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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I don’t understand why people frequently say this. While it’s true you can pay money for them, I’ve never spent a dime on reddit and have given out over 50 golds and have enough coins to give out a half dozen more. I don’t know what the mechanics are for earning the coins I have, all I can say is I haven’t paid for any of them yet I do have them, so it’s not true that when someone gives an award it was paid for with real money.









  • See here’s the thing - if you are worried about protesting reddit, that inherently means you’re hoping to interact with it. As far as I’m concerned, just don’t care. Yes I disagree with what reddit is doing. Does that mean I shouldn’t give it any visits or make any posts? well, depends on what I want to do. For example, just now I used it to spread info about some of this to fellow mods and within our local community. I believe it was worth doing. I don’t believe it was less positive than just being overly simple minded and saying “I don’t like what reddit is doing, therefore it’s bad if i use reddit.”



  • I posted this in Ask Lemmy but since it didn’t get traction I’m gonna piggyback on the visibility of this thread:


    As i learn my way around ActivityPub based services, what stands out to me the most is federation is very much exposed to the users. (That, or I still just haven’t wrapped my head around the architecture details and how they manifest in terms of user experience.)

    Am I just misunderstanding this, or would the end-user experience be more fluid and functional if the federation mechanics were mostly ‘under the hood’. What I mean by that is - right now if there’s a community I would enjoy participating in that is located on a different instance, in order to do that I need to (a) know it exists in the first place, (b) know what instance it is on, and (c) explicitly tell my instance about its address in order to join.

    Would it be possible to have some form of master index (replicated across instances - not a centralized service) along with a public standard for registering an instance/community on the index? And if something like that existed, couldn’t that push what is an inherently more technical detail to lower levels of the implementation, and make for a simpler UX by allowing every instance to expose a more complete list of communities to users from directly within whatever instance they choose to use?