I feel like you’re ascribing way to much to leftists when far right and libertarians were fleeing reddit too. Like, it’s not just the left that interest in a non-corporate environment.
Liberals are not "leftists," and they are not of "the left." Liberalism is a right-wing ideology (just not as right-wing) and as such, is devoted to capitalism.
I don’t think tinwhiskers has problems with communists. If they had problem with communists, they would surely have said “communists”.
They said “tankies”. I am more inclined to suggest their issue is with tankies, not communists.
"Tankie" is a pejorative for Marxist-Leninist, the most successful approach to building communism in all of history, responsible for improving the material conditions of hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before seen in history. Anyone who unironically uses "tankie" as a pejorative in the 21st century is thoroughly anti-communist, be it intentionally or otherwise.
Don’t sign up to lemmy.ml or you’ll need to sign up again on a new instance when they get defederated. Tankies. I guess a blind eye is being turned right now because numbers are important for survival atm, but I wouldn’t consider it a future-proof instance.
It never ceases to amuse me that throngs of liberals, fleeing from yet another capitalist centralized service doing what capitalist centralized services do, are so quick to denigrate the work of the communists that made their flight to an alternative possible in the first place. We wouldn't have Lemmy -- and the numerous improvements to Groups in the ActivityPub standard -- if it weren't for communists like them.
Also, LemmyGrad.ml has most of the "tankies." Lemmy.ml is more generically socialist.
I fully expect .world to become the default at some point, it statistically has more active users and is outgrowing .ml at a rapid pace.
The whole point of federation is that there is no such thing as "the default." As soon as that happens, it becomes Just Another Reddit Clone.
Yep. ActivityPub is the best thing to hit the internet in the past decade. I think the decentralization it enables does a good enough job of balancing between the absolute control of a fully centralized service and the absolute chaos of a fully distributed service.
Last I heard they had plans to integrate into it, but nothing active yet.
I thought the sales pitch on syntech rounds was just that: sales garbage. But... I certainly feel like I have better recoil handling with them than with standard rounds.
I’ll be interested to see if they try to keep the money happy by trying to kill porn on reddit. If they try that reddit would be in worse shape than Trump.
Worked out so great for Tumblr. But apparently the plan is to take all the worst ideas from the past couple years and speedrun 'em, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
It definitely feels like they're going for a world record in the "kill your golden goose as fast as possible" category.
And then someone starts talking about dining philosophers...
I'd argue the drama is inherent. ActivityPub -- and federalization/decentralization more generally -- just surfaces it, and provides different groups of people with appropriate tools -- muting, blocking, defederating -- to curate their social graphs as they see fit, rather than ceding that control to a single centralized provider.
Yep. Lies in the very first sentence. The Myth of Neutrality.