CrypticCoffee

I appreciate you taking feedback on board, and I apologise if I was harsh about this and I didn't mean for this to be aimed at you individually. It was a general frustration with general decision making and communication. It's not the first time I've raised this and I care about Lemmy, it just gets frustrating when it feels the feedback is getting stonewalled.

I appreciate the position on consideration of refederation. it does make sense to consider it post 0.19.

So I suggested how you could do comms better, and also a sensible approach to defederation decisions, and that is your response.

Rather than thinking, "oh, is there some way we can do this better?", just get defensive and blame the person giving feedback.

It's human to err, but to refuse to learn, well that's quiet something... I had expected a more mature response.

Considering my original point was about how users on Lemmy were an after thought. Not worth factoring in to decision or consulting, you sure aren't really do a good job refuting it...

Lemmy world was the instance I originally joined when the whole exodus kicked off and others closed their doors. I was very grateful and had enormous good will for it. I never expected in the space of several months to have 180'd on it...

I don't need to and I choose not to use reddit or twitter. lemm.ee are doing a great job. lemmy.ml is also a great option. It's a shame that they're nailing it better than world is.

Was a topic labelled 0.19 upgrade and something along the lines of "0.19 has been released by Lemmy. We are going to be waiting a few weeks to see the stability of this. Once we are satisfied, we will update here with more information."

And "due to certain federation bugs, we are going to hold back on upgrade to 0.19 until these are ironed out, we will update when we plan to do this".

It's not hard, and it seems like you're coming up with excuses rather than considering feedback...

Hexbear defederation happened before they even federated. No consultation, or discussion, just "oh, we decided to do this, and whether you care or not, ah well". lemm.ee had a post, reasons for, against and welcomed the communities view on this. Maybe you guys need to check them out and learn from them. I think it's only 1 guy too, so probably more than repeatable as a process...

Considering this is the most staffed and resourced instance, you'd expect a reasonable standard.

The thing is, most western governments are pushing towards facial recognition and monitoring without the need for a warrant. Most countries are already stacked up to the eyeballs with CCTV (UK for example, and hooking that in with facial recognition is dangerous). First they start off with it being for terrorists, then paedophiles, then other criminals, but ultimately, it's monitoring everyone to track down a few. When you have that infra in place, and you don't have sufficient oversight, you can soon tweak that towards activist groups, then opposition groups etc.

You have to challenge it before the infrastructure goes in, because after it's in, it's already too late.

I don't see why not. There is a difference between an off chance of someone noticing you vs. camera's with high accuracy recognising your face and being able to track your locations, what places you visited and who with for every minute of every day.

Manjaro. I've never known a distro break as much as this.

I generally don't like to judge distro's, because they've all got pros and cons. With Manjaro, the pros column is pretty empty :).

There is most definitely a circus, but absolutely no fun to be found here.

I resurrected: Degoogle!degoogle@lemmy.ml and have been trying to grow it a bit.

It was on 3.56k subscribers and 152 active monthly users on 21/7/23. 117 posts. 4.54k, 333 active monthly users, 135 posts.

Best techniques I found was reach out to larger subs in a similar area with similar interests, link to their communities in your description and ask if they could do the same to help users find what they like. Also crossposting is great from larger areas. You can see crossposts from the main post and it's easy to click and deep dive into there. Crossposting about 3 posts which resonated with the users did most of the heavy lifting.

They're not forcing you to be on the official mobile app? That's nice of them :).

All the 10s of posts about this already and you think he's going to say "oh, didn't think about this, good idea". Or you know it's something that they have already made a call on and you're just badgering and harassing them over it?

I cannot stand the tankies, but I prefer them to folk like you. I'm yet to see anothing from lemmygrad in a month on lemmy, so get over it and block it if you see it and don't want to.

Oh, and an interesting follow on, if someone runs a technology consultancy, can they post about their business successes and issues? They're in the tech business after all. Or is this simply limited to the who's who of bad actors? The big, 3 4, 10, 15? What is the cut off?