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when on voice or the phone?

That’s it. Those are my pet peeves

I don’t know, because my parents were irreligious too. My dad was an atheist, and my mum is agnostic. She has some spiritual beliefs, but has no religious beliefs or belief in deities.

The thing is, when that happens, the mods/admins of the trolls new instance ban them there, without the original admin having to do anything.

Abandoned instances, or instances that simply don’t moderate, get defederated, so it’s quite manageable.

The only case where it’s not that clear cut, is where the troll is a big issue for one admin, but not another. Take trans issues for example. I have a zero tolerance policy on transphobia on this instance, but not all lemmy admins are as aware of the dogwhistles as I am, so I will block some users that other admins won’t. It’s not ideal, but it’s manageable, because I can stop their brand of transphobia from reaching my instance even if they’re not banned by the remote admin. And if that pushes the troll to create another account elsewhere to get through the instance ban, then that becomes harassment, and the other admins will act, even if they wouldn’t before.

Thus, the decentralized platform is rolling out a “more aggressive” policy on parody accounts that aren’t clearly labeled.

If it were decentralised, it wouldn’t be possible for the platform to set a network wide policy on parody accounts…

If I as an instance owner search & subscribe to another instance’s community, I get “federated” with that community. Does that mean my instance is, or my user is?

When a user on your instance subscribes to an external community, the instance that hosts that community gets a notification about the subscription. Then when new content is posted to to that community, the remote instance forwards a single copy of that content to all instances that have subscribers to the community, including your instance.

Then, when your instance receives it, it checks the content to see if it should send anyone a notification, and does so. It then makes the content visible to people and it will start appearing in the appropriate timelines of your local users (ie, in the “subscribed” and/or “all” timelines depending on the user)

If I want users at my instance to see posts from communities on other instances, is there a way for me to pull those posts in to my instance? Or, how do I get my users to see other communities’ content?

As soon as a single account on your instance subscribes to a remote community, you will get future content from that community.

As an admin, assuming you don’t want to subscribe to random groups just to federate them, you can create a dummy account, find common/popular communities using a site like Lemmyverse, and then subscribe with your dummy account.

You can also point your users at https://lemmyverse.net/communities. That site lets them set their home instance, and once they’ve done so, links to any community will point the user to the community on your instance. And if your instance didn’t have it, the act of someone trying to find it will cause your instance to go and fetch the community and recent content posted to it from the remote instance. Though in this case, unless the user then subscribes, you won’t continue to get future content from that community.

It’s not shit yet. Right now, it’s good. Honestly, better than the fediverse in core usability.

The issue is whether it stays that way. And yeah, if they open up the way you’re talking about, I’ll probably move over myself, because that’s the protection against enshittification. But if they don’t open up, if they stay centralised, and just play at federation, then the writing is on the wall for how it ends, because it’s happened countless times before. And I won’t invest my time or effort in being part of that community only to lose it

Basically people like you are blind to the reason as to why bluesky and not mastodon is getting all the twitter runaways.

Bluesky absolutely provides a better, more cohesive and centralised experience than most of the fediverse microblog alternatives.

That’s why it’s getting more people

But the reason it can do that is because it’s centralised, with federation tacked on. And that centralisation means it’s most likely going to go through the same cycle of enshittification as twitter, facebook, reddit etc. Twitter was great to use back in the day. Reddit was great to use back in the day. Then they got large captive audiences that couldn’t leave because of the network effect, and instead of trying to make the platforms attractive to new people, they started to bleed their existing customers for value at the expense of their user experience, because those people had nowhere else they could easily go.

Bluesky will go down that same path if they get a critical mass of users and stop being the “alternative” to twitter.

Mastodon and the fediverse will always be an alternative at best, because they can’t compete with the experience of using a centralised network. But the Fediverse platforms don’t suffer from the vulnerability of centralised networks and their path to enshittification. And for me, that’s going to keep me here.

The only way I’ll move to Bluesky is if they truly embrace decentralisation to the point where the platform/network could exist without them.

Bluesky is centralised and funded by VCs. It plays at being decentralised because people can bring their own hardware to the party and plugin to the Bluesky network, but if Bluesky (the company) turns it off, then Bluesky the platform/network ceases to be usable. They also started without allowing federation with their core network, so they can easily disable it again at any time.

Bluesky is not decentralised in any meaningful way, which means its at risk of the same bullshit that has driven most of us away from reddit, twitter, facebook etc

It’s a federated protocol, but the network itself isn’t meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it’s still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology

Why would I want to use exclusive language? If I know it’s going to make someone feel worse instead of better, why would I use?

The only argument for not using it that I can think of is that you don’t give a shit about other people…