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Video content is really computationally expensive to play and store. Seems like it requires centralization to make the service fast and responsive with enough storage.

I suppose I could imagine some kind of ephemeral TikTok that deletes videos from storage after a set amount of time. Or a lowfi TikTok that only allows uploads in 240p. Otherwise I just can’t see it.

And that’s fine.

But it’s also censorship.

It certainly doesn’t have more. Hexbear came from r/chapotraphouse being banned, after all.

But hexbear has 4.4 million comments, whereas .world has 4 million comments. By not federating, they’ve effectively removed more comments from their member’s feeds than .world has ever had on its own servers. That’s pretty huge.

I didn’t say the censorship is problematic? In fact, I completely support it.

I’m just pointing out that defederation functions as censorship. Lemmy.world refused to federate with hexbear.net and that was when I moved to lemmy.ml - the power of the fediverse is that I was able to move to a different instance and I can interact with both communities. They engaged in censorship that I didn’t like, so I moved. It works!

Defederation is censorship. It’s part of the platform.

Don’t get me wrong, I support defederating from shitty instances, but it’s still a censor deciding what members see.

🤡

The global South has a right to protect its sovereignty from rich Western assholes coming in to scoop up cheap land to build their summer villas. Tourism is a factor of imperialist exploitation too.

I still don’t get actual “left” and “right” definition by Westerner.

The vast majority of Westerners don’t even really know what “left” or “right” mean. It’s going to be really confusing to rely on Westerners to self-identify their political beliefs, because every liberal seems to think they’re a leftist.

For example, people that support native people to be protected from encrouchment of their forest, as well as unmitigated immigration that will drive out them will considered both “left” and “right” side from Westerner.

It helps if we frame this in a context of imperialism and colonialism.

A refugee from Syria moving into Greece isn’t encroaching on anyone’s forests. That stands in stark contrast with a multinational corporation coming to DRC, clear cutting the forest, strip mining the mountains, poisoning the water, and paying pennies for labor.

Some Westerner also often assume their solution of problem is “the best” while all I can see is further division of society.

Absolutely. Any leftist in the West needs to spend their whole life unlearning their chauvinism.

Maybe this will help: the left are the only ones that want to help everyone. The right wants to help themselves.

That does hurt Reddits usability for users, though, which is bad for business in general.

Yeah, normal people do not care about anything outside the very small bubble of their own life. They have a few interests, a few hobbies, watch a few shows, know a few other people, and that’s… kind of it.

I don’t recommend LW, it’s full of Redditeurs and defederated from instances I like such as hexbear and lemmygrad. But I did start there, because that was the one recommended to me.

But that didn’t stop me from migration when the admins of that server started making choices I didn’t like. That’s what federation is good for, and looking back my experience is now better than before.

Let people join bad instances and then figure out federation later. Getting that foot in the door is what matters most.

Oops, embarrassing. 😅

I have not been convinced lemmy.world being the largest instance is actually a bad thing. It’s bad for federation, I suppose, but they’re all Redditeurs and I appreciate having a containment zone for them.

And yet I’m the one on lemmy.ml and you’re the one on lemmy.world 🤔

Sorry, you misread what I said 😅

You, the recommender, are the one picking the instance. Whichever one you like best! Don’t bother telling them anything about instances, that’s a waste of time. Just say “go to lemmy.world and post” and don’t bother explaining anything else.

I’m telling people that it’s okay to be a normie.

And it is.

Car nerds can be car nerds to support the normies who can only drive.

Rewarded?

This is about what is best for getting more people in into the fediverse. I’m telling people to stop being nerds and chasing normies away.

In my experience, that’s just the .world instance and its associated halo of federated communities.

It’s actually really cool how there’s multiple spheres of culture on lemmy, which are more and less Reddity.

Oof.

Why on Earth would a newbie join a small instance? How would they even find out about one?