Nah, the iphone is also overhypped and overpriced

Honestly I don’t care about stories, but I hope that encourages my friends to pay attention to it.

True, the rest of the point stands and there’s a worrying slow reaction against communities/instances that are actually dangerous

There’s Revanced if you use Android, SmartTube for AndroidTV, on pc the best solution is Firefox with UblockOrigin+Sponsorblock (I also use Enhancer for Youtube).
Also saw some mentions about Peertube, I think it’s something like Youtube for the fediverse but I haven’t really checked it.

Did you know that’s how r/thedonald actually started? It was meant to be satire but it attracted those who were serious and look at what happebed.

The software is open-source, you or anyone who knows the language could fork it and work on it, hopefully someone less problematic.

Yet people are going to keep using it and sharing it as it that’s acceptable

This post could have been a message to the admins. Just contact them, ask if you could have a community for the kind of art you sell and how you plan to keep it from being/becoming too spammy with the links.

Having to do so much research just to join an instance is one of the biggest problems of the fediverse.

I honestly doubt they’ll open again, they’ll get so used to their safe-space that they won’t be able to handle all the shitposting.
And we know mod tools can only do so much, if they couldn’t handle it with not so many users, I don’t know what are they going to do later if more instances keep appearing and growing.

So literally “Suffering from success”

I mean, they said it in their post, they want to be a safe space so… VERY different from what reddit was, someone else already said it, but they’d be better using a forum than the fediverse (specially with so little mods).

I can see why they need to do it, they apparently only have 4 main mods for the entire server

Why would they think that would be enough to withstand the waves from reddit? That was just a disaster waiting to happen.

The software right now is extremely lacking in many aspects that it’s hard to pin point which priority should be higher than other (specially since I ain’t helping to it), but yeah I assume there appeared so many bugs when the waves started that we can only be patient.

With that said, I think it’s a pretty amazing concept that they can. Terrible, sure, but nonetheless amazing.

I’ve been calling it a double-edged sword from the moment I knew that could happen in Mastodon and after I joined Lemmy, we see as normal to block lemmygrad from the beginning and that’s understandable, but if an owner goes block-happy they could leave a lot of people stranded and inside their echo-chamber.
They’d be losing everything then and would be forced to migrate to other instance or create their own which may be too much as time goes by and people post more and more.

I said this from the beginning but until we get migration tools to carry our content with us to other instance, think of your account as disposable.

It isn’t about keeping it alive or improving the game, it’s about milking the idiots who keep shelling out money and defending battlepasses + mtx, once the money runs out they’ll just kill it and move on.

That seems very contradictory to me if it’s true, but I’m still trying to make sense of it, so maybe there’s something I’m missing.

Basically they are trying to keep the propaganda machine going, it won’t make sense.

Yes, absolutely. They can do whatever they want on their server, including censoring opposing political viewpoints. I can say I think that’s a bad thing to do, because to me, using control of a platform to censor your opponents’ political viewpoints is in fact very bad. I mean if they actually do support Russia and the CCP, then I guess it’s not surprising if they’re okay with censoring opposing views, but to me, it’s wrong. They can do it – people can do a lot of things – but it doesn’t mean that every thing a person can choose to do is right.

Just to be an ass: there is no absolute right or wrong, to them we are in the wrong and should submit to their ideas, to us they are wrong for trying to censor and limit discussion.

This isn’t that though. The phrase is “prior restraint.” If I go out and accuse someone of something, and it’s not true and they sue me for libel and prove me wrong and I’m punished for it, that’s consequences. If someone’s not allowing the accusation to exist in the first place, that’s not free speech with consequences, that’s someone controlling and approving beforehand what I’m allowed and not allowed to say

Oh right, then it was a phrasing problem as we agree on that.

if you did that with that amount of power, what are you going to do if you wind up later on with more power?

I mean… just look around and there are many examples and multipying.
At least for this context, it’s not so big because the users can ditch that instance and register at a different one, if they actually get extreme they’ll just get defederated or if they defederate too many instances they will isolate themselves and the server software can be forked, so there’s at least some safes in place.

They own and federate with lemmygrad, also were the owners/mods of r/comunism and the complains seem to come from way before (from those that came before the reddit blackout), it’s not sketchy or coincidential, it’s deliberated.

I don’t agree with your last statement, in the end the instance belongs to someone else and they placed rules that we agreed to follow the moment we joined.
Just like with everything else, being free to say whatever you want doesn’t mean being free of consequences.

In other comment they linked to the issue for the devs to fix/add.
Being something inspired in Reddit I was expecting to have that already, I like games but I don’t care about a lot of the trailers or games so hidding them would really help clear my feed without blocking an instance or a user (specilly when it’s the main user posting news and trailers in general, I don’t want to block them).

Sure thing, here you go