tag-following / tag-muting?

There is no way to know without access to the admin dashboard. You can get an idea of how active an instance is by checking the federated timeline stream, though.

If you are the admin of the instance, you can it set up.

If you don’t have that problem, it is either because your instance is well connected and/or using some relay.

FWIW, all server-based software works like that. Lemmy, Pixelfed, Pleroma…

What we need is more clients implementing the C2S spec, but I will refrain from getting into another tirade about this.

I just pointed out “the old times” to respond to your idea that “it has always been this way”.

It’s funny how young people think that the world has been invented the moment they were born. Everything that came before that can be simply erased.

that it skews too much to the right.

Ok. According to you, extremism and othering is okay when done by a leftist.

Thank you very much for showing your true colors. You can go now…

Yeah, it would take one person on the bigger instances to do it. We can promote them in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and things should get bootstrapped.

Voting has always been about whether you agree or not with an opinion

No, that is absolutely false. Before Reddit’s Eternal September, voting was used as a way to signal quality content and it pretty much was followed by a good majority of the people.

Right-wing as in neo-nazi? I would not join a community in that server.

And this is precisely what people are talking about here. You might not see that way, but tankies are extremists. There are people that don’t want to join any conversation there, and therefore this is why they want alternatives.

Think of what?

It makes they think "what is so bad about this comment that it really warrants the downvote.

Does not voting against your post not count as compliance?

I didn’t ask you to remove the downvote. I asked you only to explain your reasoning, which is now quite clearly faulty.

It should: https://sh.itjust.works/c/jellyfin@poweruser.forum

Or do we expect people to hear about it by another mean?

Yes. Fediverser will help newcomers. Posting content in the “new communities” will help those already here. Everyone browses by all anyway, so the best way to promote new communities is by putting content there.

Do you think I can just keep the last comment in mind or something?

YES! It’s not like votes are worth anything here, but one of the reasons that voting mechanisms become completely useless as a way to signal quality conversations is when people blindly upvote/downvote everything just because they don’t like what is being said. People that do what you are doing end up showing more about themselves than about the one posting the comment that you didn’t like.

As does the drive to try and split communities

Would you feel so defensive about it if the communities were being hosted in a right-wing instance?

Why would tagging people who downvoted a post prevent a pile-on of downvotes?

Because it makes people think about what about the comment they are downvoting, instead of reflexively clicking on a button.

vote->get called-out seems to fit ‘blackmail’

It does not fit at all. I’m not trying to get anything out of you for my own benefit, and I am not doing it to submit you into compliance.

For that, I really have no answer other than “help with fediverser, stick with one community, and post as much as possible in the promoted communities”.

Don’t worry about it for now. I will do it until someone steps up for it. Also, don’t forget that I am actually working on tooling to make this job easier, so having any type of growing community would be an excellent way to find out the real pain point for moderators and work on the solutions.

I just created !jellyfin@poweruser.forum

Nothing in this discussion is against Lemmy developers, and no one is trying to silence their voices. It’s just about creating/finding alternatives for those that are not interested in interacting with that instance.

Also, me calling you out is not “blackmailing”, just me ensuring that downvotes like yours don’t become a pile-on.

I can easily create a community for jellyfin on https://selfhosted.forum, but I’d be more inclined to do it on https://poweruser.forum.

@freeman@sh.itjust.works and @Majestic@lemmy.ml, what is so offensive about Blaze’s question that warrants downvotes?

Fediverser works as an auxiliary service. Any admin can install it and set it up to run alongside the Lemmy backend.

Personally, I don’t like the idea of having instances that are home to users and communities at the same time. It is the source of endless issues around identity. I think that a lot of the centralization around LW would be avoided if people could create communities outside of their own “home” instance, and I don’t think that “just create an account on multiple instances” is an acceptable workaround.

Soon ™ . It is coming to Fediverser.

Theoretically, any admin would still have access to the server and make changes to things.

Practically, no. Anyone providing this service would be a hosting provider. If something bad happens at the community, they would only be able to claim it’s not their responsibility if they are able to point to the actual moderator who is liable.