The shared block lists need to keep up with bad faith signups, which will stop happening once the trolls are actually trying, though. So, it's going to be on the shoulders of the subscriber feed.
Which was something that Twitter augmented long before they were bought by Elon. And is something that will probably show up once the shareholders start pushing the company towards an IPO, which will happen eventually.
But maybe they'll add other interesting safety features before then.
Maybe I'm missing it, but I'm not seeing anything in these documents explaining how to change how the menu reacts to the mouse cursor?
It will be interesting to see what happens as they follow their victims over. Right now, people seem to be experiencing Bluesky as a breath of fresh air, and are attributing it to things like block lists (which, yeah, that's a good idea, and one that we've been asking for for a long while), but a big part of it is just that the ratio of trolls to liberals is way lower right now. They'll figure out how to break through the algorithm eventually, and around the block lists.
And when that happens, Twitter's going to bleed out rapidly as the fashy mouth breathers show up to flex over how they cannot be stopped. Because, yeah, there's nothing keeping them on Twitter once their victims are gone.
You think “this is it, this is the thing that’s gonna allow humanity to become enlightened!”
I don't. And don't you fucking dare put words in my mouth again. Your inability to read doesn't mean I've said what you believe. Covering your eyes and going "everyone is stupid but me" doesn't make you right. It just makes you not worth talking to.
You’re hung up on the product like a bunch of other people, and not looking at the consumer.
I'm a consumer of the product. The product that's on offer here. You, on the other hand, are hung up on how the product isn't the same as those other products over there. Trying to externalize your bullshit and put it on others, again, makes you not worth talking to.
Federation won’t do shit to change human nature.
And no one is saying it will. Stop arguing with scarecrows. They're going to outwit you.
The federated internet is not an open park where everyone hangs out together. It's a billion small spaces that link to neighbouring spaces. The idea that defederation is a problem, or that people using different webserver software is an issue, needs to be left at the door.
This isn't "Reddit but with weirdly more complex subreddit names", or "Twitter, but everyone's user name looks like an email address", but a network of a thousand independent social websites, each doing their own thing.
And that's a good thing. Expecting it to be centralized, corporate social media, only without the drive towards enshitification will make everything seem uncanny and broken. This isn't that. This is something new.
And something old.
Or to the category community. You might not find an active group dedicated to Dodge Ram transmissions, but there's at least one group for Cars, or maybe even Trucks!
You should check out something like Tesserect, it's a 3rd party front end for Lemmy that includes a lot of quality of life features, including word filtering. The demo is here: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/
If you like it, you could petition lemmy.world to offer it as an option directly.
No, Lemmy is for if you want to run a user-led forum-like website where users create and maintain discussion groups for you.
Mastodon is what you use when you want a small microblogging website.
The optimal way to use either platform is to build social websites that are focused on some commonality among users, may that be interest based, region based, identity based, or whatever kind of community you want to foster.
Lemmy allows you that community to create self-moderated subspaces to discuss topics through the community's lens. Mastodon allows that community to engage in slow-rolling threaded chats among members.
Federation allows those users to also reach out to and engage with other communities that are not your home base, whether in a microblog format, or in a compartmentalized form.
The current usage model is a simulacrum of closed, corporate, centralized platforms, and it's not working. Lemmy is full of people who who't stop whining about how thet can't homogenize and blend communities from different servers. Early on, many people wanted this merging to be automatic, as if c/News on lemmy.ca and c/News on ttrpg.network are just splintered shadows of r/News or something. Mastodon is a revolving door of people who can't find people discussing their topics of interest and then bouncing.
Local matters. The fediverse is a local-first space. Ignoring that keeps all of it an also-ran.
Ok everyone, sing along!
Un-der-wa-ter Ninja Tiiiigers
Of course. But if you care about one topic or community over all others, you should join the site that is focused on that topic. The Local timeline is the heart of the platform, and "it doesn't matter where your account lives" ia how the fediverse dies.
Mass adoption is fundamental to make any social media viable;
Forums used to be lively and self-sustaining with memberships in the low hundreds. You only need "mass adoption" if you want and unending stream of novelty bullshit that you don't actially want to engage with to entertain yourself with while on the toilet.
Hmm, I think I can live with the alternative Application Menu for now. Thank you!