I fucking abhor capitalism!
sabreW4K3
joined 8 months ago
Are you using hashtags?
Mastodon has a redirect. I believe that's the only thing missing.
Off the top of my head… yes, in that they integrate tighter with Mastodon and thus increase the likelihood of a wider black audience partaking in discussions.
Better for Linux? I'm not sure I would say it is. Better for the world in general? When you compare things like power consumption, you can definitely see that in some use cases (the average user), ARM is superior. But for Linux? Maybe by default owing to the fact that it's more modern. As for RISC-V, the core is open source and "all" the extensions are proprietary, so it's not as open source as it pretends to be. But it's definitely better than what we're currently accustomed to as mainstream.
Sometimes people just want a moment to themselves.
Also, while we're here. Let's call out instances that don't update their Lemmy version because they want to make a point, even though doing so would bring quality of life improvements to black community members. Looking at you Beehaw and even Lemmy World.
Also Lemmy.ml for turning into fuck ups. Being the second largest instance, especially one that was less mainstream in their beliefs, they just had to keep doing them. They were never going to be popular, but different and well run was enough. Then they started making questionable decisions and not explaining them. Which, being that they're so well read, know never ends well. They had more time on their hands and started being overly involved in the instance and that hurts their community members in ways in which they're too up their arse to take stock of. Step away from the admin panel, let your moderators moderate.
The Fediverse does have a massive white slant and the default experience isn't very embracing of different cultures.
There's a bunch of people who would like to see things improved and as of yet, there's not much consensus. The only real idea I've seen floated thus far is blocklist subscriptions.
A massive part of the problem as I see it is, and don't get me wrong, this is a symptom, not a root cause, people are inclined to use the wrong tools. Mastodon is a microblog and yet people are determined to use it for groups and nuanced conversation where their instance only supports 400 characters.
Also WriteFreely is the only active blog service in the Fediverse and needs some love.
We need to encourage people to move to tools that better fit their needs and desires and honestly part of the problem with that is that people feel they'll lose their interactions/audience and that is about Mastodon being shit, because while they can focus on making things more seamless with Lemmy and soon to be Discourse, NodeBB, etc. They're seemingly not willing to.
In regards to Lemmy specifically. Lemmy has a problem. You can see that by the fact this has been voted down to oblivion. When people treat ALL like a personal subscription feed and vote down things they're not interested in or dislike, it creates a monoculture. And no, I'm not saying don't downvote things, but there's a difference between voting down something because it's not great in a community and because you're trying to curate ALL. Maybe a solution is to add local/subscribed only voting options for communities. Lemmy needs to learn to embrace things that aren't for you and sometimes, in fact most times, that's as simple as saying, "that's not for me, I'll ignore it."
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YouTube Processed a Billion Content ID Copyright Claims in Six Months * TorrentFreak
(torrentfreak.com)
So I've been thinking about this and I would go for a different approach.
Admins can set voting to be public or private on a server wide level.
When users vote, a key is created as the userid
The votes table is essentially: voteid, postid, userid, timestamp, salt, public
If the vote is private, userid is salt(userid, password)
And it's that simple.