Would you like to bring this to https://nfl.community? I was thinking of having separate communities for highlights and memes as well.

Not all crypto is Bitcoin, and not all blockchains are based on Proof of Work. Ethereum's Proof of Stake consumes less electricity than all the power used by PlayStation consoles at idle.

Do you think I can just keep the last comment in mind or something?

YES! It's not like votes are worth anything here, but one of the reasons that voting mechanisms become completely useless as a way to signal quality conversations is when people blindly upvote/downvote everything just because they don't like what is being said. People that do what you are doing end up showing more about themselves than about the one posting the comment that you didn't like.

As does the drive to try and split communities

Would you feel so defensive about it if the communities were being hosted in a right-wing instance?

Why would tagging people who downvoted a post prevent a pile-on of downvotes?

Because it makes people think about what about the comment they are downvoting, instead of reflexively clicking on a button.

vote->get called-out seems to fit ‘blackmail’

It does not fit at all. I'm not trying to get anything out of you for my own benefit, and I am not doing it to submit you into compliance.

What I am thinking as a possible solution would be to have some type of "community server", akin to email list servers. The admin of the server becomes a "mere" service provider, and those that create communities are then responsible for moderation and that content being hosted there.

I believe that this would be perfectly possible to implement with Lemmy, so much so that I will add some of this functionality to Fediverser as part of my NLNet grant. The question is: who else would be interested in hosting these fediverser-enabled instances?

I mean as a non-admin. Users on Mastodon are at the mercy of the instance owner. On Bluesky (and nostr) they are not.

But the protocol is the least important thing, it's the applications that come out of it.

Granted, I think it would be an improvement if we didn't have to care or think about what server you are using and people could keep their same identity regardless of the application they are using.

Yeah, it would be nice if I could keep my "communick.com" handle everywhere, but my usage and conversations on Lemmy are different from when I am on Mastodon. The audiences are different. It's a good example of The medium is the message.

I was thinking about the idea of adding "community ambassadors" to https://fediverser.network. The plan would be for people already on fediverse to tell which subreddits they miss the most, and then help them promote the Lemmy alternative by, e.g, listing which reddit users are the most active and send a customizable message showing them how to migrate. I haven't done it yet because I'd like to have other instances besides alien.top to share the influx of potential users.

Right. Publicly available does not mean in public domain. But the issue here is not of copyright, but merely of gated access.

You are doing nothing but a strawman. Lemmy is developed by shit-for-brains tankies, yet there is no denying that their work has brought progress to the distributed web.

Same thing for nostr. Whether you like it or not, nostr "cryptobros" have shown a bunch of things that need improvement on the Fediverse and they are backing their words with actions and working code. You on the other hand have nothing but smug, pretentious bullshit to throw around.

Windows source code has never been distributed under open source licenses.

Neither has Grayjay's, which is why it's important to have a precise definition of what "Open Source" means.

At least two people just from this thread alone...

how AI would enhance web browsing

I'm not a fan of calling these LLM things "AI", but there are tons of things where this could make sense to help in decision-making. Example scenarios:

• I want to plan a vacation but I don't have a exact plan or date. Instead of aimless browsing around or giving my data to a bunch of travel sites that will bombard me with "deals", I can set up an "AI agent" that will check the current prices, weather conditions and etc to find spontaneous trips.
• I want to make a "DIY" project and some of the components are fixed by the design, but others can vary. An AI can give me suggestions for variations and find me the best prices for the materials required.
• If I am looking at a product on Amazon, an AI can summarize the reviews in a way that I care about.
• I can find a recipe that a like and ask an AI to make a vegan/gluten-free/kosher version of it

etc, etc, etc...