I want a Computerphile video where Tom Scott explains how federation works.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2025
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TFW it is just like his time zones video...
I imagine federation can be equally frustrating.
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This internet as it was meant to be.
sth sth every new technology is immediately used for porn
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I don't know if penis.gay exists, but it should. Think about it. If you're a gay dude, and you're out and proud, what better way to find other gay dudes who are also out and proud?
I don't know how social interaction works with finding other like minded gay guys, but do you know how thrilled straight men would be if women had a horny.drippingpussy instance that they used when they wanted sex?
I think part of the problem with guys trying to find sex, is chasing it from people who are in no way interested. So if Tom flirts with Sally, but Sally is asexual, then Tom has a 0% succsess potential if he hits on her at the bar. But he doesn't know that. So after he gets rejected, now he feels bad about himself. Nobody likes getting rejected.
But if Tom went on nsfwlemmy, and found Tina@horny.drippingpussy then he would know that she's just like a Buffalo NY city street in December. Ready to be plowed.
And for gay guys, penis.gay would let them identify to each other that they're all like minded, and judgement free.
Although as I think about this, at least in America, it may not be the best idea, because now ICE is essentially becoming the S.S. and using social media activity to track "undesirables". And I don't trust the republicans to be open minded and empathetic. We all know what the nazis did with gay people in the 30s/40s.
So I guess it would be one of those things that would be great in a perfect world...but because we live in this reality, we can't have nice things.
I just checked, and penis.gay is currently taken. However, penis.world and penis.fit are both available, albeit expensive.
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I think part of the problem with guys trying to find sex, is chasing it from people who are in no way interested. So if Tom flirts with Sally, but Sally is asexual, then Tom has a 0% succsess potential if he hits on her at the bar. But he doesn’t know that. So after he gets rejected, now he feels bad about himself. Nobody likes getting rejected.
But if Tom went on nsfwlemmy, and found Tina@horny.drippingpussy then he would know that she’s just like a Buffalo NY city street in December. Ready to be plowed.
Idk, that sounds like the type of username some aces I know would use. Granted, they're also the type who'd love to be spitroasted...
I am extremely uneducated about this point, but how are "asexual" and "love to be spitroasted" compatible things in the same person?
Feel free to tell me to just search this on my own, but I am hella confused and if you can spare the time, that would help me greatly.
A lot if horny people like the idea of joining the LGBT club and ironically found the Asexual label the easiest one to morph to their desires.
So now a lot of people online will say asexuals are still very much sexual, and help that be a self-fulfilling prophecy by not caring that it makes people looking for others who are naturally not sexual very uncomfortable to be considered under the same label.
No, that's bigoted nonsense. Trans people had to suffer well meaning cis people crying about "transtrenders" in the 10s and I guess aces have to deal with this too now.
Asexuality is lack of sexual attraction. Attraction is like hunger. Some people like to eat sweets even when they're not hungry, some people don't. The words for that are "sex positive ace" and "sex repulsed ace".
Asexuality is also an umbrella. There's demisexuals, grey aces, and others under the umbrella.
Also also, there's aces who are into kink, but not genitals.
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You can be asexual – not experiencing sexual attraction to some degree – while still enjoying the act itself. But you can also be totally opposed to any sexual activity, it's a spectrum like most sexualities.
Ace refers to who you are attracted to sexually, not what acts you find enjoyable. You can just enjoy the physical stimulation (also some aces enjoy sex with partners as a part of a romantic relationship, but not sure if that applies to what I said.
You know asexual people who like getting plowed by multiple people simultaneously? Huh.
Just one. But yeah. Not exactly a demographic I seek out.
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I tried getting in on yiffit.net, but they weren't taking new users at the time. Kinda sad about that.
I almost chose Lemmygrad for my first account because it's an excellent pun and I didn't know that it was for ACTUAL tankies before reading closer.
I'm not sure my enthusiasm for the project would have survived making that mistake at the very beginning lol
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Could someone explain the joke? I don't get what Tom Scott is doing here.
I'm guessing it's because Tom Scott goes to plenty of places and some Fediverse users use plenty of instances
Ty!
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I was on blahaj.zone until they decided they didn't like it when you call out admin abuse
it's just opinionated as fuck and full of censorship
If you don't follow the rules of the master Ada, you're automatically transphobic or something
fucking sect
blahaj is a clown show of an instance
What happened?
Inconsistent application of instance/community rules
Ah, bummer. Good thing there are other instances and platforms! Mbin is my favorite so far.
Some instance admins respond to report abuse and intentional troll brigading differently than Reddit would have. You can probably surmise what a 'blahaj' instance has to deal with.
Ultimately there being many instances and platforms for people to migrate to over, even on a whim is, in fact, a good thing. That sense of mobility and independence is valuable to the Fediverse.
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Why would you want multiple accounts on the same software? Having a Mastodon, a Misskey/Sharkey, a Lemmy, a Mbin, a Wafrn, etc., that makes sense - each one of those have different tech and very different communities. But why would you want more than one Lemmy?
I asked this question to someone I saw frequently instance hopping and they said it was related to instance federation and the spread of posted content, as well as their desire to advertise lesser known instances. I think it's a little disorienting and creates the opportunity for dopplegangers but it was a much more satisfying motivation than avoiding bans.
I've swapped for various reasons: instance shutting down, defederation by major instance I interest with, etc, downvotes vs no downvotes. I also like having at least two I can easily swap between in case one is down.
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