Just signed up about 2 minutes ago and havent gotten my email. I’m a patient man, but even I have my limits.

Interested to give it a shot though. Hopefully it gets sorted out soon.

Sorry I thought your comment was a reply to a different comment of mine, which is why I deleted it. For the record, no disagreements with what you say.

deleted by creator

Oh, now I see. Thank you for clarifying.

I think the federated social media that is coming now is a great thing. It’s fantastic. It’s back to the old architecture, partially. But, I think it has unintentionally imitated some of the design patterns that exist on the current “they” internet. Among them:

You don’t control your experience. That is designed and curated for you by “they.” You can configure it, but you have to turn in a formal request if you want to make changes outside the parameters, and since you’re requesting someone spend significant effort on you who doesn’t know you from a can of paint, the answer is probably no.

Could you clarify what you mean by this? I assume when you say “they” on the Internet you talk about the Internet’s commercialization and commodification by companies. In what way is the Fediverse curated for you by “they”? Is it the news and other external links people post?

Thanks for the information. I took a look at the bots community and for what it’s worth I appreciate the amount of effort you put into fine tuning it as well as being as transparent as possible.

What kind of sample size of comments or time length would the bot use to make a decision? Is it safe to assume that those new Troll accounts would fly under this bots radar?

Edit:Also is there a functionality where we can look up a user using this tool? I would be interested in seeing some users I’ve interacted with in some political and news related communities.

Edited lol, thanks.

Your community doesn’t need to be isolated to a single instance. Your home instance, lemm.ee, can be used as one.

That’s correct. The amount of users defaulting to that instance was worrying the admins. They wanted more people to move to other servers to help de-centralize the platform and ensure lemmy.world doesn’t control the whole fediverse through sheer numbers.

The fediverse’s decentralization is meant to circumvent this possibility. It’s all too easy to ignore one or two bad instances if it comes to that. No matter how big they get. It’s part of the reason you don’t see the lemmy.world instance in the lemmy server browser. It forces people to spread across the instances more instead of lemmy.world taking the direction of the fediverse wherever they see fit due to how many users they have. As long as the admins continue to respect this viewpoint, enshittifcation of the Fediverse will be postponed.

Pretty fitting username for this post lol.

I get the point this post is trying to make and I do agree with it, but this seems to be a pretty bad example. The headline for Walz seems to be a display of how far he’s gotten in life. A classic “American Dream, from humble beginnings” story that seems to be more and more distant these days.

Except if the person decides to harass or stalk you in real life after reading the reasons. These aren’t hypotheticals, these things happen.

Browse all and sort by new or scaled maybe?

This sounds like a good idea on paper but will likely be terrible in real life. A lot of people ghost for their own safety. So many people have stories of dates turning nasty if they feel like they’re being rejected or criticized. Being forced to describe what you don’t like about the other person will not always end well.

I’m very sorry that happened to you. But honestly, I don’t see that as an issue with privacy. More like gross incompetence at your workplace and you paid the price of it. Hopefully it didn’t affect your day to day too much.

That seems a bit…odd? I feel like there’s more to the story than just that.

Privacy shouldn’t drastically affect your life to the point where you cannot pursue a career and establish yourself.

That’s actually really impressive. Good for you OP.