)
Probably lemmy.ml, the official instance.
I know they allow some instances that sole purpose is to hate on liberals, which is annoying to see so many aggressive political posts (any extremest is annoying), but they are easy to block yourself.
Beehaw is good, but they de-federate EVERYONE. I see posts from the admins there nearly daily talking about new instances they are de-federating from today. They also disabled down-voting, and community creation.
I think it's awesome that they are disabling downvoting. One of the worst things about reddit was that comments were downvoted and authors deleted their comments because of it. All because of sensitive snowflakes.
And as for defederation, they have 100% right to do what they want to protect their community. It's a community that is used to being disliked or hated. It's a very good thing that they can have their own popular instance on the web without being forced to moderate hateful posts.
Put it another way, should they be forced to moderate hateful posts so you and I can enjoy seeing their posts? I think we are fine without it, and specially knowing that they are happier this way.
Threatening to poop is an equally terrifying thing to use as a threat
fake laughter so nobody catches on that I have no idea what instances are or federalisationism or how any of this works
Pls stop
