feudalism + capitalism

worst of both worlds

Answer 1:

with an old forum like running phpbb, it doesn’t matter to the user what the site is running. if it works, it works.

with the fediverse, because it is interacting with other instances in a way forums never even conceived of, it is really important to the end user what software is running. the software is center stage.

Answer 2:

The blossoming of the threadiverse in the past 6 months has prompted/necessitated the creation of a lot of “general purpose” domains.

Your examples are bookclub.phpbulletin.com and metalheads.vbulletin.net. But most lemmy instances are not themed around literature or music or anything else. More apt example would have been phpbbtalk.io or chatvbulletin.xyz. Such sites did start back in the day. But in the absence of federation they were not likely to cohere. So you don’t remember them, if you ever found them in the first place.

It is a very (the most?) common reason for downvoting and if you force people to chose a reason but don’t include it, they will just lie and the whole exercise will be rendered pointless.

And you know even though it’s not your personal preference, I think there are situations where it’s really just helpful to know “a lot of people agree” or “a lot of people disagree”. Not everything is about having a long debate with many sides. Sometimes the most popular thing is the best thing and the least popular is that way for a reason. Or it can provide useful context to understand the comments. Like if I am posting to ask advice about how to fix something and several options are presented but one of them has 5x the upvotes, I am thinking that might be the best one.

And it can tell you about the community. Like if I go into a community and I see someone says something nasty/dangerous/stupid and it has a similar votecount to other comments, I would think “I guess that sort of thing is acceptable here”. Whereas if I see it has lots of downvotes I might think “this comment is not representative of the general community here”. Voting based on like/dislike allows the community to express approval/disapproval when things don’t meet the threshold of moderator action; especially in very permissive communities where mods do not wish to take a heavy hand.

Further more, agree/disagree votes cut down on identical “me too” type comments. They give people a way to show approval without needing to make a comment and sometimes that is appropriate.

I guess you could use that to make your own private community?

Should still include “i dont like it” as a reason

Tbh i thinknthroaways are a better solution. “Hiding” stuff selectively can never 100% work.

The reason i prefered reddit to all the other big socials was how easy pseudonynous activity is. No “real name policy” BS. threadiverse has the same feature so i like it too.

haha good to know. :)

I was not able to complete the set up. :( I am not given up on it yet though.

could you like run a cron job to speed up the audiofiles after download? using maybe ffmpeg? might be a better way

I didn’t know github.com had referral links now!

it’s harder to do than you think. you can tell people about signal because everyone understands messaging. and telling them to use signal is/was good advice!

Trust me you will never even think to get into the differences between wayland and x11. hate systemd? excited about btrfs? it is literally impossible to discuss any of it without shared context.

omg I literally had to check if I had written this. We are almost the same.

Main difference is that I have a working understanding about linux file structure and am comfortable with text files, but I have only on a couple of occasions even attempted anything with docker. it makes me tired to think about.

Other than that I so feel you on changing things, not knowing what actually fixed the problem. And then having to re-learn everything from scratch on another occasion. I also feel there is a limit to how much I want to learn. I have no aspirations to do this for a living or to become extremely proficient. I have spent the past couple of weekends struggling with drives and shares and permissions etc. It should be simple but it’s hard and takes such a long time.

On your advice because it sounds like you are in a similar situation I will try it.

I’ve been slowly dipping my toes into self hosting.

What are the risks or disadvantages of using something like this? My plan has been to run debian with whatever services. Reading about this, it seems very complex and that makes me worried that it is more to go wrong.

On the other hand, it’ll be 10 years til I learn how to do all this myself.

So is it a good idea or not?

I missed whatever drama was associated with alien.top and the URL just 404s now.

This project reminds me of when Cory Doctorow describes adversarial interoperability. Was it inspired by this?

I think adversarial interop is a good explanation for all the permissions required.

So is this a bit.ly-type url shortener?

That very well could exist with one of the userstyles or front ends.

kbin enhancement suite has it. But it’s for kbin obvs. It’s a user script I run with ViolentMonkey firefox extension. There are a ton of lemmy projects along similar lines. Have a look.

I keep trying to up/downvote with a and z. Which when I first saw it I thought “that’s such a stupid mapping I will never remember it”. How many months later I am literally still doing it.

timer plugs are so freaking useful. once you have a couple you start noticing things you could do with them. just regular digital non-smart outlet timers. don’t get the analogue ones, they ticktickticktick.

Yes like all the people using rice for food has totslly ruined rice

Dont even get me started on indoor plumbing. Was so much better before it got popular.

bit.ly for lemmy

IUDs are hormonal

nope

edit: maybe you are thinking of an IUS

if you are a heterosexual, or may at any time in the future have penis-in-vagina type sex, you should learn a little bit more about contraception. that is absolutely not how any IUD works.