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If other federated services gain dominance, they will go the same route. And due to the same pressures. (Spam, bad actors, misbehaving servers, etc)

We already see defederation drama.

I cringe every time I see someone like this say “to oblivion.”

Really? Is that really necessary? Why so consistently specific?

Music rights are frequently a thorn in distribution.

That’s a cool name

Cool, you know how to win on the internet, go off and do that.

“Managed Decline” That’ll be big.

Uh, it’s been going in that direction since the start. it’s just hitting critical mass in recent years.

I guess I’m lucky I’ve never personally known anyone to preach about their diet.

For someone like myself, this all sounds overblown and just a meme/trope you see in movies and TV.

That really does sound like a bag of hurt.

But it also sounds like a fuller alternative to what the big guys offer. And in the long run it would make it a well rounded space and protocol.

It’s too bad that it sounds like it both isn’t straightforward to implement properly, and attracts heat.

I wish them luck. Privacy and security would be great. People do use these spaces as direct messaging platforms. Even if it’s not the best all around idea. As social spaces evolve, the way people message evolves too. Making it secure earlier in that cycle is good.

Huh.

“Firing drones at” is a new phrase for me.

“To test new ways to improve the experience.”

Read:

“To test new ways to juice engagement and watch time. We are seeing if this leads to further addiction.”

Huh, that’s unintuitive to me. I remember people talking about too many hard drives in a case using too much power before. Overloading it, etc. 1-2W each would not overload a normal power supply. 🤔

Did hard drives just quietly get super efficient when I wasn’t paying attention? Or is something else going over my head here?

Failed acting career applies to most of the current online right wing pundits spewing nonsense.

I think a lot of the annoyance that comes from rules similar to your example is the fact it is a system bolted on to whatever is available in Reddit. And the UI/UX is almost always TERRIBLE.

If it was easier to make clean and functional post/comment flows this would be less of a burden.

Your points still stand. But I do think a large proportion of the friction from many rules comes from Reddits architecture. And frankly, the fact that they support apps. If it had stayed just the website, we would have probally seen more movement on improving these flows. But it’s deemed too complicated to support in two formats. Also, Reddit probally just does not give a shit.

I would hope Lemmy could be a place where it’s easy to deploy systems for proper labeling and tagging in niche communities that gain a lot from better taxonomies and other systems.

If communities end up with hundreds of thousands or millions of users, you will start to see more rules here too.

I’m not saying any specific rule choices are good or bad. But they become increasingly necessary when the user count crosses a threshold.

Why was there an anime purge?

So you’re saying you were purposefully shown a set of images that featured mustaches and were told these are what predators look like?

That sounds similar to being taught to fear ethnicities or other ways people present themselves.

Seems like an oversimplification of the world done by narrow minded people who were very misguided.

I’ve always found jokes like that to be distasteful and weird.