Na, there really have been issues lately where the sheer mass of data accumulated is adding up to some pretty massive bills for the data giants like Google. I think they just realised that a lot of dead accounts are giving them no value whatsoever, and so many of them have piled up that deleting them probably saves them a nice pile of money in infrastructure costs.

Same, but tbh if you haven’t touched one of your accounts in >2 years then you’re probably fine to just make a new account next time you need it.

IIRC when I first heard about this, it was clarified by Google that any accounts with YouTube videos on them will not be deleted. Can’t risk deleting abandoned channels that are still bringing in views.

I feel attacked.

We artificially inseminate cows when they are in heat. This argument of heat == consent is nonsense to pad out the argument and make it sound more grey than it is.

They’re animals. Artificial insemination is no more or less rape than any other means of reproduction. Bulls don’t exactly get consent, or give a shit if the cow is actively resisting for that matter. This is an instance where nature is more fucked up than what happens on farms, not less.

I’ve gotten in so many heated debate on that one, as someone who grew up on a dairy farm. People see the gross factory farms in the US and get incredibly offended at me “lying” by claiming that plenty of farms are not like that, and it just comes down to ethical sourcing.

This seems to be a big issue with the general fediverse community attitude to me. It reminds me a lot of the Linux community 10+ years ago, constantly downplaying some pretty huge technical hurdles that new people need to climb, and then wondering why it struggle so much to gain traction.

Obvious troll is obvious.

I vote no, but I highly suspect I’m in the minority. I think defederating now just fast forwards us to the end of the enshitification process people are concerned about. Feels like we’re shooting ourselves in the foot out of a fear that we might get shot.

r/196 became all lgbt stuff, so it followed over. IIRC the mods were really trigger happy with removing stuff that didn’t align super close with them politically.

r/197 formed as a direct response to this, and while at first they had issues with too much bounce back to the right with some gross anti-trans memes, once the dust settled and new mods were added, it became the best sub for just mindless shitposting without worrying about fitting a political theme.

It’s something reddit was actually good at. Tons of people used to find reddit way too confusing because they didn’t understand subreddits, so reddit responded by making a list of default subs for the “don’t know don’t care” crowd that makes up 90% of users in practice.

Sure, it opened a different can of worms in that it tanked the quality of those subs when most users didn’t really get the pount of subs, but it massively lowered the barrier to entry on the platform.

We have a much higher barrier to entry with instances, and I really think something should be put in place to lower it.

I’m finding it way better to go to specific communities right now instead of scrolling all. The “isn’t Lemmy awesome” posts are to be expected until the honeymoon period ends. It’ll be at least a month until it clears up.

My best idea for addressing this is a nice clean hub site at a friendly and official sounding url, with a list of as many instances as possible that have open registration, are marked as for general use rather than as specific niche, and don’t have any ongoing defederation drama that’d affect users. Then users can sign up there and be randomly assigned an instance without needing to worry about it.

I think it’ll be a balance. Less 90s internet and more ~2010 internet. Mainstream platforms will stay big, popular and centralised, but the internet has billions of users now. There can be massive thriving networks of people doing their own thing on platforms like Lemmy at the same time as millions of people flock to Twitter or Facebook or whatever.

Imo reddit and twitter had both become too big and bloated, leading to a lit of the toxicity/recycled content. I think there’s plenty of room for more platforms to arise and become successful, while the old ones stay “mainstream”

Basically reddit and Twitter will become the new Facebook over the next 5-10 years.

I have another issue that I thought was defederation, am I missing something about how the fediverse works too?

On my lemmy.world acoount I made a post https://programming.dev/post/366871. Looking at it on my lemmy.world account, it has 15 points and 10 comments. Looking at it from programming.dev, it has 12 points and only 3 comments. I was thinking this meant there was some defederation I didn’t know about, which is why I came to check the meta community out. I take it that isn’t the case though?

I know over on lemmy.world people have been having issues since the latest lemmy upgrade that have been fixed with a cache clear. Maybe this was a related issue.