Spaceman Spiff

FWIW, when I see that, it’s usually when I hit back from going into a comment. Reloading the page usually fixes it.

Running Firefox on Android, standard mobile web interface.

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

[email protected]

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. [email protected] will be different from [email protected], will be different from [email protected], and will be VERY different from [email protected]

As the fediverse grows, I’m sure you’ll start to see instances that shadow-ban others. An easy way would be firewall rules, but there are others.

In the meantime, you can use a 3rd party tool https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=lemmygrad.ml

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.