SorteKanin @ SorteKanin @feddit.dk Posts 76Comments 1,955Joined 2 yr. ago
There's definitely a bit of untasteful moe stuff but it's not a big part of the show. But yea it would be better without it.
Mayushii acting stupid I cannot recognise at all. She's just extremely genuine and she's probably way more emotionally intelligent than any other character in the show.
there’s no feedback mechanism that will result in the promotion of instances with better moderation
I think that's very narrow-minded. There definitely is a feedback mechanism, and it's called word of mouth. Same feedback mechanism used for lots of things. If you don't like your instance and you hear of a better one, you can switch. You could even imagine users writing reviews for their instances some place so people have an idea of where to go, although such a review aggregator does not exist right now to my knowledge.
new users have no to way to gauge the quality of moderation of an instance, and neither do disgruntled current users
New users can gauge based on what they see, but ultimately it doesn't matter much. New users should just pick any instance that looks okay to them and they can always switch later if they feel they discover a better choice. Disgruntled current users can switch to a better instance or create their own. If you ask me, there is definitely a feedback mechanism in that sense.
It is true that "big bad" instances may be more visible than "small good" instances, but I think that is only a temporary thing that will get better with time. Good places will keep their users while bad places will slowly lose them to good places, but that doesn't happen instantaneously.
The instance that I mentioned in my first comment, the one with a watchful eye on moderators. It is not a concrete instance, I am talking about an example.
But if those mods are bad and your mods are good, then people will over time go to your instance instead. You can't control visibility of your stuff on another instance. It wouldn't be decentralized if you could. Other instances and users can always choose to block you or whatever.
What you call "fragmentation" is really just decentralization and it's the whole point of the fediverse.
In other riveting news, water is wet.
The good thing is that on the fediverse, you can improve this situation. Either go to an instance that keeps a watchful eye on power tripping mods and ensure mods are fair, or start your own instance to become that.
Steins;Gate, can't believe I haven't seen anyone mention it yet. It's good, but do watch at least halfway before you judge it.
I mean, you could have urinals in one room and then gender-neutral toilets in another room. Urinals and gender neutral toilets are not mutually exclusive I think.
Transphobia in the fediverse
Everything on the fediverse really depends on where you go. That's kinda the whole point.
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It's definitely not just you but you shouldn't feel bad about it.
It’s on the internet. Public. Got it. It’s almost as if, and hold on to your hats here, the whole point of posting on something like Mastodon or Lemmy or so is to have a public discourse, as you cannot know who will be replying anyways. It’s almost as if, and this is getting wild, I know, read-access being public is intentional and explicitly part of the design.
This is true for Mastodon and Lemmy and I generally agree with this sentiment.
That said, ActivityPub is more than just Lemmy and Mastodon. ActivityPub is more general than that. Lemmy and Mastodon are designed in a way where public discourse is the default and everything you write is expected to be public. But ActivityPub on its own has no such assumptions. There's nothing about ActivityPub that says that you cannot build a more private social media with it. But actually you can't really, because of the problems that the blog post points out. But the vision I think for some people is that this should be possible.
I'm personally not 100% convinced that that vision is even possible though tbh.
I love me some calzone with spaghetti bolognese inside of it. It's very indulgent but so good.
Sure. But lemmy would still not show Mastodon posts outside communities even if they supported that extension. Both parties need to move towards each other.
ActivityPub is an extensible protocol. It is not just one thing. Lemmy only supports posts that follow that extension I linked above. That extension has a definition and Lemmy follows it so in that way it is "standard". But it is an extension, not part of the core protocol.
Mastodon and most other fediverse services do not support this extension.
Its not that anyone is "doing it wrong" and Mastodon doesn't really support Lemmys communities either. So Lemmy works in a bit of a funky way that doesn't match most other fediverse services.
Its just a bit strange that Lemmy does not support the more common posts outside communities since that is how most of the fediverse works, so we're kinda missing out on a lot of content that we can't see on Lemmy.
This is the FEP Lemmy uses but most other fediverse services do not use it and Lemmy does not support anything that doesn't use this FEP. So again, it's not that Lemmy is doing something wrong, but Lemmy is not supporting how most of the rest of the fediverse functions.
I think Mastodon is very far from standard
I think it's much closer to standard than Lemmy and I've looked into it quite a bit recently. ActivityPub is unfortunately quite focused on microblogging. Honestly lemmys way of doing it is a little hacky.
As for the posts outside communities? That makes sense lemmy-wise I think. Where would those posts be?
I actually think it's quite straightforward, they'd just be on a users page. This is actually how Reddit has also done it ever since they introduced the feature (much before they enshittified everything else).
You can think of it like every users profile being a community of its own but only the user itself can post to it. Just conceptually speaking.
That would also let you follow users just as you can follow communities.
I mean you could equally ask why does Lemmy not support posts outside communities? It's on both parties to interoperate I think. Lemmy also uses a specific extension to ActivityPub while Discourse's posts and Mastodon's posts and such are pretty standard, but still not picked up by Lemmy.
It has ActivityPub support so it is connected to the fediverse in some ways. Lemmy doesn't work with it though AFAIK because Lemmy doesn't support posts made outside communities.
If there was a Reddit/Lemmy style website (where people create communities for various subjects but it’s all available from the same website using the same credentials) with forum style discussions
Isn't this just Discourse?
Well there is a phenomenon where your brain will make sound and sight "match up" even when it shouldn't. Like if you hear and see a basketball bouncing 75 meters away, the sound should have about a 0.25 second delay. But your brain will make you perceive the sound as happening simultaneously with the ball hitting the ground, despite the fact that you could not perceive the visual and auditory sensations simultaneously. If you go further away with the ball, eventually there is a threshold where your start perceiving the delay. The auditory and visual sense would need to be somehow linked for this phenomenon to happen I'd say.
I guess it's the brains way of matching visual and auditory cues to try to make a better picture of the world. The brain is basically saying "that sound came from the ball" and you don't even need to think consciously to know that.