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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny... Let's have it!

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  • Yrtree.me - it's still early days for me in the Fediverse, so bear with me

  • Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities

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  • Our instance is federated with hexbear, lemmygrad etc. I want to be resonsible for what I see and block, I’m really not a fan of defederation unless it’s a last resort (i.e. CSAM or other illegal content).

    Yes, that's pretty much our take on it: we'll defederate CSAM (and nonce-adjacent) instances asap, those with lax registration tend to become havens for spammers and trolls, so there is usually a wave of defederating, then someone reaches out to them, it gets sorted and we allow them back in. That tends to be the regular defederation and isn't controversial. Defederating, for example, Hexbear over, for example, trolling would be a bigger deal and we'd try and speak to the other Admins about it before any permanent banning.

  • Are there any "famous" Lemmy users?

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  • What is "real"?

  • Are there any "famous" Lemmy users?

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  • Perhaps it's just that their username is unforgettable, so you notice it when it appears. Definite Rimjob Steve territory.

  • Are there any "famous" Lemmy users?

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  • Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

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  • still not 100% convinced defederating isn’t, ultimately, going to be the answer though

    It may be, but only as a last resort.

    So I think we need some kind of step by step “If you see X, then do Y” sticked to the instances that care about this for the people who (like me) do care about this issue.

    Yes, the map of thr Fediverse needs "here be dragons" sprinkled around.

  • Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

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  • The thing is, the Fediverse, link the original concept of the Internet is flexible and can survive losing nodes - it just routes around and issue. If there are problems it can mutate and survive.

    I’m not sure if there’s a solution here, but I’d like to urge people to avoid lemmy.ml hosted communities in favor of communities on more reasonable instances.

    This is the best solution - the answers are in our hands. Communities only thrive because the users are.posting and interacting on it. If the Mod goes inactive or an instances goes down, we can switch to a new community. That then gains the momentum and goes on to thrive. It's survival of the fittest and why having more than one community on a topic (especially big topics) is a feature not a bug because it gives the network flexibility and resilience.

    So if there's an issue with lemmy.ml, boycott it - unsubscribe, give the other communities on more agreeable instances your time and they will grow and prosper. If there isn't a relevant alternative start one.

    Lemmy prevails.

  • Wafrn, the tumblr inspired fedi software has got a new logo and a new installer

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  • I'm sure they are up for suggests as that name is not doing it any favours.

  • Wafrn, the tumblr inspired fedi software has got a new logo and a new installer

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  • Tumblr is short-form blogging platform, inspired by tumbleblogs, which were a thing back in the day (another example of Big Tech lifting an idea and then walling it off). So it's like micro-blogging but without the word limit, so you can throw out a thought or a picture or a video, or go into greater detail if the mood took you. On Tumblr people would tend to have a few on different topics.

    I much preferred it to Twitter as it felt a lot more free-form but usually focused on a topic.

  • Wafrn, the tumblr inspired fedi software has got a new logo and a new installer

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  • Yes, but they do specify "no Nazis" so it can't go wrong.

  • Wafrn, the tumblr inspired fedi software has got a new logo and a new installer

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  • Waffen? 🤔

  • A Share Button For The Social Web

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  • It's a pity they don't have comments on their blog because it would drastically improve their idea.

    Now all we need is a Lemmy Share tool and a Mastodon Link one so both sides of the difficulty with Fediverse traffic are addressed. At least for those two. I imagine if the authors of the two tools swapped notes, they could sort this out.

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  • The real strength of these platforms lies in their curation and filtering capabilities. Users can post and curate content, and others can contribute to the curation process by adding or modifying tags. Leaderboards showcasing top taggers, posters, and commenters promote active participation and foster a sense of community. Thanks to the comprehensive tagging system, finding previously viewed content becomes a breeze, unlike the challenges often faced on Reddit and Lemmy. Users can easily filter out unwanted content by hiding specific tags, something that would require blocking entire communities on platforms like Lemmy.

    I agree, plus tags add context and allow for disambiguation of common terms. I've discussed this a couple of times, most recently I summarised my thoughts here. That goes a bit further - FediTags would be a federated tagging system that plugs into other services. That would then improve everyone's ability to find discussion on different services (Lemmy and Mastodon don't currently play well with each other) and to discover older discussion on a topic which can rapidly get lost in the "churn" when the default focus is usually on sorting by newest first.

    Things like leaderboards would definitely be an idea as long as it didn't lead to people gaming the system and, potentially, degrading it in the process. Also with federation, it might only really be possible to do local leaderboards, which would likely help address that concern somewhat.

  • A Share Button For The Social Web

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  • Like lemmyverse.link which they could definitely use in that tool. edit: no probably not but see below.

    edit: in fact, there's Mastodon Share that I think does this.

    edit2: some discussion of that here.

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  • Personally, I believe the best way to address this issue is through the implementation of tags and custom feeds.

    I expressed my enthusiasm for tags over in The Great Monkey Tagging Army discussion and have had a chance to ponder this some more - I still like the idea:

    • It provides context and meaning to posts - just think of all the disambiguation pages on Wikipedia. Are you looking for Predator the film, the UAV, etc? Really only tags can help there - multitags or disambiguation? Or both? There are discussions to be had.
    • It allows more depth to things like communities - I was just talking to someone who had been failing to find a place to talk about a specific British comic until they found !britishcomics@feddit.uk. With tags, I could have tagged the community with #dandy, #beano, #2000AD, #bunty, etc.
    • It also provides a way for Lemmy to integrate better with the Fediverse as it doesn't currently play well with services outside the Threadiverse.

    My current thinking is leaning towards FediTags - a separate, federated plug-in service. So you could run it with Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc and it would bring together all the tagged content. You look up stonehenge + photographs and get pictures on Pixelfed, Mastodon and kbin. As a plug-in the changes in code needed to, for example, Lemmy would be minimal and, hopefully, a one-time thing. Development of FediTag could then take place completely separately.

  • Bringing the power of books to the fediverse

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  • If you could point me to one I’d be happy to look again.

    Try this.

    BookWyrm is designed to be a replacement for Goodreads, so it operates in a fairly similar way.

  • What would you rather eat a poop flavored chocolate, or chocolate flavored poop?

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  • Wouldn't chocolate-flavoured poop just be like a chocolate mousse with some sweetcorn sprinkled in? I'd definitely eat that rather than the thing that tastes like actual shit.

  • Fediverse alternatives

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  • Good catch, I've corrected my oversight.