What is ridiculous about it? What do you see as the difference between moderation and censorship?
What is ridiculous about it? What do you see as the difference between moderation and censorship?
I’m not citing the author to add credibility, just to give credit.
Moderation is when you take down material because the recipient doesn’t want to see it. Censorship is when you take down content because you don’t want the recipient to see it, regardless of how the recipient feels about it.
— vintermann, Hacker News
I find it disappointing that everyone says how the Fediverse will allow all kinds of social media, personal blogs and other things to be interconnected, but in the end it kinda sorta works for Twitter clones and barely works for anything else.
You literally said “instead of algorithms”, implying that algorithms would be replaced.
But SearxNG doesn’t have the nice features like bangs, redirects, changing the priority of domains, custom CSS, lenses, etc.
Kagi has clearly stated that the AI features will always be optional and the engine is designed to be useful without them.
Explain how Free and Open Source, federation-based communities are more Capitalist than Marxist.
The ability to choose what platform to use seems closer to the principle of voluntary exchange than to authoritatianism.
Because Lemmy is usually marketed as the Fediverse alternative to Reddit, not as a communist platform.
They said “the official version”.
As the OP said, there are FOSS hosted forges. You don’t need to self-host.
With SourceHut, other people can submit patches by e-mail, no need to create an account.
The two-tier reply system on SO is really useful and would be harder to implement – the replies to the questions, but also replies to the posts/replies. I don’t know how that would look if starting from Lemmy as a base.
How so? Lemmy allows unlimited nesting of replies, which is even better.
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If you’re in the EU, request a GDPR export.
Not if the language is standardized from the start.
An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.
Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.
Terminally online people often get the feeling that everyone except a hateful minority agrees with them, when in reality they’re part of a secluded echo chamber.