it’s like email (derogatory)
Is the “polite society” in the room with us right now?
Is it at X-twitter?
The fediverse is not like email. It’s more like a series of decentralized social networks that can communicate with each other.
Show of hands who’s here because they’re not allowed on reddit anymore? 🤚
I’m allowed on Reddit for as long as I want.
I don’t want to be there. so I am here.
I left Reddit because they changed the API and wouldn’t let me use my favorite app RiF lol
That was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. Now I wouldn’t go back even if they reversed it.
Likewise. Never deleting that app, but never going back to Reddit again either.
The official reddit app is a vomit-inducing pile of antipatterns, I hate it so much I don’t use reddit while on the phone at all, which made me use it almost never. Now I need to escape this hellhole and my life will be so much better
I used Reddit for 15 years, hundreds of thousands of Karma. Never any bans or warnings. Active in a ton of subs.
They have some new AI moderation hirse shit this year. Banned after 3 strikes in a month because I post shit about fuck Ice and Fuck the Nazis.
So Fuck Reddit.
(FWIW, I have been using Lemmy before that, but now I use it more.)
Same deal here. 12 year old account banned because I said “ready to kill” in the context of a cat hunting a bird and apparently that is “threatening or violent content”
Whoever is (not) reviewing the appeals needs to eat a peepee
I habe heard similar stories about peolle banned for making comments like that in game subreddits too. Someome look for help, and you say “Kill the boss” and suddenly banned, that sort of thing.
I said mean things about Elon Musk and was banned for “violent extremism”
Got myself and my girlfriend chain IP banned because I said I couldn’t wait to see more waymos on fire
So many comments in here hating on the “like email” wording. To be honest, it’s been awhile since I’ve even seen any large number of comments using that analogy, but also, the “like email” part was pretty much always paired with additional explanation on which parts are like that and which parts differ from that. Like most analogies, it’s not a perfect 100% 1-to-1 pairing of all features and function, otherwise, it wouldn’t be an analogy. I’m not sure why so many people struggle with understanding that.
No, it’s not like email. It’s like Glibbleschmorken except there’s not mandatory prereconcillation of sychroncratic communication.
That’s inaccurate, my dude, it’s nothing like Glibbleschmorken, it’s more like WUD where there’s a multiplier for the scoring quotient and no centralized conglomeration.
False. WUD SUX. There’s only no centralized conglomeration if you ignore the fact that every hovel has API underpinning that strategizes the discombobulation. But, that’s basically ignoring the facts. Federation is clearly just like UDP.
And so on. Ad nauseam.
The “it’s like email” analogy was always doomed, because the people saying it know how email works at a technical and architectural level, while the people hearing it know email as “that thing that Just Works ™️ to send messages to anyone else with an email address”.
At that level, the Fediverse and Email are nothing alike.
I don’t agree. But, even if I was fully on board with that, I’d say “it’s like email” is still orders of magnitude more relatable as an analogy than telling non-technical people it’s like a BBS, it’s like UDP, it’s like, technical mumbo-jumbo that the majority of the audience probably doesn’t even know by name recognition, let alone understand what these things are and how they work.
Analogies are rarely perfect (I’d argue good analogies are never perfect).
When comparing the fediverse to email we’re talking about the technology. It’s a simplification to explain how it all connects together using a very similar and known example.
I think the only difference is that, unlike email, all fediverse uses the same* activitypub protocol. Other than that, yeah, it’s just like those house-castles.
* Some differences may arise depending on implementation, like misskey reactions
It’s like email. Deal with it.
I can. But I can’t exist in polite society. So… here we are.
lol these were constructed with mostly Saudi Arabians in mind. Didn’t really work out.
Where is the lie?
Stop trying to sell me on it; I’m already here!
Yes. The fediverse is so great I’ve stopped telling people about it.
We fedis know how to keep a secret.First rule of Fediverse…
Too much growth will kill the vibe in this place.
Oh, I can exist in polite society just fine.
It’s just that I don’t want to.
“Polite society” ain’t.
Greetings!
Hello
Crosspost comment consolidation helps with that issue.
Already available on Piefed, planned on Lemmy 1.0.
planned on Lemmy 1.0.
Closed as not planned: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3415
That’s… sad to see.
I’ll probably make a post about this when I have some time. Community fragmentation is still quite a large issue across the Threadiverse, it was supposed to be solved by this.
How does this interact with moderation? I never considered that viable because how wildly… Shall we say diverse .ml, .world, and the rest of the fediverses’ moderation schemes are.
Each community’s comments are separated although still on the same page. Here is a good example - https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1765981/google-sent-personal-and-financial-information-of-student-journalist-to-ice
Oh, that’s neat.
Thanks for the example :)
That’s cool! I just wish the header was more subtle, but that’s only a css thing
I must be missing something because I only see two main comments on that post and the sub comments.
I’m on voyager app tho so that’s likely a limiting feature even tho it’s supposed to be working on that comparability.
Can you show me a screenshot of what you meant to show?
You could just pop it open in your browser… don’t even need an account.
Hypothetically yes, but I only ever accessed fediverse through non-apps briefly before I swapped to the app. I was part of the Reddit app-based exodus. That was the whole reason I came here; to support app devs.
If it’s not reflected in apps, lots of people will never see it. That’s all. I can go out of my way to see it but I don’t see it in my normal interface. Voyager is still working on full piefed support
I think some of us are just kind of used to checking things directly since certain features and concepts may not yet be implemented in things like clients due to being, essentially, the bleeding edge.
Yeah, I get it. You more techie people tend to assume everyone does what you do, and that’s fine, but totally unrealistic overall. I’m not nearly as techie as you probably are, but more than your average user, and tbh the barrier here is pretty high already, even without those assumptions of capability.
If they won’t do the work on other platforms, they certainly won’t here. Y’all need to stop pretending they will. It’s not doing any favors I’m sorry.
I assure you, the alternative to the fediverse is not polite society, not in my experience. Unlike other platforms one is allowed to be wrong here and getting corrected doesn’t trigger the fight, flight, freeze or fawn response.
