Most of these communuties using Discord are better served by something that isn't a chatroom. So, so, so confusingly many of them use them as a store of permanent information. Like a website+forum.
Many times the benefit of Discord is the ability to paywall parts of it with Patreon integration. We need more foss and federated options that do this.
Well, I hope this quote is spread far and wide in all channels.
So many AP platforms are made by a couple of guys in their garage, it's not even funny, and the mentality of "just dicking around" means what gets used is whatever the whims of the day dictate, rather than the standard.
"If it works, it's not stupid" and all that.
But that kind of work lacks real world testing, and depe concern for public expectaton or desire.
Plus, you have to keep in mind that the idea of interplatform interoperability isn't this core conceit of ActivityPub. It's a potential use case, but it's not an expectation. There's no reason anyone should expect interop like that, other than some developers wanted to try it.
But some didn't, and now that their platforms are gaining audience, they're refactoring to meet that audience's expectations.
A significant issue here, and what's specifically highlighted in this post, is that this group has strong and direct ties to the CPC leader, and so its status as "third party" is questionable.
Plus the blatant and flagrant lying about things and people.
Like, if the union heads had worked on Carney's leadership campaign and then started running ads saying that Poilievre was a habitual cat rapist, all as a means to create the false perception that there were multiple independent groups opposing PP...
But sure, the situations are totally symmetrical.
She won the nomination vote at her local EDA? That's all that becoming a candidate means.
Techbros killed me, Mal.
I mean, it's not being resolved, since the issue is that LW is too big to effectively federate, and LW is refusing to take the steps to improve the situation. Weirdly enough, this is less of an issue if the network scales horizontally, with a large number of small nodes.
But also, this is a symptom of the current attitude of "it shouldn't matter where the community is hosted". The fediverse is a simulacrum of centralized social media, and a poor one at that. The more we try and beat it into that shape, the more it's going to get all weird on us.
Like, a significant issue here is the insistence people have had that up/down-votes be synchronized. People want to know what the global passive-aggressive opinion on a post or comment is, rather than the local one, which requires every single button press to be sent to each and every subscribing website. And people expect stuff to be sent out as a live stream, rather than being held back for batching, too.
There's a significant cultural issue to be sorted out here. Better mechanical features aren't going to solve it in the long run.
The ones that are owned by PostMedia, of course
"Why won't the liberals deliberalize the economy?"
He needs to explain the dead hookers I believe are in his trunk
As decentralized money, it's great
It's not money. It's not accepted as money anywhere that matters.
It's a market speculation vehicle built on the fucking aether, that you can currently sell easily enough in small quanties in order to get some actual currency that retailers will accept.
But it sure as fuck ain't money. It's just a bunch or techno-utopians huffing farts.
It's harder to see on a large Lemmy instance like LW, but most of the fediverse is very patchwork. The network of Lemmy sites is itself very patchwork, with the MLs, Hexbear, Beehaw, NSFW, etc. all having different defederation profiles, but the whole space is an incomplete mesh. Mastodon has more themed instances than Lemmy, more very small instances than Lemmy, and a much bigger anti-capital, anti-commerce bent than Lemmy, with many more people complaining on main about other instances rules and federation policies, so if you look, you can really see it.
But the whole fedi project is patchwork by nature.