It’s entirely possible to host an instance that doesn’t require emails to sign up. Blahaj lemmy and piefed don’t for example. We don’t have a spam problem though, because we require manual approvals of new accounts. Lack of email verification is only a problem when it’s combined with open signup
I make an exception to that rule for the /c/superbowl. I love seeing a bunch of owls suddenly appear in my feed :)
Lets just say I don’t agree. I find paper so frustrating. I lose it, or I can’t decipher what I’ve written. I forget it on some sessions… It’s an ADHD disaster. But with a laptop, even if I forget it, I can still use my phone to access the character.
I even use digital dice rollers when it’s not a PITA to share the results with the rest of the table.
Why would it be banned?!
I honestly can’t remember the last time someone in one of my groups used pen and paper. Mostly (but not always) the dice have remained though!
Something fell over in our server, so Kaity is spinning up a new server and rebuilding lemmy on it
I don’t know, maybe they have a specific agreement with Patreon or something. But in general, that’s how Patreon like services work with YouTube
It’s possible to post unlisted videos that are only visible to folk with the URL.
Its good for folk who want to give their subscribers early access
It’s not one or the other though. Peertube with patreon can exist alongside YouTube
New Zealand is about as close as it gets, but even they broke out in to war after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi
The difference is that voting is not publicly available, so people can’t be judged for their voting behaviours, however, down voting bots etc can still be identified and banned by their home instance admin.
That being said, I don’t like the feature, and would disable it if I could
Why does the general attitude on Lemmy seem to lean toward more censorship and silencing of speech
Because “censorship” in this context is a weasel word. What people complaining about censorship really want, is the ability to be more openly racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic etc. What people pushing back against that want is less bigotry.
But because the bigots can’t own their bigotry, they hide behind “censorship” and not having enough “free speech”.
This is literally youtube saying “The president says that hating on folks is ok, and we will make more money by aligning with that”. It’s not them taking a stance on free speech, because they still block stuff that costs them money. They still demonetise or block things that are supportive of LGBT folk for the flimsiest of reasons, none of which they would do if censorship or free speech were their reasoning.
This has nothing to do with “censorship” and everything to do with a deliberate attempt not to increase free speech, but to shift “allowed” speech to the right
I tried to love it. It’s one of the most feature rich fediverse platforms out there. It has groups built in out of the box, it talks to Diaspora as well as Activitypub… But it’s just… not nice to use.
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People must really like Pie! We just did the same thing with Blåhaj Lemmy yesterday!
The last thing lemmy needs is more centralisation on lemmy.world
Women are around twice as likely to attempt suicide than men in western countries, but men are more likely to succeed by a large margin. It’s scary