This stuff isn’t intentional. It’s just that MS is really bad at handling errors. So they just gave up and put a generic message.

1. Report queue. Right now, reports go to a queue that both instance owners and mods use. This makes it impossible to mod because the instance owners mark items as completed before mods even had a chance to look at them.

Now, if it’s the case where it’s user abuse it’s fine for the instance owner to take care of it.

But if it’s just breaking the rule of a community, the instance owner should never even see it.

Separating the queues would help both mods and instance owners.

2. The ability to hide a community from All and/or Local. Some communities just aren’t appealing to the general public. And when All surfers see posts, they just downvote them into oblivion.

You probably installed the graphical one. emacs-nox is command-line only and significantly smaller.

emacs

I realize half of you people never touch it, but come on. It’s not that large a package these days.

Good to know. I signed up for beeper.com which seems cool. I am a bit concerned about data collection and privacy, so I’m trying to set up my own instance.

Yeah, I have been concerned about that. Looking into self-hosting matrix.

I just learned about Matrix recently. Seems like something that’d be good. What sucks about it?

Or drug money from selling to a foreign country

But that’s not what happens.

Greatest recent example is Elizabeth Warren. She supposedly wasn’t going to bow down to the big banks and wrote legislation to “help” the consumer. All she did was end up writing legislation that the big banks highly approved of, killed off many of the smaller banks and made banking way less competitive so that the consumers are suffering.

But if you get a coalition (example ICANN) to regulate stuff, you’ll get a better mix of both small and large companies.

And we’ve seen too much industry manipulation in government too.

But the big companies turning their platforms into absolute crap isn’t actually a problem for the industry. Other players will rise up (such as lemmy, kbin, mastodon, and other non activity pub sites) and make good platforms.

Regulation should come from the industry not the legislators. Legislators don’t know enough about it anyway and will end up just getting the biggest players to write it anyway.

But if the industry does it, certification would be voluntary and it would be transparent who wrote the regulation. Much easier for smaller players to contribute and shape it.

And the best part is that if it sucks, they don’t have to participate. And then they can try again