Over on the linked page? They’ve got custom “emojis”, which are just pictures uploaded by an admin. Lemmy has that feature in general, but it’s not used much on other instances. If it’s enabled on your instance, you can type : to select from all regular emojis plus custom ones.
Tumblr doesn’t really strike me as leftist, so much as having a low signal:noise ratio
DNS is neoliberalism incarnate 😂
DNS is the most neoliberal shit system that too many have just accepted as how computers work and always worked to the point where I have heard actual landlord arguments deployed to defend it
Thanks, I appreciate hearing it!
I think there has to be some level of curation. I set up a queue to post loops to !loops@midwest.social, but I didn’t just write a script that posts everything. I use Loops myself and add things I think are interesting to the queue to be posted. It’s a lot of manual work, but I’m happy to do it for now to help grow the Fediverse, and I enjoy watching the loops anyways.
You could accomplish this with more automatic curation, such as automatically reposting stuff that’s highly upvoted or has some other signal that it’s interesting. I didn’t do that for Loops because there’s a lot of stuff that’s highly-upvoted and is just stuff scraped from TikTok and I don’t care for those. I would probably use this approach if I didn’t want to wade through myself to find signal.
Seems to be working fine for me
It wouldn’t surprise me at all. Pixelfed got mainstream notice, and there’s always someone willing to give you money. Pretty much every popular Firefox/Chrome addon developer gets emails about buying it, but those are usually just shady companies looking to push malware onto the existing install base.
Even apart from those, it wouldn’t really surprise me to see some VC interest when Pixelfed hit #1 on the play store. They love the idea of glomming onto something that looks like a rocket and trying to ride it to the moon
Looks like skeleton code to me? I don’t see how that could be what the site/app are running on
It does technically federate a little, @dansup@loops.video exists. Not real federation, but I enjoy being technically correct 🤓 I do wish dansup open sourced it already so people could get a better picture of what’s going on with it, but he did say he’s actively working on federation this weekend.
It does allow third party apps like Loopy, where are you seeing that it doesn’t?
Some thoughts from this Loops user on why the Fediverse matters. I’ve seen some people push back on the idea of “It’s like email, but for X”, but that way of explaining it really makes sense to me.
I agree with the thesis that centralization is bad. Centralization breeds concentration of power, and power corrupts, or something like that
Tags are coming soon, which I think would be equivalent:
In general, I think communities shouldn’t splinter until there’s a need. IMO both efforts should just use !fedigrow@lemm.ee, and title posts in a way that makes the distinction clear. They’re both about growing the Fediverse in the end. If and when it becomes too much to keep in the same comm, then you’d split it up. That’s just my opinion as an internet rando though 🤷
I’m not saying that leaving an instance unblocked means you’re in favor of them, to be clear. My response was only addressing the issue of achieving a “normie” experience.
Kind of a silly question, but asked honestly: How much do you think the name “communick” matters when trying to convince “normies” to try it out? Would they see that, read it as a play on “Communist”, and assume it’s only for extremists or whatever?
At a minimum, you’d want to find an instance that blocks lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. lemmy.world already blocks both of those though. The next instance you’d probably want to block is lemmy.ml, which not many other instances do. beehaw.org does, but also blocks lemmy.world, which cuts out a lot of the threadiverse.
If you felt like it, you could explain how to do instance blocking on your user profile. That might be too much for people that don’t really care either way and just want stuff to work, though.
@Blaze@feddit.org might also have opinions on this, having spent a lot of time over on Reddit convincing people to try out Lemmy
I have standing orders to invade the Hague if ever tried there
There’s a sudden influx of users from instagram and tiktok and whatnot because of the ban, zuckerberg fellating Trump, and all of that stuff going on. So the answer to “What’s getting posted?” is “everything”
Signal has a lot of overlap there. They’ve got disappearing messages and Stories
The userbase is small enough that hashing would be easy cracked by a determined person. Even with salting, iterating through the entire userbase and hashing each username+salt to check for a match would probably not take long