Oh, thank goodness! I always wondered what happened. I wish him the best!

Faus

The Foxblob emojis are fantastic

Fantastic idea! I miss Tumblr terribly ever since the Great Porn Ban of 2018, even though I never even reblogged or followed ‘adult’ blogs. I just wanted to reblog holsum and funny fanart, but fuck giving into puritan corpo censorship.

What’s the moderation policy on genocide denial and the like? I hate having to ask this, but having heard too many people deny the Holodomor on here, I feel it necessary to make the inquiry.

For that matter, more generally, are you prepared, in terms of moderation structure, for the massive amount of legitimately disturbing material that’s going to pass through the site and will need to be removed if the site grows beyond a few hundred users? I would hate to join and then see this crash because of (completely understandable) moderator/admin burnout at the depravity and speed of mankind’s worst elements.

.world

Sh.itjust.works

Sopuli.xyz

Lemmy.cafe

Something changed culturally between Usenet and the things that came after.

Me, who only started into online communities in the early 2000s:

But the extent to which the fediverse seems to like to do this stuff just seems really extreme to me, and a lot of times what it’s based on is just weird petty bullying nonsense.

Not saying that it isn’t a problem, but as someone who’s been Around™ online, this is pretty par-for-the-course stuff.

Ah, to remember the glory days of Livejournal and Tumblr… and don’t get me started back in the days when every fandom had a dozen sites which all hated each other for vague and extremely personal reasons.

Nice feature!

Read the whole thing. Everyone involved in this, author included, seems to be batshit insane?

I’m about halfway through.

I didn’t realize Mastodon was big enough for so much fucking drama.

In the long run, whitelisting may become the norm for federation instead of blacklisting.

I was just offered 500$ to be someone’s friend. Of course, I refused - my friendship is worth much more than that!

But it’s… concerning that we’ve got this sudden spike in spam.

Crypto doesn’t really solve any of the problems that a payment processor wouldn’t also solve, unfortunately.

Real life. The offline world. Grassville.

I know that Federation is exciting, but all these ideas for federated services are really missing the reason why the Fediverse’s current bits are successful - because they have low moral hazard.

When you get into economics and meatspace relationships, moral hazard skyrockets.

I wouldn’t place any high value on what we’re doing here. At best, you should view this as bitching about the news at the local college-kid frequented coffeeshop. Yes, there is an element of raising awareness and discussion - it’s not useless, but ultimately, it’s not going to play a major role in getting us out of this shitshow. We’re discussing matters because it brings us some relief to do so, first and foremost.

As is .world

Persistence hunting corporate dominance, I can dig it

Someone fetch me my spear

I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO

Same. On topics on than Romeposting™ I’d love to go back to being a lurker and only an occasional contributor. I imagine it’ll be a while before that day comes, though.

The longer the race, the more true it becomes.