Corgana

Corgana , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Linux distro for selfhosting server

+1 for Debian, also CasaOS is like a single-command setup for docker and other features with a nice GUI.

Corgana , 3 months ago to Technology in Are We Watching The Internet Die?

You just reminded me of this piece by Danah Boyd

With MySpace, I was trying to identify the point where I thought the site was going to unravel. When I started seeing the disappearance of emotionally sticky nodes, I reached out to members of the MySpace team to share my concerns and they told me that their numbers looked fine. Active uniques were high, the amount of time people spent on the site was continuing to grow, and new accounts were being created at a rate faster than accounts were being closed. I shook my head; I didn’t think that was enough. A few months later, the site started to unravel.

Corgana , 3 months ago to Technology in Are We Watching The Internet Die?

Corporate social media may be dying, but that's only one small part of the Internet.

Corgana , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Free and Open Source Software in My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog

I’ve recently started wondering how many people are here because they’re too toxic for regular social media rather than because they want to be here.

Dude yes, I've been thinking the same thing. I worry that users curious to leave reddit are going to go to a big instance, see concentrated worst-parts-of-reddit, and decide it's not for them.

In theory, decentralization enables freedom from the average user being forced to put up with toxicity. But we don't really have that (yet) until the ratio of jerk to non-jerk improves.

Corgana , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog

Yes, very well said. I think this form of checking out is what's happening to Reddit and why moderation there is increasingly just doing the bare minimum of spam removal and letting toxic users run roughshod. Why put effort in if it's just going to cause strife?

Corgana , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog

I've heard Kbin has been having major issues lately, the single dev is not the most active. There is a fork called mbin which seems promising.

They are different from Lemmy, though, and not for everyone. But variety is good.

Corgana , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog

On the topic of non-anonymous reports: I’ve definitely already found myself hesitating or declining to make reports I feel should be made purely because they’re not anonymous. Sometimes because the people I want to report are admins.

My instance had a similar situation where a user on a large instance (not beehaw) was reported, and the reports only encouraged the person, who posted the reports publicly and called upon others to join. The admins were slow to deliberate, ultimately took no action, and although I think they mean well, do not strike me as up to the task of running a large social media platform.

Requiring individual users to block the largest instances (and their communities) in order to peacefully use a platform is just Reddit with extra steps. Without decentralization we just have, as the author put it, Reddit 2.0.

Corgana , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog

Many users on Lemmy seem actively hostile to the idea of decentralization in a way that feels self defeating. They don’t want a better alternative to Reddit, they just want Reddit 2.0 and attempts to sway them towards something better feels like pulling teeth.

Yes! I don't think it bodes well for general adoption when so much of the Lemmyverse is hosted on two essentially "Reddit 2.0" (by that I mean loosely moderated) instances. Assuming half the population of the Lemmyverse are people banned from Reddit for poor socialization, it means new users considering switching are most likely to first encounter a pure concentrated form of the worst aspects of Reddit userbase.

Beehaw is the only "general" instance I know of who's mods and admins seem to be actually up to the task of keeping their communities from becoming wholly exhausting and it's because they didn't allow themselves to balloon up beyond their ability to self-moderate.

Corgana , 4 months ago to Technology in Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media

It's astonishing! I get why dril or some celebrity would go with BlueSky, but journalists seem to be trying to make it a thing too! It's like did you learn nothing?

Corgana , 4 months ago to Technology in Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media

Go on...

Corgana , 4 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time

I’d pay for independent, non meta, ad-free search.

You might, but not enough people would to make it sustainable. Neeva was really well loved but couldn't make the math work.

Corgana , 4 months ago to Technology in ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything

Enshitification was coined by Cory Doctrow specifically for the tech space

You're not wrong it was coined this way, but he has referred to the process in other arenas where monopolies exist:

But it’s not just tech that faces the curse of bigness: your bank, your insurer, your beer company, the companies that make your eyeglasses and your athletic shoes — they’ve all run out of lands to conquer, but instead of weeping, they’re taking it out on you, with worse products that cost more.

Enshittification follows monopoly as sure as night follows day.

Corgana , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything

Annoying for sure, but "Enshittification" refers to a specific method in which platforms flex monopoly power to squeeze not just users, but business customers too. It does not just mean "things getting shittier"

And before anyone goes "language loses meaning over time" consider that if you change the meaning of "enshittification" then you need to also invent a new word to mean what "enshittification" used to mean.

Corgana , 4 months ago to Technology in Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch

Decentralised

[citation needed]

Corgana , 4 months ago to Technology in Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch

Lol you're not wrong...