Hi there! I’ve been trying to improve the situation for the past few hours. I managed to disable CF Protection, and as you can see, I’m gradually allowing traffic from the fediverse. There may still be delays in deliveries and posts for some time. If anything is particularly troublesome, please let me know through the contact form. Sorry for the temporary blackouts. New possibilities have emerged, which I’d like to discuss with you soon. Now I need a few hours for a nap, shower, and I have to grab something to eat because I can’t survive on bananas only :P
And look at this!
https://fedia.io/
Just please be understanding towards the new admins. This is still a prototype, and what we’re doing here is meant to yield results in the future. I’m doing everything I can to get back to patching critical things in the code as quickly as possible. Have fun! :)
Oooh and You can send me your domain name ideas via pm.
https://kbin.social/u/ernest/message
@Kichae I must say that I am really suprised this is the one that has the most upvotes. I know most people come from Reddit and are like super internett nerds. But it is pretty disheartening at this is where the Kbin community is at.
I still have hope for the network, but it also attracts the worst kind of people to associate with as well. be it super right-wing people, or super anti-capitalist people, even like antisemetic, genocide denying tankies like the two devs of Lemmy, never touching grass and living in their own bubble, and the worst part, just really fumbling at everything they do, even as things manage to go their way.
I’ve been a part of the fediverse movement since the start, but it’s sad to give so much and build so much for it to end up into this. Particurarly when I have personally put so much sweat and tears into it myself.
@ernest
You’re sounding like you’re pushing for the Fediverse to be an open source mirror of what already exists. Centralized in practice, and apparently at war with itself.
I can’t imagine why you’d think replicating systems that are already abusive would be the way forward. Replacing the masters does not fix the fact that the system itself is toxic.
It’s the nature of sites that use upvoting and downvoting concepts, upvote and downvote is toxic. Downvote especially. Talk about people who dislike replacing bad systems the corporations made, the toxic voting system these sites use is now being carried over to the fediverse. It exploits the bad parts of human behavior and makes the systems worse.
I’ve disagreed with this when Youtube made the dislike change and I’ll disagree with it now.
Upvotes/downvotes may not be needed in opinion pieces, but they are pretty necessary for any educational/scientific/news/tutorial etc. content to filter out the factually wrong answers so removing those will inevitably lead to misinformation being spread around. So in that context, an upvote/downvote system actually adds value.
It may be toxic in some instances, but there’s really no better simple alternative (the only one I can think of would be extreme moderation, but that’s a whole other can of worms).