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I used tesseract as my daily driver for lemmy, and honestly, it was and is the best lemmy interface I’ve used, at least in terms of the tools it had to make admin and moderation tasks easier.

But we were also running an older version and hadn’t upgraded to the version with the blocks, or otherwise, we’d have been in the same boat as db0, because we were one of the instances blocked by the list

Seconded. I self host it for family members for that reason!

Purging doesn’t federate.

I think it was a reframing of “death by a thousand papercuts”

Last time I looked at vernisage, they had signups closed and I couldn’t find out much about it. I had forgotten it existed until I saw your post, and honestly, it sounds way more relevant to me that pixelfed. It even does HDR out of the box!

That’s just how lemmy works when you ban with content deletion. It needs to work that way so that the content removal for content posted to local communities federates correctly

Yep, pretty much. We also don’t care if people ban evade, if evading the ban means they stop the behaviour that got them banned the first time around.

The goal is to make a safe community, not to punish people.

I am banned from a bunch of blahaj because I said that they were as bad as ml once.

No, you were banned from blahaj because you were arguing that DEI is bad, and that there is no such thing as stolen land, because “everyone does it”

That won’t be terribly meaningful. lbz has a huge defederation list, because we seeded our defederation list with defeds from our sharkey instance. So as a result, lbz has hundreds of defeds of dead instances from 3 years ago and defeds of mastodon, pleroma and other instances that have never interacted with the threadiverse in any meaningful way.

If you’re just trying to work out how much of the threadiverse each threadiverse instances has defederated, you’d need to do a bit of filtering on the results.

Can’t wait to try it!

It’s not more useful than hashtags.

It’s a hashtag relay.

On the fediverse, there is no central “fire hose”, no central source of “every post from everyone”. Rather, when someone makes a post, the instance the post was created on looks at the list of people following the person making the post, and sends a copy of the content to all of those instances.

When someone boosts a post, the original post is sent to all instances that have people following the person doing the boosting.

And that’s basically it.

So if you’re on a single person instance, the only content you will see is the content created by or boosted by people you follow. No other content makes it to your instance, so your “global feed” and your “home feed” look the same.

On a big instance with lots of users, the global feed is just a master list of all of the public content that makes up all of the home feeds of the users on the instance. So the more users, the more content in the global feed.

And when you follow a hashtag, the only content you see is hashtag content that made it to the global feed. So if no one on your server follows a particular person, none of their hashtag content will make it to your instance.

Relays are a fire hose. Every instance that adds a relay sends all of its public content to the relay. And in turn, the relay sends back all public content it receives from every instance subscribed to the relay. So if you’re a single user instance, and you subscribe to a relay, your global feed will look very different to your home feed, because the relay will be sending you content from all of the instances subscribed to that relay!

tags.pub is a garden hose instead of a fire hose. It’s a way of getting filtered content from a relay, so that only content that matches the hashtags you or your admin have subscribed to make it to your instance. The other main difference between tags.pub and a typical relay is that individual users can subscribe to a tag on the tags.pub relay, and get content from it even if their instance admin hasn’t added it as a relay.

That was my bad. I was espousing federation, not AP specifically, and I see that federation is built in to the idea

It seems to me that activity pub could still be useful for a couple of reasons. If you live in the suburbs of a city, then bring able to also access an instance for your suburb and your city might be useful.

And if you live in multiple locales, or if want to stay connected to your old home town etc

lbz and pbz were defederated from lemmynsfw for hosting communities like that, and we are defederated from fedinsfw for the same reason

Ah. That’s disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though.

Yep, but to get those features you have to access it from the piefed/lemmy instance. gup.pe/friendica style groups predate lemmy though, and were designed to be accessed from your mastodon/fediverse account, rather than being signed in to directly.

gup.pe reborn

It is more complicated than that. Vulnerable minorities don’t thrive in spaces where they’re endlessly playing whack a mole with bigots and trolls.

I didn’t leave Twitter for the fediverse because of its network. I left even before Musk, because Twitter was full of hate that the admins didn’t feel the need to action.

Your preference is just that… And as long as there is room for your preference on the fediverse without it being the only way to experience it, we can both have the experiences we want.

The numbers of fediverse users have more to do with onboarding, VC funding for marketing and the inherent nature of federation itself than it has to do with defederation policies

No. Having instances with varying approaches to defederation is good for the fediverse. Having no defederation is how you end up with nostr.