The site is meant to be a crowdsourced database. You can go to https://fediverser.network/instances/feddit.org and add the countries. You can do one suggestion at a time. Once it is accepted, you can make new ones.
Yeah, totally understandable. I was going to suggest you to create a throwaway account, but then I realized that I am actually considering denying access to newly created accounts precisely to avoid bots and sockpuppets.
tag-following / tag-muting?
I just pointed out "the old times" to respond to your idea that "it has always been this way".
It's funny how young people think that the world has been invented the moment they were born. Everything that came before that can be simply erased.
that it skews too much to the right.
Ok. According to you, extremism and othering is okay when done by a leftist.
Thank you very much for showing your true colors. You can go now...
Not assuming anything except that at least 60 people read my comment and thought it was a good idea...
This is just the result of a lack of quality or subject control.
This is just another way of saying "having mods enforcing super strict rules", which then leads to an ossified culture and a bunch of mods high on their power trip. This was also seen on Reddit and StackOverflow.
Unfortunately, the way to avoid "lowest common denominator" issues that you mention is by going to the places where the denominator is relatively small, but big enough to have network effects in its favor. My experience was that all subreddits between 25k to 500k subscribers worked really well without excessive policing. Between 500k and 1M it could still go by, depending on the moderators. After crossing that mark, things started to deteriorate fast.
If we were to scale that to Lemmy, it means that all communities with a subscriber count >= 1% of the total network will fall into "deteriorate fast" territory.
Following suggestion from @otter@lemmy.ca, I created !fediverser_network@communick.news for fediverser specific questions, so I can avoid spamming this community with fediverser stuff.
I'm doing that for 4 years already and I'm arriving at the sad realization that no, not enough people care about "sustainability", "privacy" and even less about the actual benefit of using a social media platform that doesn't exploit user data and their attention.
The metrics need to be centralized.
Why? And how would guarantee the integrity of the ones holding the metrics?
this imposes an inefficient amount of effort & expertise on the end-user.
A lot less effort than having to deal with the different "features" that each website admin decides to run on their own.
This can (should?) be resolved by the client application. There is nothing stopping us from developing one single frontend that can pull data from different instances and shows it in an uniform way.
rglullis
joined 2 years ago
We still don't need ATProto for that. ActivityPods solves that.
ActivityPub itself is built around the principle that the server owns your identity: the best you can do is abandon an identity (i.e, your actor URL) and tell everyone else (via the
MoveActivity) that you are adopting a new identity.