The linked post given on the second point is a bit flimsy. It’s basically saying that if you use evidence published by a person with shitty views, you must have them too. To me, that’s absurd as claiming that referencing FBI statistics makes someone a federal agent.

It was made very clear from the start that .ml was not meant to be a ‘default instance’.

For the sake of discussion, can you give some examples of good design in the community? How does that contrast against other Lemmy instances?

I don’t know enough to say if it’s more insular or not, I don’t know how common it is to have the default sort as All, but we’re definitely worldly enough for other instances to have some users pushing stereotypes on us when we comment.

You do have some point about lemmy.ml having enough instances that you can get by with Local as default, but I assume most people would be subscribing to or exploring other instances too? I really don’t know.

Honestly, it depends on your circles and network. I only remember seeing The Picard Maneuver maybe twice, didn’t know of them before this week. I’ve seen your username far more, for example.

I just run mpv $URL

When was this questionnaire posted? I didn’t see it and get a chance to answer.

Also, I treat servers different to desktops due to different threat models. The server automatically applies security updates and keeps most feature updates sitting for a while for stability, but on desktop I just install everything within a couple of days.

What’s that got to do with anything? It’s still called a reunification even if both sides didn’t want it. There was a whole entity, it split, and if it joins back together then that’s called reunifying it.

Reunification doesn’t sound right

It’s an objective term for when states join into a single state, like the unification of Italy for example. It’s not about approval or disapproval, I’m not taking a side by calling it reunification.

Not an authoritarian, not even taking a side. I’m pointing out that unification is the term for resolving partitions to form a single state.

You can use both terms, there’s no contradiction.

Consider the US civil war. The Confederates were (rightfully) invaded and plenty of them still aren’t happy about it, the result was still the unification of the ‘northern’ and the ‘southern’ states.

Why isn’t that an appropriate term? It was part of China’s (Qing) territory from 1684 until the Japanese occupations, and is only disunified because of an unresolved civil war. Taiwan (officially the “Republic of China”) considers themself to be China. So why wouldn’t their combination be the reunification of China?

I guess my experience with open social media is that there are far too many radlibs who insert themselves into communist discussion spaces.

I wonder if the easy win for this situation is to redirect any radlibs to designated communism101 communities with learning resources to avoid them derailing discussion among communists. That way, they’re not simply rejected and banned (that is, alienated and possibly offended) for their arrogance, they have an opportunity to learn without the community either getting annoyed or wasting time in arguments.

because the techniques, practices, assets, learning material and so on should circulate and the format of social bookmarking platforms like lemmy is good for that.

I’d have to disagree, these sites aren’t really designed for archiving such knowledge for easy access. Wikis and libraries, for example, are more suited to purpose, although they’re less social and less about discussion. Even other types of messageboards, like traditional internet forums are alright. But on here, older conversations tend to leave the front pages and become near undiscoverable within days or weeks. reddit and the like are designed to for news and novelty more than real information sharing.

OP asked for specific examples, do you have any you think are worth emphasizing?

Anecdotally: the night Mozilla builds were a godsend when I couldn’t afford decent hardware.

I don’t know much about them, do you happen to know why the nightly builds were better? Did the new features fix a problem?

I used to have to custom compile nginx to get HTTP/3 and brotli working (significant speed benefits), but now it’s possible to get those in packages on my OS. This makes maintenance far easier or even automatic for me, which is great from a security standpoint.

and especially here

Good to know that old post is still useful. (It’s also nice to see that wolfballs, bakchodi and exploding-heads all died.)

I’ve used a lot of different forum types and it’s sometimes impressive how much of a systematic difference some decisions can make. By not putting your scoreboard on your profile, simply just not adding a couple of numbers to the page, ‘karma’ just isn’t on my mind and there’s no incentive to farm it.

It’s degamifying, and it’s a good thing.

Joined about a year or two before the reddit API fiasco.

• I really don’t like ads+tracking and didn’t want my posts supporting a company like reddit
• I’m an advocate of FOSS
• reddit has inherent pressures to censor content based on mass media pressure and profit, and to permit anti-social far right trolls
• reddit punishes proxy users, where many instances here allow me to protect myself while posting here
• didn’t like the new reddit layout - even before I came here, I was lurking for a year or two on alternate frontends
• I believed federation was a good strategy at building a better reddit alternative

But also, it actually had some communities at the time. If it were more dead, or unfederated, I’m not sure if I would have put as much effort in building communities.