Kichae

lemmy.ml is also run by communists, as are quite a few other instances, I imagine. No one’s really saying that communists should be blocked.

But lemmygrad is specifically a vanguard edgelord site. Even those of us who are communists don’t necessarily want to deal witih /c/GenZedong.

Plus, I left the instance I host for me and my friends open to lemmygrad, and I had people from the server create accounts and just bulk subscribe to communities there.

It’s not the communism people are blocking it for.

I’m not 100% certain yet how federation works with lemmy, but I’m assuming it works similar to how it works on Mastodon and Calckey, only with group actors.

In that case, servers don’t share all of their content with each other wholesale. Someone on your instance would need to already be subscribed to a community on another server in order for it to receive content from it, or to even know it exists.

In order for people to see content from actors (ie people or groups) that aren’t currently being followed by someone on their server, actors they do follow need to boost that unshared content. And I’m not sure how that works on Lemmy.

To subscribe to communities that aren’t currently being shared with your server, go to their home server, find the community there, get the community’s URL, and then enter that into the search bar on your instance.

I think microblogging in general feels pretty “void shouty”. Like, the void is populate, but you’re still stating a conversation with no one in particular.

This is what I’d like to see. Small communities coming together to create a bigger whole. And then groups being able to splinter off again if they feel the need.

I jumped on the Mastodon train last April when the population started to grow more quickly. I’ve always been more of a forum/message board user than a microblogger, though, and was hoping this space would take off in a similar way (if not for similar reasons, or for them, as the case may be).

I’m very bullish on decentralization for the forum/aggregator space, since that’s fundamentally where these types of communities have their roots anyway, so I’m excited to see people showing up.

Hopefully we’re nearing a population size where significant quirks can get ironed out, but with an audience that is technical or avant-garde enough to put up with them for a bit.

There are plenty of ways instances can not federate beyond server blocks.

Federation is an active behavior, not a passive one. Someone needs to subscribe to a feed from a other server in order to actually federate. If no one on your instance - in this case, you, since you’re single user - has subscribed to a user or group on another server, then you won’t get that content.

The exception is if you’re subscribed to a relay.

You can easily set up a Lemmy-based site and have it operate in isolation without setting any server blocks or turning off federation. You just need to not interact with other sites, and remain off of the radar of people on other sites so they don’t try to interact with yours.

One thing that it has added to keyboards is making it much more difficult to use purposefully creative spelling or grammar.

For every problem they fix, they restrain creativity, because they themselves are constrained to their training set.

The Internet already has a problem with tone policing. Maybe we don’t need mathematical models burning the planet to tell me that in pissed off.

If people want a moderated space, they can request some moderators.

Also, you didn’t answer my question. Examples of what cna be done are not the same as answering why a thing should be done.

It’s not odd, we’re just able to read for understanding. No one is asking if we want colour correction in photos here, just like no one is asking if we want linear regressions or MCMC models.

They’re asking do we want to include generative LLMs.

Wh… Why? What do you imagine it adding to a social space?

Indeed. I’m not sure what’s supposed to be ‘woke’ about anything Reddit’s doing or done.

Yeah, I don’t know anything about the actual ActivityPub protocol, but having communities point to each other seems like a way of not only combining communities, but also letting sub-communities within them merge and fork as they see fit.

Reddit is well structured to spur and better support larger scale migration, though, since subreddits are operated somewhat similarly to how Fediverse instances are run. They’re structured such that they have hegemons and formal “leadership”. If the mod teams of a reasonable number of medium sized active subreddits just decided to spin up their own lemmy or kbin instances, it would make fedi aggregators a real destination for Reddit folks overnight.

This is different from Twitter, where communities were informal structures, and no one had any kind of editorial control. It’s way more structured.

The key is to sell mods on it, rather than individual users.