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[–] mint_tamas 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

revolutions are born in monents like these

Holy shit can this whole thing be any more corny? Is this done by teenagers? Don’t get me wrong fuck Musk/reddit/etc. but what is even the outrage about this time?

[–] Theonetheycall1845 2 points 42 minutes ago

Subreddits are being banned and important information being hindered from being seen. It may be corny to you but at least they're trying. What have you done?

[–] FangedWyvern42 36 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

runs from censorship

goes to Lemmy.ml

I think that kind of defeats your point here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

.world straight up blocks /c/piracy and "preemptively" blocked hexbear.

[–] chiliedogg 3 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

They blocked piracy for like a day over a year ago and then unblocked it when the users were clearly against it.

Hexbear being blocked is a good thing and overwhelmingly supported by the users.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago

Blocking hexbear is a sensible choice, good for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

lemmy.dbzer0.com then? 😎

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago) (1 children)
  1. blocking hexbear is a good idea
  2. ~~world unblocked priacy instances over a year ago~~ with the notable exception of the db0 instance
[–] [email protected] 3 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

World went back and banned dbo piracy comm after banning then unbanning when people noticed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

just checked if I can see piracy on lemmy.world and yes you're correct. Though it seems only the db0 instance was banned in particular weirdly.

I still stand by point 1 though. Hexbear as an instance has been profile-blocked by me.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine running from censorship and going to Lemmy.ml lmao

[–] Freefall 13 points 4 hours ago

Right? Way to destroy a movement and make a bunch of people run back to Reddit and "never again".

[–] LovableSidekick 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Technically correct, but I wonder how people are gonna handle the really serious dictator shit, like friends and relatives disappearing instead of tweets.

[–] chiliedogg 2 points 28 minutes ago

We need a place to communicate, coordinate, and share what's happening. Control of the narrative and the ability to prevent coordinated responses are essential for their plans.

[–] danc4498 18 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I love it, but I fear for the day Lemmy becomes so popular that it is worthwhile for the corporate bots to begin gaming Lemmy’s algorithm to dominate front pages. I don’t think Lemmy is prepared to defend against this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I think we might reach a point that, instead of one application in the beginning, we'd have to have periodic "re-verification" to prove that you are human (and haven't been taken over by a bot). Like maybe once every 6 months. And on the 5th month, you can begin early submission for the re-verification application.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I am still new to the fediverse but I figured that smaller constellations will federate without connecting to the largest federation.

It’s harder to manipulate 500 disjoint federations than 1 really large one. Especially when some of those federations rely on heavy verification.

Of course those smaller federations are likely organized around specific purposes or organizing interests rather than broad public discourse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

You might want to have a look at https://gui.fediseer.com/

[–] danc4498 2 points 2 hours ago

Part of what makes Reddit so great is the huge community of content creators. Both the posts and comments. Lemmy has slowly been catching up, but still is far off.

Defederating from large instances will just result in lower quality content for those instances. I would hope there’d be a better solution, but I’m not smart enough to think of one.

Maybe the secret is to let each instance control their own sorting algorithm. They keep getting the content from the large instances, but control how it gets brought to the front page. My guess is this would be no small task, but that would definitely make it difficult to game the algorithm.

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