I think it’s interesting how “maximizing for engagement” inevitably leads to slop taking over everything. I wonder if real people (with real money) will continue to engage with the slop? Some people surely, but enough to sustain these mega-corps?
Fedora is a solid choice. I recommend Kinoite because it’s familiar to Windows users and impossible to break.
Because you can’t control human beings? I’m not entirely sure what you mean. The entire reason the structure of ActivityPub and the Fediverse is what it is, is to have moderation not controlled by a single entity. Enforced consolidation is both impossible and would defeat the purpose.
Lemmy “communities” are structurally just modified user accounts. So it seems like it could be possible for one to “re-toot” a post similarly to how it can be done on Mastodon and elsewhere.
Good Lord, didn’t anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?
A cool feature would be to enable community mods to “retoot” posts from other communities, keeping the comments together.
This has been true for over a year now, I think the only reason that community points anywhere else is because a majority of them already moved to Lemmy instances.
This is a really good idea actually.
I have a LOT of notes on this that will eventually be turned into multiple c/DaystromInstitute submissions.
I haven’t seen anyone mention lemmy-explorer yet, it’s a good way to find communities too:
Exactly, not being beholden to one set of rule-deciders is not so much an “issue” as a distinct feature of the Fediverse.
The nepotism part has always been true, and talentless celebrities have been around as long as the concept of “celebrity” has, but the category of celebrities “being famous for no reason” did not truly exist until Paris Hilton. Princesses and Kings aren’t “celebrities”.
Well said. I personally don’t get the opposition to Threads using ActivityPub. I like being able to follow Threads profiles without exposing myself to Meta.
Yeah personally I like being able to follow Threads users without needing a Threads account or exposing my information to Meta and I honestly don’t understand the vocal opposition to that.
Size has not much to do with it. If a hypothetical instance allowed a “troll farm” to set up shop there, sane admins on other instances would de-federate from the one that allows trolls pretty quickly.
Threads accounts (or any account) won’t federate to your instance unless you (or someone on your instance) specifically requests to follow. It’s a common misunderstanding when people think that federating with Threads.net will “overwhelm” a small instance.
Threads is twitter style (like Mastodon) so it’s not going to have much to do with Lemmy. Threads allows users to opt-into a sort of half-Federation where Mastodon users can follow their content. It’s a unique case and not how Federation normally works.
With Mastodon, content from users on other instances is not “downloaded” unless someone on that instance specifically chooses to follow it. So it’s not like every small Mastodon instance that federates with threads is going to be overwhelmed by all the millions of user feeds on Threads.
Tbh there is a lot of misunderstanding surrounding Threads federation, but in short- there is no technical way for them to “extinguish the fediverse” even if they really, really, wanted to.
“Defederating” just means two instances won’t talk anymore. For example, your instance (lemm.ee) is currently defederated from three others (You can see here). It means you won’t see any posts/comments from users on those instances.
Kiiiinda, Threads users can opt-in to have their content syndicated out via ActivityPub (and be followed be mastodon users). I’m not positive but I believe it’s still only one-way, meaning Mastodon replies won’t show up on Threads. It’s basically an RSS feed.
Generally it’s been an overall positive experience.
Yeah I have to imagine much of it is bots/artificial views already, this line from the article stood out:
It doesn’t shock me a single reel has significantly more views than all of 404 media, but “multiplied tens of times”? A recent comment me chuckle:
(implying the ad views are faked to increase the stock price).