[-] towerful@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

Ah, the new Lemmy switcharoo!

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

"several hours" being the entire expected length of the expedition.
Because previous dives, the sub had lost communication for long periods of time.

This whole thing was a "how not to submarine".
Like, you know how OSHA/HSE/whatever laws are written in blood? Yeh, prime example.

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

This would be great, because it would "validate" GDPR.
Data protection requests would be more likely to be planned-for and succeed if users didn't have to say/prove they were an EU citizen.
Certainly, as a UK citizen who has these protections, but not specifically GDPR, it can be difficult leverage these rights.
More countries adopting these kind of laws will hopefully resolve into a global standard of "right to be forgotten", as long as it doesn't collapse into an XKCD#927 scenario (https://xkcd.com/927)

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 47 points 1 year ago

Whilst I agree in principal to "healthy to see opinions you disagree with", I don't want to see things like "trans people are mutants" (which is disgusting rhetoric).

I don't think this necessarily brings around "ignorance is bliss". News articles of Trump blaming "mutants" are enough to remind me why I formed these opinions, without having to debate it with people of dissenting opinion.

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 71 points 1 year ago

It sounds like you are describing new user experience.
And I understand, coming from Reddit, how this can be a shock.
However, that's how Lemmy works.
Similar to how twitter users got a shock moving (or trying to move) to mastadon.

The very nature of the fediverse works better with more instances, where a single instance has fewer users and the communities are more focussed.

Beehaw hasn't "blacklisted everyone from...". They've defederated. Whilst it may seem similar, it's more nuanced. And that's what a lot of people don't understand.
Block-listing all users from lemmy.world from interacting with beehaw would be an amazing ability. That would put beehaw in a read-only state for users on lemmy.world, whilst still allowing beehaw users access to lemmy.world.
Unfortunately, the current admin/mod tools do not allow for that. And manually dealing with the huge influx of toxic users (posting death threats, illegal porn or trolling) was taking too much time.

Besides, the lemmy.world admin is working on custom tooling to deal with this issue. Because it is their users causing this issue, and it is their problem. And there is no higher authority - there are no Reddit admins to say "stop brigading".
Shitjustworks, last I heard, weren't responding to communication.
I have no doubts that beehaw will refederate as soon as Lemmy.world sorts their mod issues, or the Lemmy framework allows for more nuanced mod tools.

You have to remember that Lemmy is young.
It's been around for a few years, but the shear scale of what is happening now is less than 2 weeks old

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

Nah, they aren't trying to keep the internet free from hate... Just the part of it that they have control over and that others want to share.
And that isn't impossible

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of them are either going to be support subs (like stopdrinking), or they will be subs asking their users what they should do.
The modcoord subreddit is full of support for continued protest

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

Probably because they are less conservative and more ... Contrarian?

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago

The modcoord sub that organised the initial blackout are encouraging subs to remain dark in response to this. It seems like a lot of subs are going to remain dark.

If a sub doesn't want to go dark (stopdrinking was given as a community support example), then a touch-grass-tuesday is recommended to close the sub every Tuesday as an ongoing reminder.

Seems like Reddit has taken the protest as "a bit of noise, but business as usual soon". So, time to kick it up a notch

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

I find myself less guarded on beehaw in some ways, and more guarded in others.

Firstly, I feel I can be more authentic. Discussions always seem to be in good faith, and I often come away learning something, reconsidering something, or just being more aware of other viewpoints. Whether I participate in the discussion or just read it.
It's just more enjoyable overall.

Which leads me onto how I am being more guarded. I am really trying to consider other viewpoints before even engaging with posts or discussions.
And I dislike that this is an effort for me.
But I like that I have realised it, and I now get to make an effort to be better.

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how small actual software can be.
It's not a wrapped up web app (Lemmy has PWA functionality, so there is no need for that tbh).
There's no click tracking. There's no ad framework.
It's just an app that interacts with an API.

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

That would be awesome.
But video traffic and storage is so much higher than text and images (like Lemmy or mastadon).
The cost of running it would be pretty huge

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