Comment on Community health check-in | November 2023
ericjmorey@programming.dev 9 months agoIt means that the alien.top users won’t be able to see the content posted by a plurality of users on lemmy instances. About 40% of activity on lemmy instances is from lemmy.world. And many of the communities that are stand-ins for subreddits are on lemmy.world.
It’s a poor initial experience to lemmy.
rglullis@communick.news 9 months ago
alien.top is still able to see content from LW.
ericjmorey@programming.dev 9 months ago
I mixed that up. But it not really better to have a significant portion of accounts not be able to see your posts or comments or be able to leave posts or comments on a large portion of the posts and comments.
rglullis@communick.news 9 months ago
A counterpoint would be: now that alien.top is not mirroring content anymore, LW now has no actual reason to keep it defederated, and the more “organic” users there, the more legitimate it becomes.
I was saying from the beginning that the accounts would eventually be taken over by their owners, now that this is starting to happen, do you think that is fair to penalize the instance because it was successful?
antik@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nothing is happening on that instance. Set if to ‘local’ and ‘comments’ and there is a handful of comments from the last hour and before that it was 13 days ago
‘successful’
ericjmorey@programming.dev 9 months ago
I think it’s hard to regain trust, but it’s possible. I think your intentions are good and communication is the best way to improve on an unfortunate situation.
That said, it’s a very poor introduction to a new environment to be unknowingly thrown into a conflict on the side with little leverage and no understanding why the experience is so inconsistent with likely expectations, which is that one would be able to interact with the posts and comments they see.