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‘Hey could you maybe transfer this important established server to anyone else?’
‘Nope! Fuck yourselves! <3’
Transferring it to someone else isn’t that simple. I mean, I guess it can be if you’re willing to hand it over to some random stranger with zero vetting… and then hope they don’t do anything malicious.
Ideally, you’d want to hand it over to someone trustworthy. That takes work.
There’s two entire months between this announcement and the fuck-you date.
How long should it take to vet someone?
Would it really be worse to let a flawed bastard take over, versus deleting everyone and all their content?
How would you pick a successor?
Would it really be worse to let a flawed bastard take over, versus deleting everyone and all their content?
A flawed bastard might be a government. Given that the US is in full fascist mode, I personally would consider deleting everyone’s content the fast, easy, and secure option. Although, not necessarily the best option for the community.
How would you pick a successor
Divine right? Lob a scimitar at them? 🤷♂️
Why is that server important?
Any established server is important, by being distinct from a new one with no established user base. Adoption is a feature you cannot design.
Right right. But why is that specific server important?
‘Any established userbase matters.’
‘But why this userbase?’
Incorrect.
It was my server before joining piefed. o7 in chat. love and respect to ridoku for running the server.
Well, that’s sad. But I respect it. Rather see projects popping in and out as people have the motivation and time and passion, than ending up with some soulless corpified thing that has 100% uptime and 0% community ownsership.
The decentralised nature of fedi means this actually works. And, to be honest, I think after feddit.de instances have started having better succession plans in place. Which is great.
read it as lemmy.world first, i was getting ready to pack my bags
You probably should find another instance if you can. They’re not the greatest.
What happened?
They curate the front page and have rogue admin that do what they want.
And don’t seem to care if mods break their own instance rules
Some poor judgement from admins, essentially, combined with… ambiguous policies.
It’s not something like “Holocaust denial”, but a big kerfluffle with them refusing to remove a particularly bad mod, and especially pussyfooting around the issue for the longest time, giving contradictory or vague answers as to what they were doing, has damaged faith in the admins pretty severely, and it’ll take time for them to win it back - assuming they do so.
Well, they were the only one that seemed to be actually accepting new users during reddit’s major exodus event a few years back.
And here I was really excited to come to the comments and look for the “nothing of value was lost” post
“For a hot minute it was honestly great but eventually all that remained was tankies propaganda and depressing news. And probably a few non-political communities that sadly don’t really offset it for me.”
I’ll never understand why someone would go through the trouble of starting an instance and then tolerate nonsense on the instance that they (again) literally own.
The entire point of the fediverse is decentralizing power. So why are you making it worse for yourself abiding by someone else’s rules? Did it occur to him that maybe his users don’t want tankies and depressing news either?
I get that keeping the engines running is thankless work a lot of the time but damn, don’t make it harder on yourself because someone else (who is not you) wants to use your thing that you pay for and maintain to force their propaganda onto your users.
I believe it’s more about the Fediverse as a whole, not the instance they were running. No instance is an island, and all that - we don’t have enough activity for a thriving community on our own, so we have to pick-and-choose who we federate with. Too closed and the community dies. Too open and you can become overwhelmed by bad faith actors. At some point, it may be that you just decide that you can’t find the balance, or that the balance isn’t attainable in your position.
It’s a thankless job, being an unpaid admin. I absolutely sympathize with Rikudou_Sage’s position.
No instance is an island
They could make it an island though… That’s what the software helps you do, if you want. Just defederate from instances your userbase doesn’t wanna see
we don’t have enough activity for a thriving community on our own, so we have to pick-and-choose who we federate with. Too closed and the community dies.
I agree with your point, but disagree that the fediverse is too small to block all Tankies or that an instance “dies” when it owner enforces minimum standards of quality.
I think we all would have been better off if instead of burning out, the Lemmings.world admins banned everything except a single post per day if that post was an absolute banger.
If an instance admin wants to attract like-minded users to their instance, that instance needs to show people what their mind is like.
The problem is that its not just “tankies” but everything that slightly inconveniences an instance get blocked. I really dont want to use 3 different instances because one decides they don’t like anime, the other decides they dont like birds, then another one doesn’t like the color blue and bans anything that has blue.
I wish the federation was left to the users and only illegal stuff is banned. This maybe an unpopular opinion but i agree that all the federation blocking is killing what is already a tiny community.
And on top of that, some instances hand out bans for complete bullshit reasons. It’s not even just the tankie instances that ban you for not being a bootlicker, but also admins that can’t tell the difference between normal, innocuous behavior and automated vote manipulation, hacked accounts and the like and err on the side of banning.
I don’t think that the admin is talking about the process of administrating their own instance when they talk about being disappointed with the Fediverse, but about their own user experience as a user of the Fediverse.
They want to browse and comment and doomscroll too. As it stands, they find that there’s no instance or comms with the correct ‘balance’ of quantity and quality (or, at least, morality), and they don’t see any immediate solution or combination of federations that would fix that, for their experience.
I wonder what the domain costs? It’d be cool to redirect all of its traffic to Piefed, maybe feddit.online or maybe just the piefed development landing page.
lol. Yep, the Fediverse does suck. Like all ideas we come across, the concept is amazing, but watch human nature fuck it.
The irony of tankies is absolutely insane. It’s how I know they’re all low IQ and to not be taken seriously. They’re not even self-aware.
Lemmy was created by “tankies”, and why the IQ fash stuff?
and why the IQ fash stuff?
Typical .world behaviour.
You know why they used IQ dogwhistles.
Because I couldn’t be bothered typing the details. Two ‘close enough’ letters were irresistible to my apathy and general laziness.
The Fediverse has its flaws, but it’s also better than the alternatives.
Such is human existence - seeking improvements, never finding utopia.
The Fediverse both sucks (aka imperfect) currently and at the same time is the only hope for the future. Reddit, Xhitter, and Facebook will and even can never get any better. The Fediverse is our only hope.
