Probably because beehaw aggressively defederates from any annoying instances.
I would say Lemmy and the lemmy apps are currently set up to funnel as many users into any communities as possible, because there are so little people on here.
I usually browse rising (of all communties I haven’t blocked) so there is enough content. I imagine many people are doing the same.
The only fixes I see is when 1) Lemmy gets more users, 2) defederating aggressively or 3) heavy moderation or 4) having “high effort” barriers to posting in communities (for example: must have X much karma or write a message to the mods to post).
All my experiences on the privacy communties were that 10x more people from outside comment and are angry that I want more privacy. Which kind of defeats the point of communties. At the moment communities act more like topic tags that categorize posts, not as real communities.
Lemmy is pretty good for what it is, but it needs many changes to survive into the future, to operate more like how it was intended.
it’s people from other communities who don’t give a shit about any of this and are irrationally angry about anything AI. even if you could use it to diagnose cancer 10x more accurately, they would hate it.
That’s the point of the repuation system.
It’s a very hard problem, I’ll give you that.
What you need is, each instance and community collects reputation in the federation. then users posting on those instances can collect reputation on those. basically by not being banned or massively downvoted. Your reputation is weighted by the reputation of each you collected it from instance.
Each users identity is tied to some key that collects reputation, that you generate new identities from from for each instance/community/post. Like how some credit card services give you a new credit card number for each new website.
Admins don’t know who you are, but they can see and verify your reputation.
Then instance/community admins can decide if they want a different weighting. For example, to completely disregard the reputation by some instance or make one you like 10x more important.
You could get an ordered list of posts or pseudonymous users based on the reputation. Untrustworthy users will glow like a christmas tree.
That would be one way to do it. It’s hard to make it water tight, but any improvements would be better than the current fediworse.
It doesn’t have to be.
You could keep the general structure and functioning while improving privacy.
For example, by obfuscating post history, anonymous posting or assigning a user pseudonym per instance/community, auto-deleting old posts/comments. All optional features of course. Let instances/communites decide which of these features they want.
Keep the structure of Lemmy with it’s Reddit-like-ness and instances, but give users, instances and communities more control over data privacy.
Sure it’s harder to implement, you need some minimal-knowledge reputation system, but there is nothing fundamental preventing that from being possible.
The nice thing about federation is that one instance/community can stay the same data-leaking privacy mess, if they so prefer. While others could operate analogous to 4-chan (or anything in between).
Lemmy is absolute garbage on privacy. I would love a private Lemmy with fine grained privacy controls.
what do you use for illegal documents?
the sacred chants!
what is a prophesh yonnels
yeah I mean the mRNA tech of the vaccines has other potentiall amazing applications like replacing enzymes people are missing or introducing new ones. It’s temporary, so much safer than permanent gene therapy. Realistically speaking, how else are we going to remove the microplastic?
I only trust Campbell tomato soup
it’s no problem if you are okay with hauling around a microwave sized laptop
On the other hand we could finally get Tooth Man
I hope we can rewild Mountain Dew too
is this real? windows 10 literally came out yesterday
devil’s advocate: this will save the vast majority of user (which are completely tech illiterate) from loosing their most important data
lets be real, none of them will use a private or foss backup solution any time soon.
I’d rather not they loose their important family photos for that oh so horrible crime of offending my privacy nerd sensibilities