This gets brought up every time with Eurostat. The UK no longer shares data with Eurostat, but other non-EU countries like Switzerland and Norway do. (also Germany is missing here, for some reason)
Mastodon also has the benefit that other platforms try their best to federate with it
What I think would be cool is following hashtags from Lemmy, or a.gup.pe groups
Is Tumblr still planning on joining? That would be huge
The culture’s a bit too reddit-like for my taste, but it’s alright and some communities are better about it
I don’t even see footnotes in the documentation[1], but they can be pretty useful. It’s ^[text]
, in case others are curious.
Interesting how the Lemmy side is much more against it. Is it because we’re used to r/place and its much more crowded canvas?
Would be cool if some of the large instances pinned a message about this (if the server can handle that)
At least on Lemmy, defederating is also a way of banning all the instance’s users from your communities. If you’re constantly banning one instance’s users and their admins seem fine with it, there’s really no other way.
If you’re defederating a lot, most of it will be tiny instances you got from some blocklists, so I don’t know if this really says much
Culturally I’d also put that part of Russia closer to the Slavic countries than to any fully Asian country.
The one thing that comes to mind for wolves and Turkey is the Grey Wolves, I wonder if it’s related
That + mostly sticking to my subscriptions (coincidentally, none of them tech or politics) makes it feel like I’m on a completely different Lemmy
Anecdotally, the communities I’m interested in are getting more active in a way that seems sustainable (as opposed to last year, when it was a always a single person posting some, getting no responses, and leaving). I’m pretty positive about the state of Lemmy and the wider threadiverse.
Similarly, it looks like a.gup.pe groups don’t work here even though they’re basically just communities
Would make sense too, they don’t use default Gmail either. Some other governments have Mastodon instances
Instead of defederating all of lemmy.ml, just blocking that one comm could be an option
It’s like the darkest pattern. Making it so that quitting has to be a conscious choice. I see why amoral companies would use it, don’t know why FOSS would too.
Semi-related: never thoughts about this before, but there must be massive currents near Gibraltar