starlinguk

The point of being an admin is that you can edit and change everything that is posted. If someone does something illegal on your instance, or they’re posting stuff you don’t like (racism, homophobia, etc) you need to be able to fix it.

Admins have always been able to modify posts. See Reddit, forums, etc.

Just before the new covid wave nobody is vaccinated against. Nice.

I’d rather we did not complete, thanks. I don’t want 450 million people running riot posting right wing extremist crap.

Aye. I even went to a couple of meets (PS Screw you, Lorry).

Eh, Kbin regularly logs me out when I try to post and then I get chucked back to somewhere completely different.

There are literally people in their nineties on there.

It’s deliberate so they only see content Facebook wants them to see.

It’s not “basic technology”. It’s easy to find somewhere to get an email account, but you’re not going to find a Lemmy instance on Facebook or in an advert or at work. And Email doesn’t usually say “we don’t like that instance anymore so you won’t get any more messages from there, so you have to sign up to something else” (see Beehaw).

The problem is y’all are tech savvy and have no idea what it’s like to not be tech savvy. Hell, my wife is a goddamn computer scientist and can’t handle this stuff.

It doesn’t matter what “instance” you sign up for with email, you’ll get all mail. But just the email for YOU. If you pick federated on Mastodon you get half a billion messages a minute and none of them are for you.

When you pick “federated” you’ll see all posts, independent from your instance. But that’s pretty much impossible because unless you have Tusky the posts will be too fast.

So yeah, to be able to read anything you have to just read the posts on your instance, meaning it does matter which one you pick.

That’s the only one that works.

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This is going well!

“You are not logged in”

Meta gets paid a fortune to spread disinformation. That’s why they’re doing this.

There’s a reason it’s not allowed in the EU.