Just finished Tunic. I shan't spoil the game since I encourage people to go in blind, but it has so much charm in it and focuses on such a unique sense of nostalgia.

Adorable! Low poly art is such an underused art style.

Community Approval!

Basically, an instance option that requires a new community to be approved by an admin when created, in the same way that a new user account would.

As far as I'm aware, currently there is no notification that a new community has been created and unless people are watching the local community list regularly, it's easy for them to slip by unnoticed. This allows scummy people to create a dodgy community, post a bunch of garbage to it and use it to attract more scummy people or start inter-instance drama.

This was posted before TheDude's response, so it wasn't clear whether this was something that had just slipped through the cracks or not.

However, I agree his response is concerning... Perhaps it's more due to inexperience than "malice", but it's still problematic...

I've not seen it myself (not being an admin), but I think there's a "remove" (not purge) button on the community page. It clears all the posts from that community, and prevents new ones from being received.

To clarify, I agree that Beehaw should defederate with instances full of racist bigoted trolls.

However, it's hard to argue that sh.itjust.works works is one of those instances from just this. This is one guy who likely slipped under the radar. I'm just saying that we should just wait a bit to see how the situation unfolds before grabbing pitchforks.

I'm just frustrated that not immediately jumping to an extreme response means I'm somehow complicit. And also somewhat frustrated that trying to distance myself from politics apparently means I'm acting privileged.

I'm just tired of being angry all the time, at this point...

It affects me because I feel I need to keep up to date with which instances defederate with each other in order to follow communities. It feels like defederation is a cudgel that is thrown around a lot, and a lot of innocent people get hit in the crossfire.

However, you are correct. A lot of my posts on Lemmy have, to be honest, been my attempts to fix something which can't be fixed. It's super not a healthy thing to be doing, honestly. I really should take a break from Lemmy, it's done nothing but cause me stress and tire me.

Edit: Bit of context for those late, my original comment was just a ramble about how I'm fed up of drama, etc. Nothing really that groundbreaking, tbh.

Of course I'm worried about politics! I'm worried about the return of fascism across the west. I'm worried about deteriorating attitudes towards LGBT people. I'm worried about active attempts to eugenics neurodivergent people. I'm worried about the massive amount of influence megacorps have on people. The world is full of things to worry about. It makes people feel helpless.

I can ramble for ages about how I do what I can. Maybe I can do more. Maybe I'm a bad person for not doing enough? Maybe I'm a coward for wanting to hide from it, I don't know. Wanting to have a space to step away from worrying about these things is a copying mechanism I use, and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

"We here at Meta take people's privacy very seriously and are committed to protecting our users. Unfortunately at this time we can't discuss what measures we've put in place."

Meta could probably mitigate at least some fears about this if they did any planning or discussions out in the open.

I get they want to have a massive "reveal event" or something, but come on...

It's entirely possible (but perhaps unlikely) that this is a passion project by some engineers and Facebook is just sponsoring them "hands off".

Not sure where the settings actually live, so I can't say whether this is backend or frontend, but I have been thinking that nsfw post handling could be improved.

Specifically, I've been thinking about (and actually been considering implementing) some new per-user settings:

• Don't show nsfw posts from other instances in the "all" feed.
• Don't show nsfw posts in the "local" or "all" feed at all.
• Always show nsfw posts from communities the user is subscribed to, regardless of the above two options.

Should cut down on any drama caused by someone registering on a random instance and subbing to gfur. :P

EDIT: Looking at the replies, it looks like a simple site wide toggle a-la Furaffinity might be easier to implement and more egonomic.

So, I don't disagree with the decision to fork (especially because of the hardcoded donation URL). I am concerned about fracturing of the codebase, so I have a few questions:

• Will this fork always be a sequence of commits based on some Lemmy version, or do you expect history to diverge (git rebase vs merge)?
• Will there be an effort to upstream useful changes into Lemmy proper (a lot of the changes suggested are things that might be desirable for Lemmy in general).
• There's a number of other communities with a desire to use a forked Lemmy version, do you intend this fork to be useful for them, or is this purely for pawb.social?

And perhaps most importantly:

• Will the name be changed from Lemmy to something else if there are significant changes.

It did for me! I made an account a few months ago, and it immediately suspended me and asked for a phone number. I gave it that and then it asked for a photo of me holding a piece of paper with my username.

Think it might have been because I did the cardinal sin of not using a gmail or hotmail email.

But creating an account using my Facebook account and single sign on works, so ehhh.

Screw all these companies wanting access to your phone number... Bleh.

Cautiously optimistic for Pikmin 4, here.

A lot of comments from people with social anxiety; as someone with social anxiety and aspergers, figured I may as well throw my thoughts into the ring.

I've been through the "approval process" dance a few times now, both for Mastodon and Lemmy and honestly, I don't really find it that bad. The secret is internalizing that mods have so many applications to get through, so they won't really scrutinize your language or overanalyze it to too much. I know easier said than done, but really, the fact that you're putting any amount of thought into it is probably more than most people.

Honestly, I think approvals is a good system and should be the norm for social media sites; it slows down trolls/bots ability to make accounts, and IMO is better than all the alternatives. Email is problematic, capchas aren't really accessible, and screw Instagram requiring you to take a photo of yourself when you sign up. One site I signed up for actually wanted you to ask another user to "vouch" for you as not a troll which means talking to scary strangers.

I think there is a "cultural" miscommunication though. A lot of us are deeply ingrained in "fediverse culture" where this sort of thing is the norm, and so we intuitively understand that it should only be a sentence or two.

However, if you look at where non-fediverse people have seen this type of requirement before? Job applications, university applications, that sort of thing. I think this is why people think that they need to write long, intricately detailed posts saying why they deserve to join what feels like an exclusive club.

I think Beehaw could make it clearer that they are only looking for about three sentences demonstrating that you've read the documents (actually, do you need to fully read the documents? It's a bit unclear), and that you aren't being "graded". Out of interest though, would "I just want to lurk and read posts" be acceptable as an answer to the third question?

I'm honestly pleasantly surprised to see the growth of Lemmy. I joined like a week ago when the Reddit drama started, but didn't really expect it to take off. And to an extent it hasn't yet, there's certainly a lot of users and a lot of communities (especially on lemmy.world), but not a lot of content in most communities yet.

However, even if half the people that joined end up staying, that's enough to keep it "self sustaining" and keep conversations going on the bigger communities, which is what we want really. It's like Mastodon; even though the migration from Twitter was apparently a "failure", I recently got back into it, followed a hashtag and was surprised at the amount of quality content I got.

I still don't think that Lemmy'll keep growing at this rate for much longer though. The confusing nature of the platform and the lack of maturity of the tooling and apps will turn away a lot of non-techy users. I'd be pleasantly surprised if we managed to hit more than about 50k people. Instead, I think we'll see a "slow burn" over the coming months of Reddit slowly losing people due to their decisions or just fatigue, and they'll probably end up here.

At least, hopefully they'll end up here, rather than Tumblr, Telegram and Discord which aren't really the best platforms for Reddit like content, IMO.

Anyway, thanks to the mods, admins and developers! Having the platform you were working on suddenly grow this fast is really tough and not something I would wish on anyone. You are all doing great work, and we all appreciate it. <3

I don't really want to pile on more with the drama about the Lemmy devs but something has started to bother me, so I figured I might ask.

Are lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml owned/moderated by the same people?

The only evidence I've seen from this is feditips posting a claim that they are hosted from the same IP, which isn't actually accurate (maybe it was at one point, but not any more).

League of Legends, but with the attitude of "We really need to try more games, but this is the only one we all play."

We've also played Overwatch and FFXIV, but they don't really stick that well long term.

Happened to me earlier, editing the post seemed to cause it to resend. Probably just server load issues.