Lionir [he/him]

There is already an issue here : https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3069

Why do believe they are opposed to having this feature?

Here are some examples on exploding-heads.com and rammy.site though I kinda doubt you don’t know about them. Their members frequently harass trans and queer communities as well.

I’m gonna be asking hard questions, I think, sorry about that. I hope you consider it tough love considering our past interactions.

As an instance admin, I have some questions:

• How are you doing? I know there was a lot of pressure when things blew up and it seems to be calming down a bit now.

• How is Lemmy doing financially?

• Considering past releases and their associated breaking bugs (including 0.18.3), what measures are you taking to help prevent that?

• Can we consider the possibility of downgrades being supported?

• Why are bugs affecting moderation not release blockers? Does anything block releases?

• Are there plans to give instance administrators a voice in shaping the future of Lemmy’s development?

As someone who is trying to help with Lemmy’s development, I have some other questions:

• What do you think are the biggest problems with Lemmy as a software project and what are your priorities for Lemmy?
• Considering fairly low amounts of developers contributing to Lemmy, how are you working to help new people get into the project?
• Do you worry about the message it sends to potential contributors when the main developers are working on a different project which competes with the former? (Example: Lemmy-ui vs Lemmy-ui-Leptos)
• Considering most work is done voluntarily, how are you trying to organize and prioritize work?
• Do you believe you are stretching yourself too thin between Lemmy, Lemmy-ui, Lemmy-ui-leptos, Jerboa and Lemmy.ml? If so, what are you doing to help you focus?

Right, that’s what I imagined. If there’s anything I can help with or if you just want to vent, feel free to DM at any time on Matrix

Sad to hear that’s been happening on Blahaj. Full and unambiguous support from me! 🐝

Please be very careful doing so. It’s very easy to get locked out doing this.

I can’t remember if that’s good or bad in British parliament.

Is this a comparison shot? I’m not sure I get it.

The latest comments I saw from the admin was that they would defederate from instances with hate speech and bigotry (https://sh.itjust.works/comment/476848) but yet there’s been no action so while I want to be optimistic, it’s a bit hard. Their community already had a discussion about it and it seemed positive that they should defed but no action (https://sh.itjust.works/post/151703).

Hopefully .World defeding will push them to act.

Well, they still federate with exploding-heads… I don’t know if I’d say they’re doing good at preventing hate, it kinda feels like there was just a lot of pressure to kill c/thedonald.

Matrix does. There’s multiple different projects that implement Matrix’s protocols: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/

Twitter’s project? You mean Jack Dorsey’s BlueSky? It doesn’t do ActivityPub - it’s not part of the fediverse

Oh yeah, I didn’t mean that I was disagreeing - it would be kinda weird for us to defederate from lemmy.world/sh.itjust.works because of lack of mod tools yet accept to try to moderate people from Facebook’s Threads 🤣

I just like it as a vibe check of sort so I thought I’d add that thought!

Personally speaking, I like announcements on these kinds of decision because it can show public support for the decision and help us in our conviction. It also allows people that don’t agree to find a better place for them.

This has always been the reason I don’t believe in distributed models of social media. Federation also means defederation and that’s good.

The details are under NDA and Facebook has a really bad history of having a terrible moderation culture. I don’t see any reason based on their past history to believe that they will change.

It feels kinda like giving a gun to a serial killer and just waiting it out. It’s an exaggerated analogy but I think it illustrates the point well.

Promoting interoperability does not mean accepting bad actors. We can build something without bad actors. They can use ActivityPub and use it with people who are fine with Facebook, people don’t need to accept it though.

Just like we can encourage the usage of HTTP and the Web without hosting and giving place to all websites on another website. For example, I have a personal website and encourage people to do so. That doesn’t mean I need to link and interact with all websites that exist.

I think that largely the fediverse has drawn people that are against corporate control and want to go back to a more community-oriented system. I also think that there is a lot of cynicism and lack of trust in corporate social media that is growing with time.

For these reasons, I don’t think that Bluesky or a corporate takeover is welcome and that people will switch over to it.

Well, we’ve defederated with other people in the past (and will continue to do so in the future most likely). Federated systems are not an all or nothing situation. IMO that’s the biggest draw and improvement over a distributed system for social media.