Please be aware that comment violates our instance rules, we are assuming it is some kind of misguided joke. Please try to be more respectful in the future.

This is the thread for questions!

Sexism violates our instance principles, I know you’re a regular here so please edit your comment (being Australian is not a excuse here).

Consider this a friendly reminder to yourself and all users here that if you see a user behaving in a way you just plain don’t like, (even if it’s on another instance) don’t hesitate to report it to us. The admin team is extremely aggressive with blocks and bans. We want this instance to be a quiet, thoughtful, and fun entry point to the Fediverse. And we want our users to be happy.

That said I understand the need for a break! I’ll miss your presence and as ValueSubtracted said we’ll keep the antimatter inducers uh, er- inducing.

Darn I wish that movie got a sequel

The timing definitely could have been better. But maybe now more people have seen it?

(Thank you!🙏)

Currently stalled but we’re working on it.

Uh, everything’s under control. Situation normal, everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine… We’re all fine here now. Thank you.

How are you?

If we go “by the book” like Lieutenant Saavik, hours could seem like days.

But seriously it will take days.

In case anyone else is as confused as I was: yes, we are defederated from Hexbear.net. This image is simply hosted there.

What you call “fragmentation” is perhaps better described as “multiple moderation philosophies applied to the same topic” and is actually a fundamental aspect of the ActivityPub protocol, which was designed above all else to create platforms that resist centralization.

I’m not saying you’re wrong to dislike it, but it is definitionally impossible to have both decentralization and centralization at the same time.

You’ve taken my words and twisted their meaning to create an antisocial strawman to attack. I will not engage.

That said: if you are someone who views the power instance administrators have over their instances to be “tyrannical”, then ActivityPub —a protocol which by design decentralizes power away from a CEO and into the diverse hands of instance owners— is probably not the protocol for the sort of platform you’re looking for.

Allowing Lemmygrad to have it’s own “books” community looks like a feature to me, not a problem. The terminally online tend to overpower any other conversation. IMO, we should work to preserve a diversity of perspectives. If all discussions are forced to be centralized we’ve just recreated Reddit with extra steps.

I am with you as a user, but also an instance administrator. Forcing our hosted communities together with federated communities would take away nearly all motivation I have to host an instance in the first place.

The users who post in the “one big community” are the users who want their posts to get the most views. Personally speaking, I generally do not want to be a part of a community full of those kind of people (with the exception of if I have a tech support question or similar).

Not everyone wants to be in the most popular space, this “feature” essentially forces everyone together. I believe the social web thrives with a diversity of approaches to community structure.

Allowing /c/anti_thing to direct all of their users to posts in /c/thing is a bad idea.

Personally I have never viewed the “separation problem” as a problem, but the single largest benefit of federation/decentralization.