To summarize my comment on your post of this article on lemmy.ml:

Literally who?

How in the absolute fuck does any group not involved in hosting the largest fediverse instances even begin to justify looking for $1.3 Million in funding?

I have literally never heard of this group before now, and my immediate question is "What do they bring to the table? How important can they be if I’ve never heard of them? In what universe can any organization related to the fediverse justify looking for 1.3 million dollars in funding‽”

The two systems they offer (as listed in the article) Fedicheck and CCS, as far as I am aware, already have open source alternatives in db0’s Fediseer and whatever his anti-CSAM tool is called.

They also offer… guidelines for fediverse moderators? Not frameworks for bots or automoderation tools. But their opinions on how others should moderate spaces that this group doesn’t actually run.

Did anyone out there ask for an advisory group for something that thrives on it’s individuality?

Maybe I’m too used to the old reprehensible internet. Maybe I’m too used to spaces that keep an intentional level of friction against new joining outsiders.

Maybe I’m missing something critical here and I’ve only been exposed to db0’s work being on his Lemmy instance.

I would love to be provided with more information on this group, and direct examples of value they’ve provided to the Fediverse.

But at a simple gut check, this comes across like a group of self righteous people who rather than run their own instances, want to be paid to tell others how to run instances.

Anything this group is doing should be open source, should be well advertised, and should be well discussed Fediverse-wide. The fact that I’m only first hearing about this group during what is effectively an e-begging session sets off alarms.

Lemmy has just had it’s first round of spambots in DMs. Does the fediverse now have a group of self righteous non-admin non-mods trying to make something they can make money from and put on a resume?

This would not be the first instance of resume stuffing “guidance organizations” to try and enforce themselves in an online space/open source project.

At absolute best, assuming this is a group known in Mastodon and the various non-lemmy fedi-spaces: This would not be the first time some group that is deeply invested and well known in Mastodon crosses the border to Lemmy to find that despite sharing protocol, there are differences in culture.

Just because your Scout Troop and the AA meetings use the same building, that doesn’t mean that AA members have any interest in supporting the scouts, or in having the scouts tell them how they should run AA meetings.

Let me be clear: I want to be proven wrong and for this group to be a pleasant surprise of a worthwhile force for good and the continued growth of the Fediverse.

But I’m also being honest about my reaction to some group I’ve never heard of before claiming to be so vital to the Fediverse that them maybe not getting $1.3M is something that I should care enough about to donate.

Meanwhile I’m here laughing in Jerboa. No fancy auto refresh for me.

I’m probably overdue for checking out other lemmy apps.

A user blocking an instance does not block the users from that instance from interacting with the user who blocked.

It’s not well explained, but my understanding is that an instance block just prevents communities from that instance, and posts made by users on thay instance, from showing for the user that blocked the instance. Comments from users of that instance still show for the blocking user, and the block is one way anyway.

because it shuts out everyone on that instance.

But it doesn’t. Unless they’ve changed the functionality in the last 3 major revisions or so, a user blocking an instance blocks all posts from that instance. Not the users or their comments on other posts.

It’s an easier way than blocking each community from that instance individually.

Everything I don’t like is Liberal: A Guide to Modern Lemmy Discourse

More seriously, lives are not at stake in this particular comment section.

Edit: and I never told you to stop, just that it’s abrasive as shit and likely why you’re being banned so damn much. Do with it what you will. I’m not your parents, the police, or your boss.

Then maybe don’t waste energy being shitty online and instead build the local community and personal resources to protect your ass.

If I was in your situation looking at the changes Trump did in just the executive orders his first day, I can tell you one thing that would be at the absolute fucking bottom of my todo list: argue on the fucking internet.

I got banned from every platform, and my account on lemmy.world was also banned.

Gee, from your comments on this post I could never imagine how that could happen.

If everywhere you go people smell like shit, maybe you should check your shoes.

I’d strongly suggest that the issue isn’t your beliefs, but that you’re about as abrasive as kissing the pavement at 75mph.

Speak for yourself.

There were a lot of people that looked for a Reddit alternative not because of particularly strong feelings politically or towards corporations in general but instead because Reddit broke their main method of interacting with Reddit (third party mobile apps) while simultaneously completely breaking the moderator tools to quell the shitstorm and maintain quality discussion.

I left Reddit because I saw it going further to shit faster than it ever had before, and they communicated loud and clear that they didn’t want users like me that cared about having control and options over how we interacted with the site.

None of my accounts there ever had a single comment removed by a mod, although I had been preemptively banned from multiple subs due to posting in others.

Don’t feed the troll children

Edit: I thought we were past the “I identify as an Apache Attack Helicopter” type shit a decade ago. Boo! Get some new material!

Pretty sure the dragon account had the username dragonfucker, with only a display name of Dragon Rider (drag).

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