Except climate change is a flood that won’t go away for 10,000 years. There is no ‘after’ for the rich to benefit from.

Possibly. At the end of the day it’s all just JSON.

Here is more detail - https://codeberg.org/JollyDevelopment/fep/src/branch/jollydev/fep-1d80/fep/1d80/fep-1d80.md

Interesting, thanks!

Sold all my Rocket Lab shares last week because of shit like this.

Yes, that’s a setting that admins can choose for the entire instance. Also if downvotes are on then at the community level mods can choose whether to accept downvotes from members, the current instance, trusted instances or everywhere.

That sounds awesome!

Maybe PieFed’s new feeds feature could be used to combine communities in interesting ways - https://piefed.social/post/500805

I appreciate your words of caution. Remember this feature is very new and will no doubt get a lot more finesse added in future. There’s no point building some baroque all singing-all-dancing perfect thing unless we’re sure people will use it and by releasing earlier we get valuable feedback which determines whether we continue building that feature at all, etc. It’s very bare-bones at the moment.

The feed creator needs to know about the communities so they can type/paste the community address in, yeah. This feature takes the expert fediverse landscape knowledge contained in the heads of the terminally online and makes it available to more casual/new users.

While the actor is a Group and you can follow it, no posts are Announced. All the federation of posts is still driven by the individual communities within the feed. You’ll need to modify Lemmy to add the logic of subscribing to the constituent communities when you receive an Accept.

Also there are Add and Remove activities sent out whenever the feed owner manages the list of communities within which would need to be handled.

Documentation still to come…

Possibly. (Subscribing to a feed does actually subscribe you to all the communities in the feed. So technically they are not drive-by comments by non-members. But I see what you mean.)

Discoverability is a huge huge problem with all federated platforms and this will significantly alleviate that.

Yes, that is high on the agenda.

How do we feel about the idea of reply controls on Lemmy threads? Limit replies to members of the community, same instance, etc…

Check this out for general background discussion https://piefed.social/post/205362. The idea to differentiate by trusted instances was mine and not discussed there. Pretty sure there was some discussion about it in the Matrix channel which is lost to time.

During the recent roadmap planning one of the potential units of work was to sort all this out https://piefed.social/post/411591 but it didn’t garner significant interest and didn’t make it through to the final version of the roadmap.

I hear ya. There was quite a bit of back-and-forth about it and we ended up with a compromise. It would be good to have more configurability of this to suit different preferences.

There’s a niche out there for a max-privacy instance. No server logs, no email verification, automatic deletion of old content. And if it was running PieFed, no trusted instances set.

Not a niche I want to pursue but someone could.

Bummer.

It depends what your threat model is. Admins being dickheads about who downvoted what was the main issue at the time so I made it about choosing which admins to trust.

If future Lemmy versions show votes to mods (not just admins) then Pandora’s box would be well and truly open so we’d need to rethink this.

MailCow is similar except uses docker. I expect that will mean easier maintenance as it is less tightly bound to the underlying OS.

Last chance to strengthen their bargaining position

I guess NodeBB or Discourse would not qualify as they were forums that now have AP tacked on as an afterthought. Same for WordPress.

But yeah all the big names are original, fediverse-first software.

Anytime there is a open source “community edition” and a closed-source “enterprise edition” it’s pretty suspect. There will always be a temptation to make the community edition a bit crippled, to drive sales of the paid version.

For fascists, regular displays of hypocrisy are important, because that’s the guarantee that the bad things they obviously plan to do won’t be done to their supporters.