/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website
The difference is that Lemmy is not centralized. So it can’t really be over-populated. If an instance is poorly modded and doesn’t have that vibe you like you can find one that does. The more people using Lemmy the more options there will be, it’s the opposite of Reddit.
I quit because contributing my labor made me complicit.
I get not wanting to grow the userbase of lemmy.world which is already kinda bloated but there is basically infinite space for new instances to be added.
And unlike last time there won’t be an easy way for mods to point users towards Lemmy.
(Copied from the thread on /c/Quark’s)
I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit’s platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.
The consensus I’ve seen on Lemmy has been largely “we don’t need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there”. So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can’t rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.
Those are great drives but I would not want one of those in the room where I sleep haha
It’s centralized and for-profit. They will have to do ads eventually or shut down.
exactly. the only kind of self expression anyone needs is going on lemmy and making smug comments.
no they need it look it up
TrueNAS is fine but the dead-simplest I’ve ever seen is CasaOS which has one-click network file sharing.
Exactly. I remember when my favorite teacher said “This is a textbook. Check it out sometime”.
Eh, just because you can’t make a horse drink water is no reason not to lead it there.
I’m surprised there’s no fedi version of Facebook but I’m also sure as the fediverse evolves we’ll see the return of personal websites but with activitypub-based social features.
Things like what?
The “source” is a tweet from a random dude, it’s almost certainly not true.
Same, I’m pretty sure it’s not true.
They’ve been extremely transparent about this:
I do that too! And fwiw haven’t had to manually configure auto-mount for other drives in a while.
What you’ve expressed is not pessimism it’s cynicism.