Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023
I loved that game. Might be interesting to try again. Man, Myst seemed so revolutionary at the time and I sure loved the concept of there being no instructions, you’re just plunked down in a world and figure out that there’s stuff going on.
I’m not sure there’s less incentive to post generally, but there’s less incentive to repost old stuff, misleading headlines, etc.
Intentionally, Lemmy itself doesn’t total your upvotes and downvotes. You can go to your profile and see them for a given comment or post, but not an overall total. Some apps do show it.
Most of us agree that Reddit karma caused people to post and say things just for the karma, which was an overall negative. People put too much value in the score. So while we have upvotes and downvotes, they’re deemphasized, and that’s on purpose.
Yeah, for this one I was meaning the alternate account part. But this one is just the latest in a string, most of which were vulnerabilities or flaws in the architecture. I could have been more clear though.
Hopefully this crap is contributing to Lemmy overall being stronger. If the developers can plug the holes in the overall architecture so systemic vulnerabilities are minimal, and people make accounts on multiple instances and just switch when one is down, it might take the “fun” out of taking an instance down.
It’s really not, at least for the text part. Text posts and comments take almost nothing and storage continues to get cheaper.
Mainstream platforms are selling out because they’ve always had others and shareholders who ultimately want to make money.
I disagree. One big hunk of value of a place like this is being able to look back at old threads. How many times did people say they always put “Reddit” in front of their Google searches to get the information they were looking for? This could be the same.
I’m pretty far left leaning, and I honestly hope the last part of Trump’s life is spent in jail, but the fact is that a giant hunk of the US population is pro-Trump, and it seems insane to me to say that those people shouldn’t be allowed a place to talk about their candidate as long as no other rules are broken. I’ll just block the community and move on.
I think this is incorrect - federation depends on a “true” version. A community is tied to an instance, that’s where the true version is. When you’re logged into another instance and you comment in that community, your comment gets copied to the true version, as do comments from other federated instances, and all of them get copied from the true version to a version on yours.
When one instance defederates with another, that copying stops happening. If a copy of that thread is still on your instance, and you comment on it, your comment won’t get copied to the true version, so it also won’t get copied to other instances; only users on your instance will see it.
That’s my understanding, but I’ve only been here a few weeks.
Ugh, I started in the middle of June last year and I have over 3K. Apparently I have no life.