They're purposely disruptive to the community, they are not part of the community.

Doesn't help that they have offered no explanation at all.

Lemmy.world has no lock in on their "power". They have the most volunteer labor, money, and infrastructure. That's makes them stable, so people aren't worried about their data suddenly going offline (like kbin) and they don't worry about the service being flaky.

Theirs is a "Loli/Shota/Cub Friendly" instance according to their sidebar. That's why they aren't federated with many instances.

This seems like a reasonable thing to require of services that aren't dependent on each other for basic functionality.

Yeah I'm not disappointed to see this instance close up.

mbin users can see that right now.

That certainly doesn't seem sustainable at all. You need to take care of yourself and I think you're making a good decision.

Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn't lie to ourselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

What's a Lemmy group?

That post seems more academic than practical. I was hoping to see a discussion about what has been shown to work rather than speculation on what could be reasons for some hypothetical things to work.

Didn't know about that one. Just subscribed!

First. Breathe. Do some mindful meditation if you'd like.

Second. Do NOT quit!

Third. Know that you can call in sick on Monday if you need to.

Fourth. Find a lawyer that specializes in employment law and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) issues. You can do this by contacting a lawyer that is busy and specializes in something else (like real estate, or whatever) and asking if they know someone that can help. Most lawyers won't charge for an initial consultation, so use that first call/meeting to it's fullest.

Fifth. Go into the office and find out what their response to the email(s) is. There's no point in guessing and avoiding finding out. Record conversations (find out about consent for recording in your state). Write notes.

I think that's a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.

as a user you probably woudn’t even notice the change.

That's not entirely true. The default UI for Sublinks is being developed to be dramatically different than the default UI for Lemmy. It's unclear if the Lemmy UI will be made available by lemmy.world if they change to Sublinks. Its also unclear if lemmy.world will simply redirect to sublinks.world.

It's also unclear if lemmy.world will use sublinks as sublinks currently doesn't exist in a form that's usable for lemmy.world. And it may turn out that what is built doesn't work as intended and lemmy.world will continue to use lemmy indefinitely.

I hope the responses here resonate with you and help you clear up misunderstandings you have.

Bluesky is now a federated network, just incompatible with ActivityPub.

It's not implimented because the developers of lemmy have been prioritizing other issues and features. They say they're open to code contributions, so someone would have to volunteer to do it.

Discord and Reddit also had uniquely improved their UIs over the existing options.

By simply using the default mbin UI and clicking on two menu options for any particular post or comment.

Seems like a good strategy would be to not have every post and comment shown to you if your goal is to break your habit of spending too much time on your phone or PC.

see: https://startrek.website/comment/11417825

I get the skepticism. I'm not all that optimistic about Bluesky myself, but they clearly already made an original thing and other "techbros" have made original things many times.

The good news is this is all openly designed and implimented so it could be used for something potentially better.

Scaled is intentionally promoting communities with fewer subscribers. It's intentionally demoting the most active posts bt demoting any posts from the communities with more subscribers.

Yeah BlueSky has a lot of control over the network but I wouldn't say that email isn't federated because Google controls a lot of the email network.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Bluesky released a personal data server implementation openly. But now that they did, it looks like the AT protocol network minimally qualifies as federated.

With BlueSky, it pretends to be similar, but the reality is that everything needs to go through their central server in order to be displayed on a timeline.

They have been saying that this is an implementation detail that will change when they open up that part of their implementation. Which is nice, but until that happens I'm only lukewarm in my optimism for Bluesky and the AT protocol.

On the other hand, every federated network has converged on a central host for the vast majority of accounts and data. That host has outsized influence over the standard used on the network and unencrypted acess to the majority of data. So I'm not sure what really matters to what extent.

there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

Value created doesn't translate to value extracted and VCs and managers and marketers and the general public fork over more money in exchange for new shiny than old, reliable, maintained. There are few exceptions.

This suggestion seems to be a bit different from what you implemented on piedfed. I'm having trouble articulating it though. Something more like a feed of user defined subset of subscribed communities/topics.

No one is ever satisfied with moderation.

How does that site count active accounts?

Thanks for clearing that up!

From a government and societal perspective, there's value in limiting anti-competative activities.

Isn't that just Mastodon and similar services? I prefer the community url scheme more that the hashtag scheme.

You can use the corporate approach and tell them that you are recording the conversation and show them that pressed record on your device. Let them choose if they want to continue the conversation without verbally expressing that option to them. If they make it a point to ask you to stop the recording, you can choose to stop and simply take notes.

No. I think that there are enough users with multiple accounts including bots that it wouldn't surprise me if the ratio of active users to active accounts is 1:2.

Wouldn’t it be better (if doable) to take some cues on how actually email (and XMPP for that matter) works, and ask the user for the username and the password instead in one go?

I have to give my email app a lot more information than a username and password. So I'm not sure what you're envisioning.

It will be interesting to see what Friendica devs come up with!

I've just started looking at the AT protocol. What sort of WTF things are in there?

You may not have noticed:

It's unclear if that's temporary (But I can't imagine them manually adding self-hosted accounts forever).

They all seem reasonable suggestions:

• Consent matters, even for public posts
• Get broad feedback before launching – and listen to it
• Honor existing opt-in and opt-out mechanisms
• Include an additional opt-in mechanism for your service if it's not just a search engine or profile discovery (or something very close to them)
• Make sure to communicate that you're taking an opt-in approach and honoring existing mechanisms
• DON'T say the things that developers who ignore consent typically say
• Be extra careful if you're a cis guy
• Look at opt-in as an opportunity for a potential competitive advantage

I'm conflicted over the fact that using ActivitiyPub necessarily implies consent for other people to collect the data you send through it. It seems that many people using ActivitiyPub connected services want something different than ActivitiyPub or different default settings on many ActivityPub services.