If your issue is that you are only seeing popular stuff from "lowest-common-denominator" communities, then maybe stop browsing by all and only subscribe to the communities you are interested in?
rglullis
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Slowly but surely, people are starting to realize that one of the main benefits of decentralization is that it gives power back to the users, and that we don't need to be tied by the work done on the backend.
(Yeah, I was writing then about Mastodon, but the logic applies to all fediverse applications)
Can we try to not fragment an already-small community?
Matrix works and is secure for 99.998% of the people. Is it really worth it to break into factions just because some people are worried about... checks notes ... IP addresses?
It's not "uniquely identifiable". What if someone else writes your information as their own?
Again, I feel like there is a lot of conjecturing when the best thing to do would be to get an actual lawyer to make a report indicating what about Lemmy today is in violation of the GDPR. For all the crying around it, I'd bet that the issues are not insurmountable, and I think that we should stick with common sense: those that care about actual privacy should not be using a social media platform anyway, and they should always be treating anything they put online as something that is never going to be deleted and available for any sufficiently motivated actor.
Ok, you are right that I was more aggressive in this comment that I should. And you are right that is coming from a sense of frustration, but it's not just because of my proposal.
I'm frustrated by the overall "what's in it for me?" attitude that still prevails in a place that is so self-proclaimed "pro-collective" and "anti-corporate", and I'm frustrated by the lack of consistency of the community. We all love to claim to hate Reddit and its practices, but I can bet the large majority went back to use it and are just waiting for the alternatives to magically be developed.
Let's say you go to a public forum and asks "please remove my PII". To comply, they don't need to remove your comments and posts, they just need to remove your username. Granted, the website owner might have the policy of deleting all the content, but you'll have a hard time with the legal system to argue that they are not complying with the GDPR if they delete only the thing that really just identifies you uniquely.
A bit meta: what's the thing with people that are not subscribers to the community but downvote perfectly fine posts?
If it's spam, then report it.
If you are not interested in the community at all, then just mute or ignore it.
If you are interested in the topic of the community but disagree with the post, then write a comment to help with the discussion.
@Parasite_Messiah@lemm.ee and @Daveofthenorth@lemm.ee, can you please refrain from downvoting posts in communities you do not participate? There is no algorithm to train here. You might not be interested in the content, but other people might be and you end up making things hard for them to find it.
Not assuming anything except that at least 60 people read my comment and thought it was a good idea...
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The number of subscribers to this community is already close to half of the total amount of active users on all of Lemmy. Plus, as so many people said before (when complaining about the alien.top bots), the majority of people browse Lemmy by "all". I really find hard to believe that going to other communities is going to move the needle too much in terms of reach.
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If I were a scammer, I'd be a really dumb one. Do you really think that it would be a good idea to go through a platform like Github asking for $4/month? Or go through all the trouble to put together a real website, offering services were you pay through Stripe and can cancel or ask for a refund?
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Honestly, because I don't believe in the donation-based model. I'd rather have people believing in me and supporting my work by being actual customers of my business offer.
Like I said, I am not demanding anything. I am just pointing out that now you know, so now you can take action.
You don't have to, but you can.
In principle, I agree with you. But you are judging Reddit's value by the looking at the home page and taking a snapshot. Instead of looking at it as a lake of mostly crap, think of it as Instead of a river that filters things out and holds the not-crap that come from the flood.