Likely need to define some basic rbac controls. They signed up, sure, but donāt receive a āuserā role until after approval. Then in the home page, when signed in with no roles assigned, they get a banner saying theyāre still pending approval and will not be able to post or comment.
The major concern will be retroactively applying user roles to the existing users.
Yeah same here, Reddit is my mindless scrolling app of choice, not Twitter, so when I tried to use Mastodon I just kinda stood there not knowing what to do
I love being able to read and immerse myself is specific communities and whatnot, and specifically I love Reddit for the discourse, people posting in a community, replying to posts, and replaying to those replies, and so on
So Lemmy has just become my jam, so happy that Reddit has an open source federated alternative now, even if they reverse their API debacle Iām still gonna keep using this app
Strongly agree. Mastodon is alright and I use it a little, but the twitter-type format never really worked for me. I feel like when I have to follow individual people I usually end up either following no one or being forced to follow people who post things that interest me sometimes but a lot of the time post things that really donāt. Following particular topics or threads just seems much more natural to me; I can look at exactly what interests me and nothing more.
Looks like the Chinese āinvestorā is the Communist Party. The actions Reddit is taking are pretty much how they take down all the companies and citizens they target.
Looks like the Chinese āinvestorā is the Communist Party.
can we get a citation on thisāpreferably before asserting it as fact, please? iād like it if, on this site, we didnāt just say things (especially if they sound in line with our priors) but actually substantiate them.
Not fact. Itās my opinion based on the actions I see, and the fact things started to go down hill after the investors gave money. One of the big ones was Chinese.
Weāve seen how things go down when China is involved - loans to poor nations, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the disputed islands with Japan, Tibet, the Urghurs.
Weāve seen the various iterations of the āoops how did that key logger get in there?ā discoveries (Lenovo, iām looking at you), corporate espionage, Huawei telecommunications infrastructure being used to tap communicatons, etcā¦
Strict control of pretty much everything is the pattern, in which disinformation is easily dispensed and difficult to identify.
I swear tankies and liberals are basically the same. Tankies blame the CIA for every single bad thing that has ever happened while liberals blame the CCP and the Russian government. SOMETIMES BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE JUST GREEDY AND SOMETIMES AMERICANS ARE JUST SHITTY, there doesnāt need to be a secret cabal behind everything
SOMETIMES BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE JUST GREEDY AND SOMETIMES AMERICANS ARE JUST SHITTY, there doesnāt need to be a secret cabal behind everything
while iāll wait for the source i asked for and gladly correct this if iām presuming incorrectly, iād bet the odds are high that āCCPā is just being used as a shorthand/stand-in for a company like TenCent, because that happens a lot in discussions about China and itās really goofy.
In the interest of fairness, isnāt the difference between TenCent and the Chinese government basically just paperwork? Iāve always heard (anecdotally) that they work extremely close with the CCP.
In the interest of fairness, isnāt the difference between TenCent and the Chinese government basically just paperwork? Iāve always heard (anecdotally) that they work extremely close with the CCP.
i donāt know if iād go that far? with Tencent specifically it is inarguable they have worked with the Chinese government on some things and thatās not nothing. but Tencent is still an independent company, and governments and corporations/their shareholders frequently donāt have the same interests at heart, so itās hard to say where to draw the line here.
i think my position would be: i donāt think itās useful to assert everything they do is intended to advance what China wants, especially in the absence of anything indicating that. i also donāt know how useful it is to assume theyāre just a front for Chinaācertainly i donāt think that the people most vocal about this consistently apply that concern to other countries like Saudi Arabia who use companies to advance their state interests all the time.
conversely, i think itās ridiculous to confidently assert Tencent have never, or donāt ever, get influenced by interests China has, or that Chinese state officials arenāt capable at least theoretically of using the company to advance state interests. that stuff happens here, where ostensibly our system exists to prevent that kind of collaboration (this is basically what the āmilitary-industrial complexā is, for example).
Thereās no need to hypothesize about a shadowy government conspiracy when the situation is adequately explained by simple desperation for money. Spez outright said that Reddit is losing money and has always been losing money, and that he needs to make it stop losing money, presumably because Redditās investors are tired of giving him money and want to see some return on their investment.
endeavourOS! Itās pretty much Archlinux with a gui installer and some helpful things for new users. I recently installed it on a spare drive on my gaming PC with AMD/nvidia and everything just worked after installing steam.
If youāre newer to Linux I recommend Garuda as a beginner distro. Itās very similar to Endeavor as an Arch base, but has some friendly GUI options like Snapper bootable backups for easily undoing bad updates and an update script that takes care of mirror list and orphan notifications. People complain about bloat in Garuda and while there is some itās also helpful bloat, still less than Windows, and has negligible impact on modern hardware
Iāve been thinking that it is probably easier to move a community from a platform like Reddit to the Fediverse than it is from Twitter. I have used both Twitter and Reddit a lot, but have moved off Twitter and now use Mastodon. Mastodon works pretty well for me, but itās taken a lot of work to get there, and there are parts of the communities (mostly related to my work) I want to connect with that just donāt exist on Mastodon.
But the big difference between Reddit/Lemmy and Twitter/Mastodon is that on Reddit/Lemmy I am interested in communities for topics that are mostly hobbies/entertainment etc. for me, so I donāt really care about who Iām interacting withā¦ I canāt really name more than a handful of regular users or mods on the Reddit subs Iāve been using for more than a decade. But itās not really important for interacting there, because itās about interacting with people who have an interest in a particular topic no matter who they are. On Twitter/Mastodon (at least how I use it), the specific people Iām interacting with are more important.
So it seems the ālock inā of Reddit is weaker than Twitter, and I think itāll be quicker to establish communities here. A community on Lemmy with a few hundred people contributing (posts/comments) is already pretty successful and enjoyable. It doesnāt matter that the equivalent community on Reddit has over a million people (and in fact itās often better if itās smaller!).
That weaker lock in and the fact that Reddit seems to be massively undervaluing the contribution mods and third-party app devs make to the platform make me think Reddit is going to quickly regret this whole fiasco.
I felt kind of lost when looking for a Reddit alternative. Lemmy feels like the right alternative. Itās not perfect but itās a better base than what we had with Reddit. I hope it picks up.
Yeah, I like Lemmyās organisation, but it lacks people. Now when Reddit is shitting om its users, I am hopeful that Lemmy will explode in user base soon.
@President_Pyrus@SmugBedBug It is not necessary that everyone who uses #Lemmy has to be a Lemmy user. Thanks to the #Fediverse , everyone from Mastodon, Misskey, etc. can also participate in Lemmy content (also post in communities, just don't create your own communities). For example, I am currently replying from Friendica. The circle of people is much, much larger, so it's not a problem if Lemmy lacks people.
Sneaker culture is incredibly weird. Shoes made by children in China with a limited edition color are in such high demand that there are sites where people refresh F5 constantly hoping to have the honor to pay hundreds and hundreds for shoes that cost $7.50 to make. Then half of the time people wonāt even wear them outside, theyāll put them in a bag and change shoes when they get to work or whatever. Or some might not even wear the shoes at all and just display them.
Iām an old soul in this sense. I love a quality goodyear welted shoe, and made in USA, UK, or Italy usually. An Allen Edmonds strandmok is a fantastic everyday shoe for me. I like to purchase nice things in general, use them, take care of them. I really hate throwaway culture as well.
Please nobody hate me for this, Iām a bit self conscious being an admin of my own instance and donāt want to piss people off haha. If youāre into gym shoe culture thatās awesome. If I knew you in real life Iād probably make fun of you for a minute if I saw you walking outside in socks carrying your $400 limited edition sneakers, but then you can make fun of me for one of the thousands of things I do and itās all in good fun.
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