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Ha! Get rekt, Meta.

However, as they don’t federate downvotes (at least kbin.social doesn’t) you can only see local ones so this wouldn’t help OP.

I can virtually guarantee a lot of people here not only can imagine it, but use CLI applications heavily every day.

Good mods/admins don’t exist on Hexbear or similar bullshit.

it completely ignores the collateral damage

I don’t think so. I try to not be overly “conspiratorially minded” but I’d 100% believe in a millisecond that the “collateral damage” is the point all along here. Google is pushing constantly for more control and this is just another item in the long-ass list. After massive pushback on Manifest 3, they “cancelled” it a while back and now they’re right back pushing it again.

No. If something is being “squatted” there are already mechanisms to take over things - admittedly slow ones that require manual admin intervention on your instance, AFAIK.

This seems like way overkill, though. However, unmoderated stuff does need to get taken down simply due to abuse potential.

This. People who are freaking obsessed with the dude can keep the spam to themselves, that way it’s actually possible to avoid having five tons of Elon’s mental diarrhea shovelled at your face all the time.

And not only that, but the stupid front page with stupid irrelevant news, some of which are literal, blatant attempts at fraud - “[random B-celeb from your country] has a money making tip They don’t want you to know!” and that sort of shit - in the browser they relentlessly push, nag about or just “accidentally” reset as default every cunting week.

Dozens of popups, random notifications - like… why? What person with, I assume, at least half a brain stem in their head could possibly think these were good ideas?

“I don’t give a shit, show me the web page and shut the fuck up!” has turned into a mantra when I have to use Edge. That’s not good.

Way too realistic, they don’t want to hear shit like that. Way too true.

I swear Microsoft, particularly the Windows and Edge divisions, have consultants on retainer directly from Hell - specialists in making things absolutely infuriating for no particularly good reason.

Is it wrong? Definitely awkward, but I’ve seen this construction before. Not a native speaker…

They can’t, at least not while complying with Lemmy’s AGPL license.

I stand (partly) corrected, then. Apparently not all of it was (and it stopped being so long before it would’ve been relevant), but still, didn’t even know that.

No. The API debacle was fundamentally about money, after all. In the very unlikely event someone does something similarly one-sided and stupid with a fediverse offering, people will simply fork it or move to different ActivityPub compliant software. Neither is possible on Reddit, a proprietary, for-profit website.

I don’t think it’s about the term, “server” and “instance” both make sense to me. The issue is that the fediverse itself is pretty confusing.

The basics? Great: it’s vaguely “IRC but persistent”, all good.

But for starters it’s hard to keep track of which instances actually exist - new ones pop up and old ones die at the drop of a hat.

Then there’s differences in feature sets (lemmy vs kbin and whatever else) that happen to be ActivityPub compliant or whatever. kbin notably doesn’t federate downvotes, for example. And all this software is still relatively immature.

Then there’s the actual “who federates/defederates whom and why” debacle. This results in a lot of obvious and some less obvious visibility issues.

Then there’s (other) individual instance politics.

Then there’s the “meta” about all of this, which is getting confusing.

A couple of these will have parallels on e.g. Reddit - I assume this is the natural comparison to make and will keep being so for a while - like sub drama and the relationship between subs. But because the FV has this at the instance level, (and each instance has many “subs”,) it’s a whole level up in complexity.

Then there’s how all of this makes for a pretty un-reddit-like experience - and Reddit is not the king of polish, either. While Reddit has duplicate subs, it doesn’t have a design that almost automatically causes them to be created and distributed, across instances without actually correlating them afterwards. The end result is that subbing or blocking any one community will likely involve doing that manually on several instances, which is stupidly inconvenient. Also discoverability is much trickier which is worsened by the low activity.

My point is: call it what you want, but a) I don’t think that’s where the confusion is coming from - that’s just the fediverse being confusing (and outright clunky in many regards), and b) obligatory XKCD “Standards”.

It’s arguably used wrongly on Discord, but not in a way that’s radically different from how I already thought about “servers” in the sense of “something you connect to”.

It seems more like a term they picked because it has that familiar sense. Otherwise I think there’s a semi-official term, “guild”, too.

In the EU, they certainly aren’t allowed to “assume consent”.

Certainly by a greedy one. Greed and stupidity are often better explanations than outright malice, but… yeah, they’re a bunch of assholes, too.

It does not. A “native” but unappealing way is to use charmap and/or memorize a bunch of (highly arbitrary) “alt codes”: 0176 while holding alt makes °, for example. Mostly if you need a bunch of special characters, you use the “appropriate” keyboard or some third-party workaround.

Shit, I just noticed, that is what I said. And here I’m being all sassy. My bad - I did mean Edge of course.

(Edge really is fucking awful though, so you’re lucky, I guess)