querying raises the “sea-level,” and contributing lowers it, encouraging collaboration. When the sea-level goes over a certain level, posting queries is blocked

Yeah, this seems to assume that the set of people able and willing to make contributions overlaps the set interested in simply asking questions, and I can’t imagine that working. You know the rule that in any community 90% just lurk, 9% comment, and maybe 1% actually contribute. For everyone but the 1%, I foresee querying until they hit the limit, then they leave.

This might be somewhat mitigated by it being a very technical system to begin with, so even being interested in queries is a barrier.

Yes because as I understand it the custom domain is basically just a pointer. Everything still goes through the bsky servers and you can be deplatformed there at the whim of an admin/mod (On Mastodon if you don’t run your own instance that can still happen, but you can instance hop. If you run your own then other instances can block your instance but it’s not the whole network all at once)

I assume it was just named after r/politics - like most of the other communities here during the migration.

I’m a little surprised they are even still going. I guess staying small really was a goal.

That’s my understanding as well - Mastodon with the important part removed so it’s just a single server forum.

I think it doesn’t federate to begin with, so there’s no need to defed.

Does that mean your frontend will also be compatible with a Lemmy backend?

That’s true if the form the user sees is actually the one they expect to see from their SSO origin server

I think one issue is that it might be hard to keep a malicious server owner from sniffing or phishing your creds. I guess the big commercial SSO systems depend on companies being large enough to afford it, as a filter for fly-by-night operations.

That’s how it is. Even on the largest porn instance (lemmynsfw.com), you need to check the box explicitly on the sign up page. (And on the second biggest I know of (pornlemmy.com) there’s a full page consent splash screen before even you can even reach the sign up page.

The thread starter is complaining about posts which should be marked as NSFW, but are not. I personally haven’t noticed any of that, but I mostly stick to “subscribed” views instead of “All”