Yeah, unfortunately took a rapid shift away and my optimism is gone. A hard fork is being made from scratch in a new programming language, that I am actively involved in whatever way I can be.

They have shifted gears recently and been pretty receptive to this major critique. Things are going in a much better direction now that 2 months have passed. If I can find the AMA I will link you.

I hope to bring it back as soon as I can. I’m waiting for lemmy to update for remote caching, as well as potentially getting another admin to help run that instance.

Instance agnostic link: [email protected]

I wouldn’t mind, comics are absolutely a form of book. But I’m unsure how successful such communities would be since community subscriptions cannot be migrated on lemmy right now.

Holy shit yes yes yes!

100%, ultimately there might be disagreements amongst admins over many things but this is something that there is clear unity on and I felt important to establish it. Hell, I’ve disagreed with lemmy.world’s decisions on numerous fronts as well which you already know. I think the harshness is understandable as well, given you know

man i missed this community on reddit, thanks for making it lol

I’m sorry for not being more focused on being nicer to the devs of lemmy after problems that were discussed nearly a month ago being ignored have caused me and other instance admins to have to deal with the stress of dealing with CSAM federating into our instances and having to witness that content in order to remove it.

That is sarcasm by the way. In comparison to how I actually feel currently, I could be a lot more indignant about this but I am fighting that urge as it is not productive.

It ties into safety as well, websites have “trust and safety” teams. This is where it falls under. Sorry for not being more concise.

Absolutely. It’s already worked on some instances as well. It’s upsetting.

I’m sorry, but I have difficulty being polite to someone who has actively ignored addressing safety concerns that were brought up months ago. FOSS or not.

It is, there are currently discussions of attempting to do so but the issue lies that Rust is not only a really new programming language that really never was well suited for an application like this, forking means nothing if no one is going to contribute to the fork in the first place. I know that pawb.social is working on a fork iirc

Kbin moderation tools are worse. And potentially. I guess a bug bounty could be started up.

Nope, they are being paid now. They receive an immense amount of donations now, enough to likely make a solid monthly income. Take a look at their liberapay page if you don’t believe me. I understand that to a degree, but it only goes so far. When they are actively ignoring safety features despite its urgency in spite of that fact is difficult to justify.

OK, I am going to take a minute away from the shit stirring and potentially provide some insight speaking as an admin who’s had the misfortune of dealing with this so I can maybe shift this comment section into an actually meaningful discussion.

You can have your own opinion and feelings against lemmy.world but, this?

The only thing that could have prevented this is better moderation tools. And while a lot of the instance admins have been asking for this, it doesn’t seem to be on the developers roadmap for the time being. There are just two full-time developers on this project and they seem to have other priorities. No offense to them but it doesn’t inspire much faith for the future of Lemmy.

This is correct. Most lemmy admins likely agree as well, I don’t speak for anyone but myself but I can say that I think it would be hard to find someone who disagreed. What happened today is a result of a catastrophic failure on lemmys end, with issues that should have been addressed over a month ago just being completely ignored. The lemmy devs shared a roadmap during their AMA & they essentially were more concerned with making shit go faster… that’s about it.

I mean, they are correct and a majority of other lemmy admins would agree with that statement.

These comments so far stink, yall are something else.

oh hey yeah i never got notified of this LOL

Oh hey there’s a bunch more communities in my instance now, maybe link to some of em? I have a directory page [email protected]

probably any of the book or art comms

Thank you so much I’ve been missing this community from Reddit 🥹

The previous instance that hosted it died due to absurd domain issues

[email protected] & [email protected] are ones that were advertised previously, this post is more so for the entire instance as a whole

I loved that community! Glad to see it’s back :)

[email protected] & [email protected]

Do you take suggestions for communities at all? I host some book related ones that are unrelated to those on there.

lemmy mainly