Yeah, read their thread on China if you want to see the real face of Lemmy. Nobody should be migrating there.
Link?
https://lemmy.ml/post/1150805
Lemmy is run by tankies.
Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
tangential, but that graveyard sort of reminds me why I left reddit. I understand that there are a lot of off topic comments, but surely there must be some better way to encourage proper moderation than having a mod delete 80% of the comments, remove the post (which in and of itself wasn't rulebreaking AFAIK), then lock the post. Then after all that have the mod speak from an ivory tower about how "Y'all can't behave…
I can't particularly agree in this case. I don't think /r/legaladvice is better off having a thousand incorrect, off-topic responses to a question. It was locked when I saw it first and I didn't think that was weird- they usually do that once approximately correct advice has come in but people are still replying. The post being removed surprised me but then again, I don't know that there's really an actionable legal…
> And complaining about how people can't behave feels reasonable to me when people aren't following the rules.
The customer service side of me wants to agree with you. But we both know in reality that yelling at customers never ends the way we desire. I guess that's the primary issue. It FEELS right but I have long since learned this isn't how you deal with people if your goal is a civil community. But ofc reddit does tend to strongly go off of gut feelings.
In addition, many of reddit's moderation tools are designed to be hostile to the user, and only got more hostile overtime. It's not made with the intention to clean up spam and ignore the trolls, but to chastise others at large and belittle them. The old trick where you punish the class because the class clown acted up... except you may never even see the clown in this case. Some troll in some subthread in a 1000 comment post acting up? Better lock the entire post so no one can discuss.
It's no wonder it becomes so easy for users to disdain the moderators when they use those tools.
> The post being removed surprised me but then again, I don't know that there's really an actionable legal question here, so it was mostly just a lightning rod.
I imagine that's why that user made the post there. If you were punished for not knowing your legal rights in your area than I question why the sub exists.
Granted, I'm also biased in that I feel the internet is the worst place to get legal nor medical advice, and any legal/medical issue should be answered with Contact a Lawyer/Doctor.
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#244I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…
> We just want reddit without the bullshit. Rhetorically: What are you willing to do for it? How are you willing to change? The way reddit was offered in its early days was a bait and switch. It wasn't real .
It takes a person with an understanding of capitalist frameworks to notice that real user serving communities cannot truly exist for long inside a market.
Everything turns to crap when developed for profits. This happens all the time but no one realizes it because we're accustomed to think about the symptoms and not the sickness. "Micro-transactions this", "ads that", "censorship this", "privacy that", when in reality its just the natural development of platforms under capitalism.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, everyone had similar views about twitter and it's still kicking around just fine.
If Elon had kept the company public, any one with two neurons able to fire would have been shorting it and would have cleaned up. With his leadership and decision making, Twitter would have gone to 0 by now.
Looking at how the banks who funded Elon's purchase are valuing their stakes, it looks like it would have gone to about $18.48/share by now. Fidelity is evaluating their shares on a $15B total value, so ($54.20 * ($15B/$44B))
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#246If you spend "countless hours of your personal time" working on a commercial web site for free, that just makes you a fool. Stop spending your life and time working for a corporation that couldn't care less about you and isn't compensating you. When that corporation decides it is done with you, you can't cry over it. You gave away your most valuable asset - time for free to a company that made money off of you. The m…
HN runs ads to benefit YCombinator. Notice how you can't comment on the " is hiring " posts.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing is, I have the choice between following too few people to get enough of the stuff that really interests me, or having a deluge that I can't possibly get through, where most of it is not of interest to me, because of what the people I'm interested in seeing certain stuff from posts is stuff I'm not interested in. Without a ranked/AI-managed feed I'm not truly in control of my feed - without it, I'm forced to…
> Without a ranked/AI-managed feed I'm not truly in control of my feed It sounds to me like you are describing the opposite: being more in control than you would like.
It's a matter of perspective. In order to follow people I want to follow because I want to see a small subset of what they post, I also end up getting a boatload of crap in my feed I don't want to see. As such you can say I'm "in control" in as much as I did choose to follow them. But I'm also not in control in as much as I lack the tools to prune down what I see from them to the content I actually want to see.
The latter point of view is the one that is actually useful to me, and so the one I choose to take: I want to be able to see limit subsets of content from people that they label poorly (so following tags is insufficient) and without having to see everything else they post.
I'm perfectly fine with people preferring chronological too - the two can coexist. It doesn't even require any changes to Mastodon to do what I want; just a tiny ActivityPub server that processes my timeline and emits boosts to an outbox that I can put in a list is sufficient.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Another relevant example, Twitch today passed some rather draconic rules on branding and ads run by users. Users? The user is the one watching. And from what I see Twitch is preventing people on their platform from making it a streaming billboard service. I think this is a broken clock corporate policy. I only watch but one or two people on the platform and they don't really do ads, but something has to keep the can…
This isn't keeping ad-tech in check. Twitch itself is an advertisement business. They continuously have increased the amount of ads they run. (for people who don't know what this is about, twitch has introduced rules that keep banners on streams to 3% of the screen size and banned 'burned-in', that is independent ads run by creators) The entire point of this is the same as Reddit's, to take away direct revenue agreem…
I can block their ads with streamlink/mpv/ublock, i can't block the streamer overlays
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#249Funny to see people quick to make fun of a project for not being able to instantly handle a spike in requests, which most of their own apps wouldn't either! Reddit has been around nearly 20 years to harden their infrastructure. Relax and give them a minute. Their page loads for me now that I've typed this out, anyway.
Let’s be real here this system is flawed at its core though. This can’t even handle the load of some moderately popular PHP forums with simple deployment or even this site nothing took decades to harden. And this is due to gross flaws in architecture, IMNSHO. Comparing it to Reddit is silly. And yes I’m sure there are more than a few here that can honestly say their servers could handle this load - it isn’t much.
Care to point out the core flaws?
As far as I'm concerned there aren't any core issues. There are a lot of queries to a single DB which is one the same server, but there's nothing preventing you from running the DB on another server and sharding it if need be. I wouldn't call that a core architectural issue because the way you set up your DB is not core to the architecture.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
The author addresses that comment in an edit - seems like the commenter stretched the truth a bit. Manually cross-posting shouldn't be a suspendable/bannable offense
How many posts before it does? From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36216654 there is this image: https://i.imgur.com/scny5VP.png That's more than the dozen (now nine) that show up in https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/duplicates/13xy42u/now_th...
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