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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

dvngnt_ wrote: post #167
PaulHoule wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Clowns” or “Dumbasses who want to get attention.” That is maybe 5% of the people who that N-word gets applied to. Mostly it is an attempt at dehumanization that follows very much the playbook of Herr Hitler himself. If the antics of the occasional Nazi cosplayer get blocked that is not collateral damage, it is a very good thing even if it off target. That stuff gets amplified so much that somebody else is likely to…

you can be a clown and a nazi at the same time https://cbs12.com/news/local/orlando-nazi-demonstration-flor...

This seems to miss the point of their comment. They're "clowns" or "dumbasses who want to get attention" because they're pretending to be nazis. (I clicked on that thinking I'd see someone with a big red nose, rainbow wig, and a swastika tattooed on their forehead; closed that tab in disappointment.)

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by Goronmon »

moskie wrote: post #170
rakoo wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a third-party indexer here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities Much like any true decentralized system, there can be as many star trek communities as there are trekkies. But this is not a technical problem, it's a social problem: when wanting to discuss, they will naturally converge towards the same space(s). If there are multiple, that's not a problem, just like it's not a problem to have multiple linux dist…

What's the intended workflow, once I see a community I want to subscribe to? I've created an account on lemmy.world, but I see a community from lemmy.ml..... what do I do?

Subscribe to the communities you want on lemmy.ml from your account on lemmy.world?

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by moskie »

Goronmon wrote: post #172
moskie wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the intended workflow, once I see a community I want to subscribe to? I've created an account on lemmy.world, but I see a community from lemmy.ml..... what do I do?

Subscribe to the communities you want on lemmy.ml from your account on lemmy.world?

Ok, I've done that, but it involved switching away from my tab on lemmyverse.net, going to lemmy.world in a different tab, and manually searching for what I found on lemmyverse. Is there an intended workflow that involves clicking something on a result I see on lemmyverse.net?

edit: i've just now noticed that I can click the label under the title to copy the text that I can then paste into lemmy.world search.

There should be something like a chrome extension that captures lemmy links and redirects them to the lemmy instance that i have an account on.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by gigel82 »

Account management is the big gap here and (IMO) one of the main reasons that stops a mass migration to lemmy.

I think what's needed is a decoupled account management solution that roams across all (federated) lemmy instances. You need to be able to log in once and interact everywhere (instead of manually copying URLs from one instance into another just to load the community).

Even if you're just a lurker, you want to bookmark, save, and maybe upvote / downvote. If you're an active contributor (even if the UX issues are fixed) you'd put all your trust into whoever manages the instance where you originally signed up from (startrek.website) to keep it around (and to protect your data). For me, that's a blocker. Sure, I'll create throwaway accounts to shitpost but that's not "building community" (think 4chan instead of reddit).

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by donmcronald »

gigel82 wrote: post #174

Account management is the big gap here and (IMO) one of the main reasons that stops a mass migration to lemmy. I think what's needed is a decoupled account management solution that roams across all (federated) lemmy instances. You need to be able to log in once and interact everywhere (instead of manually copying URLs from one instance into another just to load the community). Even if you're just a lurker, you want t…

I remember being excited about Open ID and the idea of delegating my auth needs to a 3rd party, but retaining ultimate control by owning the domain. It’s too bad everything pushed to OIDC where big tech gets to gate keep via app registrations.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by kgwxd »

lyvxh wrote: post #148
kgwxd wrote: post #147

Under "Create a post" > You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !startrek@startrek.website The phrasing of the paragraph implies, to me, that putting !startrek@startrek.website in search on my instance is an alternative to signing up and logging in. I tried on my social.libre…

If you're on Mastodon, you need to use @startrek@startrek.website instead of !startrek@startrek.website

That works but I had already searched startrek@startrek.website without the prefix and followed it. Does that give me some way to post on the site without having to create an account?

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by the_third_wave »

paholg wrote: post #137
PaulHoule wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The smaller you are the less it matters. One thing that annoys me about Mastodon is that the medium amplifies angry toots, particularly about politics. I don't want to read anything where anybody active after 1945 is accused to be "a Nazi" or "a fascist" for instance. Because there are so many toots to read I have no problems losing some toots so if the model rejects some stuff because it is about a topic that people…

So what do you call white supremacists who adorn themselves with swastikas?

A rare sight, not worth giving them the attention they obviously crave. The problem does not lie there, it lies in the abuse of terms like nazi/fascist/racist which get applied to people who simply don't hold with the labeller's narrative. It has gone so far as to make these labels meaningless - this is not the boy who cried 'wolf' but the girl who cried 'racist'.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by jug »

I’m a happy camper at Lemmy now — https://lemmy.world. It’s already getting a diverse set of communities. I’ve joined around 10 now, ranging from Formula 1 to Photography to a niche one on Stable Diffusion. Here’s hoping it’ll handle growth pains. I find it pretty simple to use and get started with. Easier than Mastodon because here, the community is waiting for you unlike at Mastodon where you are expected to somehow find good people to follow. It’s also far more welcoming to a growing community than a stale feed at Mastodon because the tempo in a forum is lower and more forgiving.

I love how you can simply subscribe to communities in other instances!

There are some weird issues though. Sorting by Activity is like old skool forum activity where posts are pushed to the top even if they just receive new comments, which has some topics remain on top for days.

And sort by Hot which is more like Reddit is apparently bugged right now and freezes too often.

I recommend sort by “Todays top” until at least Lemmy 0.18.

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