Linda R

“AI”-programmed code is inherently insecure. If a human spends the time to audit its security, the same human could just manually write the code in the first place. And then the whole cost saving that is being targeted by using “AI” will be lost.

Enshittification is a result of commercialisation.

The Forumverse cannot be commercialised. If an instance starts showing advertisements, its users will migrate to ones that don’t.

I don’t think this network can enshittify.

It looks like the technology behind this forum is not well-understood by you.

If you create an account on http://piefed.zip/ , you will see practically all of Fediverse, basically regardless of defederations. You have to go the settings there and specifically click some buttons to unblock a group of instances most people don’t want to see. But it can be done and you’ll get what you’re looking for.

I’ve come to the conclusion that @parallelminds@lemmy.world assumes a defedation splits the network into two islands completely isolated from each other. They don’t seem ti understand that a defederation only affects the two instances themselves, nothing else.

You don’t need an account for every defederated instance. The network is still one and whole. Defederation only hides the two instances’ activities from each other’s users, but you can use piefed.zip that doesn’t defederate from basically anything.

You will see all content defederated from lemmy.world and you will also see all content from lemmy.world.

If you use piefed.zip, you will get precisely the result you are describing you want. You will have all the Forumverse content behind one login, seamlessly.

I did not understand properly what you meant with this comment. Could you paraphrase, please?

Why do you then not move to an instance that offers that to you?

Then why are you on .world? There are plenty of instances that are widely federated.

No communities I want to see have ever disappeared. Just choose your instance wisely and all is okay.

Fecesbook does. Over there, communities are called “groups”, but it’s the same thing. I’m surprised if LickedIn doesn’t do the same.

what happens when instances defederate over ideological or other differences?

Their users get a better user experience.

Also, is there any centralized forum that is more active than the Threadiverse (Lemmy/Piefed/Pylova/Mbin)?

Fecesbook, Shitter, and LickedIn came to my mind first.

Then there are Reddit and Tumblr and a couple more.

But all of these are worse experiences than the Fediverse. And I believe that’s because the Fediverse is federated.

What are you talking about?

What fragmentation? I have had zero problems like that. Yeah, there is content that I am not directly seeing, but that is some seriously bad-quality content and if I want to fry my brain, I can always go to the home instances of the idiots and see their crud there.

The most important reason why federation is needed is that it’s the only known way to keep a forum non-commercial for good. You try adding advertisements to a Fediverse server, you get an exodus of users to other servers that show precisely the same content. If you try adding a mandatory ID check for a Fediverse server, users will migrate to servers who don’t have that.

Any non-federated social media will get facebookified/twitterified once it becomes seriously popular. You simply cannot sustainably run a forum without federation.

Well, one party wants to make trans people feel miserable. The other one wants them dead as soon as possible.

Both are under par, but one is very very bad, while the other one is unambiguously evil.

They are doing the same thing, both being right to far right parties, but there’s still an immense difference in the magnitude.

I hate our current government from the bottom of my heart… Can’t wait for the next parliamentary elections. The result might still be bad, but definitely not as bad as the current parliamentary composition.

More or less so, yes 😕

Absolutely agreed!

I wouldn’t say I hate him. He’s just a Pope and it feels illogical that a pope would not vote for the party whose main point is enabling important people to have sex with minors.

The Pope’s Catholic, after all, isn’t he? Why is he not supporting the main hobby of the Catholic clergy?

I was thinking the same. But that means he’s voting against his own staff. We know the hobbies of Catholic priests :(

I would actually say that one of the parties is less hostile to the poor and minorities than the other.