• gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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    yall, this dude tried signing up to my instance a few nights ago. yall wanna see why many communities have registration approvals? see below. warning for nsfw language

    NSFW language

    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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      Still laughing at the vast amount of people coming from reddit and expecting only chill people to be on lemmy. Like lemmy users are somehow immune to toxicity.

      It’s less toxic overall but we (or mostly the moderators) will have to fight them all the time.

      At least it will improve the moderation tools which is always a good thing.

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        When I realized it was that dude who tried signing up to my instance I lost my shit laughing, if he was screened prior it’s obvious he wouldn’t have gotten in. This is precisely what happens when you focus on growth over organically cultivating a healthy community.

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          I have no proof but I think lemmy.world will be monetized at some point.

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            If that is true in any way whatsoever, that is a completely moronic long term goal. Lemmy devs themselves have encouraged instances who do such a thing to defederate. I don’t see how realistically advertising or monetization would be done not only without immense privacy concerns that would likely affect the rest of the fediverse but without major protests and mass defederation. The backlash against it would be immense, not just on lemmy but across the fediverse itself.

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              Someone is going to at some point. Whoever it is might do it behind-the-scenes if they are risk-averse.

              Think of what the granular user data is worth on an instance that big.

              Want to buy user data? If reddit tells you no that’s that, but in the fediverse you can go and ask the next largest instance if the first one says no. The game theory is a little more complex here in the fediverse.

              When it does happen, I hope the backlash will be appropriately large. I don’t think any of the key stakeholders here want to see a normalization of lemmy being monetized in this way - through donations sure, but not by selling the users’ attention and privacy to 3rd parties.

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                  Those who talk about it do. I’m sure many already scrape without going around telling the world about it.

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        Lemmy is like every social medium since the dawn of time: a cross-section of humanity… the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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          yeah he caused huge arguments in the biggest instance, the guy is talented.

          Too bad that “talent” is being a huge asshole and getting the biggest reactions possible, instead of something useful.

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      That is legitimately one of the most disgusting things I’ve read, what is wrong with this person, why would he write that as an application.

      • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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        It came after I was arguing with weirdo antisemites in c/atheistmemes so I assume it was because of that but I have no idea and don’t really care to know that much

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          At least he was stopped at the registration level, it likely wouldn’t have been pretty if he was allowed to run wild there like he did on other places.