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Re: Subreddit Migration Directory

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Post by ShroudedNight »

lolinder wrote: post #26
unclekev wrote: post #19

Just went to the 'Programming' lemmy/beehaw and the first thing I see is a post about how they have had to defederate from some instances because of a lack of proper mod tools, trolls and bad actors. The irony. > https://beehaw.org/post/567170 > these two instances’ open registration policy, which is extremely problematic for us given how federation works and how trivial it makes trolling, harassment, and other undes…

Beehaw was around a long time before Lemmy took the spotlight, and they explicitly have tried to have a high-moderation community with a distinct character. It wouldn't surprise me if they continue to defederate any instance with open registration. There are other programming communities on other servers that will likely become the actual replacement for r/programming. EDIT: The "What is Beehaw?" post in their sideba…

> It wouldn't surprise me if they continue to defederate any instance with open registration.

We're back to dodging Eris, are we?

Re: Subreddit Migration Directory

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Post by udunadan »

Shameless plug: I have created https://infosec.pub/c/exploitdev, a community inspired by /r/netsec, /r/vrd and /r/ReverseEngineering (no relation to any of these and I am not the admin of infosec.pub either) dedicated to technical security research content. The instance also has other infosec-related communities which I hope will get traction as well.

Re: Subreddit Migration Directory

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Post by guywithahat »

unclekev wrote: post #19

Just went to the 'Programming' lemmy/beehaw and the first thing I see is a post about how they have had to defederate from some instances because of a lack of proper mod tools, trolls and bad actors. The irony. > https://beehaw.org/post/567170 > these two instances’ open registration policy, which is extremely problematic for us given how federation works and how trivial it makes trolling, harassment, and other undes…

One of the biggest issues with the fediverse imo is moderation. People will literally create blacklists of sites, and if you don't follow the blacklist you'll get added to it. You end up in these situations where there are completely separate versions of the fediverse and the largest instances will often not be able to talk to each other.

At least before Elon bought Twitter I know the most active (depending on how you count metrics) site was poa.st, and this was on a mastodon.social blacklist, which was one of the other major sites, and every site had their own list. I know people would sometimes have 4 or 5 accounts so that they could talk to everyone they wanted or as insurance in case the current admin got bored and closed the site.

I of course support the idea of a federated reddit, but there are a lot of problems that exist in the community

Re: Subreddit Migration Directory

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Post by jconnop »

icapybara wrote: post #30
jonathanyc wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hacker News ran on a 2 core machine with 128 GB of RAM :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006

Sure but Hacker News in 2015 isn’t on the scale of 2023 Reddit, and isn’t being pitched as an alternative to 2023 Reddit…

Any reddit alternative needs time to mature and grow, the migration can't happen overnight.

Unfortunately, unlike when we had Reddit already growing when the Digg exodus happened, there doesn't seem to be any pre-grown option this time around.

Re: Subreddit Migration Directory

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Post by [deleted] »

jonathanyc wrote: post #25
icapybara wrote: post #21

The top post on the most well known Lemmy instance (Lemmy.ml) is an announcement from the server admin that Lemmy.ml is now running on a dedicated machine, with 6 cores and 32 gb ram. Good for them, but this is supposed to be the Reddit replacement? A forum that was, until recently, just running on some guy’s computer? I know there are other instances but are there any serious ones?

Hacker News ran on a 2 core machine with 128 GB of RAM :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006

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Re: Subreddit Migration Directory

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Post by kibwen »

unclekev wrote: post #19

Just went to the 'Programming' lemmy/beehaw and the first thing I see is a post about how they have had to defederate from some instances because of a lack of proper mod tools, trolls and bad actors. The irony. > https://beehaw.org/post/567170 > these two instances’ open registration policy, which is extremely problematic for us given how federation works and how trivial it makes trolling, harassment, and other undes…

There's nothing ironic about this, the whole point of a federated system is that instances have the power to decide who's a part of their network.

Re: Subreddit Migration Directory

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Post by Dalewyn »

guywithahat wrote: post #34
unclekev wrote: post #19

Just went to the 'Programming' lemmy/beehaw and the first thing I see is a post about how they have had to defederate from some instances because of a lack of proper mod tools, trolls and bad actors. The irony. > https://beehaw.org/post/567170 > these two instances’ open registration policy, which is extremely problematic for us given how federation works and how trivial it makes trolling, harassment, and other undes…

One of the biggest issues with the fediverse imo is moderation. People will literally create blacklists of sites, and if you don't follow the blacklist you'll get added to it. You end up in these situations where there are completely separate versions of the fediverse and the largest instances will often not be able to talk to each other. At least before Elon bought Twitter I know the most active (depending on how yo…

My only takeaway is that the "fediverse" is merely another layer/expression of centralization.
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