I'm tired of the CCP basically forcing everyone to join them in playing pretend that Taiwan isn't a country, and depriving those people of a national identity. I'm also annoyed that most other countries are agreeing to play along when it's obviously untrue, just so the CCP doesn't start throwing a fit.
To any mods facing similar pressure: you can implement ridiculous rules. Like how Reddit is fine with r/Superbowl deleting any post that isn't a picture of an owl.
I think this is a clever way to get around Admin threats, but how would you communicate to the users that the point of ridiculous rules is because you're not supposed to be there, rather than it being because you're power-tripping? I guess the simple answer would be that you DON'T, since the users who are protesting as well probably aren't on Reddit anyway, and so this is really just a way to punish the scabs.
But with the way the Reddit admins are handling the website, you wouldn't have had that sub for much longer anyway. That's the whole point of the blackout in the first place. Don't blame the protesters. Blame the admins. They're the ones with the power to change things.
That'd be cool, but just a simple reminder in case not, that you can simply make an account on that instance. There's no limit to what instances you're allowed to have accounts on or anything like that, so you can always do that.
Still for cohesion I get wanting it all together.
I can definitely see name-collisions being an issue, where communities on different instances have the same community "ID", but aren't actually about the same thing. I'm still overall in favor of the basic idea though.
I'm very excited for the future of machine learning right now. I was cynical about it for a short while in mid 2022, since I got the impression that it was all going to be proprietary, privacy-invading online services, but things look like they're changing.
A future of democratized open-standard and open-source AI sounds like a good one to me!
Yeah something like that was what I was looking for. I don't see any mention of "Federation worker count" but... not everything is documented so whatever. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks!
Is there a wiki of Lemmy or fediverse terminology for stuff like this? I'm not sure what "Federation worker count" is, but I also don't know where to look to find the answer.
Honestly, owning up to it being a selfish decision deserves some respect. I'm a big proponent of free expression and avoiding censorship, but I took a gander at the kinda stuff they got over there and...
It's not even the views they hold that's my main problem. It's really that they're just so needlessly rude and aggressive, and as you pointed out, they seem to be a lot more censorship happy than here anyway. I would be more sympathetic to them if they were less censorship happy themselves, and if they were less mean.
I do want to stress that I hope you keep the number of blocked instances to a minimum, since I feel that it would be better if the Lemmy software had better tools for users to control what they block for themselves better, and also maybe just having "default" blocklists that users can disable, to keep the new-user experience nice, but yeah for that particular instance, I can't be too mad about it.
I came here because of the reddit situation, but I didn't come from reddit. I just heard about of bunch of people thinking about going to lemmy and thought it might be fun to try it out.
This is the big thing I hate about downvotes on Reddit. Instead of downvotes, people who disagree should make a comment about it, and then THAT comment can get upvoted to show that people disagree with the original comment. It encourages conversation and discourages echo-chambers where people are punished for having a different opinion.
LFG that was something I've been hoping got added! I'm not even a big gamer, but I like it when I do game.