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  • What a week, huh? – A Weekly Retrospective [16.06.23]

  • The start of this Lemmy instance, lol!

    The instance is really lovely isn't it?! It's nice to see people starting to post and chat with each other here. I suppose when you launch a new instance you're never quite sure how it'll go, what a leap of faith, ey?

    The installation of this Lemmy instance

    Do you want to tell us a little bit about the problems you faced while tring to install the lemmy instace? I'm curious!

    I am happy that our community is so small and sweet and consists of many nice people!

    Everyone's so cool, where did you all come from?!

    There is a major (positive) change in our instances coming up, I am looking forward to it, but I am worried that everything can go wrong.

    I'm going to keep my fingers crossed for you. One great thing about this small community is that there are always improvements and changes. I see how hard you work to fix some of the pitfalls in the backend. -this is fine emoji-

    Yes, ha!

    Are you gonna share them with us or nah? haha.

    You people!

    I'm feeling that too, it's early days yet but so far so good, everyone is super nice.

  • What a week, huh? – A Weekly Retrospective [16.06.23]

  • Phew! I really feel you, things are really starting to heat up now! Heat The fediverse is a lot all at once and I can see a lot of confusion in some of the popular threads on the bigger instances but between all of the confusion is fun and I sense a bit of hope too. It's really lovely to see this. I don't blame you though, heat compounded with exhaustion from work makes it hard to find the inspiration to keep up with things like this.

    There's so much potential with your stack of Raspberry PI on the fediverse! I know that Revengeday and felsqualle know a bit about things like this. Whatever you end up tinkering with, I hope it's fun for you! :D

  • German: A place for people learning German and German speakers to discuss the language.

  • I have this same problem haha. I'm a little bit stretched over the various instances for now. I've only just set up the refold community which is for all languages but it's based off learning things from netflix, youtube, books and games (videogames and boardgames).

    I searched up learn spanish and found "learning spanish for deplorable tankies"...yeah... no thanks. I think I may have to set one up afterall!

    Also, I'm sorry to hijack your thread /u/DVD! I'll crosspost your community to my language learning community as I know there are some people on my instance who wish to learn German.

  • What a week, huh? – A Weekly Retrospective [16.06.23]

  • That's fantastic news! Congrats!

  • Steve Huffman's meltdown interview with The Verge

  • Isn't apollo free? Am I missing something here? I have no idea what he's getting at. If a dev is making your service B E T T E R then leave them be or just make a better app! They're bringing people to his site. Apollo should be charging reddit at this rate!

    Big clown moves from this fella, he fell out of the goofy tree.

  • German: A place for people learning German and German speakers to discuss the language.

  • I'm looking for a spanish group too! :D

  • Idea: a general cyberpunk community

  • Added you as mod. <3 You can always look for more mods over time or we can find some suitable folks to help out. It's a great idea!

  • Your feedback is needed

  • We're not the police so no worries! Have fun! :D

  • Your feedback is needed

  • Hey there @neurocyde@dataterm.digital , it's a very exicitng time and we're sharing this excitement with you! It's so great to find more high-tech low-life people to hang with!

    In addition to what Revengeday has said, regarding your question of which jurisdiction, we ask that folks atleast stick within the laws of Germany at the very least. We're an international community though so you might want to be wary of your own local laws too.

    We've gotten along with people from other federated communities in the past and in the present, we hope this will continue with the idea of mutual respect in mind! If you see anything that you think is against the rules or bothers you because you think it might be breaking the rules, just send a report over to us.

    The biggest unofficial rule is have fun and explore! (And if you find something cool, share it with the rest of us!)

  • Your feedback is needed

  • Welcome to DATATERM, I saw a little bit about VA-11-Hall-A floating around lemmy, I think it was from you. Whatever you can share I'd love to see it! I think it will take time because this place is very new but I get that hesitant feeling too. I've followed the community so I can learn more about the game.

    The fediverse can be a bit mind bending at first and it comes with it's own quirks that's for sure. Thanks for taking a moment to share your thoughts with us!

  • Being a part of the CORTEX IMPLANT community is honestly the best time I've had on the internet 🥰

  • I felt that too, now there's less pressure for me lol.

  • X-Post / Beehaw defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works

  • It's only a matter of time before Lemmy gets hit with a bot problem so I do understand why there'd be concern about open sign ups on those large instances in addition to trolls. So far I've seen a lot of nice things from lemmy.world but that's not to say there isn't bad actors out there.

  • Lack of Overall Karma Count (Less Pressure?)

  • I find that I've had more meaningful engagement within decetralised spaces than the centralised ones. Sadly the corpos the type of engagement doesn't seem to matter too much as long as it's engagement on their site and not someone else's. I felt that same pressure to be honest.

    You're right about the good use cases, it's nice within the marginalised communities / subreddits but outside of them it's not so great. Sometimes you want to engage in other communities in peace as well so I guess it comes down to moderation but I understand the karma points is a barrier to entry for trolls.

    Community level point counts might not be too bad tbh because like you said, it would be a way of stopping people from using other communties that might not have the best intentions to farm karma so they're not in minus numbers. To be honest, a count did span across a site it would be a nice feature to have a breakdown as to what communities that positive and negative karma comes from..

  • Lack of Overall Karma Count (Less Pressure?)

  • I actually had no idea there was a subreddit for free karma but there's a subreddit for something haha.

  • Lack of Overall Karma Count (Less Pressure?)

  • Regarding the online abuse in regards to being trans, same here. I had this problem on twitter GC / TERF pileons so shinigami eyes was quite useful to have. When trolls learn you're trans it's like low hanging fruit to them so I get what you mean with low karma accounts being blocked from engaging in a community

    Lemmy is in it's early days so they may actually add an overall count with a similar safety feature in the future or additional safety features for communities to use. If the Lemmy devs don't create something to help with this then it's possible that someone might write a bot to help with moderation as automod and the likes were quite popular on Reddit. I'm speaking from my own experiences here but I find that over time as a mod or admin who is a marginalised person, you tend to become friends with mods and admins from other marginalised communities within the fediverse and get a headsup on who's doing the damage and where before the abuse is aimed at the rest of the community. The fediverse is currently mostly reliant on these teams for user safety so for now, connecting with other communities and talking to each other is one of the best tools we have until more features are developed.

    Thank you for your response btw, it has made me think about what Lemmy might need so communities can keep each othe safe. Some Lemmy instances will tolerate abuse like that and leave it upto the mods to govern their own communities but we've never been a fan of anti-LGBTQIA+ hate or TERFs here at DATATERM or any of the other fedi spaces run by @revengeday@revengeday@dataterm.digital .

  • Lack of Overall Karma Count (Less Pressure?)

  • I'm hoping it'll make people more likely to engage in discussions where they might not have on reddit. Of course thre's no pressure to engage but I'm optimistic that some people might give it a go and the ones who did previously, I hope they can relax in this space. :D

  • Lack of Overall Karma Count (Less Pressure?)

  • To be honest you're right, I do get why they would protect their communities from low karma accounts though I've seen things get downvote bombed for almost no reason too. I guess because people felt like it.

    I really like the decouppling from points, favourites, likes, numbers in general, etc.

  • If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk

  • It's amazing! Thanks for sharing that vid.

  • If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk

  • I call it retrofuture but I'm sure there's actually a real term for it haha.

  • If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk

  • I hope this isn't a stupid question but is that ukulele glowing or is that just the lighting? It looks pretty cool!