Our little instance is closing to 6 months of operations and it occurs to me I never really asked for some open feedback from our peeps. So I wanted to start a discussion to see your concerns and comments in general. So tell me, in the context of the divisions by zero, what bothers you, what pleases you, what would you like to see improved.
Feel free to share your thoughts about anything.
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This got me. A little dangerous sentence to start post with 😄 I’m not a user from dbzer0, but I appreciate your work on Fediseer 🙏
Hah, you’re the second one 😁 unintended panic but only shortly.
Help pls i’m trying to make something out of my life and i don’t feel like i’m doing anything meaningful 🥲
Those are my troubles, matey 🏴☠️
I was likewise. Can you code? Open source projects could always use more help. I run the AI Horde and we’re always looking for people with a lot of talents outside of coding. You can also help improve fediverse sites like lemmy.dbzer0.com with moderators etc. Finally I suggest you help out with some direct action around your local area. There’s usually some movements for food, gardening etc you could try to join.
Gotta second this, especially the local area stuff. Helps to get to know people around you and make a better connection with where you live.
A lot of people I know that struggle with depression or similar feelings (myself included) had/have a lot of it stem from not feeling that they liked where they were at on a number of levels, including “literally” as in the physical location they lived. The best thing that helped me with “the physical location I lived” was getting involved with local events.
That also helps with finding things to do where you can see direct positive impact of your actions, which is a huge thing that helps me personally. It’s why videogames appeal to so many people lately, the immediate and obvious payoff. Stuff like working at a local food pantry, soup kitchen, community garden, volunteer work helping physically disabled people with home projects like painting, etc… those all scratch that same itch of immediate payoff for me at least.
First account on fediverse was here. Glad I did. I like that the admin had contributed to the fediverse. Perfect place for me I’ve been downloading since limewire, BitTorrent, rapidshare and megaupload. meganova was a cool tracker, ddlvalley, oneddl, corebay, funkysouls, piratebay of course. Piracy and sites other sites like this and communities like thls helped me develop skills, how to host your own services to break away from algorithms, how to set up things like websites, pi-hole, like docker, networking, VPNs, I learned how to take care of privacy online. And I am able to share that knowledge with friends and family. As long as this lemmy stays a place where knowledge and information can be shared to others this will be a nice harbor for this semi old pirate 🦜 Don’t defederate too quickly from places that might have different opinions. Most of the users here are tech savvy enough to filter their own feeds. I don’t want to end up in an echo chamber. That what’s Instagram and Facebook etc. is for. Oh I have a question, where we get some stats? Like how many users or new posts? What is the size, in GB? Whats the traffic? How many images?
There is actually something I’d like to chat about, but the time is too soon.
Here’s to another six months of db0!
It’s great, a great instance, the best one really. Seriously just love it. I can’t believe my luck landing here first try.
Grog’s on me, boys!
This is probably the best instance for self hosting enthusiasts and for that I want to say thank you. My only complaint is that our posts aren’t searchable. I’m not sure if thats because of the instance or Lemmy itself.
Huh? They are searchable. Not sure what you’re doing
Oh I did a bit of digging and found out that specific posts can be searched. If we put in “site:lemmy.dbzer0.com (post title)” it’ll show up in the results.
Hope this instance becomes big enough so our posts will show up as the first result on Google/DDG. Cheers!
No troubles! Thanks for a kooky, but stable slice of Lemmy. I’ve been trying to stay low on smaller instances and several have gone down already (growing pains; no one’s fault).
Love the vibes and the anarchism 🤘
I’m enjoying your instance, thanks. No problems here. In fact it’s great to use while in the company of family knowing there’s not going to be any NSFW surprises.
Idk i like the open discussions but like why is no one on the left seriously talking about the UAP disclosure thing i feel like its crazier then people think. if you break it down to just military and commercial air pilot safety its like a serious problem. fuck little green men why is a F22 raptor getting out manouvered and who the fuck owns thats
I think you’re looking for !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
Nothing to complain about, thank you for maintaining this instance!
While not a problem inherent to this instance in particular, the relative lack of activity in Fediverse communities makes me wish we had a way of coordinating the continued recruitment of users from relevant subreddits. I’d like to never need to visit Reddit again, but there’s not that many active Fediverse communities yet, and Lemmy growth statistics haven’t been great since a one time boost following the Reddit blackout.
Not sure how to convince the mutineers to abandon their ship for ours, but thanks for everything captain!
Tbh just go post about lemmy on reddit and mastodon. Best we can do is be the change and attempt to recruit them ourselves.
I would appreciate a defederation from Hexbear. I’m really tired of getting swarmed by them and having to see their invariably shit political takes. I spoke a bit about it on the thread you made on /c/anarchism, but I thought I might as well speak about it again, since you asked.
If they just say shit tankie takes, it’s allowed in general. If they start harassing you for say, rejecting left unity, please report
They’re as leftist as they can be. Hexbear have a full pro-Palestine stance and that’s why some people want to defederate from it. Since full instance blocking is coming let them choose to block it themselves instead of choosing for everyone.
I think people typically defederate from hexbear due to toxicity, bullying and tankyism rather than the pro-palestinian stance.
First, I would like to thank you for your awesome work !
Not all calls for defederate are caused by their pro-Palestinian stance, the tankyism is likely the reason for a fair bit but some definitely are.
Some users can be toxic but so are users from other instances. They can be easily blocked and a whole instance shouldn’t pay the price for the action of some users. I honestly have yet to witness any bullying tho.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter anymore since instance blocking is here, everyone will be free to choose.
. I honestly have yet to witness any bullying tho.
Oh man, I can link you to my meme about left unity, they attempted to bully me for 2 days straight. I think we exceeded 1k comments overall 😁
My bad then. I am against bullying of any kind. Nothing good ever comes from bullying.
You’ll find that the hexbears consider bullying a core praxis
Just wanted to chime in to, first of all, thank you for the fantastic work that you are doing, both here in running the instance and in general for the fediverse. I envy your energy to do all these things and as a person with knowledge and experience in various areas of Computer Science and IT, hats off to you. Where do you get all that motivation from?!
As for the topic on hand, I really really love it here mainly that this instance has so far avoided the defederation wars and I can enjoy all discussions from all other instances, including hexbear. Maybe it’s only me, but I hope there are more like me that want to come to their own conclusions based upon discussions from left, right and centre. But maybe it’s also because I mostly read and not write…
Defederation from my PoV is like censorship. People get more extreme in their views when they are not exposed to other ideas and opinions conflicting with their own beliefs. This kills any kind of civilized discussion in the long term.
Also, many of us forget that, even though we might not be fully anonymous, who we are here is not what defines us in the real life. Someone can come and say whatever, that I am the most miserable human on this planet, but is that who I really am? Would one say the same when met face to face?
Peace out, thank you for what you’ve done. Do or don’t keep it up, do whatever you please, it is all yours and you have already accommodated us not even once.
Where do you get all that motivation from
Insanity mostly I suspect 😅
This is less a report of their behavior and more a simple voicing of my wishes, as a member of the instance.
I mean, one of their mods told me I should be put against a wall and shot, and no response from an admin when it was pointed out as a problem. Does that count?
I don’t think they should be defederated, but I ain’t happy with the laissez faire attitude their instance takes to such things if you’re deemed “other” enough to “warrant harassment.”
I could have been more observant and realized I was commenting in a hexbear community, but “don’t tell people they should be shot” is usually a pretty hard and fast rule in moderation.
My approach here is: if this was an interaction in their space, it probably ok. This kind of “edgy” statements meant to “trigger the libs” is their modus operanti. So don’t go into their areas unless prepared for this kind of interaction.
Yeah, that was my thinking as well tbh, it’s why I said I don’t think they should be defederated. Just wish there was a more apt way for lemmy to show “this is hexbear” without needing to check the community of every single post I see. Makes /all a little bit of a minefield.
More than half the time I click into a post without actually checking the community, and it’s something I need to work on. Just doesn’t matter 90% of the time.
For me, the fact that we DON’T defederate from hexbear is one of the things that makes dbzer0 awesome. We’re just applying good rules, not personal annoyance like db0 is supreme ruler or God, they’re just a person running a cool-ass instance. Block any community you want, soon you’ll be able to block entire instances anyway.
Lets not get too worked up here. Peace.
I love the instance, but defederation from Hexbear would be nice.
I agree, they are quite obnoxious.
Thanks for the hard work and effort put into this instance! :)
Defederate from Hexbear please <3
The next version of lemmy will have features so users can effectively block instances for themselves.
The communities and posts won’t show up, but you can still interact with the users.
Uh no, it won’t, Hexbear users and their spam will still be visible, blocking of instances only affects posts and communtities from instances. Also the blocking system in my opinion shouldn’t be seen as a fallback when it comes to malicious users, unless there’s an option to block interaction from users both ways. Otherwise it only caters to Snowflakes and people who ‘wanna not see something they don’t wike’.
I second this motion.
Nope. Go to lemmy.world
