enshittification is an inevitable late stage consequence

Maybe, but I don’t think it is. Enshittification is a direct result of our tax policy that encourages cashing out, only looks at the short term, and requires constant growth.

There was a time when companies built a reputation and held onto it for a hundred years. We could go back to that.

Tax the rich.

Don’t bother with the bullshit clickbait article. Honestly, don’t give them the views.

The underlying study is good though, and worth reading.

https://purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874

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Security is related. With a password manager you don’t have to worry about credentials from one site being used on another.

Not every feature needs to be federated.

3% of “users”, 40% of logged in users.

Yeah, it’s a little weird to me that there’s so much focus on third party app development when the platform itself is so new.

The old Reddit apps bringing their userbase over is great. Having several brand new third party apps is awkward.

It’s struggling less than my RiF app though.

Now if only my upvotes would go through. Hopefully the patch that was applied to lemmy.world yesterday addresses that. Their instance seems much more stable and responsive now.

If you do this, I’d recommend excluding at least your most common communities. Google searching Reddit has been a great tool over the years, and improved discoverablity of the service as a whole. Especially for smaller communities.

Feels kind of like shooting yourself in the foot. Maybe just exclude NSFW communities (though, do those even exist here?)

If you don’t agree with our opinion on how a server should be run. Which is very different from “if you don’t agree with our political views”. It’s not clear which they mean.

So I’m still very interested in their opinion on how a server should be run. If that’s sufficient then I shouldn’t need to be concerned with their political views.

They’re allowed their opinions, as long as they’re not forcing them on others.

Being open to discussion works both ways. If their intention is to make an echo chamber, it won’t reach very far.

"“If you don’t agree with our opinion you can gtfo” is a concerning stance.

Would love clarification on that. I’ve been banned enough for having pretty moderate opinions in extremist subs.

I understand if they don’t want maga communities here who heavily censor (as they generally do). I hope they’re not ban happy for moderate to small differences of opinion.

For example, I think capitalism in small doses can be a good thing, similar to morphine or cocaine having legitimate medical uses. It’s the lack of controls that are the primary issue.

I don’t want to get overly invested in something if I’m just going to get banned for not being full communist.

But like I said, so far the only accusations have been extremely vague. I’m keeping an eye out and testing the waters a bit, but I’m not acting too heavily on baseless slander.

Also saying socialists are posting Nazi shit is weird. They’re, uh, not the same.

I do have concerns about this instance and Lemmy in general because of the aura of accusations, but I haven’t seen any real evidence yet.

And I wouldn’t expect to from the instance itself. If there’s heavy moderation you won’t see the dissent.

It’s 100% on topic. This is THE canonical Lemmy instance and we want evidence of excessive moderation. It’s less about politics than it is about neutrality.

If it stays up, it provides evidence directly countering the accusations against the instance. If it doesn’t, I know early to not waste my time here.

Well, I know of an easy litmus test.

In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Fourth (1989) Clearing or June Fourth Massacre, Chinese government troops murdered several hundred citizens and students who were protesting for freedom of speech and freedom of the press, among other things.

It’s also not worth giving them attention to get started. While I mostly agree with the OP, I’d rather they just languish in obscurity for now. Come back to it if/when they become a problem.

The biggest mistake* Mastodon made was that they promoted “Mastodon” instead of a specific instance.

I think they’re absolutely right to just pick an instance and recommend that, or if that instance doesn’t work, try this other one. Which instance they pick is not what I care about more than just picking some specific instance. Beehaw may or may not have been the best choice, but I’m glad they picked one.

*I understand why Mastodon wanted to be neutral, but it was horrible for onboarding people.

“a literal US military arm” is just as ridiculous. It’s neither.

It’s well known and accepted that the Chinese government has significant control of Chinese companies, and Reddit is partially owned by Tencent. That’s not xenophobic.

The fact that it’s something like a 5% stake is more relevant.