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And specifically, a reference to It’s the Sun Wot Won It, a headline in the Murdoch press, not-good-enough-to-be-toilet-paper tabloid rag The Sun, crowing that they had enough influence in the 1992 general election to secure a win for the Conservatives.

I feel like Google would tell you the same thing if asked.

Maybe this is a me problem, but especially on the threadiverse side (Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed), how much are we really in tight-knit communities based on our servers? I’m from Fedia, but I don’t really interact with Fedia people any more than I do anybody else, or even bother to take notice of where other people are from, unless they say something especially goofy. Communities in the “subreddit” sense are more likely to feel tight-knit than servers

I definitely get how allowing people to skip choosing a server is good for some types of potential fediverse users, I just don’t think Gmail works as an analogy for that. When Gmail was in its invite-only era, people weren’t paralyzed by choices of providers, they specifically wanted the one that was the best, and that was Gmail.

The difference there is that Gmail was offering something (for free) that nobody else was at the time: the linear, conversation-based display of back-and-forth emails which we’re all used to now, and a whole gigabyte of storage. Everybody already had an email address when Gmail arrived on the scene, but Gmail was, from a pure usability perspective, better than the rest. People wanted access to that.

For an invite-only Fediverse server to be especially attractive, it needs to have some reason why access to that server specifically is more desirable than going to any of the tens (hundreds?) of alternative servers that offer literally exactly the same thing. Unless they start adding features the others can’t provide (which is close to impossible in an open-source project), what’s the benefit?

Do they always spit out stuff that’s too big? I put stuff that’s bigger than my throat in my mouth all the time. That’s what chewing is for.

I think the question at that point is “How often is there a completely new way to use the Internet socially, either inside or outside of the federated space?”

I don’t think it happens very often. Blogs, messsage boards and dating sites in the '90s; microblogs, photo and video sharing in the '00s; short form video sharing in the '10s if that counts as a separate thing. There’s only like seven types of social network in the three decades or so they’ve existed.

The article never suggests any physical violence, though. The problems he reported to CBS are a “hateful sticker”, “threats online”, “somebody tried to cut me off” and “three guys pointing the middle finger and […] screaming at me”. Not super cool either, but they’re not physical violence. Those last two might even be legal, depending on the circumstances.

For anybody curious, since the article doesn’t mention what the “hateful sticker” was, from a quick search it was: “NAZIS FUCK OFF”.

UX means “user experience”. It is distinct from the UI. OP is basically saying the process of signing up to federated social media is too complicated for the average user, not because of the way it looks and how you interact with it (the UI) but because of it’s not as easy to understand the concepts behind how Lemmy works.

Same for Interstellar for Android, which supports both Lemmy and Mbin accounts.

If you’re accessing via the official web viewers, you’re out of luck, as far as I know. Both Lemmy and Mbin have open issues requesting keyword filtering, if anyone wants to follow progress or contribute.

Haha, that one ClickHole article has its own Wikipedia article:

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point - Wikipedia