Spaceman Spiff

That’s not entirely true- you can upload your own, but you can only seed to users that do have port forwarding. On many trackers, that initial seed is all going to seed boxes with an autograb script enabled anyway, and those do have port forwarding.

Breitbart on the mainstream, centrist posts. Most of it’s way further out there. I have no idea which ones are inauthentic shitposts and which ones are legit. They are way beyond Poe’s Law.

But more important is when they show up on other instances. Everything becomes an argument, dragging down everyone and everything they encounter. This also can’t be solved by just blocking the communities on EH, it must be blocked at the community’s instance or our (the viewer’s) home instance.

I’ve been hearing different answers on this lately, particularly regarding Lemmy.world and Beehaw. Beehaw defederated LW, but not vice versa. The result is that no one on Beehaw can see any posts on LW, but users on LW are seeing some posts on Beehaw. It doesn’t seem to be a complete cut to all communication.

But that’s still something worth bringing up - Here is the list of instances that block FMHY, and are (somewhat) effectively isolated from us here:

https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=lemmy.fmhy.ml

The only one that’s significant is feddit.de. From what I can tell, it’s because FMHY has open registration

Possibly. I’m not entirely sure how to interpret that part.

One plausible scenario is that they brought in a consultant, who said their data would be worth $XXXX on the open market. A common element of MBA thinking is that any potential profits are something you are entitled to, regardless of the consequences. It’s also pretty clear they don’t have a mature management team, or a viable path to realize those profits. But they had to stop someone else from getting it, so there was a rushed decision. I don’t quite know how it coincided with killing 3rd party apps, though, unless it was just more really incompetent management.

I’ve noticed that a number of comments from other instances are being edited when they appear on FMHY. After some digging, these are all clearly words being censored to prevent spam. This is not context aware, so it is blocking/modifying legitimate comments. Is it possible to disable this feature?

Example:

Original comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/894327

Federated to FMHY: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/comment/706234

I experienced the same thing! (Except my home instance is FMHY, not LW)

It is the same experience as trying to view NSFW subs on another instance that I’m not logged into. I already know there’s a filter that won’t show NSFW if you aren’t logged in, which explains those. I even checked, and didn’t see this as having anything marked NSFW.

I’m going to chalk it up as a Lemmy bug.

There is, and it’s not completely dead

!stallmanwasright@lemmy.ml

Reddit isn’t just trying to balance the budget - they are specifically scrambling to make things work (or at least, look like they will work) for an IPO, which is a beast in and of itself.

Use lemmyverse.net to find communities across all instances. It will make you search a lot easier, and show you when a community exists on multiple instances

What’s interesting about this is that there really isn’t an r/All. All@lemmy.world will be different from All@beehaw.org, will be different from All@lemmy.ml, and will be VERY different from All@lemmynsfw.com

There are many communities on Reddit that I will miss. The best people do not have the technical skills, patience, or desire to move to Lemmy, and there has been no clear direction on where they will go even if they do leave Reddit.

r/Piracy is not one of them. I firmly believe that all of the best people are already here. According to Lemmyverse, this place already has 22k+ subscribers, 2k+ active users this week, 500+posts, and over 10k comments. By any measure, it’s one of the biggest communities in the fediverse.

Let them keep Reddit.

That’s not really a measure of the codec, but rather a measure of the encoder. A lot of x265 encoders are awful. They go with x265 for the smaller file sizes and over-compress it, similar to the old YIFY. Groups that use x264 already aren’t as concerned with file size (if they were, they’d use x265), and choose settings that optimize for quality.

Does LAMA still exist? They were literally the same release as Rarbg for a while, suggesting some alliance. Either that or stolen releases, and I don’t know which is more likely

Not OP, but my communities are homed on a number of different instances. At minimum, I need to be able to interact with them, both reading and widely distributing my posts/comments. Preferably all on the same account, but that’s gotten more difficult lately.

For any communities I may create, I generally want to ensure that they can be accessed widely, by most users in the fediverse.

All of this preferably without having to deal with tankies, Nazis, etc.

Most of what you said is valid and correct, but very little of it is a reason to stay on Reddit. Rather, those are deficiencies in Lemmy that should be addressed (and to be fair, most are in progress) in the code.

I do feel the need to point out that your first point is off the mark. In a way, due to federation, there are no admins. But in another, there are tons of them, with a team on each instance.

As for your second point, the very point of killing that sub (and similar actions on countless other subs) is to fight back against those singular admins of the first point. But at some point, these actions will stop organically. It could be on 7/1, it could be months from now. It could even be when there’s a mutiny, or Reddit replaces the mods with scabs. But it will end, and a lot of people will already be gone permanently.

Yes. I still don’t quite understand how moderating works with federation (and critically, defederation). The advice of “Pick an instance that aligns with your values” is the most WTF advice I’ve ever seen when signing up for a site. Even worse is the conflicting advice that it didn’t matter since they all talk to each other, then followed by a warning that you have to choose an instance that will talk to your communities.

As bad as it was, at least the advice of “Go to lemmy.ml and sign up” was simple and direct, and most people could follow that without getting overwhelmed or confused

The more niche your interest, the slower it will be to build content. Certainly the most popular communities are already overflowing with content, while others have no home yet. But it’s all growing, and quickly. When LemmyNsfw launched, the only communities were the very obvious and popular ones. Those are now filled with a bunch of content, and more coming in constantly. But what’s more interesting is some of the more…ahem niche communities that have sprung up there, and are now showing signs of life.

There are sites like sub.rehab that can help you find where your content has moved. Not all of them are in the fediverse, either. But you may need to lump some of it into broader categories until interest grows. For instance, emulation might be covered under piracy, or one of the other subs on FMHY or DBZero. It won’t be exact, but it might be close enough.

You can also start your own community if you think there will be interest. Just be sure to prime the pump with some content right away to bring people in.

This is only a half-answer, but you can use one of the Pre DB sites to see scene releases. It won’t really help with P2P releases. Scene is almost always first (nature of the beast), with P2P releases of the same showing up a day or two later.