Lemmy devs are Marxist Leninist (State Socialist). And Marx did write a out a transition phase. Only idealists think you can “press the communism” button without removing the class contradictions that gave rise to a state in the first place.

Piefed has a social credit system

Marx specifically referenced a state in lower-stage communism, which got clarified by later theorists as the socialist stage as transitional between capitalism and communism.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

I don’t disagree, but I think the heavy-handed moderation was often in service of “cleaning up” to make the website more commercially palatable. Like when they pulled r/atheism as a front-page reddit.

For me, the out of control engagement bots constantly commenting on my comments was the last straw that made me leave.

@alys @glyph This is why I my focus would be not on "why did the Democrats not show up for this vote today?" but on "are the Democrats going to introduce and pass their own version of this impeachment? when" or "What is BAAJA? Why does it appear to be quickly passing into law with Democratic votes? Assuming it is even good, if the Democrats waited 2 months to introduce it could they get a better compromise?"

https://bsky.app/profile/tee-dee-oh.bsky.social/post/3mzy3khr6e225

Reddit admins repeatedly asked mods how to make like for them better. And then repeatedly ignored almost every single answer they got, rolling out features nobody wanted and taking away things people used. It was the years and years and years of putting in hours and hours of time working against the enshittification that made me tired, and then it was the stupid fucking over-reaching AI moderation that caused me to leave after my accounts started being banned for no good reason with appeals failing.

It took far too long for them to drive me away, as I know it did for a lot of others.

join.piefed.social/…/what-piefed-blocks-out-of-th…

During the initial setup process there is a series of messages printed on the screen: “Added banned instance xyz, added banned instance abc, etc” followed by “Manage banned instances at /admin/federation.” The list of initially defederated (banned) instances is:

‘anonib.al’, ‘lemmygrad.ml’, ‘gab.com’, ‘rqd2.net’, ‘exploding-heads.com’,
‘hexbear.net’, ‘hilariouschaos.com’,
‘threads.com’, ‘noauthority.social’, ‘pieville.net’, ‘links.hackliberty.org’,
‘poa.st’, ‘freespeechextremist.com’, ‘bae.st’, ‘nicecrew.digital’,
‘detroitriotcity.com’, ‘gregtech.eu’,
‘pawoo.net’, ‘shitposter.club’, ‘spinster.xyz’, ‘catgirl.life’, ‘gameliberty.club’,
‘yggdrasil.social’, ‘beefyboys.win’, ‘brighteon.social’, ‘cum.salon’, ‘wizard.casa’,
‘maga.place’, ‘lemmychan.org’

View related source code. As the message suggests, admins can go to the Federation part of the Admin area to change which instances you federate with at any time.

I mean technically not hard coded, but when it’s the default it becomes the standard. Of course the biggest issue is it’s only viable to admins not the users so

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@ai6yr @LabSpokane @cvvhrn I'm guessing a substance that's pretty much artificial urine is not ideal for the high pressure fuel injection system in a modern diesel engine.

Piefed dev for involved in a disagreement about something, made a post explaining how correct they were, and deleted responses from the b other parties involved.

I don’t remember the details but it’s not constructive to a healthy community.

Rimu made a platform to be as hostile as possible those who don’t fit his image and bans anyone who questions it. But since he’s not the Lemmy devs people here fawn over him as he is worse than anything the lemmy devs have done.

It's game time 🕹️ in the latest installment of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals!

Gamepad improvements, AudioContext.setSinkId(), removal of the old compositor, tooling to analyze graphics composition... Read it all at
https://blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/2026/wip-85/

@alys @glyph In theory, the Republicans could hold the vote open as long as they wanted, so no matter how many Democrats drag themselves into the chamber to vote, the Republicans could always hold the vote open to drag in one more Republican. Democrats entering the room is useless, all that passes this is Republican defectors. Which is hard for Democrats to stage manage, and Massie is a gadfly and won't be finding defectors himself. The vote was surely doomed, and Dems could only bring theatre

Remember, remember the 10th of November
I'm not entirely sure why
I'm sure something interesting happened that day
But you're asking the wrong guy

@TheVinylApe One of my all time faves (and I bought two copies of that promo CD when Amoeba opened in Hollywood :-). Should be a new album from them next year—new stuff sounded good when they played in LA back in Sept.

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

@oheso @photoncollector @ai6yr remind me not to accidentally start any threads on here about any actual phobias I may or may not have. 🤪

I bet he did, yeah

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/10/nvidia-jensen-huang-affair-office.html

Reminder that I made a multi-column Mastodon Userstyle. Multi-column lets you browse through a lot of content quickly and pleasantly.

https://userstyles.world/style/828/multi-column-mastodon-streams