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It was probably poorly phrased but I feel like I remember there was a group of various instance admins at the time discussing ways to deal with it, so it was more of a reference to maybe they figured something out.

You’re right that they used tiny instances with no oversight and open registrations to ban evade for a long time even before this debacle when it was just normal Nicole spam.

A copycat spammer started sending gore pictures to people using the same Nicole copypasta text. A lot of people got upset and there was a flurry of discussion over like a 24h period. Some people seemed to think it was a serial killer and Nicole had been doxxed and killed. In reality if I recall right the picture was from a morgue somewhere in China.

Anyway the whole thing led to a general “okay maybe the joke has run its course and we shouldn’t encourage this” type of moment and the sub was shut down. Presumably the spammer stopped spamming once they no longer received attention, but maybe the admins found and IP banned them or something. I have no idea.

Slopornot has a great ring to it I must say.

Interesting.

Wasn’t July 1st when lemm.ee shut down?

I’ve noticed this too and it drives me up the fucking wall. Give us an option or something - anything. Why is this a thing?

I tried Thunder but never vibed with personally. The by far best app for me after giving up on Sync was Summit. Which also, if you’re annoyed with ljdawson’s absence the Summit dev is like the polar opposite.

I feel like the Formula 1 community is fairly active with quite a bit of actual discussion going on?

[email protected] is basically dead, though I am as guilty anyone of not posting more.

[email protected] has seen some posts lately but I wish it was more active.

[email protected] for motorsports.

I haven’t, but then again I don’t subscribe to News or Politics communities.

you get lemmy, mastodon, bluesky, threads all together

Wait, I’ve been waiting for an app like this. How does it support threaded link aggregation like Lemmy? Can you browse communities and feeds as you would any other Lemmy app, or does it display all scuffed like if you try to follow Lemmy communities on Mastodon/Misskey?

Was he not aware of the paradox of tolerance and the Nazi bar parable?

Don’t listen to them 2020 was like last year. Also the 90s was ten years ago don’t let anyone tell you different.

Yeah, Summit is awesome. idunnolulz is a great dev and the app is just getting better with each update. There is still some stuff I miss from Sync, like easy per-instance community listing and remote local, but I trust Summit will get there in the future.

Is this when browsing your /local feed? Sync doesn’t display comments in posts on your local feed, this bug has been known about and reported for over a year and a half by now I think.

It’s one of the reasons I reluctantly stopped using it and moved to Summit.

Would be a great service for the community to have it up and running again.

I remember that map, it was a great resource. Like you say, visualizing defederations would be especially helpful.

I think you may be right. Would be very unfortunate.

It’s a damn shame because Sync is absolutely excellent, but it’s already had several quite severe bugs gone unfixed for over a year now, and it will stop working altogether with Lemmy 1.0.

If you’re looking for an alternative Summit has been great, and the developer is super active and responsive. It’s without a doubt the best alternative, in my opinion.

People smarter than me will need to weigh in on the scalability of Python vs Rust, but if that’s not a concern then that may be what happens.

Probably requires something like Lemmy.World doing a migration, though. Lemmy as a software still has the highest pull by way of being the the predominant one. That’s just how people work.

Also Piefed needs more apps. The huge variety of Lemmy apps is a massive draw at the moment.