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We called them streaming services. Calling them stream-ers sounds like the media is trying to make them sound cuddly and non hostile.

I don’t think they were going to, since Hexbear doesn’t actually have downvotes. Only upvotes. And the post above apparently cuts out the part where they’re told to follow the rules.

If they wanted to misbehave they could do it already. I’ve personally had posts and comments mass downvoted and people have complained elsewhere. The only thing this defederation will contribute to is an increase in alt accounts and the very misbehaviour you fear. This is a Lemmy problem, not a Hexbear one.

It’s already possible, I had it happen to me, and people on unrelated communities (LotR etc) were replying to me asking why my post and comment got ranked down. This is clearly a lemmy problem, not a hexbear one. And by increasing division we’re going to legitimise infantile behaviour like that.

Probably doesn’t want to be brigaded. I’ve had random posts and comments downvoted by neckbeards for no reason. To the point that people in that community (LotR) were replying to me in surprise.

An instance can behave like a sub or community if they wish to, assuming what you said is even true. Iirc the entire point of the fediverse is to allow groups of users to be free from spez like ban-happy/profiteering behaviour. Lemmy doesn’t exist to make you personally happy. Hexbear has its own rules for its own instance and if their community is happy with it it’ll survive and thrive.

Lemmy dot world’s decision is disappointing because they seemed open and neutral politically. But are seemingly very much not neutral and damaging for Lemmy.

Despite that we’re not just carving off their politics. We’re losing their interests, expertise, knowledge and potential interactions. The sort of network that made reddit strong and useful.

They absolutely should make clear their political positions for clarity and transparency’s sake.

Well this is unfortunate. Seems like a mistake tbh. 20k people is a huge loss.

I’ll have to make alt accounts soon if account migration isn’t a feature.

edit: This is reminding me of when people were calling Lemmy Devs ‘tankues’. Are we being sabotaged again?

Yeah, it seems like we’re now losing out on 20k people to interact with which seems a shame.

Yeah I noticed that.

I just checked, there are 40 downvotes (78 upvotes). That’s wierd - I checked other posts and they don’t seem to have anything like that - I saw none in the double digits.

I might just have to keep a separate account for posting politics which is sad but necessary so that my posts/comments are ranked according to utility and not just downvoted by angry nerds. I’ll probably make a post about this somewhere too.

I think some idiots/bots from another instance to do with a political topic did it lol. They’ve done it to a few comments. We haven’t left reddit apparently.

Do you think lemmy admins could see the downvoters and check if they’re using bots?

And UK.

In his own words lol:

To re-iterate PDF is a really, really bad format to use as input. If you absolutely must use PDF, then be prepared for an output ranging anywhere from decent to unusable, depending on the input PDF.

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html

Others are recommending Calibre which I’ll try, even though I share your pessimism. Have you ever tried it?

Good post. Butlerian Jihad when?

Seems like we had downtime again just a little while earlier?

Just for clarity Kindles still don’t support epubs but if you use their service they get automatically converted to a compatible format and then pushed to your device iirc.

It looks genuinely very cool.

It just worked for me.