did we just get our first comment from the non-lemmy fediverse (mastodon, in this case)?
Screenshot it as monyet.cc milestone
Ayyyyy! And also that was the person whom I got the article from! Wheeee
Seems like the chain of events was:
- sohkamyung shared article on mastodon
- You saw the article on mastodon and shared over here
- Weecious commented here
- Weecious’s reply appears on my mastodon since I’m subscribed to the channel over there
- I boosted her reply on mastodon
- sohkamyung saw it and responded on mastodon
That’s the magic of the fediverse hahaha
Woah, and I'm in the comment! Look ma, I'm famous!
Edit: Trying to reply to @sohkamyung@mstdn.io but I can't.
Mandarin pre-election megathread is up. Do spread the news to your mandarin speaking friends.
Wao nice one guys! Hmmm I think we need to start a moderators discord to coordinate or something lol, lots of things in the air at once.
@acausa, would you be able to add a one-liner cross promotion to lizzie's Chinese-language megathread, at the top of your state election sticky on r/my? Basically something like this
I think there's a very good chance this will draw new users here, because Chinese-language users don't have any reddit-like place to talk elections. (Whereas the english version here is more for our existing users, as it doubles up on the r/my version)
Want uhuk
kalau ade jodoh =w=
Someone asked me if I'm a student. I said yes, and they replied all the best to you. Seems like they're trying to pitch something. Phew. That's a narrow escape.
And heh, I can still use the I'm a student card.
Morning.... I had oatmeal. At least choco flavour.
feels so bad that my first thought about Hadi when he was hospitalised is if he passed away pas supporters will be going out in droves in the state elections to honour his passing.
Both also doesn't have a good outcome. If he died, he's a martyr, people will come in drove to vote for PAS. If he survive, he's god chosen/miracle, people will come in drove to vote for PAS.
Seriously annoying religious stupid, or in short, SARS.
Morning monyets
Morning
has anyone come across lemmit.online? it runs a bot that can cross-post from subreddits (though it only does that for posts, and not comments).
That's an interesting way to bootstrap lemmy
Randomly, an American moot just inherited a rattan chair, anyone can help with caretaking tips? https://mefi.social/@flisswave/110653689147073032
Can someone who has grasped the situation of today Meta joining Fediverse via Threads explain me if it's a bad thing or a good thing?
Some say it's bad because Meta can easily access data of all us here on Lemmy/Mastodan/Kbin and our content can appear in their instance which they can monetize it for free.
Some say it's good because it draws more people to Fediverse and thereby more activity on our instances.
if you have the patience: https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/
this is genuinely a good summary of the implications of Threads, but if you have any questions I can have a crack at it.
On the privacy thing, you have to remember, it's not apple-to-apple comparison, it's an apple-to-oranges. what your server needs to have from you in order the service you, is not at all the same as what meta does do as a rule, even as you leave the platforms. AP is quite leaky though, no doubt (i've raised this separately on kbin.social), but it's not the same issue, and is being worked on, because federation means someone is working on a solution somewhere.
but basically the contention is mainly on 3.5 areas:
- privacy and surveillance - as above
- market domination of open source standards - ask anyone running their own mailserver these days what's their rate of success sending anything to gmail or Office365 addresses (a lot of my work involve african IP addresses and institutions and they really kena)
- the protection of minority groups, both from infra pov as well as modding pov - meta famously do not give a shit; many ppl in fedi are from minority identities (2017-18 wave for example got onto mastodon because it was available as trolls attacking queer ppl got worse on twitter). infra pov is related to the privacy question; but smaller instances at least can jaga their members better and boot out haters and defederate from instances who won't control their members. this is the modding pov that is a critical difference from meta, which brings us to point 3.5
- capacity - small instances like this for example, got admin and mods who need to sleep. if trolls coming from diff timezones, how? belum lagi touch on traffic capacity issue.
sekian timakacih
The only thing I can say is people on mastodon has been squabbling over this particular topic for a long while
