Ignorance is bliss
Ignorance is bliss
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My account was shut down without notice a few weeks ago. The server providing my account shut down. All comments, saved links and history was gone.
How do you explain this to a non-technical user while reassuring that this is a great system?
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"you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you're still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you'll fucking starve to death?"
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A little pain in exchange for longtime gain?
Oh no, TIL that the Fediverse is "exercise" - no wonder most Westerners avoid us! 🤪
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It's crazy to me that whatever program you used to make that account on that server didn't automatically force a backup location on the same device where the account is used. On Android, some folder. On desktop, some folder. And it's crazy to me that we can't just import all of our votes, comments, and posts in that backup to another account on the same device or another.
That is a terrible system. No answers from me. Just questions
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"Choose an instance that provides monthly reports, including finances, such as !home@lemmy.zip"
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I have to say this is my experience too. I'm a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.
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https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Type a word for something you might be interested in, and if there's a community it should come up there. The main problem is still that the fediverse doesn't have enough people to support niche (or even kinda niche) interests yet
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But you are here all the same. We appreciate you!
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I find it is a lot easier to search through communities and instances on a desktop. Mobile is clunky even through some of the apps that have been developed are pretty good.
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Tbf, PieFed's categories of communities and user-customizeable and shareable Feeds greatly simplify the UX in working with communities (ironically more so on a mobile than desktop, surely an oversight that will be fixed soon).
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It is complicated, and I like a little barrier to entry.
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It's like needing to know the password before being let into the treehouse.
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"Fuck spez!"
"Yes, yes, come in, come in!!"
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After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.
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Block the ani.social instance and it takes away 90% of the anime groups.
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Sorry about that, some people don't know ani.social exists and create comms on the wrong instances. They're supposed to show up in my local feed, but now they're in yours and you don't even appreciate them!
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When you block that many groups how many new posts do you see? And how do you sort the posts?
I have only blocked a few groups but added a filter for posts containing trump or elon in the title as I get plenty of that crap from other sources.
Regarding the anime and furry posts, they come in waves so it's not constant or if I want to get a break from the yiffing I switch between sorting by Hot, Scaled and Top 6hrs.
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Not who you are asking, but I block a lot of communities (almost all of them political, when I want to look at political stuff I will go to other sources.) But I also sub to a lot of communities. It is possible for me to reach the bottom of my feed, but since I mostly check it between doing other things, it takes anywhere from a few hours to most of the day. And that's with me setting it to "Top Day" as my primary filter. If I'm really bored I'll do a pass through Top Week or Top Month. If I'm STILL bored, I'll set it to Active or New Comments, but usually by then it's like, "Okay time to go do something else" and I'll try to find some other activity to do.
This is a feature, not a bug IMO.
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This is why federation is not the solution to centralized services. The solution is called decentralized, or P2P. I don’t even understand why ActivityPub got so popular, when it is one of the worst protocols in terms of communication. But whatever. I’m still here. Because it is still better than Reddit
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Federation is decentralized. I feel like some major structural issues would exist with p2p, like would I only see posts from people actively online while I am online?
What other protocols do you think would suit the needs of a decentralized social media better?
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You would still need servers to connect to. Take a look how Solana works - the same concept (with or without the blockchain) would work for social media.
Unfortunately there is no really good protocol. ActivityPub has the purpose of making things interconnected between different worlds. Like, Lemmy with Mastadon. But for that you have to find a common denominator, stripping away all the good stuff, for a feature that no one really wants.
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I kinda love that people are willing to deal with these various technicalities and unknowns as a worthwhile compromise as long as it's not [input any walled-garden here]
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Cheers to all the brothers and sisters out there helping out their siblings!
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@threeduck@aussie.zone you're getting famous
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yeah pretty much
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@threeduck@aussie.zone aussie.zone is your server where your account resides
In all everything from other instances are shown while in local only your instance. If you want to find subs just select all and search or got to all in the feed bar and subscribe-
Don't sorry, they got answers
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Same
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It's not that is too complicated, it's the fact that there's no one here.
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It just gets boring arguing with the same 12 accounts. That said some of these people putting in a full days worth of work to keep the memes and other content flowing. They the real mvps
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Arguing? Nobody's arguing here. And last I counted, there were DOZENS of accounts, not just 12!
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Reddit wasn't much different. Even at the beginning there were accounts everyone recognized.
Just do what I do. Block the people that post a crazy amount of things. Those people are probably just pulling from r/all/topalltime and reposting anyways so it's not like you're losing anything of value.
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You need to switch up how you view it. Go to
- Hot
- 6 hour
- Scaled
- Active
That'll get you an hour or so depending on what instance you're on. Your instance decides what you see on All and Hot. That's why it is kind of important which instance you choose. If one gets too big, it controls what most people see.
According to the recent stats, there are millions of people here every day. That means you're not seeing them.
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More or less yes for me too. Hot is my default, then Active. I also toggle both between All and Subscribed.
I don't come here to lose hours usually, but the above is plenty for me.
I only wish we had a good equivalent to /r/publicfreakout. I'm having to seek out protest videos elsewhere, and I refuse to go to reddit, and they don't seem as prolific as they did in 2020.
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The population here is like a tiny slice of what it is on reddit, there's no one here
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There are dozens of us!
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Lemmy isn't too hard, it's just annoying at times. Like when your instance hasn't downloaded the content of a given community and it just looks empty until you subscribe to it.