I have photos/short videos of painted miniatures which I want to show to interested hobby communities. I have started a pixelfed.social account as I have heard this is Fediverse's equivalent of Instagram. Whether it is or not is irrelevant - I quite like the interface, so I decided to keep my content there....
Hey everyone! After my first week of settling in here, I think what would give my lemmy experience the biggest boost of any single added feature would be Multilemmys (or Multicommunities), so we can see the combined feeds of multiple communities in a single streamlined feed. I guess the purpose of this post is to spread...
I think that’s kind of a weird way to see it. For the most part the fediverse will likely be a large group of general purpose instances that eschew a few assholes on the fringes.
Right now we’re facing issues because people are turning up their noses at the idea of wanting to eschew assholes on the fringes.
Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.
You’re the same group of mods who all teamed up and went dark to silence subreddits you disagreed with.
You also regularly remove posts that have thousands of upvotes because of vague rules like
“No low effort content”
“no recent reposts over 6 months”
“all posts must abide by Hanlon’s Razor.”
Locking threads because you didn’t like the jokes in them
Welcome to lemmy, but I hope you don’t bring this kind of powermodding into the fediverse. It’s a growing place, so it doesn’t need such a high level of moderation. Also users have a lot of power over the mods. They can see every action you make and make their own community with the same name and rules, but on a more open instance.
I'm one of the people who has very recently tried Lemmy and decided to drop Reddit. Initially because I will no longer be able to use SyncForReddit, but now also because I just like the vibe a lot more here than Reddit....
I don't think beehaw doesn't fit the fediverse, I do believe it doesn't fit every user.
As I understand it, they want to be a safe place for a very specific audience, that is, people afraid to be harassed for who they are, that could also include people with extreme social anxiety, that's why it's so heavily policed and they defederate from a lot of other instances.
It's like having a heavily moderated subreddit, you wouldn't say it doesn't fit reddit just because they don't accept contribution from everyone.
The purpose of the fediverse is to have things spread out so one or few nodes dying doesn't affect the entire system, it's also about avoiding corporate control, the same principles on which the internet was founded.
I don't think it means having to trust everyone or accepting everyone into your local group.
-Time to spread out! Federation is working. Create a 2nd account on a non-kbin.social instance. The Fediverse works better when we federate.
-Lots of group building! These ex-redditers really know their shit!
Staying in federation with an instance that actively embraces bad actors increases the visibility of users here to those bad actors, and gives them access to our community. Defederating such an instance is a basic best practice in the Fediverse.
More importantly for those who wring their hands about not limiting the whole community – failure to defederate from bad actor instances will be factored in when good productive instances with content folks here want to see decide whether to defederate us. (Remember that this place is already defederated by one prominent instance, which is a material detriment to users here.)
It is reasonable and normal to disagree about where the line is drawn in terms of what instances deserve defederation. It’s often ambiguous what’s a normal instance with sloppy moderation and a few bad apples[^1] versus what’s a place that is run by and for bad actors.
There’s a wide range of standards that can be applied. It seems like the general vibe can be broken down into three groups:
Only defederate spammers and child porn
Only defederate spammers child porn and tankies
Defederate spammers child porn, tankies, and rampantly fascist troll farms
I don’t think anyone has really advocated for anything aggressive than that on here (could be wrong)
[^1]: Although also important to remember that the point of the bad apples thing is that they spoil the whole batch if you don’t take them out.
La’an bluffs a Broken Circle weapons buyer with an ”antimatter detonation switch,” something she tells Uhura she made up on the spot. In “Surrender” Jack Crusher pulled a similar trick on Vadic, implying a personal forcefield was actually an unknown weapon.
In the dilithium mines, Doctor M’Benga and Chapel see what appears to be a mostly constructed Starfleet ship.
When the ship enters space, Mitchell says she thinks it’s a Crossfield-class, like the USS Discovery. The ship does have a Crossfield-class saucer, but the secondary hull is very different.
Motion graphics art director for the series, Tim Peel, has confirmed on twitter that it is not actually a Crossfield-class.
The Crossfake’s transponder has its registry as NCC-1729.
Doctor M’Benga and nurse Chapel inject themselves with a serum that that makes them slower and weaker so that when they attack their Klingon captors they don’t completely overwhelm them. Not doing so would be considered a war crime, as Klingons are extremely bad a fighting as seen in many, many episodes including, but not limited to:
“The Trouble with Tribbles” - Klingons provoke Scotty, Chekov and other Enterprise crew to a fight, only to lose
“Star Trek: The Search for Spock” - A Klingon lord gets the jump on a Starfleet captain, and ends up dumped into a pool of magma like he’s trying to steal the One Ring
“House of Quark” - The head of a Klingon House attacks a small Ferengi and ends up stabbing himself to death
“Marauders” - A group of malnourished colonists fend of a group of armed Klingon warriors after only a day’s worth of Vulcan martial arts training
“The Vulcan Hello” - A Klingon Torchbearer attacked an unarmed Starfleet officer with a bat’leth and stabbed himself to death
Apparently in the Klingon Empire they do call them Klingon disruptors.
The D7-class battlecruiser we see appears to be a reuse of the CGI model introduced in “Through the Valley of Shadows”, perhaps with some updated textures.
Doctor M’Benga was able to use the Crossfake’s transponder communicate with the Enterprise in Morse 2. Morse code has been previously used in:
The SS Botany Bay’s call signal in “Space Seed” was broadcast in morse
Scotty tapped out ”stand back” before destroying the wall of the brig in “Star Trek: The Final Frontier”
The SS Mariposa’s distress beacon was an SOS in “Up the Long Ladder”
In “The 37’s” the *USS Voyager” discovered an SOS coming from a planet in the Delta quadrant
Harry is able to alert Tom Paris of sabotage aboard the Delta Flyer using morse in “Drive”
In “Mindwalk” Dal was able to send an SOS to the rest of the Protogies, but they assumed those were the only letters he would have memorized so they couldn’t use it to communicate back to him.
”They thought it worth their lives to prevent another war. Logical.” This follows Spock’s reasoning from “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan” where he first says, ”Logic dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
The maneuvering pack Doctor M’Benga finds looks to be of the type introduced in “Brother”.
We see the D7’s nacelles reconfigure to ready weapons; “Elaan of Troyius” established that the nacelles also house disruptor cannons.
Spock is able to revive Chapel using CPR. We’ve previously seen Kirk use the technique to save the life of a child in “The Paradise Syndrome”, and Tendi do so with Boimler in “First First Contact”. It’s not entirely clear if Chakotay actually performed CPR on Janeway in “Coda” or if that was only part of a hallucination inflicted upon her by an alien entity.
Captain D’Chok’s armour has a similar design to the Klingon armour introduced in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and used all through TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and the TOS and TNG movies, but is gold, like the tunics Klingon soldiers wore during TOS.
D’Chok’s baldric bears a House symbol first seen in the DIS episode “Point of LIght” one by one of the members of the High Council.
Both House D’Ghor and House Kol wore gold armour in season one of DIS.
Spock states he ”[has] been known to” drink bloodwine. In “The Conscience of the King” Spock tells Bones that his father’s people were *”spared the dubious benefits of alcohol,” which might imply that they are not actually capable of becoming drunk from it. And in “Cease Fire” Soval declares that Vulcans do not drink, but he himself immediately makes an exception. Also, T’Pol, Sakonna, Tuvok, and Spock are all seen drinking at one point or another. And both Vulcan port and Vulcan brandy were introduced in “The Maquis, Part I” and “Repression” respectively.
Despite his claim, this is the first instance of Spock drinking bloodwine on screen.
Spock is hungover during his call with April, so perhaps even if Vulcans are spared the benefits of alcohol, they still experience the drawbacks, which could explain why they don’t drink. Except when they do.
When the map in April’s office resolves, a few locations can be made out
Deep Space 2
Galdonterre - The planet where Kang, Kor, and Koloth were able to track the Albino to in “Blood Oath”
Cestus - Cestus III is introduced in “Arena” as the planet where the Enterprise beams down to have dinner at an observation outpost only to find it’s been razed by the Gorn
What is a probable Gorn attack ship - in the Gorn Hegemony they just call them ships.
EDIT: I’m putting this up front so it’s the FIRST thing you see and read: I WAS WRONGI ASSUMED (and I know better) that it wasn’t possible for me to have 3000 accounts created within a day or two of going live. I ASSUMED what I saw was accounts that were NOT local, I WAS WRONGI created a process to remove the bot accounts...
As more and more instances are providing multiple services under the same management, we need a term to talk about this type of arrangement. A Fediverse Galaxy is a collection of federated software that is provided by the same admin or collective.
Regarding Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, this post goes into detail on the why and the philosophy behind that decision. Additionally, there is an update specific to sh.itjust.works here....
I understand your why, but in the end, I think defederation is probably going to do more harm than good. Lemmy.world and beehaw are both large instances, and for a whole group on one, a non-negligible amount of content just disappeared. Sure, they could just make new accounts somewhere else, but there’s no way all of them will. For those that won’t, the whole of Lemmy just got a lot less valuable.
I think that ultimately, large amounts of defederation, or just large instances defederation each other, is going to harm Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole. More people might migrate to smaller instances. Some will collapse under the strain, some might become big, follow the cycle and sew more division within the fediverse. A lot of people will get tired of juggling accounts and return to more toxic, but easier, centralized alternatives.
Of course, just not defederating anything isn’t a solution either. Well, I mean, it is in a technical sense, but it doesn’t get to the root of the issue. My best idea would be some solution that allows users of certain instances to still see content and subscribe to communities, but limit their ability to interact. Think something like sliding defederation. Admins would be able to set what users of specific instances can and can’t do, from voting, commenting, submitting down to total defederation for the most extreme cases.
Of course, the best code I’ve managed myself is a semi-functional python module, so…
I’m very new to this site so I’m not sure what all already exists. Some features that come to mind based on my experience on Reddit and other sites:
Ability to search the entire site to see if a string of text (or multiple select strings of text) has already appeared there, including removed content. On Reddit, this was useful for seeing if an account has copied the comment, the text within a post, or the post title from elsewhere on the site. SocialGrep, Reveddit, and Unddit were my preferred sources of this info for Reddit. Text may also have been copied by a bot from other sites, but the original tends to be more accessible in those cases.
Ability to search the entire site to see if an image has already appeared there. This was essentially only relevant for repost bots and for bots that recognize an image from another post and re-comment from that other post. I do have concerns about this becoming relevant in the future for comments that contain images. TinEye and reverse image search on Google were my preferred sources of this info, but I don’t know if Lemmy posts will show up on those sites. u/RepostSleuthBot and the like were also helpful, especially if summonable in the comments.
Blocking users should only filter them from the blocker’s feed, rather than make the blocked user unable to comment on the blocker’s posts and comments. Spammers and scammers would abuse this system to prevent human users from calling them out on being spammers and scammers. While this design makes sense for sites based on personal profiles such as FaceBook or Twitter, it does not work for sites categorized by subject matter with impersonal user profiles.
Say what you will about the bad aspects of 4chan (and you should!), but the use of Captchas prior to publishing a post or comment seems to majorly mitigate bot activity.
This doesn’t seem to be a problem on Lemmy, but on Reddit, not all of the information of a spam report was sent to the subreddit mods. A report for Spam -> Harmful Bots would tell the admins that it was a Harmful Bots report, but the mods would only see it as a generic spam report and not be fully informed of the issue. Also, unbeknownst to mods, admins could link a subreddit rule report to a sitewide rule report. What I think Lemmy could improve on in this regard is to keep the openended custom report option, but also include pre-written report options for community rules, instance rules, and sitewide rules.
Some sort of indicator for groups of accounts which seem to be commenting only on the exact same posts as each other, which commonly are bots.
Entirely dependent on the subreddit or community, requiring some sort of verification post or other verification with a photograph of a paper with their username, the community name, and current date on it prior to permitting the user to post/comment may be beneficial.
A sitewide blacklist structured like r/BotDefense, wherein suspect accounts can be submitted and, if determined to be bot, will be automatically blacklisted from participating communities. Blacklist appeals will also be essential just due to human error.
Hello, you might have noticed (or not) that posts from kbin, more specifically kbin.social aren’t showing anywhere, this is due the DDoS protection they currently have on. So even if you are subscribed to kbin.social communities you won’t see any posts from the outside....
**Hello again!**You might be sick of me meta posting, but I’ll be done soon I swear! You can screenshot this and post it to mildly infuriating. It definitey would fit!...
How does grouping multiple communities on different instances work? Do we need a special-purpose kind of community, like e.g. the meta-reddit functionality? Seems complicated but very needed atm
I set up a self-hosted instance yesterday, so far it runs fine. I can subscribe from there to communities hosted on other instances, I can comment from my instance and the comments show up on other instances....
Apparently my instance does try to push, as I expected, but the community is protected on lemmy.world. That’s a bit surprising still, since I thought it is a test group to test federation and such, but since that wasn’t specified anywhere, it’s fair enough that this could be a test-group by lemmy.world for lemmy.world :-)
Almost everything has been mentioned already so I just stick with the unusual: I host a private MediaWiki instance for note taking in my pen and paper rounds. It’s amazing once the other players got a bit more comfortable how to use it well regarding templates, categories and articles. My only regret is that I didn’t set up new instances per gaming group.
Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network...
I agree, I don’t particularly see this as an actual issue… Nothing stops you from subscribing to both.
Just like there could be a [email protected] and a [email protected]. Nobody is confused with emails when it comes to this… The difference is that it’s slightly more work than reddit because r/aww is one particular thing and it’s assumed we’re talking about Reddit because of it’s unique format. Here it’s just c/aww on lemmy.ml, but that’s a bit of the point of the !aww structure of naming.
I LOVE that there’s !aww and !aww. Different communities ran by different groups will end up with different content. Then I can shop for the content I want myself.
Nobody can singularly own the name. I always found that to be a big problem on reddit. r/trees comes to mind, if there was an actual arborist community that want r/trees, well they were fucked. And that’s kind of jacked. This way it doesn’t matter. Just pick a different instance that doesn’t already have c/trees and post there… or better, start your own instance to host it.
I don’t know… in the future people could even start up instances of lemmy on domains like lemmy.jobs, lemmy.help or lemmy.hobby to aggregate major communities based on topics. lemmy.jobs for instance could be an instance that houses professional the arborist and the domain would make it clear the intent. Or even better… drop the lemmy all together and register jobs.social or similarly descriptive domain names.
I know we’re all a hodge-podge of domains now because a lot of us are just spinning up instance on domains we already have… but the potential is there.
95% of the people or groups I would want to follow are not on Mastodon.
And frankly, the Fediverse isn’t as user-friendly. It is a but tougher when you have to choose an instance, as well as learn how to follow from other instances.
Do you host any Fediverse instances for family (Mastodon, etc)? Curious if you get your family to use it and what headaches when linking to other instances....
How to share my content across Fediverse?
I have photos/short videos of painted miniatures which I want to show to interested hobby communities. I have started a pixelfed.social account as I have heard this is Fediverse's equivalent of Instagram. Whether it is or not is irrelevant - I quite like the interface, so I decided to keep my content there....
Welcome all new users and Reddit refugees! [PARTNERED POST]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/853004...
Welcome all new users and Reddit refugees! [PARTNERED POST]
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/853004...
Multilemmys
Hey everyone! After my first week of settling in here, I think what would give my lemmy experience the biggest boost of any single added feature would be Multilemmys (or Multicommunities), so we can see the combined feeds of multiple communities in a single streamlined feed. I guess the purpose of this post is to spread...
Yeah, Lemmy, that white supremacist cesspool… (i.imgur.com)
“Says it’s important for the world, but will end up becoming a white supremacist cesspool”...
The Coup of /r/AssholeDesign (imgur.com)
Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.
How should we be using Lemmy? (lemmy.world)
I'm one of the people who has very recently tried Lemmy and decided to drop Reddit. Initially because I will no longer be able to use SyncForReddit, but now also because I just like the vibe a lot more here than Reddit....
[Discussion] Why voting should not be used here at all
Everyone I have something very important to say about The Agora....
[Discussion] Defederation does not do what you think it does (sh.itjust.works)
In the spirit of being encouraged to speak my mind here’s a slight effort post:...
Christian Selig: I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support (reddit.com)
Edit: archived link, (alternative)...
18+ Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - The Broken Circle
The episode title “The Broken Circle” is similar to the title of DS9’s second season episode, “The Circle”....
Lemmy user list (lemmy.ninja)
EDIT: I’m putting this up front so it’s the FIRST thing you see and read: I WAS WRONGI ASSUMED (and I know better) that it wasn’t possible for me to have 3000 accounts created within a day or two of going live. I ASSUMED what I saw was accounts that were NOT local, I WAS WRONGI created a process to remove the bot accounts...
useful fediverse links, for newcomers & everyone
various tips : fedi.tips...
Federation, Defederation, and You - FAQ and Megathread
Regarding Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, this post goes into detail on the why and the philosophy behind that decision. Additionally, there is an update specific to sh.itjust.works here....
Reddit is now using GPT-powered bots to astroturf 😂 (lemmy.ml)
web.archive.org/…/meta_who_is_astroturfing_rprogr…
Kbin.social has disabled federation temporarily. (kbin.social)
Hello, you might have noticed (or not) that posts from kbin, more specifically kbin.social aren’t showing anywhere, this is due the DDoS protection they currently have on. So even if you are subscribed to kbin.social communities you won’t see any posts from the outside....
[Meta] - C3 - Cross Community Coalition - Connecting the Fediverse (discord.gg)
**Hello again!**You might be sick of me meta posting, but I’ll be done soon I swear! You can screenshot this and post it to mildly infuriating. It definitey would fit!...
Articles on self-hosted servers not propagated?
I set up a self-hosted instance yesterday, so far it runs fine. I can subscribe from there to communities hosted on other instances, I can comment from my instance and the comments show up on other instances....
What are YOU self-hosting?
A simple question to this community, what are you self-hosting? It’s probably fun to hear from each-other what services we are running....
Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?
Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network...
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)
Hosted Fediverse for Family?
Do you host any Fediverse instances for family (Mastodon, etc)? Curious if you get your family to use it and what headaches when linking to other instances....