jdp23

joined 2 years ago
[–] jdp23@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago
[–] jdp23@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

To the contrary: defederation from instances in situations like this is very much in the spirit of the the fediverse. Not attaching NSFW tags to NSFW content is a major moderation fail by lemmynsfw, and restricting content from badly-moderated instances until they get things cleaned up is something that frequently happens.

[–] jdp23@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Several people here are saying that the bulk of it is coming from lemmynsfw. If so then it may well be best to defederate in the short term to buy time for a better solution (like marking everything from there NSFW automatically, either by a lemmy enhancement on their end or a kbin enhancement here)

[–] jdp23@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Mastodon is more Twitter-like; Lemmy is Reddit-like; KBin has elements of both (Magazines and Threads being more Reddit-like, Microblog view being vaguely like Twitter). Mastodon has had a couple of big influxes of people considering leaving Twitter, similar to how Kbin and Lemmy are getting a lot of interest considering leaving Reddit.

What's intriguing is that because they all use the same protocol (ActivityPub), people on Kbin can vote and comment on Lemmy posts, and Mastodon users can comment on Kbin or Lemmy posts. This is called federation, and software that uses ActivityPub is considered part of the "fediverse". There are also dozens of other fediverse software platforms -- Pixelfed is Instagram-like, Bookwyrm is goodreads-like, micro.blog and WriteFreely and others are blogs, etc etc. -- that can all all interact, at least somewhat. Of course the reality's more confusing, sometimes you can't interact between different sites or software, and sometimes interactions are limited (for example you can't vote on Kbin or Lemmy threads from Mastodon).

Here's a post I made a few days ago from a Mastodon account that's also visible in the Lemmy fediverse community, because I tagged the community. It didn't go to Kbin (even though I tagged a Magazine) because federation wasn't working at the time; and some of the replies in on Mastodon went to Lemmy as well, others didn't, who knows why. Oh well. Still, it's amazing when it works!

[–] jdp23@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah really. But, I'm sure he's surrounded by people -- investors, other CEOs who love the precedent of exploiting their volunteers, probably most if not all Reddit high-level staff -- encouraging him and telling him it's going well. Back in the 1990s Microsoft was known as being in a reality distortion field and I've seen similar things happen at other companies as well.

[–] jdp23@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Most support it, although not all. They’ve been clear ask asking that they were trying to build a well-moderated space so it aligns With why most people are there - saw one person say that their first post had been hit by right-wing trolls from one of those instances, so if that’s happening then defederation makes sense.

[–] jdp23@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

I just talked with the person who's running https://kilioa.org/ and it isn't ready for a major influx of users, please take it off the list for now!

[–] jdp23@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

thanks for forwarding!

[–] jdp23@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Fediverse servers are written in all kinds of languages. Mastodon is in Ruby (using Rails), Pleroma, Akkoma, and Bonfire in Elixir, GoToSocial is in Go, Misskey and Calckey in typescript (using Node). Whatever works!

[–] jdp23@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

yeah really ... I'm flashing!!!!!!

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