Somewhat vague but I think of it as “this doesn’t belong here.” It seems to be the most fitting - something could not belong because it’s irrelevant, or because it’s rude, or because nobody wants to see it. All up to interpretation, I suppose, but better that than a hard rule than I either don’t feel good about sometimes or that prevents me from downvoting things that probably should be downvoted but don’t explicitly break that rule.
How is everyone here indexing and cataloguing 10s of TBs of data???
I have like <8 TB combined probably if you count everything I have on my PC/laptop/cloud storage and I often can’t find shit and a bunch of those are full disk compressed backups that I can’t even search directly without opening it in a specialized program.
Gotta make sacrifices to be able to know shit when you’re under 30
I think in that case the “forced” centralisation is purely constructed. There are no mechanisms preventing somebody from creating an android community in their own instance and federating it with lemmy.world. Even if !android@lemmy.world is permanently locked, that fact isn’t really a barrier to entry for another android community to pop up, just that that community was able to establish a subscriber base over time but I don’t see why another android community couldn’t do the same given some time, especially if the available android communities at the moment are locked and restricted.
Yeah saving is for when you intend to come back like if you see a list of tips or a nice guide. It’s not exactly the same and sometimes you save things to come back to later, then unsave when you come back to it and make use of the info. But upvotes are meant to stay.
Yes that’s right, Lemmy communities are communicated as groups in ActivityPub, so that FEP would be applicable to communities
None of them are the one true “gaming”, they all are on difference servers run by different people. This fragmentation is annoying at first, but I usually just go for whichever one has the most subscribers/is most active. Later on there will probably come features for merging/migrating communities.
One of the suggestions was a gossip protocol, which wouldn’t need 100% (or close to 100%) uptime. Wouldn’t be outside of the realm of ActivityPub either, it’s not specific about how messages can be routed kind of like how Email can be passed around a bunch before actually arriving at their intended destination. It would be a layer on top of AP though so maybe Kbin wouldn’t be able to join the network. For communities, the only one I actually saw Nutomic or dessalines be interested in is this fediverse enhancement proposal about making groups in such a way that can be hosted on multiple instances. A few large instances could come together to cohost and spread the load between them.
I’m pretty sure it’s a net increase in load, saying this from my own small instance here. I don’t want to primarily use the big instances - that’s why I started my own. But lemmy.world encompasses so much that any load I would’ve prevented by subscribing to communities outside of lemmy.world is probably negated by lemmy.world already being subscribed to that community. And even if we’re just counting lemmy.world content, pretty sure it’s a net increase because browsing lemmy.world just shows aggregate votes and paginated lists. When federating they’re sending everything, even the 90% of stuff I and my users never even see. I wonder what the tipping point is, where the load of federating communities is outweighed by the load saved by not constantly reloading lists and whatnot. I bet it’s at least 10.
EDIT: Also wanted to add there’s proposals for how to spread out the load without having to switch protocols or anything. I certainly wouldn’t mind my own instance being used to forward stuff on.
Honestly the open source office suites are pretty amazing now. It’s what put me off Linux initially all those years ago, how Word/Excel just felt way better than LibreOffice, but now even the browser based stuff is on par.