It’s been a disorienting couple of weeks for me as a casual user. I seem to miss a lot of what is going on, but the results of federation seem to have largely resulted in a lot of fighting with other instances before one side gives up and cuts ties. I know the intent is to bring in users who are either already on board or are otherwise open to our politics, but is the way forward to just test against any other version of Lemmy until we have burned through all of them?
I don’t know that I’m making much sense, but it just seems like a lot of turbulence and all of our collective focus has been towards that and I suppose my concern is what the overall effect on the site’s culture will be. Dunking on libs is fun, but if that’s all it becomes with the collateral of our trans comrades, for example, getting caught in the crossfire, I don’t know if all of this is worth it. Hexbear has been a touchstone to make sure I’m not completely insane in the midst of the most brainwormed shit in the Internet and I would hate for that to get lost somewhere along the way.
As a less-casual I’d say that got shouldn’t be too concerned. One thing that federation has made obvious is that we have far more posting power than any of the other instances. They usually have bigger problems with us influencing their culture (to the point of paranoia) than the inverse.
Nonetheless it’s a big moment in site history, and the drama is probably going to continue for a few more weeks till the dust settles. I don’t think we’ll be hearing about it indefinitely.
Also, be sure to set your feed to “local” instead of “all” most of the time, and you’ll only see our posts. I only switch over to “all” if I’m bored but I’ve already caught up on Hexbear.
One thing that federation has made obvious is that we have far more posting power than any of the other instances.
Until the reddit boycott we were the largest and most active Lemmy so the only people this comes as a shock to are those new to Lemmy in the last couple months.
I was not super active in the old subreddit, but I imagine we’re somewhere between how the subreddit was and how we were before federation.
On the old site we were completely separate led from everyone else, so except for the occasional lost liberal wandering in (who tbh probably came from stupidpol or redscarepod since most everyone else didn’t know we existed and were just glad to have us off Reddit) we were largely on our own. Now we share an online space with liberals once again, except we’re a little more separate than on Reddit since we can ban certain instances.
It’s been a disorienting couple of weeks for me as a casual user. I seem to miss a lot of what is going on, but the results of federation seem to have largely resulted in a lot of fighting with other instances before one side gives up and cuts ties. I know the intent is to bring in users who are either already on board or are otherwise open to our politics, but is the way forward to just test against any other version of Lemmy until we have burned through all of them?
I don’t know that I’m making much sense, but it just seems like a lot of turbulence and all of our collective focus has been towards that and I suppose my concern is what the overall effect on the site’s culture will be. Dunking on libs is fun, but if that’s all it becomes with the collateral of our trans comrades, for example, getting caught in the crossfire, I don’t know if all of this is worth it. Hexbear has been a touchstone to make sure I’m not completely insane in the midst of the most brainwormed shit in the Internet and I would hate for that to get lost somewhere along the way.
As a less-casual I’d say that got shouldn’t be too concerned. One thing that federation has made obvious is that we have far more posting power than any of the other instances. They usually have bigger problems with us influencing their culture (to the point of paranoia) than the inverse.
Nonetheless it’s a big moment in site history, and the drama is probably going to continue for a few more weeks till the dust settles. I don’t think we’ll be hearing about it indefinitely.
Also, be sure to set your feed to “local” instead of “all” most of the time, and you’ll only see our posts. I only switch over to “all” if I’m bored but I’ve already caught up on Hexbear.
Until the reddit boycott we were the largest and most active Lemmy so the only people this comes as a shock to are those new to Lemmy in the last couple months.
I was not super active in the old subreddit, but I imagine we’re somewhere between how the subreddit was and how we were before federation.
On the old site we were completely separate led from everyone else, so except for the occasional lost liberal wandering in (who tbh probably came from stupidpol or redscarepod since most everyone else didn’t know we existed and were just glad to have us off Reddit) we were largely on our own. Now we share an online space with liberals once again, except we’re a little more separate than on Reddit since we can ban certain instances.