Counterpoint: how much of this is our fault? If people are allowed to vote who don't even know how many branches of government there are, then how can they make effective decisions about the very thing that they know nothing about?

We've seen this before, with Brexit. Democracy requires effort to maintain.

This image?

The show?

"Yes!" 💯

Getting through the day be like:

No explanation necessary:

Hrm... so then for you, "poorly" is "right"!? 😜

Isn't ActivityPub extremely network intensive though? If all you wanted was a single user subscribing to a handful of communities then Lemmy would be inexpensive but to pull from a lot of communities I thought people have said that it can cost a bit of money, time, etc. Also defending against attacks such as CSAM.

Maybe make a distinction then between running a "tiny personal instance with only a few niche community subscriptions" vs. a small instance, either with multiple users or even just one person subscribing to many communities, if that cost would start to become more prohibitive?

Yes you can see the comments removed here and the goodbye message here: https://lemmy.world/u/stamets . I don't know how to see the specific post under discussion - possibly it's gone forever.😔

This is simply how most (really, probably all) Fediverse software handles removed items. Lemmy and PieFed for certain, and I am not sure about Mbin. Ideally the page would say something like "this used to be a post but it's gone now...", but instead it gives simply an error that says 404 and to try again later - like... REALLY!?!?😂

What's the point of making a goodbye post only to delete it?

I wish he had deleted everything except that. Instances such as Discuss.Online and PieFed.social did not even have time to receive the post before the account is gone now.:-(

Stamets will definitely be missed 😭

Unfortunately you really can't, not trivially I mean. Also, lemm.ee's whole schtick is that they don't defederate from anyone.

• There is a "instance block" in Lemmy, but horribly misnamed as all it does is mute communities but still allows users to troll you from the instance in other communities, such as this one
• Move to PieFed, which allows true blocking of all users from an instance, without needing admin approval
• Stay on Lemmy and switch to either the Sync or Connect app - I've not heard of any others that can do this but if someone knows of one please tell me?
• Ask your instance to defederate from them - except for Lemm.ee that's extremely unlikely to happen
• Switch to another instance that has already done so
• Develop a web browser filter, probably using something like Ublock
• Create your own instance, and then you can deferate anyone you want

Lemmy is fairly authoritian for non-admin end-users, but we use what is provided to us (which is why I'm ecstatically happy with the more fully featured PieFed!:-).

Tbf, they said that the instance doesn't censor based on political lines, while on the other hand the communities on it can "moderate as they see fit".

It's a loophole.

Possibly still worth defederating, but not based solely on the comment you responded to.

I'm a little jealous - no matter what I say about them, their won't ban me. Probably I would have to post in one of their communities to make that happen, except I can't be arsed to bother with it:-).

Depends - what is their half-life? If it's less than the rate of eye blinking, then we aren't even keeping up a stable population!

giggity

Gotta keep the Lemmites fed!

And now you know what's next right? (Taylor Swift's jet of course!)

Yes and moreover, feeds work at the community level, not individual posts. Which is a step in the right direction but you may want finer-grain control. Filters may offer more what you are looking for in that case.

I did not mention previously but PieFed also allows you to block all users from a user-specified instance, without requiring admin approval to perform full defederation. It is not perfect but it is very good and e.g. I use it to block Lemmy.ml, which saves me a lot of headaches as most of the worst, most argumentative and unfriendly (and batshit insane) comments I've seen come from there. Lemmy's instance filter is horribly misnamed - it would have much better been called a community muting, as it blocks communities from that insurance but the users remain free to troll you in communities located in other instances, leaving replies, triggering notifications, etc.

The Lemmy apps Sync and Connect can also block all users from an instance.

Edit: also check out [email protected] - it uses cross-posts to build up a curated listing of "good" posts by some metric. Conversely, the entire instance of beehaw.org works the opposite by extensive manual curation efforts to remove "bad" content by other metrics.

I can think of 3 easy ways to do it off the top of my head... all using PieFed. (1) Straight-up filtering of keywords, which allows All, None, or Some; (2) user customizable and shareable Feeds, so someone creates a good collection and everyone benefits; (3) the entire model of browsing content using PieFed is different: by offering more than simply Subscribed vs. All, you can do something like not subscribe to any political or news communities (i.e. have your cake), so that it doesn't show up in your Subscribed feed, but then when you want to read that content, it is a click away in the News and Politics Feed (or another similar one of your choice made by you or other users; i.e. eat your cake too).

Using Lemmy though, no not really (not "trivially" I mean). Search for people using ad blocking filters, possibly Ublock. Maybe an app would help? But I don't know which ones and kinda doubt it - I haven't seen such a thing in Voyager or Thunder or Interstellar, etc. Development of the Lemmy codebase, in the highly difficult Rust language, is super slow. Basically if you want something like this, you'd have to code it yourself.

A workaround could be to make several Lemmy alts - one for each type of content you would want to include in your Subscribed feed. Like one could be only uplifting news. Most of the time you'd be looking at the same older content though... without being able to widen your view that would allow bringing in of new content.

Edit: I did think of another way: you could run your own Lemmy instance, and use a bot to curate the content however you wish.

Or again, PieFed already has multiple forms of it.