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Ada

@ ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone

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    Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

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  • Reddit was only ever left of center for Americans. To many/most non Americans, America consists of a far right party and a center to center right party.

    What you're seeing is the result of a platform that wasn't first created by and for American audiences, and whose initial takeup wasn't dominated by American perspectives.

  • Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One

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  • It's really hard with small, starting instances.

    Basically, the only content that gets federated to you is content produced by someone that a person on your instance follows. And once it federates to you, it becomes searchable and viewable to other members on your instance. Which means that the more people you have, the more content gets federated too you, and the easier it is for your users to find new content.

    And new users that no one on your instance follows at all won't appear to any of your users in searches etc, which is where "boosting" a post comes in. If I post a photo, and no one on your instance follows me, none of your users will see it. But if someone that they do follow, follows me and likes my photo, they "boost" it, and then it appears in the timelines of people that follow them. And then once a single person on your instance starts following me, my future content will start federating to you.

    Which means that as an admin, the best thing you can do is start up a seed account, and just follow lots and lots of people. Follow random people. Follow anyone and everyone, just so you get a critical mass of content sliding to your instance.

    This is a problem that all fediverse platforms suffer from. The initial hump to get good visibility of federated content is a challenge. Once you cross it, you're fine, but to cross it, you either need to be patient and give it time, or you need to artificially kickstart it

  • [Fedi history clarification] The term “threadiverse” was never (intentionally) associated with Meta

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  • Which instance/picture issue?

  • [Fedi history clarification] The term “threadiverse” was never (intentionally) associated with Meta

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  • June 4, 2023: First mention of "threadiverse" I can find on Lemmy

    Yep, there had been zero discussions about it until that point that I had seen, which is why I posted that thread asking the question!

  • Friendica is a great fediverse alternative to Facebook

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  • I mean if you recognise friendica domain names, yeah, but most folks don't

  • Friendica is a great fediverse alternative to Facebook

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  • You wouldn't know them if you did see them. They look like any other account

  • Friendica is a great fediverse alternative to Facebook

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  • Friendica is part of the fediverse and can talk to mastodon, lemmy etc. Plenty of users out there

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    Why Plebbit Outperforms Any Other Decentralized Social Media Platform

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  • instances/hubs/rpcs cannot block a user account or community

    Why would I want that? That sounds genuinely awful.

    Edit - And the plebbit homepage talks about making a 4chan equivalent, and along with this post, there are pepe images everywhere. No thanks. Plebbit can fuck right off

  • Not federated Lemmy instances?

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  • They were running a self maintained fork of lemmy that wasn't compatible, though I don't know if that was the original reason

  • Not federated Lemmy instances?

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  • Hexbear was the only instance with a sizable user base that used to do this, but these days they federate too

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • Useful for trolls, less useful for bot spam from throwaway accounts

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • More moderators and admins

  • As a reminder, ClubsAll is still showing all of Lemmy's content without federating back

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  • Thank you for the update. I honestly don't mind if you're not there in terms of federating out yet. As long as the plan for the project is to generate connectivity/community in some way, we'll be better off for your project being here :)

  • I made a Firefox add-on that autoselects your last used language of your Lemmy posts and comments to automatically select it again next time.

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  • The other part is, lemmy hides content from you unless you have the language enabled in your settings, and so, I have all languages enabled just so I can see all the content. And that makes navigating the language list really unwieldy without a default option

  • As a reminder, ClubsAll is still showing all of Lemmy's content without federating back

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  • The content is coming from federation, so how is it being pushed to clubsall after blocking?

    I blocked your instance based on your domain. But because you are using other domains to pull the content, you're still receiving content from the domains you use that I haven't blocked.

    My request stays the same, give us some breathing room until some traffic threshold. Is that fair?

    What is your plan for what clubsall will look like? I have no interest in killing a new and interesting platform for building community in the lemmy space. But if you're just going to pull content from lemmy instances without giving anything back, that's not building community...

    Tell me you've got plans for something other than a content scraper, and I'll happily work with you.

  • As a reminder, ClubsAll is still showing all of Lemmy's content without federating back

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  • My concern is that you receive content from our communities without generating anything back

  • As a reminder, ClubsAll is still showing all of Lemmy's content without federating back

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  • Defederated. If they start federating outwards, I'll lift it

  • TIL about the Chatham House Rule

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  • Let me guess, you just watched The Diplomat? :)

  • Bluesky is cracking down on parody accounts and impersonators

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  • The thing is, when that happens, the mods/admins of the trolls new instance ban them there, without the original admin having to do anything.

    Abandoned instances, or instances that simply don't moderate, get defederated, so it's quite manageable.

    The only case where it's not that clear cut, is where the troll is a big issue for one admin, but not another. Take trans issues for example. I have a zero tolerance policy on transphobia on this instance, but not all lemmy admins are as aware of the dogwhistles as I am, so I will block some users that other admins won't. It's not ideal, but it's manageable, because I can stop their brand of transphobia from reaching my instance even if they're not banned by the remote admin. And if that pushes the troll to create another account elsewhere to get through the instance ban, then that becomes harassment, and the other admins will act, even if they wouldn't before.