Hahaha glad to hear it my friend
Easily the best answer here, I think the people who think it will work "just like Reddit" are unfamiliar with federation still, and aren't used to thinking things through in those terms.
Not to mention that Google results in general have been pretty trash for a couple years now. I don't expect fediverse content to be prominent for some time unless there is a dedicated service that indexes everything.
If you spend enough time around here, you just might get pulled away from the center-right ;)
Some of us have been through this sort of thing before. At the end of the day, it's a normal and predictable result of using a corporate/walled garden website. The great news is that there is a shift for many toward alternatives in the fediverse. Not to say that content loss is never going to be an issue again, but since everything is open-ended, it should be a bit more resilient to various "business decisions" that can cause it to be lost.
I hope it motivates many to become web archivists. If anybody is able to financially invest in digital storage, I encourage them to join up at !datahoarder@lemmy.ml and keep copies of all the good stuff you find, including YouTube channels!
I think that when it comes to video content, that is generally the most difficult to store and distribute. Peertube exists and the fediverse equivalent for free as in freedom and beer content, however creators who want to monetize their content are also finding paths that they are in control of which is also great. By that I mean services like Nebula and CuriosityHub. Paywalls aren't so bad if everyone behind it is putting out premium level content (although I do have some bones to pick with those services in their existing state).
This seems like a false dichotomy, Ukraine can surrender as well, as unpopular as it would be. Ukraine has been following the lead of the US, even before the invasion. This has lead them away from any negotiations, right to where they are today.
Nice thanks for the heads up
I really hope it won't be needed, but we should probably have an nwordcount bot ready to go, just in case
Right yeah, the only people that lose out would be the ones who like to have porn mixed in with their regular posts (crazy mfs!)
It's a wise decision by instance admins to have a clean separation between regular and NSFW content IMO.
I think it's likely that there will be a parallel NSFW fediverse that has little overlap with regular content, and that's probably for the best.
It is possible that deletions will not propagate to other servers if they are running a forked version of the software.
It would be cool to have a place that doesn't represent the "very liberal" politics of the city, if you know what I mean