Too late, it is.
hawkwind
joined 2 years ago
Having multiple accounts isn't the issue IMO. It's communication about centralization / decentralization. There is confusing and mixed messaging about the difference between "Lemmy" and "Beehaw." Just like there is between "Mastodon" and "mastodon.socal."
Joe public's perception of participation in social networks is based on brand: "See my post on Facebook," "reply to my tweet," "did you see that subreddit?"
It needs to be clearer that's not how things work here. There are things you gain from decentralization, but also things you lose. People will always want the best of both worlds.
It's a combination of software and scalability issues. There's no ONE thing the lemmy developers can code that will magically fix it, and there's not ONE thing the admins can do to make the current code run on the currently deployed infrastructure. The software was not tested to work at the volume and scale we're seeing between the top 5 instances, and not all of the admins are prepared to work through it. It requires a lot of "togetherness" to change and test the code with "right-sized" resource and operations management. Pretty mature stuff for a rag-tag group of reddit refugees. :)
Right now, lemmy.world's admin team is probably doing the best job of collaboration and communication (props to everyone else too.) Prioritizing the issues and focusing on them for the sale of the actual users is the key. Some admins are just expecting the next upgrade to fix everything without being involved. Blaming the software is not the solution. Eventually that might be a good position, but this early in the game it just won't work. Everyone is still working hard!
Lemmy was written an tested at what is essentially: "raspberry-pi scale" and has been forced to make the maturity jump to "could-scale," practically overnight. It sucks the growth isn't smooth, but it is totally understandable.
tl;dr There is no github issue because there isn't one problem in code that can fix it.
I think it’s a known issue. All of the admins of all the instances are working hard to try and cope. ;)
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Nah. I know my stuff. This is for sure the Revolution.
Canada here. Basically, everything I learned is from parodies. American history is not a big deal in K-12 curriculum. If i had to write a 2 paragraph essay to save my life:
It was a period in history where guns were loaded one ball at a time by stuffing it down the barrel with a stick. Wealthy white people who profited off slavery all lived in the southern states for some reason. This group started to hear that other people in the rest of the (northern) states were starting to talk about making slavery illegal. To protect their interests they formed a separate government, formed an army and attempted to overtake and rule all of the states.
Their army wore red, and the north's defending army wore blue. They shot at each other with cannons for a few years and many people died, mostly from shitty health-care and infections rather than acute death. The north won and now lots of people who were never in the war, pretend to have the war again to remind them to never have a civil war.
I'd say the impact was that slavery was abolished, but it was abolished in many other countries without a civil war so I guess the impact was a lot of parody material for pop culture.
And that is all I know about Paul Revere and the American Revolution.
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Nope, but also not nope?
It is technically one-sided, and it works at the instance level, not the community level. If instance (server) A adds instance B to their defederated list: instance A ignores everything from instance B and does not send any updates to instance B. Instance B doesn't have to add instance A to it's defederation list, but it doesn't matter because it doesn't make a difference to what instance A is doing.
Technically no. Any user could. I wouldn't recommend it though, as it will subscribe you to every community.