A group of room-mates once created a subreddit called r/195, after the number of their apartment. The sub became too popular for the room-mates to moderate, and they closed it down. Then someone created r/196 as its successor.

I’ve seen a lot of LW users behaving like this.

They want a single comm per topic, preferably in LW; and everyone should go to that comm, no dissidence allowed. Always talking about “not splitting efforts”, or some FUD like “unless we gather together Lemmy will never succeed”.

And, when you tell them a clear “no”, they throw a tantrum. Like Serinus did there.

I think that they got out of Reddit, but they didn’t get Reddit out of themselves. They still behave like this was a Reddit-like monolithic platform; so when they see decentralisation - like multiple comms for the same topic, in different instances - they treat it as a bug, when it’s a feature.

Anyway, I’d call that FAPTB (failed attempt of powertripping). EDIT: wow, they removed your mention of the other comm! Talk about pettiness. PTB.

The reason why I don’t think that Dragon Rider is too relevant (not even as a last straw) is that, even if Moss strongly disagrees with how the admins handled that user, Blåhaj is still way more protected against trolls than Lemmy World would ever be. So it wouldn’t make sense to move the comm to LW.

Unless the issue is not how the admins handled it, but the fact that they handled it at all? LW has worse protection against trolls, but it gives the mods more control over their comms. That would fit well what you said in the second paragraph, and explain why drag was mentioned at all.

The comment that you linked hints that the mod was already considering the migration for quite a while; so if the dragon rider event had any role, it was like a drop of water in the ocean.

If I had to take a guess it’s all about the admins keeping a closer control over the community than the mod in question wants to see. So far, so good, if she wants to mod a LW comm instead it’s her own decision, but then relinquish control to the people who were clearly against the move.

There’s another matter too.

Saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad, threads, or hexbear account.

Last time that I checked this crap, I was busy criticising Hexbear, because HB was clearly trying to boss Blåhaj around on how it should manage its own instance.

However, both sides are in the wrong here, and Moss isn’t exactly blameless - why are they enforcing rules differently for users based on instance? Handling other instances is up to the admins, not community mods.

(The same applies to Threads.)

PTB.

I have no idea which ideological problems people are talking about. I do know however that users are not cattle - you can ask them to migrate to another comm, you can lock a community down, but you cannot herd them to the comm that you want by saying “go there”. And trying to prevent users from going to whatever comm they want is a big arsehole move.

Even the removal reply is power-tripping (and dumb/disingenuous/shitty). “Not relevant”? Goddammit this is a 196 community, there’s no such thing as “not relevant”! Who are they trying to fool with that toilet entry?

It’s less vague than it looks like - they’re restricting credits to people actively involved in the development process of the specific game, with no regards to the others, even if without those others the game wouldn’t exist. So the whole thing boils down to “we don’t care about who made the original, suck it up” - a middle finger coated with feigned politeness.

Good article. I’ll mostly nitpick, and add further info.

That 1.5 billion number is a red herring. It’s mostly non-native speakers, using English as a lingua franca. However, the impact of your native language over your thinking is clearly bigger than the one of some lingua franca; as such these numbers here are more relevant.

And for most part you don’t see stable communities shifting their language into a lingua franca. Most of the time they do it because their government explicitly or implicitly backs up another language - i.e. a “national language”.

But Macron et al. won’t mention that, right? Of course he won’t; because once you acknowledge that national languages are the problem, specially when associated with a colonial past, then French is part of the problem alongside English. (Plus quite a few other languages.)

What if language is less like a yoke than like a wind, nudging us in various directions?

That’s a great way to phrase it.

And, really, strong Sapir-Whorf (language dictates thought) is so blatantly false that it isn’t even interesting any more. The moderate/“weak” hypothesis, more aligned with what Whorf himself said, is likely true - and we should be studying how and when it is true.

Yes, I hate it. In fact, I hate most of the impact of smartphones on the internet:

• I’m not giving you my phone number. Shu’up. Stop asking.
• I’m not installing your broken browser made for a single site. Aka, your “app”. And if you don’t let me check your site without that “app”, I am not doing it.
• Smart web devs can deal with different screen ratios, but those are a minority. So guess what - I get blank space on both sides of my screen!
• I’ve noticed (based on myself + acquaintances) that people have worse basic reading comprehension when using a phone than a computer. And I’m tempted to blame the sorry state of social media partially on that.

Then they’ll say that God is probing them, or that it’s a sign of Apocalypse, or that he was sending to heaven the just among them, all that shit. They love double standards, even if their bible says that God hates them (Proverbs 20:23).

Piefed is looking more and more like the solution for the current Lemmy problems…

As you said in that thread it’s great for old users, but for newbies it would be amazing - if someone complains about too much politics we just need to link a collection (I like the name!) containing a huge set of hobby/fluff/entertainment communities, and let the person use that as their starting “all” feed.

I think that having a “newcomers” instance is a great idea. The main things that need to be ironed out are:

(1) The limits of what is/isn’t allowed within that instance. Instead of focusing on what is/isn’t political, let’s focus on what shuns your typical user away:

• anything government-related. Presidents and wars and public policies and political parties and… you get it.
• content that TL;DR to “GAFAM/Musk/Meta/OpenAI are fucking everything up”.
• content that makes people soapbox.
• content that makes you say “humankind is fucked up”.

(2) Behaviour rules. I feel like people saying “eeew Lemmy is nasty” don’t do that just because of the content here, but also because of how users behave.

(3) If users should be encouraged to migrate to other instances once they feel comfortable with the Fediverse.

Additionally: we need multi-communities (“mutireddits”) or something similar. Having a list of communities that you can link once, and get other people to follow, would be a godsend.

Ah. That explains it - thank you.

Wait. There’s some really weird federation lag going on:

• from mander.xyz (my instance) - you see no posts, no modlog
• from feddit.org (your instance) - the posts are there, with no comments. No modlog.
• from lemmy.world (comm instance) - the posts are there, with comments, and the modlog admin actions.

I ended checking the posts from my instance, but the modlog straight from LW. Anyway, the comm is locked and modless.

Also your Result is wrong, since that community is still accessible?

The community is locked, empty, modless, and the modlog shows that all moderator removals were done by the admins. For all intents and purposes the comm was removed.

It was just something silly to make me drop my guard a wee bit. I was scared, and he noticed it.

That’s from 1984. More specifically, “the book” inside the book.

…I hate how poorly people understand 1984, how much they distort it, putting words in Orwell’s mouth. And, in the process, they miss little gems like this one.

That’s a good one!

We don’t need to lie about it; not even by omission.

In the best case scenario, Meta is employing an automated moderation system, it’s incorrectly tagging what users share as “spam”, and can’t be arsed to fix the issue in due time - note that this was already attested at least September 2024. That’s more than enough to blame Meta.

Given Meta tells the truth, but I don’t see any reason to doubt this.

I see quite a few reasons to not trust = be gullible towards what Meta says. Starting by the fact that it’s on its best interests to silence mentions to competitors.

Even if it was a honest mistake (is it? I have my doubts.), I don’t think that “we” (people in general) should give it a pass. On its best it highlights how unfair those automated systems are towards the users; plus Meta is in a position that it should be held responsible for what it does, regardless of its “intentions”.