Adorable! Low poly art is such an underused art style.
To clarify, I agree that Beehaw should defederate with instances full of racist bigoted trolls.
However, it's hard to argue that sh.itjust.works works is one of those instances from just this. This is one guy who likely slipped under the radar. I'm just saying that we should just wait a bit to see how the situation unfolds before grabbing pitchforks.
I'm just frustrated that not immediately jumping to an extreme response means I'm somehow complicit. And also somewhat frustrated that trying to distance myself from politics apparently means I'm acting privileged.
I'm just tired of being angry all the time, at this point...
It affects me because I feel I need to keep up to date with which instances defederate with each other in order to follow communities. It feels like defederation is a cudgel that is thrown around a lot, and a lot of innocent people get hit in the crossfire.
However, you are correct. A lot of my posts on Lemmy have, to be honest, been my attempts to fix something which can't be fixed. It's super not a healthy thing to be doing, honestly. I really should take a break from Lemmy, it's done nothing but cause me stress and tire me.
Of course I'm worried about politics! I'm worried about the return of fascism across the west. I'm worried about deteriorating attitudes towards LGBT people. I'm worried about active attempts to eugenics neurodivergent people. I'm worried about the massive amount of influence megacorps have on people. The world is full of things to worry about. It makes people feel helpless.
I can ramble for ages about how I do what I can. Maybe I can do more. Maybe I'm a bad person for not doing enough? Maybe I'm a coward for wanting to hide from it, I don't know. Wanting to have a space to step away from worrying about these things is a copying mechanism I use, and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
Meta could probably mitigate at least some fears about this if they did any planning or discussions out in the open.
I get they want to have a massive "reveal event" or something, but come on...
It's entirely possible (but perhaps unlikely) that this is a passion project by some engineers and Facebook is just sponsoring them "hands off".
Not sure where the settings actually live, so I can't say whether this is backend or frontend, but I have been thinking that nsfw post handling could be improved.
Specifically, I've been thinking about (and actually been considering implementing) some new per-user settings:
- Don't show nsfw posts from other instances in the "all" feed.
- Don't show nsfw posts in the "local" or "all" feed at all.
- Always show nsfw posts from communities the user is subscribed to, regardless of the above two options.
Should cut down on any drama caused by someone registering on a random instance and subbing to gfur. :P
EDIT: Looking at the replies, it looks like a simple site wide toggle a-la Furaffinity might be easier to implement and more egonomic.
So, I don't disagree with the decision to fork (especially because of the hardcoded donation URL). I am concerned about fracturing of the codebase, so I have a few questions:
- Will this fork always be a sequence of commits based on some Lemmy version, or do you expect history to diverge (git rebase vs merge)?
- Will there be an effort to upstream useful changes into Lemmy proper (a lot of the changes suggested are things that might be desirable for Lemmy in general).
- There's a number of other communities with a desire to use a forked Lemmy version, do you intend this fork to be useful for them, or is this purely for pawb.social?
And perhaps most importantly:
- Will the name be changed from Lemmy to something else if there are significant changes.
Just finished Tunic. I shan't spoil the game since I encourage people to go in blind, but it has so much charm in it and focuses on such a unique sense of nostalgia.