Machinist3359

They are getting a huge propaganda push on every advertisment avenue. TV, Hulu,YouTube,TikTok. If you can pay for reach, you’re getting Israeli propaganda aimed towards Americans

I agree, but it takes less than 10 min and is more impactful than lemmy posts

FWIW getting one of those disc suitcases can hold hundreds of dvds without taking up much space at all. If you rip backups, you can store it somewhere out of the way without too much clutter. Plus it’s a very stable backup for the digital files.

My most depraved marketing brain thinks borrowing the visual language of Reddit gold would be a good idea. At least in comments.

Partly because it’s familiar to most users, but it also draws your attention and highlights well liked posts.

And if someone is boosting a comment, I think that’s much more significant than boosting the main post, which is already meant to be shared.

I was about to say the same thing. I sort of understand it under networking, but how do I federate my music or video w ith nextcloud?

It’s an unpopular opinion here, but I truly think Meta joining is being a little blown out of proportion.

The fediverse is simply not valuable enough to EEE. We’re a tiny niche of nerds who all have ublock installed. Meta wants a low effort solution to eat Twitters lunch, and saw bluesky do well.

We could even see this as an opportunity to grow. You can join mastodon AND find famous people to follow. Thread users themselves may realize the moderation sucks and go elsewhere.

Defedrating at best makes Threads roll back their activitypub use…and their millions of users are in a walled garden again. We did it fedi!

Yes, and fascism is authoritarian.

By extension, this is why I don’t think defederating with Meta is an effective strategy. Like gourmet burger restaurants refusing to be on the same block as McDonalds.

Meta will get the big names as they exit Twitter, and become borderline necessary to federate with-- assuming updates from years of state, artists, activists, etc are of any interest to people considering your instance.

This is inevitable. I think the only discussion is how we have a vibrant enough community that EEE becomes less viable.

It’s something we failed to do with email. I suspect the answer is approximate to far easier instance hosting, to increase the number of instances and make a federation whitelist unviable for Meta

Not unique, but uniquely central. Fascism cannot exist without a persecuted outgroup. In other contexts, genocide is generally a state consolidating power or resources, but not the focus of these state projects.

There is no fascism without genocide. It’s an idealogical ponzi scheme which promises to an ingroup if they destroy outgroup(s).

Other forms of authoritarianism simply demand obedience, and optionally or incidentally incorporate genocidal policy to that end. But genocide is to fascism as driving is to a car, the reason for all off is components. Not a byproduct to some imagined other purpose

To what end though? This is one lemmy instance, and probably the one fediverse instance facing the highest influx of traffic.

The distinction between a square and a rectangle is important, even if you don’t like right angles and parallel sides. Fascism is a flavor of authoritarianism which is uniquely worse and focused on genocide.

I use Tusky on my phone but Trunks on my eink tablet. Really none of the apps are “good” on eink, but Trunks is the most usable.

I’m not sure blocking Meta is worthwhile in the long term. Say what you will about email, you still have some degree of choice over your host. I want better for the fediverse, but that’s still a marked improvement over mainstream social media.

In the short term, Meta wants to kill Twitter by collecting all its A-level users. I think this would be good for the fediverse, these are news outlets and poltiicians and etc making posts most people want the option to see in their feed. These are also users who want no-fuss platforms with some amount of “customer service”, and mastodon.social is simply not ready to provide that.

The issues it poses to re-centralization are an inevitable threat as the Fediverse grows. Unless there is a concrete plan to build protections and this is a stop-gap effort, I’m not yet convinced it’s worthwhile.

It’s really an issue with how the fediverse handles communities. On Reddit each sub had its own moderation/governance structure which I think fits the role of an “instance” best. Here, each instance has a variety of communities which may overlap with other instance.

I.e. banning an instance for having community X impacts community Z who may also dislike X.

Without ripping up the floorboards, I suspect the answer is instances having community-level granularity in blocking. So one can block: The_Donald@*, *@sh.itjust.works, or most narrowly [email protected]

I know I’m not alone here, but truly a Letterboxd version of bookwyrm would be amazing. Esp if it had some integrations with Jellyfin.