I appreciate you taking feedback on board, and I apologise if I was harsh about this and I didn’t mean for this to be aimed at you individually. It was a general frustration with general decision making and communication. It’s not the first time I’ve raised this and I care about Lemmy, it just gets frustrating when it feels the feedback is getting stonewalled.
I appreciate the position on consideration of refederation. it does make sense to consider it post 0.19.
So I suggested how you could do comms better, and also a sensible approach to defederation decisions, and that is your response.
Rather than thinking, “oh, is there some way we can do this better?”, just get defensive and blame the person giving feedback.
It’s human to err, but to refuse to learn, well that’s quiet something… I had expected a more mature response.
Considering my original point was about how users on Lemmy were an after thought. Not worth factoring in to decision or consulting, you sure aren’t really do a good job refuting it…
Lemmy world was the instance I originally joined when the whole exodus kicked off and others closed their doors. I was very grateful and had enormous good will for it. I never expected in the space of several months to have 180’d on it…
I don’t need to and I choose not to use reddit or twitter. lemm.ee are doing a great job. lemmy.ml is also a great option. It’s a shame that they’re nailing it better than world is.
Was a topic labelled 0.19 upgrade and something along the lines of “0.19 has been released by Lemmy. We are going to be waiting a few weeks to see the stability of this. Once we are satisfied, we will update here with more information.”
And “due to certain federation bugs, we are going to hold back on upgrade to 0.19 until these are ironed out, we will update when we plan to do this”.
It’s not hard, and it seems like you’re coming up with excuses rather than considering feedback…
Hexbear defederation happened before they even federated. No consultation, or discussion, just “oh, we decided to do this, and whether you care or not, ah well”. lemm.ee had a post, reasons for, against and welcomed the communities view on this. Maybe you guys need to check them out and learn from them. I think it’s only 1 guy too, so probably more than repeatable as a process…
Considering this is the most staffed and resourced instance, you’d expect a reasonable standard.
"I’m sure many of you fine folks have been wondering why we have not upgraded to version 0.19.X yet.
The whole team here has been getting asked this question quite a bit, from both members of the community and other instance admins. We want everyone to know, YES, we will upgrade to version 0.19."
The issue here was never that decision, which on the whole seems sensible. It was the lack of comms. If there had been an announcement of that plan or delayed after say a week or 2, you’d probably have less of those questions. Users are stakeholders, and talking only to devs and other instance runners while ignoring users shows the level of respect you have for the users of the instance…
The ironic thing, is the communication and openness at the start was the best thing about Lemmy.World, and then later down the line, it just became an after event to communicate to users. “Decided to defederate x, y and z on Discord.”. Silence on attacks for months, and silence on upgrade plans.
There is many roles on Lemmy.World, and communications probably needs more focus…
The thing is, most western governments are pushing towards facial recognition and monitoring without the need for a warrant. Most countries are already stacked up to the eyeballs with CCTV (UK for example, and hooking that in with facial recognition is dangerous). First they start off with it being for terrorists, then paedophiles, then other criminals, but ultimately, it’s monitoring everyone to track down a few. When you have that infra in place, and you don’t have sufficient oversight, you can soon tweak that towards activist groups, then opposition groups etc.
You have to challenge it before the infrastructure goes in, because after it’s in, it’s already too late.
I don’t see why not. There is a difference between an off chance of someone noticing you vs. camera’s with high accuracy recognising your face and being able to track your locations, what places you visited and who with for every minute of every day.
Definitely would agree with this. The best of a bad bunch. I use it for nearly all my search.
Did see some sketchy stuff with the android app/browser so probably would avoid… and besides, I’m in a decades long relationship with firefox <3.
Always felt shifty with their marketing attempts “hey, this looks really cool. It has this extensive list of features. I’ve not tried it, what do you think?”.
Feels I was right to be skeptical. Email is sensitive information and not something you can quickly jump to new shiny thing in town. Proton mail is king for me, but at least Tuta been around a while.