It might reduce the problem but I don't think that'll solve it, as in some situations instances will still defed each other. For example, where an admin says "users from that instance break my rules, I don't want to deal with it, defed time".
lvxferre
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It's interesting how, by hosting your own instance, your view over Lemmy changes. I hope that self-hosters like you become more common.
I would rewrite the second sentence into “As such, content it doesn’t like is not possible to be hosted on their single, general-purpose instance.”
Or rather, "content not found in their single instance is not present in Reddit as a whole at all".
That's the point here - it's true for Reddit but false for Lemmy, as content available in one instance doesn't need to be hosted yet again in another.
Instance creation and management does not require coding skills. It’s a very different skill set, one of system administration and web hosting.
I phrased it poorly. What I tried to convey is that easier instance creation and management should be a priority for coders, so other people have an easier time hosting/managing their Lemmy instances.
That [interface devs should expect users to have 2+ accounts] is just a ugly workaround, I hope we can come up with something better.
Ugly workaround or not, I believe that this would be still sensible given the current state of Lemmy. Because when people want content from non-federated instances, here are their current solutions:
- Register on both, and keep two separated and partially overlapping feeds. It's a bother, and eventually they will ditch the smaller feed.
- Look for an instance that happens to federate with both, and register there. That may or may not federate with a fourth instance with desirable content.
- Register on one and give up the other. Usually the one getting the short end of the stick is single-purpose, smaller, or more careful on whom they federate with.
So the current state of the things actively encourages you to hop into big, general-purpose instances. That is bad for the federation, and it aggravates the "three groups to rule you, three sets of rules to follow" problem.
Do you happen to have an alternative for this idea? Preferably, one that would work with the Lemmyverse now?
Both are great steps in the right direction, I believe.
And eventually I think that "A federates with B" should boil down to "you can post in A using a B account". With the combined feed being handled by the front-end, and all activity in B being hosted by B itself (not just images).
It could be worse.
That word was originally a verb, it's the perfect participle of Latin dirigo "to lay straight", "to direct", "to steer". The verb itself kicked the bucket; if it didn't, it would've been something like *dereger in Spanish, with the past participle *derecho.
So "driven straight to the right" would've become *"derecho en derecho a la derecha".
(Thankfully the verb got replaced by its own reborrowed version dirigir "to drive", "to direct", so the sentence is a bit less maddening: dirigido en derecho a la derecha.)
[inb4 I'm not a native speaker so if anyone finds a mistake please do tell me out. I'm a bit too prone to portuñol.]
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That said, look at Latin:
- dexter - right side, but also: favourable, fitting, proper (cf Spanish diestro)
- sinister - left side, but also: adverse, hostile, bad (cf Spanish siniestro)
The "privileges" that you see in derecho and right are an extension of what Latin already associated with dexter - things that are proper to do or to get. For example if I got a right to freedom, that means that it's fitting for me to get freedom, you know?
Based on that odds are that Spanish simply inherited the association, and kept it as such even after borrowing izquierdo from Basque and shifting directus→derecho from "straight" to "right". While English borrowed it, either from Latin or some Gallo-Romance language.
And overall you'll see a fair bit of that in the Western European languages, regardless of phylogenetic association, since languages clustered near each other (i.e. a Sprachbund) will often borrow concepts and associations from either each other or from a common source.
Also, note that right "as side" and "as privilege" are not homonyms. Those aren't different words from different sources, it's the same word with two different meanings, this is called polysemy. The same applies to derecho.
That's practically what happened with Siegfrieda (my cat) and me.
Long story short: a stray hid herself in my garage. She was beaten, bleeding and pregnant, so I rushed her to the vet. "I don't want another pet, we're going to fix her up and find her a new home." Seven years later, she's still here.
A lot of times you don't need to buy containers, you can reuse the ones where your food came from.
For example inside my freezer there are three ice cream pots, but none of them has actual ice cream - it's tomato paste, chickpeas, cat food. In the past I've also reused margarine and requeijão pots to store leftover food, as makeshift planters, etc. The requeijão pots even worked as drinking glasses in my uni times.
Hard to choose, ever changing. Right now it's probably the chocolate and walnuts pastel that I used to eat downtown.
We're talking about apples and oranges. Or rather, fruits and oranges. Contrast my note #1 with your comment:
[Me] For the sake of this comment, I’m defining “dumb fuck” as someone who assumes too much, oversimplifies, disregards context, focuses too much on who says it instead of what is being said, lacks basic understanding of what other users say, or a mix of those.
[You] people who are arguing in bad faith, trolls, people who are being too aggro for no reason, and of course people getting into a fight who need to cool it. [...] say spready hate speech [...] users knowing just how to be a dickhead without actually breaking the rules and ruin the place [...] if someone posts hate speech [...]
You're talking about intentionally socially disruptive behaviour; Beehaw does address it. However I'm talking about bad = non-contributive behaviour in general, regardless of "intentions" or "faith".
When I registered 2y ago I didn't think that I'd stick around for so long.
I'm glad that I did.
A more accurate equivalence would be "Content not found in the lemmy.ml instance might be found elsewhere in Lemmy." I'm talking about the federation vs. the lack of.
I did not claim (or even imply) that "Reddit represents the whole internet". And I am not "giving them special treatment to exclude content without criticism". It is just that this content exclusion and the criticism are not relevant in the context of this discussion.
I heavily encourage you to re-read the title of the post (just the title is enough), for context, and contrast it with your own comment. Do it. Please.