Normally not much, but we’ve seen a big uptick in transphobia in wake of the Supreme Court ruling here which hasn’t been fun.

Self-Hosting: Server: Easy (Leverage email hosting services) → Score: 18/20

Is it really self-hosting if someone else controls the data and software?

Yeah, I thought it must be a Reddit repost instance, thanks for pointing to the right one.

You guys are a lot braver than me lol, I’d never run the Lemmy main branch in prod.

Seems they’re all running the same version, or Piefed doesn’t tag releases:

curl -s https://piefed.social/nodeinfo/2.0 | jq
{
  "openRegistrations": true,
  "protocols": [
    "activitypub"
  ],
  "software": {
    "name": "PieFed",
    "version": "0.1"
  },
  "usage": {
    "localComments": 12382,
    "localPosts": 1169,
    "users": {
      "activeHalfyear": 561,
      "activeMonth": 309,
      "total": 800
    }
  },
  "version": "2.0"
}

curl -s https://feddit.online/nodeinfo/2.0 | jq
{
  "openRegistrations": true,
  "protocols": [
    "activitypub"
  ],
  "software": {
    "name": "PieFed",
    "version": "0.1"
  },
  "usage": {
    "localComments": 503,
    "localPosts": 214,
    "users": {
      "activeHalfyear": 85,
      "activeMonth": 34,
      "total": 85
    }
  },
  "version": "2.0"
}

Fair point. It probably hard to see these things when you’ve been in the thick of Lemmy for as long as most of us here have. It’s easy to dismiss not liking lemmy-ui because alternative frontends exist (written from Photon), but does that matter when the overwhelming majority of instances use it as their landing page.

There’s feddit.online and some personal ones I’ve seen knocking about.

What’s missing from Lemmy that would make it unattractive to the average user? Remember the majority of users don’t post, comment or otherwise interact with the platform beyond voting.

Quiblr actually is open source now: https://github.com/Technicolor-Dreamcoat/Quiblr

Irrc, a ‘For You’ algorithm is on the road map, but it doesn’t currently have it.

Sex isn’t a “gender orientation” it is really simple biology.

Gamete size – its really simple.

Congratulations infertile people, you are now officially sexless.

Though this content could flourish in pockets of the fediverse, the scary scenario of prevalent child sexual abuse material is not the case. There are many moderation tools, including shared blocklists, that prevent it. However, the idea that the fediverse is full of harmful content was used by Elon Musk to justify his anti-competitive decision to block links from X to Mastodon.

Didn’t he unban someone who posted one of the worst CSAM videos known?

At this point they should just hire the Heroic devs, I doubt anything they could build themselves would compare in terms of quality.

Lemmy will change the way it handles DMs in 1.0 specifically for Masto compatibility.

You should be a Luddite because they were right. My point wasn’t that we should embrace AI (trust me, I’m one of its most dedicated haters), but that just because technology produces lower quality goods doesn’t mean it won’t catch on. It’s going to take more than jeering mockery to stop capitalist embracing something that lets them deskill workers.

I’m about half way through Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant, a book about the Luddites, and one of the things he’s emphasised quite a lot is the complaints of people at the time about the lower quality of automated textiles compared to artisan-made ones.

It ignores what happens if your PDS provider goes down. While currently Bluesky can repopulate a new PDS with your old data, I don’t see how that’s going to survive them adding stuff to the AT proto that isn’t public and therefore not kept persistently in Bkuesky’s servers (e.g. E2EE DMs).

Gonna? My fellow user of Linux, it’s already happening.

I don’t have a Sharkey account to test (I really need to move my masto off .social one of these days) but it works in Mastodon

Here’s an example (you’ll need to look on Lemmy to see the image):

Does anyone on your instance follow the communities you’re interested in? Lemmy communities ‘boosts’ all comments it receives, so you should have them.