The downvotes are all coming from accounts on other instances, which as @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website suggested, makes us think it’s most likely people browsing “All” and not appreciating seeing twenty discussion posts (not that that justifies it).

True, but if Meta (or anyone) wanted to “directly” get that data, it would be as trivial as setting up an instance on something as small as a Raspberry Pi and subscribing to a community here. We would have no way of knowing who it is or stopping them. Defederation is a tool to prevent brigading, not lurking.

If (if) Meta wanted to set a lemmy-style platform, preemptively defederating from it would be a largely symbolic gesture. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing, like I said we’ll cross that bridge if and when it becomes relevant.

The “user data” (comments, posts, votes, etc) that would be available to a hypothetical instance owned my Meta is already public for anyone, so not much we have control over there. “Defederating” essentially just means “blanket banning” a bunch of users at once.

We’re aware of the pact and will cross that bridge when (or if) it ever really happens. We’re certainly no fans of Meta (or Reddit,or Twitter). So far it seems more likely to affect Mastodon than Lemmy/Kbin.

The Daystrom people are cream of the crop. They also seem very dedicated to the idea of migrating their community out of reach from spez. I think we’ve all been surprised by the enthusiasm, especially considering how Lemmy is still very much beta software (but quickly evolving).

Very cool, thanks for sharing this!

Our pictrs service seems stuck in a restart loop.

There was a bug in the latest Lemmy update regarding images, we’re aware of it and it will be fixed soon. If you had previously visited before the update, your images are likely cached in the browser, so you’ll still see them.

Something went wrong in the latest update, it’ll be fixed soon. It’s probably working in Chrome because the images are cached from before.

We’re aware thanks, something went wrong in the latest update, it’ll be fixed soon.

It’s in the list of things to add for sure. But if you’re good at theming you can actually make a theme just for yourself.

That warms my cold android heart to hear. We set this place exactly for people like you who wanted a good jumping off point. Welcome!

Yes it’s on my list. Still finding out footing over here!

I agree with the sea change. The reason we started an instance as opposed to just joining another is that we wanted to help that change along by providing a familiar community to a group of people statistically more likely to be both nerdy and optimistic about the future.