My problem is what others described: downvoting without actionable feedback.
This is exactly why I prefer instances that have downvotes disabled.
Admin & sysadmin of a Warframe-focused Lemmy instance at https://dormi.zone.
Developer of a UI mod for Vivaldi Browser: https://github.com/HKayn/vivaldi-vh
My problem is what others described: downvoting without actionable feedback.
This is exactly why I prefer instances that have downvotes disabled.
☝️ This user has never donated to libre software.
It’s already illegal if your content is large enough to be copyrightable.
The issue is that the majority of people on the Fediverse are “techies” with specific interests, which skews the spectrum of content quite a bit.
The Fediverse is in an awkward spot. It needs more people like you to keep technology communities from becoming Linux circlejerks, but at the same time those circlejerks are driving people like you out.
Didn’t take long for instancism to become a thing here, huh
Do you think comments like these are swaying public opinion in your favor?
People will never use downvotes the intended way. They haven’t done so on Reddit either.
I see no productive use for downvotes, so I’ve disabled them.
But what if some of my comments include information that can uniquely identify me?
That can be something like “message me on Matrix at …”
I didn’t see your initial proposal. However I sympathise with this post and I really understand the frustration you’re feeling with the lack of donations, having seen it time and time again in the open-source space.
I was going to pledge that I’d donate once I had the cash available, but seeing how you respond to people in the comments is leading me to reconsider. You may not be demanding donations, but to me it does look like you’re attempting to shame people into donating with a challenging tone. Quoting one of your responses:
Anyway, now you know it as well. If you think that this is a worthy effort, what are you going to do about it besides commenting here?
I still want to support you if you’re going to pursue this, since I myself have a strong interest in Lemmy being GDPR-compliant, but I ask you that you please reconsider how you approach the people that can potentially be supporters of your efforts.
Can you show where the GDPR excludes public information? Because if it doesn’t and can uniquely identify a person, then it’s still subject to this regulation.
IANAL, but fediverse instances need to find a way to automatically set up data processing agreements when initializing federation to be GDPR-compliant: https://gdpr.eu/what-is-data-processing-agreement/
Multiple people on here have already tried to tell them.
What are you calling centralized here?
The spammers are using a limited number of scraped Fediverse actors, which also included a handful of Lemmy communities.
If you weren’t part of that list, you were mostly safe.
Search engines currently struggle with the concept of federated posts. My guess is that instead of finding a post’s home instance, they accept the first mirror of that post and discard copies from all other instances through deduplication.
Why care which browser they use?
What incentive would they have to betray your trust?
But the AT Protocol is open, isn’t it? Anyone can go ahead and create non proprietary software that lives on this protocol.
I understand your concerns regarding Bluesky specifically being proprietary, but as soon as someone creates an open source atproto server, you will be able to interact with Bluesky users without using proprietary software. It will require Bluesky to federate with instances using such software of course.
How would Bluesky be falling to enshittification if it can be federated just like Mastodon?
Everyone always says Mastodon can’t be ruined this way because you can always move to another Mastodon instance. Wouldn’t that also be the case for Bluesky, once federation kicks off?
So every negative news about Twitter, Instagram and literally every non-fedi social media platform is “relevant” too?
The post itself doesn’t even make an effort to connect this to potential benefits for fedi.