Every time I comment about bluesky I realize I don’t know anything about bluesky so… maybe?

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Interesting that this comes right on the heels of the unexplained bug in Bluesky that causes the Minnesota hashtag to break on the day of the general strike. How’s that corporate-backed social media going, friendo? Is your speech free yet?

I know it sucks but you’ve just gotta shitpost through it. No comments? Guess you gotta generate some content. We are the algorithm, and we are the bots, here on fedi.

It isn’t, and it does.

Lemmy’s mod tools allow for much more nuanced responses than just nuking a post. For instance, I think locking the post and adding a comment pointing folks to the same post in a more relevant community is something most people would react positively to. And, it’s definitely okay to have some communities be for very small groups of people with a very restrictive mod policy — there’s always a bigger, more permissive community available for people that want to discuss whatever.

I think there’s a lot of communities where the mods have gone inactive and no-one’s noticed yet, so when you get stuff in the wrong community there’s no-one to clean it up. Iirc, there’s a process for getting added as a mod for those communities — maybe it’s something we could help with?

I definitely want to see more non-news content, but I don’t think the threadiverse needs less of anything. If you wanna post news and politics, have at it! The rest of us just need to get on their level with all our other hobbies and interests.

Also, it’s discouraging to post in a niche community and always harvest downvotes from people that don’t like that you’re posting at all. I get it, there aren’t other NWSL/MLS fans out here, but could you please stop doing drive-bys and downvoting all my articles?

You can block amerigocentric instances and users (like me!) if you want, but people will still use vpns to say “soccer” on your America-free instances and I don’t think there’s anything to be done to prevent that.

Honestly it rules and I love it. Crosspost from pixelfed and loops and mastodon and anything that interops via activitypub. My number one complaint about fedi is the lack of content, so c’mon in, the water’s fine.