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Where might one find one of these “polite societies”?
So many comments in here hating on the “like email” wording. To be honest, it’s been awhile since I’ve even seen any large number of comments using that analogy, but also, the “like email” part was pretty much always paired with additional explanation on which parts are like that and which parts differ from that. Like most analogies, it’s not a perfect 100% 1-to-1 pairing of all features and function, otherwise, it wouldn’t be an analogy. I’m not sure why so many people struggle with understanding that.
No, it’s not like email. It’s like Glibbleschmorken except there’s not mandatory prereconcillation of sychroncratic communication.
That’s inaccurate, my dude, it’s nothing like Glibbleschmorken, it’s more like WUD where there’s a multiplier for the scoring quotient and no centralized conglomeration.
False. WUD SUX. There’s only no centralized conglomeration if you ignore the fact that every hovel has API underpinning that strategizes the discombobulation. But, that’s basically ignoring the facts. Federation is clearly just like UDP.
And so on. Ad nauseam.
The “it’s like email” analogy was always doomed, because the people saying it know how email works at a technical and architectural level, while the people hearing it know email as “that thing that Just Works ™️ to send messages to anyone else with an email address”.
At that level, the Fediverse and Email are nothing alike.
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BBSes did have a weirdly prominent Star Trek thing going on in the late 80s/early 90s. I never thought about it enough to see how weird it was other than figuring it was mostly nerds being nerds (in a good way).
I have zero problems with Trekkies. If anything, they’re a welcome community, the sci-fi is hopeful and idealistic, it’s positive science fiction.
Stop trying to sell me on it; I’m already here!
Yes. The fediverse is so great I’ve stopped telling people about it.
We fedis know how to keep a secret.Too much growth will kill the vibe in this place.
First rule of Fediverse…
Greetings!
Hello
Crosspost comment consolidation helps with that issue.
Already available on Piefed, planned on Lemmy 1.0.
How does this interact with moderation? I never considered that viable because how wildly… Shall we say diverse .ml, .world, and the rest of the fediverses’ moderation schemes are.
Each community’s comments are separated although still on the same page. Here is a good example - https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1765981/google-sent-personal-and-financial-information-of-student-journalist-to-ice
Oh, that’s neat.
Thanks for the example :)
I must be missing something because I only see two main comments on that post and the sub comments.
I’m on voyager app tho so that’s likely a limiting feature even tho it’s supposed to be working on that comparability.
Can you show me a screenshot of what you meant to show?
You could just pop it open in your browser… don’t even need an account.
Hypothetically yes, but I only ever accessed fediverse through non-apps briefly before I swapped to the app. I was part of the Reddit app-based exodus. That was the whole reason I came here; to support app devs.
If it’s not reflected in apps, lots of people will never see it. That’s all. I can go out of my way to see it but I don’t see it in my normal interface. Voyager is still working on full piefed support
That’s cool! I just wish the header was more subtle, but that’s only a css thing
planned on Lemmy 1.0.
Closed as not planned: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3415
That’s… sad to see.
I’ll probably make a post about this when I have some time. Community fragmentation is still quite a large issue across the Threadiverse, it was supposed to be solved by this.
Oh, I can exist in polite society just fine.
It’s just that I don’t want to.
“Polite society” ain’t.
When comparing the fediverse to email we’re talking about the technology. It’s a simplification to explain how it all connects together using a very similar and known example.
That place looks pretty cool for sure!
I assure you, the alternative to the fediverse is not polite society, not in my experience. Unlike other platforms one is allowed to be wrong here and getting corrected doesn’t trigger the fight, flight, freeze or fawn response.
Reminds me of this. There’s a couple of roma towns/neighborhoods in Romania that look even more ridiculous. They’re competing with each other to have the tallest house with the most number of little tower thingies or something because I’ve passed through there a couple of years ago and it seems to be getting more and more out of hand.
Well that’s just fun.
Reminds me of winter town in Arcachon https://www.arcachon.com/en/je-fais-des-travaux-en/tourism/discovery/exceptional-locations/the-ville-dhiver-winter-town/
The funniest and most shallow thing about that is those houses are often empty on the inside
Could be. Although some are just as ridiculous on the inside
I think the only difference is that, unlike email, all fediverse uses the same* activitypub protocol. Other than that, yeah, it’s just like those house-castles.
* Some differences may arise depending on implementation, like misskey reactions
If anyone’s curious:
Video showing them. I wish they would show the inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3P2USPFDcE
By late 2016, construction work on the castles was behind schedule. This was initially attributed to the cold winter weather, then to a failed military coup that July.
This part is funny to me because that coup lasted hours. My parents made fun of me for going to bed right before it began and waking up after the coup was done.
It sounds more like they happened to find an excuse for delays by some divine luck. (Altough there were delay-causing events AFTER the coup)
appeared online in the early 2020’s
I still cannot comprehend that it’s now the late 2020s. FFS, it’s 2022
Wouldn’t this still be mid-2020s? I’ve always though it goes like 0-3 early, 4-6 mid, 7-9 late
lol these were constructed with nostly Saudi Arabians in mind. Didn’t really work out.
it’s like email (derogatory)
