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  • Ukraine war narrative doesn't add up

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  • It's not a sunk cost fallacy. We cannot let Russia run rampant over other sovereign nations. Make no mistake, there is 0 legitimate reason for them to be fighting Ukraine. Letting them do so sends the message to them that we are all talk no show, and also shows China the same thing.

    However, we've lucked into a great situation. Ukraine fought back fiercely; the US can just proxy war Russia through money now. No cost of human life, we aren't exactly going balls to the wall in sending equipment either. The EU gets the same benefit.

    Also, I don't know what you mean by the war is costing too many Ukrainian lives. RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE. It isn't on the US to stop donating to force the Ukrainians to roll over and accept it? In what world do you tell the citizens to just lie down and take it for their own good? That's the most asinine thing I've seen.

  • Did this site live and die in 4 days?

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  • The change hasn't even gone into effect yet. Let people deal with the ads and shittiness that is the official app. They'll be looking for alternatives.

  • What are your plans for this weekend?

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  • I'll be going to a motocross race in Mt Morris, PA. It's my home track, and one I've raced dozens of times as an amateur. I've gone almost yearly since I was a child. It's raced yearly in the AMA Pro MX series for almost 50 years.

  • we have "sub-lemmys" but what we are missing for lack of a better term is "dom-lemmys", hear me out

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  • The way sports league subs magazines or whatever handle it is the greater league magazine, and then each team has their own team-specific place. It largely in effect already; you have the overarching "video games" sub and then specific games usually have their own sub for game-specific updates (here is what a vendor is selling today, build discussion, etc).

    The issue with federated would be each instance is likely to have their own "parent" sub, with the specific ones probably falling to whatever instance has the established population.

    It would be helpful, I think, for these "default" subs to have like a repository of sorts. Large topic subs all contribute to the same silo, and instances can pick what interactive content they get from the instances regarding comments and such. But that sorta defeats the de-federation tactics by link and article posts, but I imagine attack posts probably wouldn't fly in the vast majority of instances.

  • Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: 'It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company'

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  • Yeah, but that was when you could make someone else mod and they didn't have to accept. One of the mods did that to him. Once he learned about he, he left the position and they pushed out a change shortly where you had to accept the mod position. People did it to troll others, specifically like that.

    No mistake, no love lost on him, but he was a mod as a joke, and he removed himself when he was aware of it

  • It was confusing at first

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  • Makes sense! Thanks!

  • It was confusing at first

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  • Cooool, I was wondering this. I had been curious if it was 1 party or 2 party federation; so someone can defederate, but it doesn't "block" receipt of content, only the interaction with the blocked platform?

  • It was confusing at first

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  • You don't have a lemmy account, but kbin gets content from lemmy pushed to it. So you can subscribe to subs that are on Lemmy. That doesn't mean you can't sub to the kbin equivalent; in due time, both may have a memes sub. But if you prefer lemmy over the kbin, you can see and interact with that lemmy content from here on kbin. You don't need to be on Lemmy to do it, the instances are federated.

    Likewise, say in the future a sports-only instance is created. It exists solely for sports headlines across all the leagues of the world. It is way better than content on kbin. If kbin federates with that group, you can see and interact with that content.

    Say there is a group that doesn't meet your instances ideals. They like to be inflammatory and provocative because they can. Your instance can not federate with them, so you won't see that content when viewing the All section of your instance. Likewise, they won't be able to interact with content you post. This prevents brigading and intermingling of groups that would only argue and conflict.

    You can enjoy all the content of any federated instance from whatever platform you want.

  • what does it mean that Beehaw "defederated" from lemmy.world?

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  • AFAIK it is only lemmy.world and SJW, but I mentioned kbin because it was another instance that was receiving a lot of new users along with those other platforms.

  • what does it mean that Beehaw "defederated" from lemmy.world?

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  • I'm getting a little bit mixed signals, as it seems beehaw mods are little quick to moderate users, which to be fair, you specifically signed up for. Beehaw can moderate how they want. I think it's just partly because so many came at once, people filtered to what was available regardless of if they agreed with the platform rules heavily or not. You just went where you went to get in. It'll get sorted eventually

  • Anti-mod brigading going on within reddit?

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  • You gotta make em. Even if you don't intend to mod them long term, giving the space for discussion is the only first step you can take.

  • Anti-mod brigading going on within reddit?

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  • I have Boost (paid), Relay (paid), BaconReader (paid) and at one point, Apollo (paid).

    I loathe the official app and ads, I won't be back either. I have a special amount of contempt for the Reddit app even prior to this event.

  • Anti-mod brigading going on within reddit?

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  • I'll be keeping mine but using a bot to scrub my comments and changing them to an anti-reddit sentiment.

  • Anti-mod brigading going on within reddit?

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  • Or kbin! Or Fedia! Or any of the platforms. That's the beauty, they're all correct choices and (to an extent) all open to any user.

  • what does it mean that Beehaw "defederated" from lemmy.world?

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  • Not necessarily. From what I understand, it's about lemmy/kbin not vetting users. Because they were a a more heavily moderated community (by design) it's harder for them to keep that standard with other federated instances. Instead of trying to combat the population increase platforms have received, they defederated while the "riff raff" gets sorted out. If they are willing to re-federate in the future, I'm sure they'll be back. It's just the influx of users makes it harder for their small team to moderate content.

    This is how federation works, though. It's by design. If you are wanting to see that content, you are able to move to a different instance (or even beehaw, if they are still taking applications), or to one that is still federated with them.

  • Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted

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  • Same. Seeing his copy/paste answers (literally) makes it near impossible for me to go back. The company clearly exists to now extract as much value from the users as possible. I didn't go there to be part of an LLM or an advertisers focus group, I went there for the community. If the community moves elsewhere, I have no problem dropping it. If the community stays, I'll build what I can here.