@BraveSirZaphod I mean, if they’re not, then that means that they’re fine with hate speech and run away bigotry, and to be honest, that’s not a truth I want to face
This account isn’t terribly active.
You can find me elsewhere on the #threadiverse at
@ada (kbin)
@ada (lemmy)
You can find my regular fediverse account at
@ada (Calckey/Hajkey)
@BraveSirZaphod I mean, if they’re not, then that means that they’re fine with hate speech and run away bigotry, and to be honest, that’s not a truth I want to face
@koncertejo It does, but it’s not quite as convenient for the microblogging side of things. It can do them, but it’s more suited to following hashtags and topics from the rest of the fediverse than it is for following specific people
@Roundcat FYI, it looks like you did this as a “post” rather than an “article”. Posts appear under the “microblog” tab in kbin and are grouped with content from Mastodon and other apps on the wider fediverse. Articles are what you want if you want the post to appear as a regular thread in a kbin/lemmy community
I mean, to me, it sounds like it was written by someone who doesn’t deal with marginalisation in any real way. No unique selling point? The fact I can exist here without being constantly harassed by bigots that have a green light from a mega social media platform that doesn’t give a shit about me is a pretty strong selling point. Strong enough that having experienced it, I will never return to a centralised social media platform that isn’t aggressively supportive of minority rights.
@briongloid Not admins. Users should be able to do it.
As an admin, there is no way I can be across all of the niche subtleties and naming schemes of communities I’m not involved in. If I have to group them, I’m going to get it wrong.
If it’s going to sit anywhere above the individual level, it should be at the community mod level, not the instance admin level. But of course, many community mods aren’t going to want to actively point people at other larger communities that overlap with theirs.
As an instance admin, the instances that I block are explicitly ones that I don’t want my users to be able to subscribe to for any reason because they are full of bigotry and hate.
If I have a user that really wants to subscribe to a blocked instance, then chances are my instance is the wrong one for them.
@beto It might be a good idea to not do that thing that happened with Mastodon, where everyone thinks the Mastodon is the Fediverse. There is more to the #threadiverse than just lemmy!
tbh, there is no such instance. Not blocking any other instances is often a reason to be blocked by other instances.
An instance that blocks no one is in effect a “free” speech instance that prioritises the right to be bigoted over the need to provide safe spaces for folk. And that means that instances that value the need for safe spaces over “free” speech are going to block the instances that don’t block anyone else as a means of creating and maintaining that safe space.
@Percy It’s not ideal, but you can also manually form the URL to load the instance if it’s not yet turning up in a search.
Basically the format is like this
mylemmy.domain/c/remotecommunityname .name
So to view !projectzomboid@midwest.social from my home lemmy instance of blahaj.zone, I would type the following
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/projectzomboid@midwest.social
And to view it from lemmy.one, you would type the following (though I can’t test this one)
https://lemmy.one/c/projectzomboid@midwest.social
@Generator And just like Mastodon and the fediverse at large, after initial growing pains, we will find a way
@SafetyGoggles The difference between those two is the moderation policies of the instance. Beehaw doesn’t federate with the same instances that lemmy.ml does, and has an explicitly more inclusive and less generalist approach. They both cover the same ground, but you couldn’t just merge them.
Having said that, it would be nice to see a user level feature that lets end users combine communities in to one “virtual” community in their interface.
@blob42 kbin has the ability to aggregate content in to a community by hashtag (in a distinct tab) and it’s incredibly useful. I think lemmy could really benefit from something similar
@001100010010 I live in bone conducting headphones most of the day, but when I’m at home, it’s either my crappy TV speakers or dedicated over the ear headphones