Canada has a huge Ukrainian population, we're staunch allies with the US (who is firmly on Ukraine's side now that the Manchurian Candidate is out of office), and Russia is obviously the aggressor in this war. Of course we're going to side with Ukraine.
Russia's only hope was to convince the world that apathy was easier than getting involved. But they did a shit job of it
There's a possible future where major fediverse sites switch to whitelisted federation to deal with spam etc. At that point, your small instance would have to petition all the major players to be let in. That would probably kill off most small instances.
I think it's totally fine for instances that want to be small and community-focused to not be federated with the greater pool of the internet. Especially when, as they've said, the moderation manpower and tooling isn't there to handle the extra users.
Personally, I wouldn't want to join a place like that (I've never been a fan of message boards or other niche communities), but it's their place and their rules.
Professional. I started out with Basic, then QBasic and Java in high school. Made a Geocities site.
Years later, I was bored and decided to learn Python. Had enough fun doing that that I decided to go to school for it.
Now I'm a full-time programmer, mostly doing web app stuff. I spend much, much less time doing programming for fun, but I'm a huge fan of learning new languages.
Each Lemmy instance (or kbin 👋) is like its own Reddit, all connected together. So you're seeing 'subreddits' from multiple instances right now.
That's a great point -- by making public places the only places you can exist while poor, you push all the homeless there and everyone else ends up avoiding it and going to places they have to spend money at. Enforced consumption.
Picnic in the park? Sorry, tent city there. Better go to a restaurant instead.
Baseball at the diamond? Needles and excrement, let's go bowling instead.
Grab some books from the library? Someone's smoking crack in the bathroom, I'll just buy the book from a store. Or Amazon.
Ideally these public spaces would be for everyone, but more and more they're repurposed for social services.
Owlboy was better than I expected it to be.
I don't think this is a problem right now. I'm in favour of deferring any decision.
Right now, getting more magazines opened is more important than who mods them. Without content, there's no users, and without users, there's no content. If someone wants to create a dozen magazines and get the conversations kick-started, that's a good thing.
If moderation on a new magazine is shit, people will move to a new one. The same thing happened at Reddit. r/gaming was too memy, so people made r/games. You had two large subs in r/relationships and r/relationship_advice.
The only issue in my mind has to do with continuity planning. What do we do in a few months when a hundred magazines have AWOL moderation? Who decides?
their development on top of ActivityPub will potentially be useful as case-studies of what kinds of UX can feasibly be built on top of ActivityPub
Absolutely. Devs at Facebook, Twitter, etc have built a ton of great things that have been adopted by web devs across the industry. I'm looking forward to what they do with ActivityPub that we get to 'steal'
Confirming I have the same issue