For the unaware, Lemmy is a Fediverse alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the pa...

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

  • stown@sedd.itEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    Id say that the obvious answer is the Linux community with the most members. !linux@lemmy.ml has more than double the number of subscribers of the next most active Linux community.

        • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          The overlap between authoritarians and Linux?

          Well I suppose North Korea does run the closed source RedStarOS.

            • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
              3·
              11 months ago

              Oh like me?

              Yeah we do overlap with Linux, the tankies however don’t.

            • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
              3·
              11 months ago

              Because we all know how tankies are, so stop acting coy.

              Maybe you should go conquer some bread instead of trying to defend maoists and stalinists.

              • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
                3·
                11 months ago

                Why does the this ignorant speech infest so many threads? No one gives a shit and any keyboard warrior crap you’re doing in your free time isn’t going to change anything going on in the world.

                • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
                  3·
                  11 months ago

                  An opinion based on knowledge can hardly be called ignorant.

                  But if you’re having a bad day, hopefully that lil outburst helped you release some tension.

                  • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
                    2·
                    11 months ago

                    You used a word salad of all the words the most anger ridden posts are filled with. That’s all I was pointing out.

                • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
                  5·
                  11 months ago

                  You’re saying no one on .ml defends maoists and stalinists???

                  I bet nutomic has Che as their avatar for no reason at all.

                  parentis_shotgun posts in juche_gang on reddit for irony?

                  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                    2·
                    11 months ago

                    >You’re saying no one on .ml defends maoists and stalinists???

                    no, i’m saying no one here is.

                    and i don’t think it’s a major theme of there linux community either.

      • stown@sedd.itEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        You don’t need an account on lemmy.ml to subscribe to any community there. For example, I run my own self-hosted instance and none of the communities I’m subscribed to are from my own instance.

      • stown@sedd.itEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Spoken like somebody who knows nothing about what they are saying.

        • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Literally spoken as a leftist who has gotten bans for not being a Maoist bootlicker. My accounts with this name across multiple instances are the on a short leash for daring to question ML dogma.

          • stown@sedd.itEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            If you don’t insert politics into normal conversations and you value relationships more than you value being right (left) then this should not be an issue.

            Stay away from the political communities and don’t feel like you need to correct people when they spout out political bullshit.

            • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              But I want to discuss politics and worldnews. I’m just not allowed, because wrongthink.

              • stown@sedd.itEnglish
                3·
                11 months ago

                Then keep it in the politics and news communities, and don’t be surprised when you are kicked. You don’t go protesting at the KKK meeting expecting to change minds just like you don’t try to go to !politics@lemmy.ml expecting to change minds. If you are looking for real discussion then don’t go to a community that is hostile to the discussion you want to have.

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

      It makes me feel like I should be making the post to multiple communities, but then I feel like I’m spamming

        • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          The PDev version is better anyway.

          I have a few communities that are still on .ml, I forgot you guys were defederated, maybe I should move them elsewhere

      • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Sure unless your instance is defederated, we need more ways to control the content without relying on defederation

        Hopefully defederation will happen less and less with 19.X allowing users to block instances themselves

        • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Yeah I think there needs to be more options though, for admins and for users. Like conditional caching or proxying of images from other instances.

          And not just blocking instances but choosing to block all the users from an instance without blocking their communities, or only blocking their comments not their posts. Also admins should be able to set default blocks that all the users get but can change individually

          • Blaze@discuss.onlineEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            That would be nice indeed, but with the development rhythm, it might take a while to get there. Sublinks on the other hands seems promising sublinks.org