• bean@lemmy.world
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    3 minutes ago

    Wow, way to try staying relevant I guess? They had a huge following and the porn was flowing during the good times. They blew their chance and now it’s a shell of itself. Fuck Tumblr.

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    19 hours ago

    It really would be so much easier to just boost Mastodon posts into a Lemmy community.

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      19 hours ago

      that’s crazy talk, next you’ll be telling us we should be able to actually block people from seeing and interacting with our posts

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        5 hours ago

        the Lemmy block system works as intended. if you want some other system, use some other service. but being a federated system, you can’t actually stop the data from being visible, or someone from creating a new user and interacting, if your post is public.

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      17 hours ago

      Hopefully whenever mastodon gets quote posts we’ll see something similar pop up over here.

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        16 hours ago

        You don’t need to wait on Mastodon to do it.

        Obviously, I’m not talking about you specifically – Threadiverse devs generally.

        For example, some of this functionality already exists on Friendica.

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          For sure! But considering Mastodon has most of the content that would be quote posted this way and most of the users who would be subject to it, and they are working on it (at their own pace), I think it would be tactile to see how it is implemented in Mastodon first and then proceed from that.

          It could for example be that Mastodon users will be able to opt out of quote posts in general or in specific posts. If so, this should be respected in other implementations as well. And in general, it’s just nice to have things consistent, and when it’s taking the Mastodon team so long to implement I suspect it’s because they’re devoted to making sure they do it right. :)

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            8 hours ago

            Quote posting is already available on Misskey, Friendica, and Akkoma.

            Threads also has that feature, and they use the same standard as Misskey.

            Even Mastodon clients like Icecubes and Phanpy do quite posting.

            At this point, it makes no sense to wait on Mastodon to implement features.

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              No doubt they’re taking their sweet time with it. Then again, knowing the Mastodon user base, whenever it is implemented people will probably go crazy and think it’s the biggest invasion of privacy since the gestapo.

              By the way, here’s from Monday’s development update:

              The team also made significant progress on the specification for Quote Posts. It needs a few minor changes, but we expect to publish it for comment in February, and start implementation right away. The current plan is to publish Mastodon 4.4 with support for displaying Quote Posts, and then add authoring in Mastodon 4.5.

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        Right now, you can crosspost to a Friendica group by mentioning the group actor handle (ex: @fediversenews@venera.social. And because Friendica supports quoted boosts, you can boost to a Friendica group through this method.

        Lemmy could easily support this feature.

        • Microw@lemm.ee
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          7 hours ago

          Are Lemmy devs aware that this would be a possible way of something to support?

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            Lemmy devs tend not to be very proactive when implementing interoperability with other fediverse services. I would expect support to pop up in Mbin and/or PieFed first, and possibly Lemmy later.

            That said, I would be surprised if they were not aware of the possibility, I just doubt it’s a priority at the moment.

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              6 hours ago

              Not true IMO, Lemmy is way more after interoperability than for example Mastodon

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            Mastodon users can post to the Threadiverse by tagging a community, but since we don’t have “quoted boosts”/quote posts, there’s no way of including an existing thread or post when doing so.

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      17 hours ago

      The article seems well-written, except that:

      the fediverse — the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others.

      Seriously? Flipboard has like one thousand Monthly Active Users and we have like 50 times that, but we’re like “and others” lel… I guess they didn’t mention Pixelfed either tho and it’s a lot “hotter”…

      • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        One thing at least is that when you search “Reddit alternatives”, most articles that I came across seemed to make out like Lemmy is the best option in terms of amount of users and not being advertised explicitly as a “free speech and censorship free platform”, which we all know really means “bigots are welcome here.” In fact when I was searching Reddit alternatives, it seemed to me that Lemmy is really the only option.

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        12 hours ago

        That article is intended for casual readers. These people might be more familiar with Flipboard than Lemmy or Pixelfed.

        The same way that people are familiar with Blackberry or Nokia despite none of them even reach mainstream market anymore.

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          In the '80s and '90s, everything these people didn’t like was ‘satanic’. Then that nonsense seemed to disappear for about a decade. Until those people returned with updated terminology that makes them look like ‘free speech’ warriors to all the kids and not the dogmatic psychos that they are.

          So since then we’ve gone from SJW to woke to now DEI. But it’s always been the same fucking people, or types of people, that told me that all the cartoons I watch and music I listen to was ‘evil’ and ‘satanic’ when I was a kid.

          I actually almost fell for the SJW thing myself back in the day. I was circling that drain. Until I opened my eyes and saw the company that I was in. Since then I’ve been borderline ‘SJW’ myself because fuck those people.

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      14 hours ago

      As with the fediverse, there are a lot of user curated blacklists to get rid of the problem children.

      Just don’t trust shinigamieyes, that shit got taken over by terfs a few years back and now lists a lot of innocent trans bloggers.

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        5 hours ago

        thebadspace has no real rhyme or reason either and lists a lot of folks I think are fine, and also gives (almost) no reason or receipts.

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        13 hours ago

        Wait, what? That’s disappointing. I use Shinigamieyes, haven’t noticed anything weird yet.