lemmy.world does not align with the values of this server and we will be disallowing federation in the near future. Please switch to another instance if you would like to maintain access.

  • hamid 🏴@vegantheoryclub.orgM
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    2 months ago

    Thanks.

    For kicks I took a look at the federated copy, at least I can laugh about it now that I have a plan. I don’t care to host and pay for social media and have faceless losers vote on it. This is a terrible system, the solution to just turning off downvotes doesn’t work because they still federate to all the other servers. Once the generalist instances are reduced I think this will be much better as well.

    lemmy.world:

    lemmy.zip:

    lemmygrad.ml

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      A big part of this I suspect is the amount of people browsing the All feed. AFAICT it’s quite high. And it has some deleterious effects on the organisation of the federated ecosystem because a whole bunch of people start interacting with content from communities that they don’t subscribe to likely aren’t interested in and don’t even align with at all.

      But, because the content appears in their feed, they feel as entitled as anyone to vote and comment, even if their distance from the community makes their contribution tantamount to trolling.

      Overall, along some other absent features, it’s dissolving lemmy’s ability to foster communities.

      Fortunately, local only communities are in lemmy now with private (but federated) communities coming soon (apparently). This will allow communities to stay off of the All feed and federate only to people committed to them.