I'm surprised not a single comment discussing Reddit alternatives mentioned Usenet (especially in terms of federation).
Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
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I don't think that there's an equivalency between the advocacy for the genocide of black people, Jews, trans people, etc and opposing someone for their political beliefs. Perhaps there'd be more legitimacy in a comparison to the vitriol on the left against billionaires and cops, but these are positions of power, not identity groups one is born into. All revolutionaries of all political persuasions will oppose those i…
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> It's a scientific and political position.
What exactly do you mean by "scientific position"? The term seems, to me, an absurdity.
> Doesn't make it okay.
Putting aside any actual wrongdoing, attacking those with privilege is infinitely better than attacking those without: the former have the resources to defend themselves; the latter do not.
Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
#293"Reddit alternative" "open source federated" What is the difference between this and usenet
I agree with you that Reddit basically overlaps this area, but I don't think access to Usenet is easy these days (ignoring paid services that are optimized for downloading files). Although if anyone knows good servers (ISPs no longer seem to offer them) or even better a way to connect own server to Usenet, I'm interested.
aioe.org
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The ecosystem is very successful: https://twitter.com/freemancw/status/1276287684814594048
It’s a little bit ironic that the post you link to was posted on Twitter though, isn’t it? :^) Teasing aside, I like Mastodon. I’ve used it a bit myself too, and I have a profile on an instance of it.
Success is not a meaningful metric.
Gopher is a success when you browse wikipedia on it.
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> Also what's up with this new trend of having the main content width-restricted, but not the header [0]? For extremely wide screens it obviously looks awkward, but the idea seems sound in principle. IIRC, the reason you'd want to restrict width of content is that it's hard for your eyes to track back all the way left, to the start of the content, when you need to go down a line. But the header is just a single line,…
But often these sites start doing the right thing and then restrict it, tkaing a step backward. Before: https://i.imgur.com/sgODcLW.png After: https://i.imgur.com/8j7P1YE.png The latter is objectively worse. I understand that > 1080p monitors are a small fraction of your user base, but that's still not reason to not test your UI on larger resolutions, for a site as big (and prominently used by devs with large screens…
Do that many people use maximised windows on 16:9 or greater screens? Maybe it’s just because all my early experience was on 4:3, but I’d never maximise a browser window on a modern screen.
I’d agree this is bad design, but I’d be somewhat surprised if it’s a big practical problem for most people.
Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
#296We have something similar to this, Aether. https://getaether.net . (code at github.com/nehbit/aether) Always glad to see more eyeballs on the space, so I wish then the best. Here are a few differences I can see at the first glance: - Aether is decentralised (as in torrent) this appears to be federated. That means Aether truly has no servers and every user is a peer, while federated means there are smaller ‘Reddits’ a…
Sounds like there's some really interesting ideas here. > Two people with two different mod lists for the same community can see drastically different communities Reminds me of the 'sharding' idea in World of Warcraft. I'm really curious if you'll end up with issues of 'social dissonance' where your perception of a community differs drastically from someone else's because you literally see different content, and if t…
>Also, it seems like with user sovereignty and decentralization, that there will be various objectionable or even vile communities is inevitable, right? [...] I imagine responding to tech blogs with, "yes, there are white supremacist sub-communities, but you don't have to see them if you don't want to" won't come across as a very satisfying answer from their perspective.
We comply with the letter of the law for the jurisdiction we fall under.
Trying to explain anything to a mob is pointless. We don't need to add ever more censors to what we see. The US government is bad enough, some hipster in NY or SF writing for a glorified wordpress blog should be as relevant as the mullah for Iran's most backward village.
Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
#297I wonder why the developers of Lemmy decided to perform all the content requests via WebSocket instead of HTTP.
Is there anyone out there who can answer this?
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> It's a scientific and political position. What exactly do you mean by "scientific position"? The term seems, to me, an absurdity. > Doesn't make it okay. Putting aside any actual wrongdoing, attacking those with privilege is infinitely better than attacking those without: the former have the resources to defend themselves; the latter do not.
> What exactly do you mean by "scientific position"? The term seems, to me, an absurdity.
In the same way your stance on climate change is a scientific position regardless if your stance is correct or not.
> the former have the resources to defend themselves; the latter do not.
It's still an evil to unjustly attack someone even if to different degrees.
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Here’s another question: Would any of our lives be any worse — or would they be better? — if we simply chose to walk away and not be a part of any of these platforms, HN included? How much of our lives is made up of karma whoring, level grinding, and falling into the " rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/386/> trap?
I learn stuff on HN every time I visit. Reddit is (somewhat) entertaining, but I don’t usually learn anything important there.
Doesn't this depend on the subreddit? Some are "chatty" or full of memes, but others are very informative for some niches.
If you want a subreddit for enthusiasts of $NICHE, you're likely to find it, and it's likely to be useful.
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Firstly, no, that position isn't 'scientific'. The scientific portion of the equation comes from the separation of gender and sex along with the psychological and sociological expectations of how someone conforms to a given gender role. I see this often that people take a disingenuous stance and then claim it's 'scientific' when its anything but. Secondly, that argument has a lot of baggage associated with it. Transg…
> It's an argument around taking away the rights of a certain group of people It's not a right to be in the military. You also don't have a right to my services. So if I don't want to make a cake because I don't agree with a homosexual lifestyle or maybe because I have issue with the Catholic faith that it well within my right.
Look, I agree. I shouldn't be forced to do something for someone who makes me uncomfortable, even if it's something that they can't change, and which doesn't materially impact me in any way.
But at the same time, do you not see how this reinforces existing disparities in opportunity and social acceptance? If you have a better solution than mandating that businesses don't discriminate, I'm all ears. However, if you simply allow businesses to freely discriminate, then the world will only become more unfair over time.