This is an absolute nightmare scenario

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187310535/hollywood-actors-strike-sag-aftra

That’s because Threads’ entire userbase is baked into an app that almost everyone already has. It says absolutely nothing about the quality or featureset of the app, much less scalability and actual use.

I love the episode Little Green Men specifically because it puts Quark in the deeply uncomfortable position of having to grapple with the similarities between humans and ferengi, while also grappling with his own proclivities

This is a pretty dogshit take, homie.

Look, you’re absolutely right about pretty much everything you said here. My issue is not exactly with the concept of federation per se, but with the potentially cavalier selection from a top-down level.

The Beehaw situation is really what I mean. At least for the next few months, it seems to me that there will likely be a lot of confusion and frustration over how this all works from new users, and even longtime users will be left wondering whether they need to just keep making new accounts in order to interact with the communities they have history in. C/technology on Beehaw is the de-facto tech community, and it’s now inaccessible to a huge number of users, and for somewhat specious reasons.

I understand the utility of federation and de-federation, but I don’t think it’s being handled well right now.

This is a good point

between putin, my ex-website, the poop from hell, and general de-federation, this has been one cromulent fuckcrustable of a week. Tymmy needy nuclear detonation codes

I think there’s definitely a bit of a gated-garden mentality here, but it’s mostly just being overwhelmed. If they had more help, or had ASKED for more help, it would probably have been much different. I’m new here myself so I’m not going to pretend to understand the nuances here.

Don’t show your ass like this. Don’t do the “oh you like waffles so you hate pancakes???” meme. I didn’t say or suggest a single thing you just said.

What I actually DID say is that allowing mods admins to defederate entire communities is stupid. If you want to talk about THAT, fine.

EDIT: admins, not mods, my mistake, thanks god

I’m not fully in the know on this by any means, but from what I understand, Beehaw’s admins/mods decided to defederate from sh.itjustwor.ks and lemmy.world because of an inability to moderate effectively due to the massive influx of new Lemmy users last week - most of which were in those two instances, as they have open registration.

Beehaw requires you to apply to join.

It seems inevitable!

See, that would be such a better option. Let individual users block servers from appearing for them alone in any interactive sense. The Beehaw defederation was not only terrible timing, but it exposed the biggest achilles heel of this whole idea.

the whole de-federating thing is seriously turning me off to the whole concept of lemmy, it’s like little dictators with their sceptres cutting off entire communities from each other. it’s a major flaw and I hope it gets addressed as lemmy/fediverse evolves, or else it’s not going to work

thirty-two equals six

Lots of top-quality dumb news this week

“Tell my wife I exploded and that it was very sad and that the last thing I said was make sure my wife doesn’t use my toilet”

Late June 2023 is going to be a very strange anthropological investigation for future internet archaeologists

“hard as a rock”