A NetBSD flag is kind of funny when you notice the NetBSD logo is also a flag.

meow

NetBSDブース #KOF2026

@quincy CCC++++++?

I’m splitting this into two parts. First identifying the issue. And second my personal idea for a solution. I’m hoping for a lot of discussion so please be clear which part you are responding to.

Part 1: The problem

Reddit as a platform has many flaws. Obviously being a corporation means they’re terrible no matter what. But their platform is also flawed. Even if Reddit was 100% community owned the platform would still be flawed. The number one thing that is ruining Reddit are the tyrannical mods.

Each community on Reddit is a dictatorship. Whoever is arbitrarily in charge of a community has full unrestricted power to do whatever they want. The people who are actually creating the content and sharing it are totally at their whim. I understand that modding is a difficult and thankless job, but toxic mods ruined Reddit and Lemmy will do the same if it’s not addressed.

Lemmy’s answer is to allow people to create their own instances. Don’t like the mods at World? Go make your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers. But that’s not sufficient. It takes years to build up a community to have enough people for meaningful discussion to happen, and nearly all communities or instances fail. We absolutely need a way for mods to answer to the users.

Part 2: My solution

My solution is simple. Lemmy is built on the community. Everyone helps run it. Therefore mods are elected by the users who generate the highest upvoted content in a community.

Elections should happen on a schedule and, if a community is particularly upset with a mod, a vote of no confidence can be taken.

I understand that this will be a huge undertaking. But I truly believe that we need to fix this issue for Lemmy to thrive long term. Or else we’ll just end up with another Reddit.

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from cyberterrorism

whiskey

@mastodonmigration

Mushroom clouds, always a sure sign of success...

If you were wondering what the collapse of an empire looks like from the inside, just look at the past few days. Empires don't collapse overnight, they collapse gradually, with systems steadily degrading and failing over decades. It's not a spectacular, singular event, it's watching shit that worked fine in the past just stop working and never getting fixed.

What is your definition of long running? At least 20 Episodes? At least 50? At least 100??

In this episode Captain Picard tries to convince the colonists on Rigel VII to leave when their sun is about to explode nevertheless ends up stuck in the mirror universe

@nateb Only the polite ones. Anubis's defaults deny agents that announce themselves (ChatGPT-User, Operator) and give any UA containing Mozilla a quick proof-of-work. A plain-UA script usually walks right past, and on 4.x it can skip the form with POST /api/v1/accounts. The real gate is Administration > Server settings > Registrations: Approval required for sign up plus Require a reason to join. The one you post from has both on.

@lain@lain.com It's a trick -- the "WHO" is already in the question .

this fucking bot has been downloading from a bunch of IPs until the server falls over then coming back in 2 hours, i'm about to try more blocks but the server has to catch up on its i/o queue a bit before i can even do that

Object #10 Juno II does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

I want to nibble frieren's ears