Yeah unfortunately I can’t because I’m on Friendica and Lemmy is annoying in that it treats images differently from the rest of the Fediverse.

This link should work: files.catbox.moe/stvn1w.jpg

Sure thing, here you go:

nerdica.net/photos/masimatutu/…

No complaints so far. I’m not using many new features, but I really like the new user interface.

No, why? I’m just pointing out that there are a lot of accounts that a lot of people want to follow who are very unlikely to ever move to non-corporate social media.

Yeah, say that to Biden…

It actually isn’t that big. It grew a lot initially because people on Instagram were practically forced to join (or so I’ve heard), but then activity died down very quickly (www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/tech/th…).

I’d say the ability to interact with the high-profile accounts on threads via Masto makes it a much more attractive alternative for many, although I personally have no interest in doing so.

By all means, fuck Meta to the moon and back, but for goodness’ sake, users on federated servers can choose to block the domain with the same result, not to mention that admins can simply restrict it (see social.coop/@eloquence/1115888…). It just isn’t so black and white as people are making it seem.

Federation with a bigger platform is realistically the only way for Fedi to become mainstream, and at the moment Meta seems at least to be trying to be communicative. And with their quite unvaluable userbase they really don’t have enough leverage against the privacy-concious Fediverse to turn AP into MetaPub. For now.

Okay, that’s entirely fair. I was mostly thinking about the microblogging side of the Fediverse and didn’t quite consider the complexity that it would add to community moderation. I guess better moderation mechanisms could probably account for that, but Lemmy is as of now far away from that.

Edit: One might also solve that by not allowing soft defederated users to post in local communities.

Well I said that illegal content should still be defederated. And I don’t think soft defederated content has to be moderated, since it’s only a number of users who choose to see it.

Clarification, because people keep misunderstanding my point: What I’m advocating for is replacing most defederation with some sort of “soft defederation” in which instance admins can select domains which are blocked by default for the users, but which they can unblock afterwards if they want to.

No, I mean that admins select instances that are blocked by default for users. Kinda like a soft defederation.

I hear you, and that’s why I’m suggesting the implementation of default instance blocks before more open federation.

If you have a criticism, I’m all ears.

Yes, and instance blocking would solve that as well because the users wouldn’t see those comments.

Me too. I’m simply trying to spark ideas for devs to give admins more options for how they can run their instances (and also trying to convince admins about what’s best for the Fediverse).

There are great sites like fediseer.com to keep track of suspicious instances. And if those users see illegal content they can report it to the admins.

Good question. Tagging @timbray so that he can answer.

Content isn’t cached unless someone follows it anyways.

And I’m not sure what you mean with that latter part; what difference would this make in what content admins can see before they cast their judgement on a server?