There's no need for hostility, your characterization of what is happening does not reflect reality.
Kirk
joined 4 months ago
Reports go to:
- Moderators of the community
- Admins of the community's instance
- Admins of the reported user's instance
- Admins of the reporting user's instance
This is awesome thanks for sharing. I love that they include the option to download the ePub files.
I have a feeling if any of these video generators tried to make a "clip" longer than a couple of seconds they would rapidly become a lot less "real looking"
>When using the official Mastodon app (as suggested in the "guide") "instances" are not a factor at all (unless the user specifically goes out of their way). A new user could have never even heard of the term "instance" and the above steps would work fine.
You don’t just download the app, create an account, and go.
Actually with Mastodon this is literally how it works.
EDIT: I should say this is how it works now, it didn't always used to be this way. The official Mastodon app used to ask the user to pick an instance, but for a number of years now it defaults every new account to mastodon.social unless they opt out. There was a big brouhah about centralization but the Mastodon devs felt it made for easier on boarding.
I visited once and it is really funny how you drive through normal looking suburbs thinking "there is no way we are anywhere near Mintaka III" then suddenly there it is.
Potentially unpopular protip: I've blocked most of the "prolific" posters. My entire feed was becoming repurposed memes from 2015.
I'm happy there are people out there dedicating time to keeping Lemmy "active" but that is not how I want to live my life.
I love being able to have the small-forum feeling of my home instance but also feeling connected to communities elsewhere.
I blame the people publishing the articles but I also understand they're playing in a rigged game. The platforms (facebook, reddit etc) that they depend on to get views REQUIRE headlines to be insane clickbait.
If I were the boss of Lemmy I would mandate that all communities require de-clickbaited headlines but what can you do.
Weird I literally see "free":
404 does have paywalled articles but I've tried a few browsers/VPN and this doesn't seem to be one of them.