Ginjutsu

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AP: Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

what a stupid way to die

Canvas -- Lemmy's r/Place -- Happening this weekend! in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems like onboarding will be handled by a bot, so I imagine it shouldn't really matter what instance you're using. As for instances that are "Joining in", I think that just refers to Admins for those instances promoting the event.

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Canvas -- Lemmy's r/Place -- Happening this weekend! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Ginjutsu@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/232185

Hey all,

I’ve got an exciting thing to announce today, Canvas — Lemmy’s r/Place!

We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with our own r/Place

This weekend, we will open up a canvas to all Lemmy users, each user will be able to place 1 pixel every minute. This event will last 72 hours, starting midnight EST on the 4th and ending at 11:59pm EST on the 6th

Some instances that are joining in:

Join the Lemmy Community [!canvas@toast.ooo](/c/canvas@toast.ooo)

Join the Matrix Space #lemmy-canvas:matrix.org

lemmy.blahaj.zone has defederated from us - Lemmy NSFW in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You do realize that many people on this instance participate in blahaj.zone communities, right? Why call people 'weirdos' for actually caring about how the communities and instances which they interact with are ran?

I feel like you're being unnecessarily inflammatory here. People are entitled to discuss whatever they want to when it comes to the Fediverse in this community, and this topic falls well within that category. No need to attack people for sharing their opinions on the matter.

lemmy.blahaj.zone has defederated from us - Lemmy NSFW in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Ah, the good ol' 'administrator discretion'. Seems like a classic case of power-tripping site admins doubling down on their opinion while disregarding any notion that they may be in the wrong. Can't say I'm surprised - it was only a matter of time before we saw this kind of behavior in the threadiverse.

Regardless of how you may feel about NSFW content on Lemmy, this is a huge red flag for lemmy.blahaj.zone, and I would advise against people joining that instance purely based on the admins' apparent inability to properly investigate or understand the content that they federate with. Hopefully they can clarify their rules in the near future and justify why exactly this defederation happened, or reverse their decision, swallow a little bit of pride, and admit they were in the wrong.

EDIT: More admin correspondence can be found here.

Very 'my way or the highway' behavior from the blahaj.zone admins. Really not a good look.

Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (15 children)

AFAIK, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml use it because the ml can also stand for "Marxist-Leninist", and the two primary maintainers of Lemmy are Marxist-Leninists . Not sure about the others though.

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What to do regarding "community hoarders"? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Ginjutsu@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world
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EDIT 2: Ruud has posted some guidelines for community moderation

EDIT: I want to clarify that the purpose of this post isn't to call anyone out in particular, and I think it's best to approach this issue with a gentle hand. Users who are doing this aren't necessarily ill intentioned, but may not realize the negative affect their actions may be having on the instance, hence why it's important to have this discussion. That being said, I removed the link to the user originally mentioned in this post to avoid any possible witchhunts.

Original Post:

I'm not sure what to call them, but I've noticed a few instances of users on this server creating dozens, and in some cases over a hundred different communities, and doing absolutely nothing with them. No sidebar description, no logo, banner, welcome post, or anything.

I understand that some people may be doing this in good faith in an effort to make sure that these spaces exist in the first place. That's fine and all - as long as you're allowing other community members to step in and help maintain and grow these spaces you've created, I don't really have a problem with it.

However, I think there are a good amount of people who are grabbing communities... just to squat on them? For some odd reason?

Take a look at this user's account [redacted]. Doing a little poking around, it seems they're an account that's owned by a [redacted] company based in [redacted]. They also don't have a single post or comment on record. So... Why do they own over 100 communities, many of which are simply duplicates of existing, popular Reddit subs?

I think the biggest problem here is that we may have users who want to create, cultivate, and grow communities that they feel strongly about, but when you go to set up a community only to find that it's owned by someone who isn't putting in any effort to make it a place for discussion, or outright doesn't care about it at all, it's going to discourage people from wanting to contribute in that way. First impressions are important, and these users might be turned off of Lemmy from an abundance of seemingly dead or spam communities.

What do you guys think? Is this an 'issue' worth thinking about, or will it sort itself out with time? I know it may not be super important in the grand scheme of things, but it's a question that's been on my mind for a few days now.