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I migrated over to writefreely, here’s the new link. https://my.jewy.blog/my-love-hate-relationship-with-lemmy
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I migrated over to writefreely, here’s the new link. https://my.jewy.blog/my-love-hate-relationship-with-lemmy
I wish you the best of luck on this and I truly hope you do this, but this is what the lead dev of Sublinks tried to do. That’s the missing piece here. He tried making an external mod tooling system. Maybe you’ll have better luck than he did. I really hope you do.
As well, I should highlight the project jgrim was desiring to do was an external mod tooling system for lemmy. Not something within lemmy itself.
It especially leads to harassment of vulnerable people. There’s many aspects of moderation that is done here that if implemented in other fediverse software would become a vector for Kiwifarms level harassment.
The thing is, sublinks lead developer tried to work with development team of lemmy. It was like pulling teeth constantly and his experience was overall negative.
Do you run an instance or have you ever ran a fediverse instance before?
I deleted the activitypub plugin because of how wonky it is, try again and let me know if you have any issue now
It can be a source of harassment to not be able to anonymize actions.
Interesting. I might have to remove the activitypub plugin regardless then.
It can become a source of targeted harassment, as it has on the rest of the fediverse before.
I couldn’t find their pronouns listed anywhere, but it was my bad to assume regardless. Fixed it, my apologies.
I will migrate it to sublinks as soon as I can.
It might be an issue with the activitypub plugin, https://jewy.blog/b/1T try this shortlink version instead
I agree quite a bit with your second point, as someone who used to run a Minecraft server long long long ass it was quite bad.
And yeah, I think there will be solid reasons to get users to migrate. But for the most part it wont really be needed as instances themselves will be able to convert lemmy instances to sublinks instances eventually. It wont require much effort from users unless they want to switch instances entirely.
Honestly coming here and starting my own instance and providing help for other instances and stuff has reignited my long lost love of computers and open source stuff. The passion for it is thankfully coming back.
The only thing I really have to add is on the topic of toxicity. Like you, I’m an instance admin and have a bird’s eye view of a lot of behavior patterns. I’ve recently started wondering how many people are here because they’re too toxic for regular social media rather than because they want to be here. I won’t guess an actual number, but I would say it’s not insignificant.
That’s unfortunately a big issue with alternative social media platforms and without tools to combat them it goes bad really bad. I agree completely.
Will there eventually be a means of converting lemmy instances over to sublinks? I know that inter instance software migration is a nightmare though.
Do you know what kiwifarms is? Just curious.
There are aspects of the wider fediverse culture that is ignored on lemmy, and thankfully its lack of interoperability has helped it avoid trouble (for now). I’m really not sure how to explain to you how it could be used for harassment as it requires a bit of detailed background to how the wider fediverse functions and its history and I don’t really know if it would convince you if I did explain it in enough detail. Just because data is publicly scrape-able doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to do so.
Interesting! Look’s really cool