Copying, as you might not be able to see PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus response:
Dbzer0 is silenced on the piefed.social instance. I believe that you should (edit: not!) be able to read this comment (I’m not on dbzer0 but my instance is also Silenced 😆, so if you can’t see a dbzer0 user, you can’t see me too).
Edit: missed a punctuation.
.zip admins do make changes to the code (ex. removed the vote limiter). So they may have gone in and removed or altered the list.
As a slight clarification, Rimu specifically confirmed the change (voting restrictions) were not due to bandwidth concerns, but rather to curtail certain users from voting “too much”.
Also, confirmed the users in questions were not bots, just user who voted a lot (I’m in that category). My instance removed the limiter within a couple days of the update being implemented.
Yeah, it definitely feels, to me, like the current world/society is built to be competitive rather than cooperative :(
I would suggest a few things. First, be genuinely open minded to the discussion/topic (as in your opinion can change with a good enough argument.
Second, I would suggest using “feeling” language as much as possible. Examples are: “I feel like that will cause an issue with…”, “my understanding is…”, “my thoughts are…”, “from what I’ve seen/read the setup is …”, etc. From my perspective, feeling language lowers the “absoluteness” of statements and makes conversions easier by changing them from arguing absolute truths, to discussing lived experiences.
Third would be to reframe the discussion/argument from “you vs them” to the two of you vs a problem/issue and you both are working together to find the answer. This somewhat goes with being open minded.
Fourth, I don’t think works too well in online discussions, but in person I find starting from a base situation and asking the other person their thoughts on it, and adding your own, works well. So, start with a base situation and then adding a little complexity each time you both agree on the outcome and reasoning. Once you’ve found your divergence point you can start having your discussion about the pros/cons of different approaches/solutions to that specific situation.
My understanding, using the federation-email analogy, defederation is like yahoo mail and gmail users not being able to send and receive emails from each other. In this case lemmy.world and lemmy.ml can’t see each others users/communities/posts/comments/votes (someone can correct me if I’m mistaken about any part).
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz just made a post about instance defederations. TL:DR of the post is only 3 instances/servers have any significant defederation (>5%). 2 “tankie” instances (lemmygrad.ml [67%] and hexbear.net [64%]) and the porn instance (fedinsfw.app [13%]).
No worries :)
The threadiverse (roughly the reddit-like part of the fediverse) is pretty small (~43k MAU), so if something doesn’t exist and you want it to, your probably going to have to start and build it yourself.
I was kind of off-put by that initially, but I kind of like it now. It’s kind of like building your own little space and people can come check it out and see what you’ve been building and contribute if they feel like it. I created fedilytics (Fediverse-Analytics) a couple months ago because I was curious how the fediverse was doing. It’s not particularly active with other people (got first non-me post yesterday!), but I mostly built it for myself and enjoy anytime someone stops in to talk in the comments.
If you do decide to make a community in the future, I’d suggest making the post in the community and then cross-posting it, to a larger relevant community, to increase traffic to your post (as many people just stick to their subscribed feed).
If you provide some of your interests/hobbies, we can probably be more helpful.
That being said, I think these are a few active and interesting communities:
Regarding places to avoid, I don’t think anyplace needs to be avoided, per say. Politics can be problematic, if you go into those posts.
There’s no real algorithm, so you need to curate your own feed. In general, I’d suggest, if you see a community that could interest you, just subscribe. You can always unsubscribe later (if it turns out not to be what you want), but getting a denser “good stuff” home feed is beneficial.
By the same token, I’d suggest blocking communities you have zero interest in (helps filtering, so you come across more content you are interested in when browsing “All”). If you run into a problematic user, report (if they have done something reportable), block, and move on.
If 2 communities are posting the same content and you get tired of seeing double, I’d suggest removing the community from the bigger or flagship instance (ex. Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, Piefed.Social).
This would have the effect of distributing the communities across the threadiverse rather than having them bunch up on a few. A problem with bunching can be if an instance goes down, they take their users/communities with them. Most of the medium/large instances in the threadiverse are stable, but it has happened in the past (Lemm.ee).
My understanding is this should be much less of a problem in the future, they are working on making user profiles and communities transferable between instances/servers.
Note: there is an active autism community, if that’s of interest to you.
I’m a bit confused.
You can’t access the post because you were banned from Lemmy.world for posting in wholesome Yuri? Or something else?
If you can’t see it because of a ban, you can try opening the post in a unlogged in browser. You wouldn’t be able to comment, but you should be able to see it.
Hmm, that’s weird. Both work for me, but I just added a link via piefed.zip, so you can try that one.
Otherwise, I’d say just search for it in the fediverse.world community, should be easy to find.
My understanding is threadiverse links allow you to go to a post via your own instance, rather than opening a new tab/window/browser.
Some clients can handle threadiverse links, some can’t. Usually I put both in, but didn’t this time.
Glad you were able to find it though.
It seems tesseract’s dev put so some code in their frontend to DDoS dbzero (there’s a post about it in one of the “fediverse” communities).
Your issues may be related to that. What you’re seeing may be “Anubis” or something similar (not really familiar with what the not/scraping defenses look like).
Might be worth pinging an admin to get their thoughts. Hope you’re able to solve the issue.
Edit: post of potential interest:
Edit 2: Alternate (non-treadiverse) link: https://piefed.zip/post/1682538
If you are going to be the main poster initially and for the foreseeable future, probably a genre you are interested in.
I’d also suggest making the post in the new/niche community and then cross post it into a more general/main/popular community (ex. Books).
Good luck on your new community :)
Apparently I like War, Mystery, and Comedy. List:
Andor: Is great, even if you aren’t a Star Wars fan. Each 3 episode arc is better than the last. Only planned as 1 season, but did so well they made a Season 2 and Season 2 is better. You can use Rogue One as a cap to the series.
Veronica Mars: watched all of it for the first time this year. It holds up 20+ years later.
Ted Lasso: Comedy about a college American Football coach coaching English Football/soccer.
The Good Place: Strangely a philosophy heavy comedy. It slows in places, but is absolutely worth watching.
Schmitt’s Creek: Comedy about unlikeable rich people becoming poor. It takes a bit to start, but each season is better than the last and nails the landing.
Possibles:
Altered Carbon (Season 1): Great murder mystery set in a cyberpunk, dystopian future.
Shogun: Medieval Japan samurai “game of thrones”-esk show. Only planned as 1 season, but did so well they are making a Season 2.
Band of Brothers: War show about American rangers in WW2.
I really enjoyed it when it was airing. I don’t know if I’d enjoy a rewatch today, because the writing is rough in several places.
I feel its kind of similar to agents of shield where they outlived their original plan and had to adapt and come up with new plot arcs (and I think it shows, in both series). Though, I think their forced adaptions created some of the best new and interesting sci-fi concept explorations to come to TV for a while.
I’m also a sucker for “then it got worse” type shows, where the characters are struggling and doing their best to improve their situation, but every step forward is followed by being pushed a couple steps back through no fault of their own.
All that being said, I like S2 of The 100 best. S1 of the show is probably up there, starting after
Wells is murdered
. I think once that happens, its clear this is not a typical CW show.
That helped a lot. Thanks.
So its sort of like dnd but with nations instead of characters. Sounds fun. Feel free to ping me if/when you get a game going.
That was semi helpful, but I still don’t quite get the gameplay.
A player picks a nation and then describe the nations actions for the turn (an in game month?, does it also last a month in real life?). The actions can be anything (?) and they just work 100%?
What happens when two player nations have competing actions?
Its not clear to me what this type of game would look like, play like. Can you link to an example of the gameplay?
If there’s already a community, it might be worth posting there and then crossposting here to build up that community.
I’ve gotten a few of them. I’m pretty certain they are spam or will be spam in the future. I block them.
If someone else has a better understanding of who/what they are, feel free to let me know too.