I can tell some of the people commenting here are holding back, but there is an undertone of something here that isn’t very Beehaw…
Anyway.
As I live in France, I can confirm that something like this was inevitable. First of all, the politician who called the ban is severely disliked. His name is used as a synonym for poop on the internet. That is just a small detail…
It was more or less decided that he cannot put a blanket ban and would need to ban case by case, but I may have missed something since yesterday.
Through migration and gentrification, France has set itself up for minor disasters such as this. Also, through education. I am from Canada, and I remember learning about this conflict in highschool in the late '90s. But, teenager me didn’t even know at the time what a Muslim was or why religion had anything to do with it. Here in France, students do not learn about it at school, they learn about it from parents. The French way of thinking is always about time, context, and place.
So, last week was the time. Context was terrorism. Place was… Israel. The media here can be quite biased. Lots of younger people have no clue what biased means. They consume lots of YouTube and prefer things to be vulgarised, meaning simplified, and will adopt the opinion of a YouTuber or influencer quite easily. This is contradictory to how the French used to think even 10 years ago.
Since Monday, a fake story about Arabs planning a djihad has been circulating on social media. It is all over French Instagram (my partner showed me) and Telegram too.
Ignorance, fearmongering, bloodlust, racism…all the bad shit could boil over. Adding fuel to the fire is the trend of calling out and doxxing anyone who criticises country A instead of county B.
I think the police will have a busy day and some looters will again take advantage of the situation.
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I mean by this, is there any website that with one sign up would allow you to have a matrix account, lemmy account, mastodon account, etc. If it couldn’t be done with just one url it could be made a thing where it would be service.website.tld (so an example would be lemmy.myreallycool.website). Is there anything that already...
Awesome idea! Signed up immediately but am curious about the payment options, I’m seeing options to sign up for an instance of mastodon, or 10 accounts, or one account with the single account being $9 yearly?
My question is, will I have to pay every single month for every account that I own?
For example, if I have an account on mastodon, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.nsfw, beehaw etc. Would I have to pay for all of them individually?
I’m probably missing something! It’s just that while $9 a year for a single mastodon account is cheap @ less than $1 a month, I’d like to have every possible instance available for this one account which under my understanding would cost me hundreds every year?
It’s a great idea, don’t think I’m shitting on it in any way! Just asking questions bc I’d like to use it just not sure I want to pay for every individual instance I join
Lemmy as a whole is definitively more toxic than Reddit
For me, at least, non-contributive (“toxic”) [see footnote*] behaviour would be: assumptions (including witch hunting), decontextualisation, “didn’t read but still replying lol lmao”, insults, “I dun unrurrstand”, whining + entitlement, and “chrust me” = “I take you for gullible”. And those things happen far, far less in Lemmy than in Reddit.
For the poster complaining about Lemmy, “toxic” would be, instead:
pedants - pedants are fine as long as context-aware. And even then, I don’t recall a single pedant screeching at my L3 broken English here, unlike in Reddit.
purity testers - this can be interpreted 1000 ways.
concern trolls - yet another thing far more present in Reddit than here…
contrarians - “oh no what I say should be put in a holy altar, how do you dare to disagree with MEEEEEE?”. Sorry but contrarians are leagues above the sort of circlejerking that you see in Reddit, where you’d get 1000 weaboos screeching because you wrote “animes”.
“ackshyually” - refer to what I mentioned already about context. Those “ackshyually” are caused by decontextualisation, that happens far more often in Reddit.
I know that what I’m going to say is anecdotal, but it’s still worth sharing: I see the difference specially because I used to moderate a small Reddit sub, and I mod a Lemmy comm nowadays. People here are more reasonable and contributive; I barely need to intervene here, and even then 99% of the time it’s like “don’t do that” “okay”. In Reddit though? Well.
I was on Lemmy.word for slightly over a month and posted many times across numerous communities and instances, so I definitively gave it my best shot.
Depending on which instances yours federates with, you’ll get a different experience. lemmy.world and lemm.ee in special tend to gather Reddit-like critters alongside a few good posters, so instances where behaviour is a bit more monitored (such as beehaw) tend to defederate them.
Also Lemmy has backend issues
I’m no coder to claim that the issues are “backend” or “frontend”. Instead I’ll say the issues that I see:
papercuts, like the bell icon staying even after you checked all messages
a lack of mod tools
rarely lemmy.ml (the instance that I’m in) slows down.
In the past it used to show errors and refuse to load, but I don’t recall this happening nowadays. And it never showed a downtime banana.
can’t cross-instance linking posts in a convenient way
So… come on, the platform works. It has its issues, it’s likely worse from lemmy.world due to the amount of posters, but it works.
Bad actors
Name them. Otherwise it boils down to “chrust me”. Unless referring to the CSAM event below.
lemmy.world comm being bombarded with CSAM […] Imagine if a subreddit had to be shut down because of this.
I seriously believe that the approach taken by the lemmy.world admins to close down !lemmyshitpost was more sensible than the actions that I’d expect any Reddit instance (oh wait, there’s only Spez’s) to take. If the same happened in 2023 Reddit, here’s what would likelyhappen:
subreddit mods ask for help to the admins, “we’re being bombarded with CSAM”. They hear admin crickets in return.
mods lock subreddit to avoid the bombardment. u/ModCodeOfConduct forces them to reopen.
mods eventually give up and leave. The sub becomes unmoderated and attracts paedophiles until you got a full paedo ring…
the paedo ring grows large enough to get a mod outrage of 9001 subs.
Spez deletes the sub while making a public announcement, like “WE SNOOS STAND AGAINST PAEDOPHILIA!” (cough former Reddit admin Aimée Challenor cough cough)
the original userbase of the subreddit has no equivalent community to go to, because unlike in Lemmy you’re expected to have a single sub per subject.
and sees an influx of kinder people
Dude. You’re in Reddit. That’s the pot calling the kettle black. Reddit makes even Faecesbook’s community look wholesome in comparison, it’s on par with modern Twitter. Lemmy is considerably nicer than Reddit.
And if you still want something nicer there’s always Beehaw. I’m being serious - for people who want/need an environment with more monitored behaviour, it’s a go-to place. Provided of course that you don’t want to eat the cake and have it too, by behaving in a way that you don’t want others to, otherwise they’ll show you the door.
FootnoteIt’s a bit of off-topic, but this post is a great example on why I don’t like the word “toxic”. It refers to everything and nothing at the same time; it boils down to “I don’t like this”, but dresses it as if it was an intrinsic feature of the object (in this case, Lemmy or Reddit). Note how the list of things that I’d consider “toxic” are completely unlike the person complaining about Lemmy, and if you gather a third person odds are that you’ll get a full list of other things to be considered “toxic”.
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I find it odd there has been very little noise about this. Like sweet its awesome to see that there is a new Counter strike and the features they are adding seem awesome. People were very angry when Blizzard did this same exact thing, where is the anger right now about this?...
Note: OP of the thread just with a beehaw account now since Kbin shit the bed for me and I can’t see comments.
Except its only technically available. If you want to use steam console shenanigans sure you can technically play CS GO and while there is a beta version up for CS GO it is an outdated version. Nothing is stopping Valve from having a new steam id associated with CS2. While there are servers up for both 1.38.7.9 (the one available via beta) and 1.39.4.8 (latest build) it is clear the move Steam did has basically killed that community.
To technical users they have a choice, the less savy users they don’t. We shouldn’t get angry at one company for doing something bad but ignore when another but more beloved company does a very similar thing but we ignore it because there is a hacky solution to it. Imagine if they did the same exact thing to CS 1 or CS Source. Hell really imagine if they fucking killed Half life 1 and replaced it with that abomination Half life 1 source. Like its cool to have an answer to possibly help but we can’t expect most users to do the hacky solution.
Appreciate the offer, but I’m sorry to say that I’m in no position to take on any sort of commitment like that.
That being said, are you aware of beehaw? If not, you might want to check out their instance and their documentation. From what I’ve been able to glean, they’re pretty dedicated to creating a more humane social media space, with generally more active moderation than anywhere else on lemmy (they, as you might know, blocked lemmy.world, and are rather unhappy at the lack of moderation tooling in lemmy the platform).
Otherwise, if you do find yourself setting something up, let me know. I’ll likely check it out and be involved however I can!
Best I can think of is that open sign ups for a brew and niche platform are probably not the best idea or are at least risky for the reasons I stated.
Sign up by application and approval like lemmy.ml and beehaw, from what I’ve seen, actually work at filtering out bad actors.
For something that scales better, an invite system could work well. An interesting extension of that might be to record who invites and maybe enforce some sort of responsibility for the people you invite. Nothing extreme but just to prevent people from knowingly inviting douche bags.
Beyond all of that, realising, at a moderation level that there are bad actors and actively banning them is more important than you might seem in the early stages of a platform.
As for us, reporting bad actors as often as we can might be best seen as a responsibility for the sake of the platform. Actively willing to then e to let them know they’re out of line too.
I wasn’t really aware of this. But now that I’m thinking about it, I’ve also had contact with a few annoying people on some of the more popular and ‘open’ communities. And usually a nicer atmosphere on the more focused (‘nerd’) communities. Just to be clear: There are also many exceptionally nice and helpful people here on Lemmy.
I’ve been critizising beehaw for their way of de-federating at will, a feature that’s unfortunately also designed badly. And causing all kinds of trouble for the rest of the fediverse and effectively dividing people. Just my opinion. I get the point but I think this is detrimental to the fediverse as a whole and shows small-minded thinking. But I only know half of the story. Maybe I’m wrong here.
I share your view of things. And I’m not sure about a conclusion. Maybe it’s something like an invite system. But that takes away from being welcoming to new people. I like to take pride into allowing people to take part, no matter who they are. But allowing everyone in has the obvious consequence of you needing to deal with the a-holes later, when it’s more difficult. And I don’t think an application form slows down people who like to be emotional and argumentative or troll.
I’ve been part of PeerTube for a while. And during the pandemic, there was a massive inrush of Covid-deniers and conspiracy theorists. After some time they got banned from, or got in trouble on the major platforms. And they started flooding PeerTube with re-uploads of their most crazy stuff. To the point where everyone was annoyed and new users immediately been turned away after having a glimpse of a timeline of one of the instances. It’s been some hard work, but we confined them to a corner of their own and cleaned the timelines of the major instances. To highjack one of their terms: I think this has been my ‘awakening’… Regarding ‘free speech’ vs ‘moderation’. And dynamics like we’re just now talking about. We can’t directly compare our situation here on Lemmy to the events on PeerTube or Mastodon. But we can (and should) draw conclusions.
For Lemmy, there are a few low hanging fruit left. I mean when it comes to technical solutions. Better moderation tools etc. And things are already been worked on. But I’ve always been curious about the sociological aspects. It’s been mainly one big migration event for us here. It felt like a revolution and a fresh start after Reddit. And people picked up on this. Nonetheless we’re often rebuilding the structures we already know. Sometimes including the tone of speaking with another.
I 100% agree on your assessment that moderation in the early stages has an important effect. We’re in the process of inventing/defining this place. Every interaction counts. From the atmosphere and tone the users set, to what moderators deem appropriate behaviour, to how instance admins handle disagreements and security incidents.
I have to think about this a bit more. My main takeway at this point is: Next time I want to say ‘I wish more people would realize Twitter is a bad place, Elon is making it worse by the day, and they should leave and use the better alternative…’. I’ll stop and think about the consequences and if this is really what I want or need.
tl;dr: let’s stop the generic and almost-irrelevant-doom-and-gloom karma-harvesting one-liners that can be copy-pasted between any two articles written in the last century...
This is, for sure, an issue carried over from Reddit, but it’s also a byproduct of another issue we carried over from Reddit: Most posts have a substantive issue.
Obviously not every community has this issue, but so many of them seemingly serve as nothing but news aggregators and do absolutely nothing to promote engagement or discussion. It is no surprise that the quality of comments has dropped when there are entire communities that are just copy-pasted news sludge with no other sense of community or engagement.
When the content on your website feels disposable then people will treat it as such. Lemmy as a whole has this exact same issue as Reddit does, which is not surprising because Lemmy is basically a clone of Reddit. I made a post on Beehaw a while ago about how the instance lacked any sense of community and I’ve seen similar sentiments expressed in other instances here and there. People, such as myself, who expected something better from Lemmy and getting frustrated when we can’t find it. There was a supreme opportunity presented to us when the Reddit migration began, to make new communities and spaces for discussion of a higher quality than Reddit could ever provide but Lemmy completely squandered that. Lemmy sucks - and that’s because it clones so much of Reddit… which also sucks.
A discussion happening over on beehaw about problems with federation and moderation, and on fundamental issues with Lemmy itself, and what would go into making a fork vs starting something new.
I didn’t know this is like Beehaw where you need to come hat in hand with an introductory essay before you can ask a question.
Fine, I apologise for not saying Hello, I was tired. But if you need more than that, then well I’m not your person. I was in the scifi thread, got upset, then realised I should ask the other side as well. I was trying to get a picture, couldn’t get it, we both said/agreed the debate is over, so I left because I was getting more tired and upset and didn’t want to say something bad and frankly got worried that someone would make it about me, like it’s here. Guess that’s wrong?
I wanted to sleep on it, but when this meme showed up, I tried to recap the situation here as neutrally as possible for people, tried to avoid saying who is right (ed: at first at least. Stress on “tried”, whether you believe it or not.), didn’t call out any particular admin, told people to make up their own mind, and i’m still the bad guy. I really don’t know what you expect from someone to recap the situation. “The great diligent admins banned the toxic harasser who’s been nothing but spewing vile”, was that what I was supposed to write?
Despite what you may think about my motivations, I don’t have any stake in this other than trying to help make Lemmy a good platform, but for quite a while it’s been pointless due to all this toxic positivity where everyone has to walk on tiptoes.
I didn’t know this is like Beehaw where you need to come hat in hand with an introductory essay before you can ask a question.
Funny…
…told people to make up their own mind, and i’m still the bad guy.
We replied to your post. That’s all there is to it.
…all this toxic positivity where everyone has to walk on tiptoes.
I believe you can express nearly anything you wish. Why mention walking on your tiptoes? We’re engaged in a discussion about something on which we hold differing opinions. That’s perfectly acceptable. However, we are permitted to present our perspective.
But I think we have now spoken to you at length enough on this subject. For me, this is a case closed.
Interesting, I’m on kbin and beehaw and have not had the same issue while browsing either. And I’m on them pretty frequently. I’ll see a few here and there but not like you’re describing. Is it mostly when browsing new? At any rate, just wanted to put it out there that I don’t think defederation is necessary, as it is not a problem for everyone. Though I’m struggling to come up with a solution as your point is valid to not want to see that stuff. Here’s hoping someone smarter than me can come up with something!
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I’ve mentioned it other times, and I think it’s the answer to the question in this post:
“How can we make Lemmy a safer place for women?”
The same way that would make Beehaw want to stay!
IMHO, Beehaw is a litmus test for the ability of Lemmy itself to become a safer place for anyone.
the threadiverse “overton window”
I don’t think the threadiverse has a single Overton window, more like each instance has its own. The threadiverse allows those to interact (federate), or not (defederate). There is a lot of technical solutions missing for instances with partially overlapping Overton windows to interact, but I think it’s something that can be done, that should be done.
Several months ago Beehaw received a report about CSAM (i.e. Child Sexual Abuse Material). As an admin, I had to investigate this in order to verify and take the next steps. This was the first time in my life that I had ever seen images such as these. Not to go into great detail, but the images were of a very young child...
So this just got posted on lemmy.dbzer0. They’ve got an AI-based CSAM screen up and running with promising initial results. The model was trained using CLIP, which as far as I understand it means they used written descriptions of what CSAM is or is not.
I think you do not exactly understand how piracy works,
Stop making assumptions on my behalf. I never even mentioned torrents or streaming.
Great, but your implication is clear as day, about the “pirate” users = RAR users. I have not just been a pirate but [REDACTED], if you will, besides normal computing. The credential game is not one to be won here.
RAR continues to be the most robust production ready archival format due to its builtin recovery records
That’s irrelevant and besides the point. It could be the best damn thing in the world but it doesn’t matter if no one uses it.
Except hundreds of millions of active users use it. The active users may not be 500 million, but it sure is easily atleast 200 million, with every download site having it topping the charts. To make my post look ridiculous, you are ending up making the worst possible arguments. I say cut your losses.
Compression was a big necessity those days due to the low capacity of floppy disks, and recovery records were needed due to floppies being very succeptible to corruption. These days though, that’s all mostly a thing of the past. No one cares about the recovery records in RAR files, besides pirates.
Data archivists also use RAR for the same reason, besides multiple backups. Protection against CRC errors is always handy. I was a 40 and 80 GB HDD user, so my compression obsession comes from those days, when I was a kid and disk space was expensive to buy, later turning into expertise hobby. I continued to be one of those few users that recognised the potential of FreeARC the same time as famous repackers like FitGirl and Razor, so let us just say I will speak no more further than the word NanoZip. And that I continue to be as uptodate on compression as Zstandard and BLOSC.
I told you about the voting ratio acting as a good determining factor. If this was something as popularised as WannaCry was few years ago, I would have deleted the post. But I have not seen it posted on this instance, only on Beehaw (same activity as this post) and Lemmy.world, a couple memes on r/piracy and a post on r/datahoarder. It is not on YouTube or popularised enough on Reddit/Lemmy. WinRAR is still almost as popular as MS Office.
Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....
No, I wouldn’t. If those 20% were valid reports I or community moderators would handle them and then there would be 0 reports left. It’s primarily community moderators job to handle reports from their communities.
But Beehaw wants ultimate control over their users and Lemmy just doesn’t work like that. You could debate pros and cons of each approach, but in the end Beehaw wants something different and I’m not surprised they want to move away from ActivityPub.
(on the off chance anyone here’s using a client that does not show it, i am not from Beehaw and just federating from the outside, just for some context, and it’s almost 5AM so expect some half-sleepy rambling)
Honestly something along these lines might just be what the Threadiverse needs. I believe the current threadiverse “culture” is really just a carbon copy of Reddit, with all the downsides, and facing same eventual fate as any other Reddit alternative that came before it.
Mastodon is in it’s current state (and it’s definitely not without it’s own problems by the way) due to the existing culture it had before any of the Twitter migrations it endured. The people that vibed with that culture stuck, the ones that didn’t went elsewhere.
If, after a few years of refinement on the threadiverse side (perhaps with actually usable software being built since then) Beehaw suddenly decides to enter back into the picture with a sold userbase and a high quality culture of it’s own (and an AP compatible forum software that has proper moderation tooling), it’s norms might take over a substantial part of whatever’s left of the existing Lemmy community (I’d bet it’s gonna be not much more than the stubborn FOSSbros), and any future migrations since then will result in people who don’t vibe with that culture skipping over the 'verse (perhaps because they want a freeze-peach platform they can spout whatever they want on), and only the people who can adapt will self-select in.
I always expected a split to happen in the 'verse between the Reddit-style free-for-all folk and the strict moderation folk, but my prediction always assumed that the tools would get built by this point. Considering that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon, this is the next best thing I can hope for. Well, that or the threadiverse fades into obscurity as a failed experiment (hey, remember prismo? me neither) and as something to look at for future AP implementers on what not to do, with most of it’s userbase either moving to other platforms or towards other fedi implementations that adopt groups (I believe both Pixelfed and Mastodon are working on them, and the *keys already have Channels (though those don’t federate and are local only))
Honestly, I’m happy to join if beehaw move on to something like a forum and not-federated. IMO (which may sound selfish to some but) I join beehaw because of the vibe and the rules that I’m happy to follow. I’m not really joining beehaw because I want to use it as a Reddit replacement, but I want to interact with the community. I feel like Beehaw identity doesn’t really tie to lemmy or on specific software.
So whatever if it federates or not will not really affect me much. I only speak for myself, of course. For others, it might not be the same case. I feel safe commenting and talking in beehaw own community, so… whatever the decision, maybe I’m happy to stay/follow with beehaw. Thank you for the transparency and hard work you all put into beehaw :)
Late to this discussion, but speaking as a Reddit refugee and a very average user, I’ll follow beehaw wherever it goes…
…but I will probably also fire up my nearly-forgotten kbin account as well.
The fediverse is far from ready for the challenges that it faces but I’m very interested in its development and future. I really think it or something like it is what the internet is trending towards. I’m quite lucky being in some of priveleged categories so I don’t face the level of harassment many fellow beeple do very day.
I think we have a good thing going here and it’s so freeing to read and comment without having to read past all the usual hate and bad behaviour.
So Im happy to lurk in one place and be myself in another. Do what you guys have to do. I’m in.
I’ve been enjoying my time on Beehaw and Lemmy at large. I’m astounded that removed content isn’t also marked for removal on other instances. That moderators have to duplicate each others efforts is actually nuts. That opens up every Lemmy instance to an insane risk of abuse.
I will stick around to see whats next for Beehaw. I have to say though, the reason I enjoy Lemmy specifically is that it is so much more readable than Twitter or traditional forums ever were. The nested structure of comments is not something I’ll easily give up.
I know I’ve ended up more of a lurker lately. That’s not due to any particular ill feelings about beehaw or lemmy at large though. I think I just entered a bit more passive, consuming phase. Maybe falling back a bit to the old reddit habits? Mostly browsing for interesting new things.
Anyway.
This is probably due to me discovering Beehaw and Lemmy at the same time, but for me they’re probably a lot more connected than I’m guessing they are for you old timers.
For me it’s like… the cozy corner of Lemmy you know? My home base while venturing out to other instances’ communities. I’m definitely most likely to actually post or comment around here just because I like it here (though not exclusively however).
So… now this place will most likely go dark in a while. What then?
This won’t and can’t be my home base by then and that’s making me feel like… should I start looking for a new home already?
Anything I produce with this account will either go go away or at least be locked down. Nor sure what happens to the federated copies of comments and posts on other communities when an instance shuts down.
So… I don’t know. It’s starting to feel a bit like this account is nearing its end of life which makes it feel a bit odd to be actively using it.
A bit like chalk on the sidewalk while watching rain clouds come rolling in.
I… don’t know what my point is really.
I guess it feels a bit like it’s time to start cultivating a new account, mirror my subscriptions and start using that instead, even for posting here. I don’t know.
Just chiming in to say I’m having the same issues, split second of interface shows on launch and then black screen (Android, dark mode).
This is true for both my Native app and the web app.
One thing top add that nobody seems to have mentioned yet - both apps are (most likely) logged into #Beehaw. None of my other apps will load Beehaw, either, but Liftoff at least works with my lemmy.world account, but won’t load anything from the Beehaw feed.
So could this be an issue with some instances (beehaw, in my case) combined with some Lemmy update, in combination with something in Voyagerapp?
Voyager is my favorite Lemmy client so this is a very annoying situation 😅
Guess I could try web app in Incognito, see if that works, maybe log into lemmy.world from there. Will update if anything changes 👍
France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations (www.bbc.com)
Traps We Lay for Ourselves
Inspiration strikes! Your muse has finally appeared and blessed you with a story, fully formed! It’s so vivid in your mind. It’s engaging, impactful, expressive, and beautiful. All you need to do now is put pen to paper and move it from nine o’clock to three o’clock....
Does any form of multi-fediverse account type of thing exist?
I mean by this, is there any website that with one sign up would allow you to have a matrix account, lemmy account, mastodon account, etc. If it couldn’t be done with just one url it could be made a thing where it would be service.website.tld (so an example would be lemmy.myreallycool.website). Is there anything that already...
Do you feel a sense of loyalty to your instance?
I feel like I’ve formed some sort of faithfulness towards dbzer0 and have a bias towards subs and users of my instance. Anybody else in the same boat?
r/RedditAlternatives doesn't like a Reddit Alternative (lemmy.ml)
the October 2023 Beehaw Financial Update
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Valve just pulled a Blizzard and seems to have gotten away with it. (kbin.social)
I find it odd there has been very little noise about this. Like sweet its awesome to see that there is a new Counter strike and the features they are adding seem awesome. People were very angry when Blizzard did this same exact thing, where is the anger right now about this?...
What do you want to see more of on Lemmy?
Any specific types of content you want to see more of here
Collectively, Lemmy has a substantive comment issue
tl;dr: let’s stop the generic and almost-irrelevant-doom-and-gloom karma-harvesting one-liners that can be copy-pasted between any two articles written in the last century...
Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here (beehaw.org)
A discussion happening over on beehaw about problems with federation and moderation, and on fundamental issues with Lemmy itself, and what would go into making a fork vs starting something new.
I don't even know how Lemmy works (lemmy.world)
The drama is related to a Science Fiction community mod and and admin. I don’t know enough to write on it, so check there....
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"How can we make lemmy a safer place for women? Is it even possible to?" - literature.cafe (literature.cafe)
Conversation ongoing over there, inviting anyone who wants to participate to please consider sharing their thoughts if they are willing to. If you wanna post in the original thread from your instance copy and paste the link into your instances search panel...
A High Priority for Moving Away from Lemmy
Several months ago Beehaw received a report about CSAM (i.e. Child Sexual Abuse Material). As an admin, I had to investigate this in order to verify and take the next steps. This was the first time in my life that I had ever seen images such as these. Not to go into great detail, but the images were of a very young child...
[URGENT] WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April (Update to WinRAR 6.23 now!) [ArsTechnica] (arstechnica.com)
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Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here
Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....
Native iOS Voyager screen goes black
Just today, when I start Voyager the interface appears and then disappears leaving a black screen....