Alright, I thought you might know. But thank you for explaining what a listing is.

And… why would you need to post a link to a listing there to win? Why would that qualify you?

Volatility, traceability and high TX fees come to mind. Also, who accepts Bitcoin?

Unrelated question, how does Piefed differ from Lemmy? Is it designed to exist alongside Lemmy, or is it a better alternative somehow?

Is this happening on Lemmy? I haven’t seen it

Good for some use cases. Only if the Signal Foundation stays in the current track and it doesn’t go south like with Mozilla.

For a privacy chat group with random people, maybe another app would be a bit better.

Unlikely

The Fediverse is like a rainforest. It’s a lush, vibrant, and chaotic ecosystem with thousands of different food chains and micro-ecosystems within it. There are large fires and die offs sometimes, but new things grow out of them, and every part of the system is interconnected with other parts. Proprietary social media platforms like FB, Insta, Xitter, etc. Are like a curated garden, where a small team of gardeners wall off a section of land, pick what kinds of plants are allowed to grow, and kill off anything else that they don’t want in there.

I really, really like this analogy. I spend my time in the online jungle!

How to prevent those people from joining? I don’t think you can.

On the other hand, Reddit communities never got that terrible, right? Not all of them at least - it’s more that the platform turned to shit. Lemmy prevents that from happening. The concept of communities moderating themselves seems to work pretty well.

I don’t think it’s impossible. We should be wary, enshittification might find new ways to ruin even the fediverse. I don’t know how, and I’m not pessimistic. But we should not assume we’re safe from the phenomenon.

What really helps is that fediverse users are quite aware of the ideology behind federated social networks. I think, indeed, they won’t all stay on a server that is federated with Threads if it threatens the fedi network.

It’s part of the reason you don’t see the lemmy.world instance in the lemmy server browser.

On join-lemmy.org you mean? I didn’t know that, but that’s great to see. Lemmy.world has become pretty big.

I very much agree. But what if a very important Lemmy community is on a server that decides to allow sponsored content or something similar, it’ll be hard for the community to move. Maybe Lemmy should implement tools for moving communities when it’s necessary.

Even if, for instance, Threads was widely allowed to federate with Mastodon servers?

What in the world is a Monero listing?

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Good correction, thanks

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Right, then Signal might not be the best option. The NSA can easily track who’s using Signal, and possibly do some traffic correlation to reveal who’s talking to who.

But to state that there is no privacy on Signal at all is a bit of a stretch.

Depends, who do you want to shield what information from? Signal knows all of their users’ phone numbers. You can hide it from other Signal users. All depends on your threat model.