It was added to the “exclude” list in an apparently unrelated commit three days ago with absolutely no explanation. Glancing at its front page I see nothing objectionable, just a lot of anime stuff. When challenged u/dessalines had nothing to say other than “no, that is full of CSAM” and just closed the discussion without further comment.
Unless some more info comes to light it does not look good. Probably as good a time as any to depart from lemmy.ml.
If everyone on the fediverse goes to google.com right now and searches for “best new iphone car insurance shopping aarp member bad credit” maybe we can save the economy.
It’s a bank! It’s a dating app! It’s a video hosting service, a town square, a shopping mall, a floor wax AND a dessert topping! Why go anywhere else? Just stare at the middle of the big shiny X until it makes sense!
“Halved?” No. There should not be software patents. They are good for nothing.
They train the children to know and accept that they will be watched closely by anonymous strangers for their entire lives.
I just tested my favourite cloudflare-blocked site and it still hangs on “verifying the security of your connection” in my figerprinting-resistant browser profile.
It appears that the other guy didn’t call you a fanboy. He implied that you might be a troll, before you’d listed that software and after you’d called him a fanboy.
But yeah, it’ll probably be a while before there’s a Linux version of Adobe Illustrator, and the alternatives are different enough that it’d be a lot of work to switch even if it’s otherwise practicable.
I understand why they can’t have proprietary drivers
Who can’t have them? 90-some percent of Linux distributions make them available to those who are unfortunate enough to need them.
Will win 7 be the last ever usable OS from Microsoft, or will Windows 13 turn out decent? Only time will tell.
Alternative headline: Google is making it even harder for non-Google operators of mail servers to interoperate with gmail.
“4 censures” doesn’t seem like a large number, accusing them of paraphilia is beside the point and makes it look like the objection is simply to queer people existing, and you should really gather more evidence than that before going around accusing anyone of pedophilia in this day and age.
On the other hand I had a look at that instance, and I would not federate with it.
Most of the subs I used to care about are more of a wasteland than I could’ve imagined. And come to think of it I’m starting to suspect that the demographics of social media participation in general are beginning to get narrower as well. After starting with a select few early adopters in the 1980s and then taking 30-some years to gradually broaden out to include basically “everyone” (in the anglosphere at least), people who are tired of the whole affair are perhaps starting to drop out or at least reduce their participation in significant numbers. I wonder how many of the people perceptive enough to leave reddit for one reason or another simply didn’t find anything worthy of replacing it.
Sure, why not? As the user base narrows, those who are left are the ones willing to put up with the most shit, so that is what they get.
From the way your mouse hand twitched when you saw the word “activity” we have deduced that you want to see ads for inflatable kayaks and adult diapers.
One marketing executive’s “super” is another man’s “crammed full of crufty garbage that nobody wants.”
Don’t believe any graph whose y-axis starts at any value but 0 people.
This one is pretty bad but that is definitely not the right lesson to take from it. The one thing it does show us is that approximately 20k extra new users suddenly showed up compared to the trend, and that would be much more difficult to see if the relevant axis did start at zero. The bigger problem is that it shows too short a time span. It’s not clear how unusual this event was, or if it happens every week.
The other weird thing is that bottom-right axis does start at zero for some reason. I’m guessing it might somehow be trying to indicate “toots” specifically made by those new users? But that’s not how it’s labelled and it seems unlikely they could have that data.
This means that all content from communities which are hosted there is hidden. Posts from users of blocked instances are still visible in other places.
Cool! Although it’s not quite what I imagined. It’s widespread problematic posts and comments from users on instances I’d want to block in other communities I do follow which I was thinking of, and those wouldn’t be affected? I have not seen a whole lot of it so far, but I saw enough to think about it a little.
It might be more complicated, as I suppose you’d have to hide all the replies to comments from user-blocked instances as well. Maybe it could be done client-side? Seems like giving users that option would mean less motivation for defederating.
Lemmy could be much improved by letting users block instances.
I’m not saying it leads to toxicity necessarily, just that it’s something very different than what my first fediverse experience was, which was more about hanging out with a small group of friends. Lemmy seems more about interaction mostly with strangers in large groups like this one, which I also enjoy. Toxicity is probably more a function of it, along with lots of other places, getting flooded with new users who don’t know how to behave. Eternal September was a phrase that got passed around a lot for a while over on pleroma. What’s happening is analogous to that event (which I was there for) in a lot of ways, even if the details are different. Some places are better insulated from it than others, and this one isn’t much at all protected from it as of yet. Like OP suggests it might be more so in the future depending on how things go.
Last time I tried lemmy was maybe about a year ago, and to me it just seemed empty and desolate then. Maybe I just didn’t know the right places to look. Really I was looking for something to replace reddit, and the way I used reddit was to just ignore the algorithm and the front page and look at only my feed sorted by new of various strange and interesting little subs. There are still very few of those around here compared to the breadth of them that used to exist on reddit. Most of those are dying or dead as the more interesting people that sustained them gradually realize the site owners are indifferent or hostile to their existence and they move on to one place or another. I don’t go back there any more. But Lemmy doesn’t seem to have a big enough userbase to sustain a c/baduk all that well yet, let alone a c/badukshitposting. So that’s what I hope it does have some day, along with any better tools that prove necessary to protect us from the storm that doesn’t look like it will end any time soon.
I wouldn’t need to be wholly convinced that there’s anything heinous going on over there, just that the person accusing them of it had good reason to think so. So pretty much anything more than no info at all would probably have done the trick. Anyway, thanks for putting up with me for a little while and good luck to everyone at lemmy.ml, but I’m outta here. I’ll probably go try kbin or something.