I want you to know that you were the highlight of this thread for me. Your comment hit me like a stray bullet to the head in Chicago, except I desperately didn’t want to go to work, so really, you practically did me a favor.

Not the worst in people, but I agree that it incentives undesirable behavior.

I’ve thought and read about this a bit. I don’t have the answers, but I think the lack of willingness and desire to experiment is damaging to the social experience.

People change. Communities change. Culture changes. Social systems ought to adapt as the need arises.

Yet, here we are, painting over mold and nailing pieces of a system made a decade over that was toxic then, is toxic now, and will likely be toxic tomorrow. How would that ever work? We’re not special. We’re just another group ready to slip in the same slopes as the previous one.

Should we disable downvotes? Instances doing this never hear the end of it. Should votes be public to all? Dev thread brigaded. C’mon, let’s think together, are we actually gonna be reddit, but federated, forever? Surely that’s not what you want—Oh. Ohh. Well, my bad, then.

Easy to forget we all have our own wants, needs, and priorities. I’m sure I was the bad part of someone else’s experience, just doing what I thought was best. Still, I’m… getting tired, of Reddit 2. I’m not sure it’s possible to make it much better. It’s all too entrenched.

Which marketing and better how, exactly?

Can anyone please point me an example of Bluesky marketing that isn’t word of mouth or large-event headlines on the news?

The wonders of ActivityPub allow Mastodon users to interact with Lemmy, actually. Wild stuff.

Putting aside control and anecdotes, neither of which would be fair to comment on without more context and a lengthier discussion, this breaks the email metaphor a bit, doesn’t it?

The Fediverse is just like email, where we all talk to each other, except Outlook blocked Gmail because MS and Google had a fight during a meeting so you’re gonna have to migrate to Yahoo or learn to self-host.

That’s not necessarily a criticism, I just find it funny.

Maybe you’re already aware, but bluesky doesn’t operate with instances like in ActivityPub land.

I’ve seen many people I believe are using their own PDS, but yes, discoverability is likely better because a relay is meant to aggregate and share all data it can (look up “bluesky firehose”).

P.S. Mastodon’s devs are part of a new initiative to improve this area of the Fediverse. Because it’s so recent, we’ll have to wait to see how it goes.

Speaking of features, I’m somewhat surprised more people aren’t interested in Misskey and co., especially compared to Mastodon’s overwhelming share of the Fediverse pie.

Maybe on Bluesky they start with one person less calling them tards.

FWIW you can probably report that. While trying Bluesky, I reported some crappy stuff and I can’t remember any that was still up when I checked later.

How did she find my account?

Just like Mastodon/AP, data is mostly public by default. I assume it doesn’t take much to find new accounts to spam. We’re usually talking about bots here, not normal user accounts, just to be clear.

That’s a different thing, and I don’t think bigger character limits would help with a culture of not reading past headlines, not verifying and sharing sources, lacking moderation, and so on. Bigger issues.

I doubt this sort of attitude helps, too. Mastodon developers know at least some of its failings. Migrating to Bluesky is not effortless.

The amount of internet spaces with generous character limits and shit discussions makes me think that’s far from the biggest issue.

For what it’s worth, the rest of the report is mostly fine, and I’m inclined to believe I learned something about Drew. But I also felt that was not honest, and question if it had to be included at all. Looking around, it seems the author likes Stallman, and regardless of how they felt before, they probably disliked Drew when they found he was connected to the Stallman report.

So thanks for mentioning that weird vibe. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who paused at that section.

Ironically, the writing felt weaker than Drew’s, which led to unexpected feelings while reading. For example:

r/preteen_girls (why this was even allowed to exist is beyond our comprehension)

Emphasis mine. My immediate reaction was this shouldn’t be beyond comprehension to anyone who looks into Reddit’s history and culture. Silly, not even a nitpick proper—though I have one—but it got a snort from me.

Anyway, assuming provided information is correct, seems he:

1. Likes sexual anime-like depictions of minors
2. Is sloppy at compartmentalizing his internet activity (or didn’t care to; why?)

I, uh, also wonder if one can get in trouble for hosting screenshots of certain content for a report. Guess it also depends on where they’re hosting from. I hope they’re fine, because from this report and the rest of their blog, they seem to enjoy internet slapfights.

And I’m saying you’re better off without. That sentence is ridiculous enough already, it doesn’t need the source to make it worse. But good on you for worrying about credit, do as you will.

— vintermann, Hacker News

I don’t know who this person is, but adding “Hacker News” doesn’t give their words more credibility. It gives them less, if anything.

Imagine I quoted someone and, underneath it, added:

— PM_ME_UR_FEET, Reddit

Both of these enjoy the same level of base, intrinsic trust to me: none.

Not hoping for a miracle, but it’d be nice if some Japanese users followed him, even if only as a secondary account.

I believe Japan is the nation with the second most twitter users, so any chip at that foundation helps.

That, and I’d like to see more touhou artists venture beyond twitter.

P.S. couldn’t find info wrt him and Mastodon, so nothing new, I guess.

Just for the record, I know little about gotosocial, but I’ve looked into Misskey a fair bit and I think it’s irrelevant here.

FediDB data on active users seems off (a low ~12k MAU), but even if the real number is much greater, most are on the flagship instance (misskey.io) which has multiple CSAM censures on fediseer.

Put another way, it’s almost counterproductive to include Misskey in these topics because simply federating with its biggest instance could be a liability for most 1st world western instances.

I doubt the Swiss government would get much out of Misskey.

I looked around, but was unable to find more about this. Until something new comes up, I’m assuming it’s just a rumor.

Are you talking about Dorsey? Because if so, he left Bluesky as he didn’t like their focus on moderation.

Not that it matters much, I sincerely doubt most users look up such details before joining anything. It’s all about the experience.