Yeah man beehaw is supposed to be like a safe space for minorities and stuff. It’s been around for a while and is strictly moderated. Once all this Reddit shit calms down and there are better moderation tools on the lemmy side they’ll rejoin - it’s just too much to deal with without the right tools right now Ave they are still working on making the tools.
This Reddit shit sped up a lot of stuff that was already in the works.
Ah ok, thanks for that. That's a shame though, so far what I've seen of Lemmy has been so much less toxic than Reddit, you'd hope it wasn't necessary for them to defederate. However if they feel it is necessary, then fair enough I guess.
They're curating a particular community to try to avoid trolls and shitposters and lemmy.world was growing so fast that they didn't have the mods or tools to keep everything in line to their satisfaction on their own instance. Once they're happy with their mod abilities they'll probably refederate.
Since Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works had fully opened sign ups with no vetting during the big migration, Beehaw was getting a lot of trolls and spammers coming from those instances. Since Lemmy is kind of new there weren't enough moderation tools for them to fully deal with that with their team so they defederated until those tools exist.
I’m rather new to Playstation. What do you mean with ‘it’s going away soon’? If I have a Playstation subscription and ‘buy’ it (for free, as part of the subscription) can I keep playing it? Or do I need to complete it before a cut of date?
As long as you download it now, then you can keep the game as long as you’re a member of PS+. So if you even think you might play it in the future, download it now. Once it rotates off the subscription, then it won’t be available for download anymore (but people who already downloaded it can keep it).
lmao, it went full circle. It was confirmed by the mods that it used to be about 3d Shacks, but when it went abandonned, they turned it into 3DS Hacks. Love to see it.
Gonna be hard to find proof with the state of Reddit, but I was there since the begining of the hacking scene and yep, it used to be all about actual 3D shacks haha
not really, at least in my situation. i’ve been married for over 5 years and my partner is absolutely my best friend and i can be my full self with them.
however, i also have a lot of other friends and acquaintances. each of them fills a different role in my life. all of them are unique. my partner doesn’t have all of the same interests as me, but my friends all fulfill a different part of my personality that my partner cannot, and they also help support me through difficult times as a team.
it’s really essential to have a support system and a wide variety of friends in your life. putting all your eggs in one basket isn’t healthy or fair. adulthood can certainly be lonely. i’m approaching 30 and feel it now more than ever as people in my life go down different paths and we have less in common and less time for each other.
it’s okay though. there are so many people in the world to connect with. you’ll find your people.
i get that. a lot of my friends are working on degrees or starting families. we don’t have as much time to hang out anymore. one thing that’s helped is expanding my social group. you don’t have to be tight with every friend. you can have specific friends/acquaintances for specific hangout sessions. have you tried connecting with local groups to expand your social circle? i’m sure you have some hobbies. these are just examples i’ve seen in my area:
weekly dnd group
gardening club
walking club
bar meetups
volunteer trash cleanup
board game nights
friend speed ‘dating’
i’m not sure where you live, but you’re bound to find something. facebook is a garbage platform but one thing it’s good at is getting you up to date with local events and local groups. don’t like facebook? try finding local discord groups.
Eh, it's still missing a ton of smaller and even medium sized communities. Pick video games and TV shows for example. A bunch don't have a community or only have a dead one with zero or one posts.
I’ve stopped using it on mobile as I deleted sync, though my Lemmy app took the spot on my home screen. When at my desk I still load Reddit out of habit though
Yesterday when I tried, it told me that the instance wasn’t up to date and didn’t work, so I tried a different app. Liftoff is proving to be my favorite so far.
I think it’s early tech adopters are just excited about something nice and will play nice to try to hero it grow. I remember the early internet being a really nice place.
Instances can get ruined, sure, but the decentralized nature means ruination has to focus on the Fediverse. It remains to be seen how it will get ruined. Like the Reddit honeymoon after Digg’s collapse, we get to watch this be the hero until it becomes the villain.
Text-only forums aren’t super expensive to run unless you are doing it on the scale of reddit (or do stupid expensive things like have video hosting)
Another topic, I’ve seen people here are super hardline about keeping Facebook out of the Fediverse, and I just don’t think that’s going to work, Now Lemmy Explain how I think this is all going to go down:
If I were Facebook, I’d pay a bunch of big celebrities, say, a certain very talented Academy Award nominated Australian actress, a lot of money, to use Facebook Threads exclusively for a while, and give them the Checkmark. The most difficult part of getting a new social network started is the chicken-and-egg problem of getting that initial audience, which is the problem that Federation solves. So, although some instances will reject anything Facebook related completely, there will be plenty of instances where the userbase would want to interact with their favorite celebs directly a la Twitter, so there will always be instances that wants to federate with this Facebook instance.
But then, those media companies and talent agencies are going to realize, as they did against Netflix, “Hey, wait a minute, why are we paying these middlemen like Zuck and Musk so much money to host a cheap forum? They don’t own the userbase on the Fediverse, so is it just for a Checkmark?”, and they are going to start their own instances of Mastodon/Lemmy where everyone on their instances is verified celebs, to be used as these celeb’s official account with no shitposting allowed, so they can control everything those celebs posts on their server instead. And THAT would be the downfall of Twitter/Facebook.
So, the best path for Facebook to move forward with is to offer easy cloud hosting of federated social media software for a subscription: Pay them 10 bucks a month, they’ll handle all the server and upgrades, and even moderation, which will become the easiest way to setup “your own server”, and that will be much more resilient to the anti-Facebook pact that is going on right now, because instead of one Facebook instance, now you may have to block hundreds of different Facebook hosted instances instead.
Which is why I’m expecting it to be their playbook if federated social media ever takes off. But there really isn’t a solution I can think of for that.
Reddit is too popular and has too much group think, too many of the same types of comments that will get a lot karma, and too many comments that will just be ignored.
NEW is a garbage dump or a pile of duplicates. So why comment on a new post? It will never go anywhere. HOT is already full of comments, so your comment will just be lost.
Agreed. On reddit each community has one way it thinks and screw you if you don't have the same opinion on something. People here are more civil and willing to have a discussion over disagreements.
In a post and comment, yes. However your up vote vs down vote counts are not stored on your profile. It reduces the game-ification of the interactions.
It also depends where you're reading from. Mastodon doesn't sort at all, Kbin sorts differently from Lemmy, and one Lemmy instance might differ from the next. Even vote counts might differ between servers.
In the end, the user experience here will be much more individual than on Reddit. What is the top post for you might not be the top post for me. :)
I’m already noticing tons of comments getting down voted for seemingly just because people disagree so human nature makes a proper discussion difficult
They don't have the same power over here. Especially on kbin where they pretty much equal "thank you for posting" and that's about it. Boosting is where you become the algorithm and say "I think others need to see this!"
Agreed. I felt like I lurked reddit a lot because I felt like my thought was already found wherever I went unless I was the first one to comment. It’s nice to see a comment section that is growing but not thousands of other thoughts already in it within an hour or so.
I just hope the alt right doesn’t latch on - but w/ this being the Fediverse we can at least use reason & spin them off in their own little corner.. for better or worse. (Better for us & worse for them)
I don’t know what else is the answer though - they either drag us down w/ them or we rise above it & leave them to wallow in their messed up world views.
If this turns into an Odysee then this will be a very sad place built w/ good intentions.
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