What’s the over/under on informed race fans vs casual murican racism?

Also, fuck MBS.

I missed that one would you mind linking it please?

Excellent post thanks for this

Thanks I hate it.

Welcome!

You may already have it handled but just in case here’s a post with some resources to help you find communities and migrate from reddit. I hope you find Lemmy more to your liking!

That sounds like a much better implementation of community discovery.

And that’s fine for you, I’m not knocking the experimenting and learning process. That was the whole reason I spun up an instance myself.

What I’m saying is that to the other users that would be impacted by these things, it sucks. People are patient to a point but the fediverse has a lot of odd quirks that make it more difficult than it should be to use for a lot of people. Things have gotten better in the last year or so but it still feels like we’re asking people to know more than they should have to just to figure out that Lemmy isn’t empty. Many people will get frustrated and leave long before they start making excuses for a site they don’t know anything about.

It’s easy to sit around proclaiming that reddit sucks but the fact of the matter is that it’s easy to use and everything they have to offer is covered under one domain. Again, I don’t have the solution to these things for Lemmy, but we can’t deny that this platform is harder to use than most and a lot of people aren’t going to handle that well.

Maybe.

But I’d counter that it’s prohibitive to growth. People aren’t used to turning up at a domain name only to find out 90% of the content can’t be accessed without jumping through a bunch of hoops.

you can always defederate if an instance starts abusing it

Sure, but potentially after at least one of the instances subscribed to the bot goes down and someone realizes what’s happening. It’s incredibly easy to overwhelm a small server’s database just by subscribing to a lot of communities the normal way. The difference here is potentially any instance federating the bot in both directions is susceptible to this.

Not that much different to the normal flow, really.

The impact across the fediverse vs just one instance would be the main difference. Plenty of people are using that bot having no real idea of what it’s doing.

But this is only true if the user looks at the All feed

It impacts what content is available to users at all. The All feed is just the visual representation of what’s actively federating.

Let’s say you join a new instance for whatever reason with no outside awareness of how the fediverse works. If you try to search the instance for “sportball” and get zero results the natural assumption is going to be that there are no communities and no interest in that topic. The user has no idea that lemmyserver5000.com has a sportball community with thousands of users because no one with those interests ever did the work to get the content flowing in a way that they could access it intuitively. It’s a poor design IMO.

The reason I brought it up has more to do with starting a new instance or using a smaller instance. Communities that the instance isn’t aware of (via someone previously subscribing) won’t show up at all which causes places to appear non-existent or dead by default. Someone trying a federating website for the first time isn’t going to know this, so to them, that’s all the fediverse has to offer.

Note that many instances either have a bot subscribed to other communities to force federation, or use something like https://lemmy-federate.com/

FWIW this approach can be helpful but is flawed in its own ways.

Firstly, since not all instances participate you still aren’t getting the “complete” fediverse so to speak. This becomes less of an issue as more instances join the bot program, but it’s another step that roadblocks what should be an easy and organic process.

Secondly, the bot can pose a potential security risk depending on how it’s configured. If you use it to federate in both directions you’re subject to malicious actors spinning up tons of new communities on instances that don’t restrict user registration. This will in turn hammer the database an instance uses for EVERYTHING and eventually causes slow downs, crashes, etc. The solution to this is to only seed your communities outwardly but if everyone only does that the bot is rather useless…

I don’t have a solution for any of this, I’m just pointing out some rather frustrating problems this platform has in its current state.

Does that mean that an “all” view is "onl"y all of the subscriptions/places people from my server have?

Correct.

The easiest way to explain it is that the instances have no native ability to crawl other instances for communities or content. For all intents and purposes, a fresh Lemmy server is on an island and all other instances are their own island until someone builds a bridge to them.

The ability of an instance to receive content is dependent on the subscriptions users add to the database. Once the instance is aware of these other places it will begin checking them for updates and you’ll see them regularly whether you interact with them or not.

This goes completely against what the average person is expecting and causes a lot of confusion.

That’s a joke? Shit I thought they circled the right answer.

Appreciate that circle

Someone has to keep the windows clean.

Crazy that we just came from a season that saw no changes over the winter, then a flurry of crazy situations through the season leads to all but 2 teams changing their lineup this winter.

… but not towards its success!

To a certain degree I think when he backed Lewis into Max in 2021 he had a bit of leverage over them and that never transitioned into consistent individual performances.

Not shit stirring the 2021 championship drama, only citing what I feel was a big event in Checo’s career path.

It’s not exactly smiled on when drivers or teams intentionally manipulate a race. Just for comparison people hate on KMag for defending and stalling cars behind him when his teammate is fighting for a single point. Checo did something that played a major role in a controversial championship decider.

Checo was used as a pawn (willingly or not I can’t say) in Red Bull’s quest to deliver Max a WDC. I think a lot of his time at Red Bull was an attempted payback for that with hopes that he would perform more consistently with time. I don’t think other drivers would’ve been given so many opportunities for so long with such an obvious gap to the other car. If we think back to Valtteri’s time at Mercedes the performance gap was never so severe as he consistently qualified well but then floundered in the race or was the victim of the “second car” strategy. There were A LOT of Mercedes 1-2 finishes, and we never saw that consistently with Red Bull and Checo. Under any other circumstances I think he loses this drive much earlier than he did.

FWIW none of this is meant to hate on Checo. I’ve enjoyed watching his career until the recent slump and finger pointing when his driving hasn’t been where it needed to be. I hope he’s able to find success wherever he lands in the future.

Anyone who thinks they stand a chance against drones with a gun hasn’t been paying attention to what’s happening in Ukraine.

Gonna pew pew a CEO in the back? Sure, guns work for that.

Trying to save your own life against a fast and agile target that needs way less precision than you to be effective and probably never even presents a target? Nah mate, you’re fucked.