This is why I'm not afraid of community duplication between instances. There can be a big, active !technology@lemmy.world with its pros and cons, a !technology@somesmallinstance.whatever with its pros and cons, and you're welcome to join both communities.

The difference now vs two weeks ago is staggering, and I imagine by the time things will still be stabilizing in a couple weeks when we may get a July 1st influx (many see this as certain), and all this will be just be a prelude to when they axe old.reddit.

Yes, there is presently a lot of confusion about the fediverse concepts, including Lemmy-bashing in media like 9to5macrumors. Who cares? I remember trying to explain subreddits to people 10 years ago to the same reactions. People don't have to learn overnight for something to be a long-term success.

Happy to have you.

Why do you think a guy who started/runs the company should be held to the same standards as its users?

The hypocrisy is that Spez is saying the fact a moderator starts a sub doesn't entitle them to being in power when they become unpopular, yet he is entitled to retain his power when he becomes unpopular. The point of business being different is moot because Spez states, in the same quoted block, that this also applies to businesses.

They don't allow / work with port forwarding anymore.

Replacing mods for a moderately sized subreddit? Sure, that's do-able. It's been done with a thread in which volunteers are "interviewed" and selected.

Replacing mods for a large subreddit? That's going to be tougher, the transition might be rocky, and backup choices will need promotion when many of the inexperienced volunteers who got the job didn't know what they signed up for. But they'd rather tolerate an interim rough period than an extended loss of the community.

Replacing mods in thousands of subreddits? And I just counted about 300 dark subreddits with 1M+ users at reddark so it's not like these are all niche nsfw interests that investors will happily shed.

And what will do they do when users want to vote out the NEW mods like they voted out the old ones? Or when the inevitable allegations of rigging the voting that reddit controls happen?

Plus, media outlets are starting to trip over themselves to publish how bad reddit is making themselves look. They better believe that bad actors are organizing attempts to take these over and buying accounts with post / comment histories in the communities they want, too.

When this is all said and done, the quality of reddit content is going to stay substantially below where it was a week ago. Spez might be happy to have people handing over user data and ad views again, but his investors will not soon forget how vulnerable this platform is to its volunteer workforce as an investment risk.

Reddit won't die, it'll just be dumber as it completes its speed run to becoming a user data farm, like more traditional social media such as Facebook. I don't mind clicking Twitter links for journalist releases or sports highlights and I won't mind clicking reddit for its immense value as a reference in hobbies. But of all the transformations I've seen reddit undergo, this one takes the cake and it's not even close.

Wow - thank you for sharing that. There are aspects of this instance I don't love, but banning over shadow rules is enough for me to consider just going elsewhere.

Bette yet, repost the issue and solution on /c/gaming or /c/patientgamers.

first I wrote

Is there a good way to scale the X axis? 7 days is meaningful but I'd *at least* like to see 1M and 6M.

I clicked Home which helps, but view options would be nice.

I read at some point the definition of active users here required posting, while reddit cites users as unique visitors. Anybody have insight on this?

it’s just not as content rich as reddit at the moment

This can change fast.

You should've seen it two weeks ago.

The very minor and surmountable technical barrier of joining the fediverse will do wonders to screen out users capable only of the lowest effort.

I joined lemmy.ml because the join-lemmy site gave me extremely little to go on. It was a coin toss between this and beehaw.org once I realized how few instances were established and not right-wing.

That was only 2 weeks ago and already I've seen the site force 2 server upgrades, even as the admins have strongly encouraged new users to join elsewhere to prevent centralization.

The instance list desperately needs a few columns added, including whether new signups are encouraged or discouraged.

This will hopefully start to create some quality content.

Important note here not directed at you: Quality content is something we all have to pitch in on. We're in the thousands, not millions. We've all got to make a few posts and make a few comments. Self-sustaining communities can form pretty quickly with our current numbers but the onus is on us to make an effort to prime the pump of engagement, so to speak.

If I understand this correctly, the system can challenge and confirm the master password without requiring any more stored locally than an OS would. At that point, password "retrieval" is really algorithmic output.

The strength in offline usage alone makes this brilliant for some use-cases, but the inflexibility makes this approach more attractive as an option than a requirement.

Examples

• There are systems for which I need passwords that I can manually enter.

• I need to be able to manage credentials that I can't set.

• Some systems limit what special characters can be used in passwords (whether they're being asinine or want to push passphrases), while others have complexity requirements to include special characters.

Censorship of CCP criticism would be in the modlog if it were true. I've only been here a couple weeks but the only things I see the admins refuse to tolerate are racism, homophobia, and hate speech in general. They don't allow porn but that has more to do with practical challenges than any (expressed) problem with other people wanting it.

It is the modlog for the instance in the link (lemmy.ml, in the link I provided). <-- edit: I just looked and I'm now second-guessing myself on this

I think the only filter option is by user.

No, my subscription to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I've been able to sub to other instance's communities fine in general. In this case I wondered if it required approval because I see this:

This is where the transparency that comes with FOSS vs private corp really shines. You can always check an instance's modlog to see for yourself where lines are drawn.

How do I move my subscription past the pending status?

What do we need to do to move forward?

Accept that much or most of reddit will look normal tomorrow. Reddit will proceed by projecting that everything is normal, whether true or not. Lemmy will continue to be an alternative with FOSS benefits and much smaller communities. Your own habits have to reflect what you want and there's no wrong answer.

I'm personally elated to find the smaller communities with higher-quality content. Thoughtful comments aren't buried under piles of karma-seeking horse-beating jokes.

At the same time, reddit continues to offer historical reference that won't be matched elsewhere anytime soon. I'm not going to rant as if the place has no value, or as if it can be replaced in a few weeks.

Lots to consider.

"It's a slam dunk," Diana Florence, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, told the BBC.

I read the indictment, and it's hard to believe this won't be accurate. It's not like the feds are known for borking procedural issues.

Can a rally behind Trump lead to the nomination? If not, the party will surely turn on him. If so, it's inconceivable that the country's center (who truly drives the general election outcomes) will be willing to get out and vote for him.

This leads me to believe forward-looking party members will just skip the 2. ??? step and build relationships with the true leaders of the future.

Meanwhile, it's very possible the base does continue supporting him and may refuse to rally behind another nomination.

This chaos may be a gift to the Dems that keeps on giving.