Discuss. (But plz, it’s only interesting to hear from folks who have some healthy degree of contempt for exclusive corporate walled-gardens and the technofeudal system the fedi is designed to escape.)

And note that links can come into existence that are openly universally accessible and then later become part of a walled-garden… and then later be open again. For example, youtube. And a website can become jailed in Cloudflare but then be open again at the flip of a switch. So a good solution would be a toggle of sorts.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    2 months ago

    maybe instead of linking, just copy the content here. The link can still be there in addition to that. If its not pasteable then i dont know.

    • soloActivist@links.hackliberty.orgOP
      21·
      2 months ago

      It’s a decent approach but incomplete. Couple problems:

      • Lemmy would not host youtube videos. YT transcripts could (and should) be part of the post, but then there is the same problem as the next bullet:
      • w.r.t text content, some people (very few people) indeed copy the content. It’s failing because people are lazy. Too lazy to check whether the link is in a walled garden; too lazy to warn people of the walled garden; also too lazy to copy the text. Sometimes it’s more naivety than lazy, but same problem: you are relying on the masses to make individual decisions that are wise, inclusive, and higher effort.

      A good system is designed with the assumption that users are lazy. As such, Lemmy is poorly designed.

      1 lazy author can inconvenience thousands of readers. Lammy’s design fails to address that.