Hi there! I’ve been trying to improve the situation for the past few hours. I managed to disable CF Protection, and as you can see, I’m gradually allowing traffic from the fediverse. There may still be delays in deliveries and posts for some time. If anything is particularly troublesome, please let me know through the contact form. Sorry for the temporary blackouts. New possibilities have emerged, which I’d like to discuss with you soon. Now I need a few hours for a nap, shower, and I have to grab something to eat because I can’t survive on bananas only :P
And look at this!
https://fedia.io/
Just please be understanding towards the new admins. This is still a prototype, and what we’re doing here is meant to yield results in the future. I’m doing everything I can to get back to patching critical things in the code as quickly as possible. Have fun! :)
Oooh and You can send me your domain name ideas via pm.
https://kbin.social/u/ernest/message
Allow me to be the first.
This is exactly the opposite of the value proposition of the Fediverse. It’s going from the internet being 5 websites to the internet bring 5 other websites. It’s merely and change in ownership, and that should be avoided at the ideological level.
This is weird corporate monopolist thinking, and it’s a fucking mind virus. Lemmy doesn’t need to be beaten. The Fediverse is fundamentally a cooperative exercise, and deciding that some other piece of software needs to be crushed to dust is not healthy for that exercise.
We don’t need that shit here. None of this needs to wholesale replace corporate social media. It doesn’t need 3 billion users to succeed. We shouldn’t want it to look and behave like the purposefully toxic spaces, and we don’t need to behave like the sociopaths that run them.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare large instances existing to fully centralized platforms. I think there is a place for both large and small servers, we need both.
I love the potential I see in the Fediverse and its underlying technology, but I feel like a lot of people here have a hard time accepting that this is genuinely pretty confusing to the average non-techie. Anything we can do to reduce friction and have a recommended entry point for the average casual Twitter/Reddit refugee is a good thing.
It’s not like small instances are gonna go away for those that want them. The true beauty of the Fediverse is that we can please everyone.
It’s only confusing at first. But the idea that someone should understand something fully at first contact is… Not a good one.
Not everyone wants to dig deep into understanding everything, and if you expect everyone should have to you’re going to lose a lot of people who just want to read the news and upvote cat pictures.
@Kichae Most people don’t hate email. I love email. It’s the most successfull, healthy example of a decentralized network that empower not only enthusiasts like yourself, but the average person.
Every time I get a response from people like you, I get reminded of how selfcentered some people are to their own needs all the time, or wanting to promise a utopia even though we have the closest example to it that we actually can promise to people.
And not only that, you are a part of the unresponsible and toxic part of the fediverse.
You are the problem Ms. or Mr.
Edit: Seems like people need to be reminded 24/7. Lemmy is run by tankies that suppoort Russia, deny the genocide of Uighurs, and sooner than later is just going to destroy their platform. Read this thread
@ernest
email is everything but a healthy example of decentralization, running your own personal email server is near impossible without complying to the big email providers like Google that will block/mark as spam your emails if you don’t match their standards.
@Kichae I must say that I am really suprised this is the one that has the most upvotes. I know most people come from Reddit and are like super internett nerds. But it is pretty disheartening at this is where the Kbin community is at.
I still have hope for the network, but it also attracts the worst kind of people to associate with as well. be it super right-wing people, or super anti-capitalist people, even like antisemetic, genocide denying tankies like the two devs of Lemmy, never touching grass and living in their own bubble, and the worst part, just really fumbling at everything they do, even as things manage to go their way.
I’ve been a part of the fediverse movement since the start, but it’s sad to give so much and build so much for it to end up into this. Particurarly when I have personally put so much sweat and tears into it myself.
@ernest
You’re sounding like you’re pushing for the Fediverse to be an open source mirror of what already exists. Centralized in practice, and apparently at war with itself.
I can’t imagine why you’d think replicating systems that are already abusive would be the way forward. Replacing the masters does not fix the fact that the system itself is toxic.
It’s the nature of sites that use upvoting and downvoting concepts, upvote and downvote is toxic. Downvote especially. Talk about people who dislike replacing bad systems the corporations made, the toxic voting system these sites use is now being carried over to the fediverse. It exploits the bad parts of human behavior and makes the systems worse.
I’ve disagreed with this when Youtube made the dislike change and I’ll disagree with it now.
Upvotes/downvotes may not be needed in opinion pieces, but they are pretty necessary for any educational/scientific/news/tutorial etc. content to filter out the factually wrong answers so removing those will inevitably lead to misinformation being spread around. So in that context, an upvote/downvote system actually adds value.
It may be toxic in some instances, but there’s really no better simple alternative (the only one I can think of would be extreme moderation, but that’s a whole other can of worms).