• Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 hours

    You’re not trapped here with me, I’m trapped here with you.

  • toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org
    9 hours

    I’d argue that one of the main issues with the Fediverse is mostly just that interaction counts don’t federate properly. Mastodon made some good steps there recently, but it’s still not there Fediverse-wide.

    My Lemmy client, for instance, says this post only has 12 comments and 71 upvotes, but if you look at it on the instance it was posted on, it’s actually much more. This, of course, makes the Fediverse appear to be much less popular than it actually is. Which scares away new users immensely.

    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
      2 hours

      Some instances intentionally filter out votes such as non-humans, fuckin nazis, and also fuckin Tankies, so I expect at least a little variance in numbers.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      6 hours

      That’s likely an Mbin issue. Ernst, the creator of the original product Kbin before it got forked and taken over as Mbin, made a confusing decision to have both upvotes and boosts together, and not just on the microblog (Mastodon) side with magazines but even side-by-side also on the Threadiverse with communities. So when you press the “upvote”… I forget which action even occurs - upvoting vs. boosting. Sorting by votes also gets very wonky.

      And yes, all those weird design decisions very much scare people away from Mbin: the largest Mbin instance has only <500 active accounts and all Mbin instances combined have mere hundreds of users. For comparison, the flagship PieFed instance has >1k users, the NSFW one has twice that, and Lemmy.world alone has >13k!!!

      • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3 hours

        Honestly I have no idea how all this works, it seems very confusing. But luckily I don’t need to understand it to use it lol. I just picked the Australia zone because I live there

  • phanto@lemmy.caEnglish
    11 hours

    As a Canadian on Lemmy, I keep running in to the same couple of people… Hi, lady from Calgary, and guy from Ottawa! Nice to see you again!

    • meta4@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      11 minutes

      Well, what am I supposed to label you as? The lady got Calgary and the guy got Ottawa. Are you claiming all of Canada? Making your label “Guy from the entirety of Canada”

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      23 minutes

      I don’t know if you mean me but I’m a guy from Ottawa and it’s nice to see you too!

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      No sorry, we just lost old Tommy, and nobody knows if Violet survived last Friday night.

  • lacethespace@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9 hours

    I enjoyed this so much more as it was at 24 upvotes when I came upon it. Just barely qualifies for plural of dozen.

    • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
      9 hours

      If you want, I could use my dozen alt account to boost it up ;-)

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    12 hours

    Honestly all the Lemmy instances could shut off permanently tomorrow and I would be cool with that. Fuck those tankies on ML.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      6 hours

      If I get rounded up and thrown into a concentration camp because of their shit, I’m going to be pissed 😡.

    • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
      7 hours

      Instead of raging about something you’re powerless to change, why not just block those instances you dislike and never have to worry about them again?

      Or, as you said all instances, you could delete your account and touch some grass for a bit.

      All of us, at times, need a break from the internet. Even if we don’t realise it yet. Maybe now it’s your time and we’ll see you later, when/if you return?

      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
        2 hours

        EDIT: You’re clearly confused. I am on Piefed not Lemmy.

        Oh, we’re far from powerless. The quarantine of the Tankie Triad has been very successful, as will the move to Piefed.

        Because people like me speak up, because the instance admins are aware of the problem and willing to make the needed changes.

      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
        2 hours

        Almost all Lemmy instances throw up a seasonal banner begging users to fund tankies like Dessalines and the ML instance.

        Because the Lemmy platform is developed by those Tankies and they push it in updates.

        Piefed has been around for a while now, there is no longer a good reason to stay on Lemmy.

        • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          46 minutes

          While there are many good differences that Piefed implements, its heavy-handed use of built-in content blocks is concerning. Arguments have been made that such features are merely a default option that can be changed by other instances, but aside from the dominance of piefed.social, many instance owners are unlikely to change most default settings.

      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
        2 hours

        Tankies wish us all immediate harm, I will never tolerate them.

        From Russia’s war in Ukraine to China helping reelect Donald Trump, they are evil to their core.