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aasatru

@ aasatru @kbin.earth

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Just passing through. 🮲🮳

  • PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters

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  • "feel free to open a PR" - without any justification or discussion about the merit of issue at hand - is the standard passive-aggressive response from every developer who is not interested in making the change.

    Man, the entitlement. Especially coming from the only person I know of who is here with the explicit goal of monetizing the platform.

    There's a way of voicing concerns and criticisms in a way that is constructive, helpful, and in good faith, inviting to an open discussion with concerned parties. Yours is not that.

  • If you had too, how would go about running a Instagram account?

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  • If youre still posting on Pixelfed maybe you could try following @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, and ask people to follow you on Bluesky. That's a bit more familiar, and you might have a better change at their algorithm than that of Instagram.

    I don't really have a real answer, sorry. Good luck!

  • Does Bonfire have any public instances?

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  • Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

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  • Terence Eden just wants as many people as possible to read what he writes with as much ease as possible, so he federates the full content. 404 Media wants people to visit their site, and some of the content is behind a paywall, so they keep the content on site. Different needs. Not very complicated.

  • Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

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  • Not necessarily, no - it depends on how it is federated, and I believe the settings of the Mastodon instance. For example @blog@shkspr.mobi federates blog posts in full length, while @feed@404media.co based on Ghost only gives a lead paragraph.

  • Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

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  • I guess the consequence of this is that you won't have many followers on Pixelfed.

    Occasionally photographers on Mastodon I follow from Pixelfed will post things I don't care much about, but at least I get to see their pictures without having to see their text posts in which I have little to no interest.

  • Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

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  • Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

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  • Well, Mastodon will show everything in the feed, no matter if it's a video, a short blog, a long blog, a picture, a podcast, whatever. Mastodon is (primarily) microblogging in terms of output, but an everything platform with a chronological feed in terms of input.

    This is where this user seems to get confused - they expect everything on the fediverse to display every type of content, just like Mastodon strives to do. Which is, as you said, ridiculous. If PixelFed was to display audio content and Funkwhale was to display pictures, what would be the point of these services in the first place? If they want everything to be Mastodon, why don't they just stick to Mastodon? Maybe Pixelfed users have no interest in reading their dumb blog posts?

  • Ernest is alive

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  • I can't imagine how stressful it must have been to have a small hobby project you're devekoping for fun and then suddenly get the insane amount of traffic from the Reddit exodus over night without having been able to prepare for it at all. I was low key worried we killed him with stress.

    Happy that's not the case.

  • Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi?

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  • I think engaging with people on a human level rather than giving unsolicited advice on how to use fediverse to every new face around could be a place to start. Half the time I see a new user here they seem to get flooded with technical advice that, while well-meaning, is somewhat off-putting.

    A simple "Welcome! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about how to make the most of your time here" is plenty for most people. And if they do ask questions, go wild.

    Is there a good community in which newcommers can ask basic questions, like a fedi help desk community/no stupid questions fedi edition? I feel like that could be useful to point people to. Edit: Blaze linked !newcomers@piefed.zip in another comment.

  • Changes in maga.place federation since this time last week

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  • Yeah, real moderation needs to happen on the instance level for sure. :)

  • Changes in maga.place federation since this time last week

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  • When I said blocking here I meant in the meaning defederating.

    On mastodon you'd mute users if you want them to still see your posts, and block them to cut them off. Not aure how that works on Lemmy, but I was referring to defederation. :)

  • Changes in maga.place federation since this time last week

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  • Most of the fediverse runs on a blacklist, not a whitelist. This means that new instances are federated by default as a general rule, though content only travels through instances when it's requested by users in some way or another.

    Blocking an instance is not much more work than banning a user, so in most cases it's not a huge problem to have to actively defederate from bad actors.

  • Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

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  • "I'm not even a nazi, but it sure is nice to see the fascists marching in the streets as a demonstration that free speech is truly alive and well"

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  • Still a pretty big hurdle for most bots that just aimlessly flow through the webs trying to sign up for things. I don't think anyone will bother tailoring their bot for europe.pub.

    Putting the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy between the question and the answer field might further confuse LLM outputs. :)

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    Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?

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  • The worlds smallest violin keeps getting smaller.

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  • "I left this gigantic capitalist American monolith and the alternative I found was full of leftists! "

    Well, duh.

    (Obligatory fuck tankies.)

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  • Oh yeah, it seems like half the posts I made on reddit in the end were shadow deleted, and I'm not even sure what I did wrong. Just automatic and instant action from Reddit. At least here when your shit is deleted you know about it.

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  • I'm not here to suffer fools.

    And bans come cheap because they're on an instance level. Go out and find yourself a place where you belong. If it turns out the people you'd like to talk to don't like you back, maybe recalibrate.

  • Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?

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  • The Commission has no law-making power on its own. They can open proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union to verify compliance with existing laws, or they propose legislation that will have to go through other EU institutions (the Parliament, which is elected, and the Council, which consists of representatives from Member State governments).

    The job of the Commission is to propose laws. The job of the other institutions is to reject these laws if they are stupid. The Commission opening an investigation does not mean that the EU is "adopting similar regulations" - it is an extremely long way away from that.

    And even the Commission itself is likely to contain a wide spectrum of opinions within it - it tends to be a strange political constellation. So until there's a Commission proposal (as happened with chat control) there's really nothing. After the Commission proposal, we need to make sure it's stopped by pressuring national governments (Council) and elected MEPs (Parliament).

  • Resist: It's Time @fedia.io
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    50501 is looking for moderators! 🇺🇸

  • Resist: It's Time @fedia.io
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    🚨 🇺🇸 The 50501 movement has set up its own forum! 🇺🇸 🚨

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    The Daily Beast reports on "provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month"

  • Europe @feddit.org
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    The Europeans Podcast starts fundraiser for investigative mini-series ("Who Does it Best")

    www.europeanspodcast.com /all-episodes/a-special-announcement-from-the-europeans
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    European Consumer Organisation files complaint to European Commission against exploitative microtransaction practices in video games

    www.beuc.eu /reports/game-over-consumers-fight-fairer-game-purchases
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Swedish minister responsible for the agency countering misinformation retweets Russian propaganda channel - stands by it

    www.dn.se /sverige/ministern-for-civilt-forsvar-tar-inte-ner-tweet-vars-innehall-kan-ha-finansierats-av-ryssland/
  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Arrest of journalist Olga Fedorova (Alex Kent, New York, May 8 2024)