Lemmy Shitpost
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
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2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
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3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
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4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
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5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
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6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
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If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
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All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
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Foe those that don't know. Wherever you create an account, all the information stays on that particular instance. E.G. Lemmyworld lemmy.ml.
To reduce the load on a instance, users should create accounts on other instances that is geographically close to you and have plenty of server resources. This would lead to a smoother and faster user experience.
You will still be able to comment and interact with users and post on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml even if you created your account elsewhere. (Unless the instance your account is created on gets defederated).
I was wondering if votes are also federated. Do you know?
They definitely are.
I only have two users on my instance, but there are posts with thousands of upvotes.
Subscriber counts aren’t though, which is something that should be addressed
If I am not entirely mistaken there was an issue between kbin and lemmy at some point in the recent past but not sure if it is still a problem.
I just went with lemm.ee because the admin is a don.
I’m here too but what is a Don?
don
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Also like a Mafia boss I think. The head of the family in the Godfather movies was the don.
and which one of them is our admin then ? uni teacher ?
The guy who posted the sticky at the top of your feed, /u/[email protected]
A new user wouldnt know this is the dilemma
That's what I did! Don't get too attached to your data, though, since a smaller instance means more risk of data loss.
I second this. I have my first account [email protected], but I created this account on a much smaller instance for much better performance and to help ease up the load on the big servers. So far, it feels much snappier.
Unfortunately, defederation is a constant theme. And sooner or later, the shit will hit the fan and no instance will communicate with other instances, claiming that everyone else holds the wrong ideas and has the wrong values.
I already heard about Lemmy.world, Beehaw and Lemmy.ml, threatening with defederation, if the other instance does not defederate from instances they themselves do not like.
Instances are doomed to become isolated echo chambers.
Beehaw markets themselves as a heavily moderated space and they caught a lot of flack for defederating from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, but even they are still federated with a bunch of different instances. There will probably be a pool of instances that share a fairly hands-off approach and remain connected to all the other instances that have a "we'll federate with anyone" policy. There will likely be a collection of middle-ground instances who defederate with instances that are the source a lot of harassment or certain NSFW material but otherwise don't restrict much and still federate with instances that maintain similar moderation styles. At the far end you end up with places like Gab and Truth Social which are both Mastodon instances that aren't federated at all and are completely closed communities because they only ever wanted to be an echo chamber. The rest of the fediverse or even just Mastodon didn't cease to exist when Truth Social started up its own walled off instance.
People can self select into the kinds of communities they like. The unrestricted ones will only fail if the lack of moderation is such a problem that nobody signs up to any of them.
That's just a slippery slope fallacy. While some instances can be more or less defederation-happy, doing it to some instances does not mean every instance who resorts to defederation will eventually exclude all other instances. Many simply want to cut off hate speech and extreme violent content, and not everyone is interested in having sexual content, especially depending on what sort of stuff it is.
It's alarmism over something that would be normal in most other platforms, which just ban users and groups who post content that goes against the rules of conduct, something that happened even on the tiny niche forums and chatrooms of the past. But rather than being entirely excluded you get to stay in communities that fit your limits. The interaction of instances that are federated will ensure that the Lemmy ecosystem will be less of an echo chamber than reddit itself was.
I think that the problem you describe is self-limiting because users can easily make accounts to get around an instance that limits the content users can view or just add an account for a more permissive instance. However, consider the following: humans tend to fixate on loss, and users aren't tied down to using any particular instance or even just one, so they don't have to compromise. You don't lose anything by adding another account on another instance to your client. There are already clients that let you pull from multiple instances automatically.
Defederation that hurts users, by the judgment of those users, on a platform where it's easy for your users to just join any other competing instances on a whim, tends to select against instances that defederate excessively. That is my hope.