Interesting — is the birch sap/syrup more allergenic than maple? I’m allergic to birch to some extent maybe more than other trees. But also I’m pretty sure I’m allergic to maple also (and many other trees) but eat maple syrup no problem.

Things might go bad with federation with Meta and Meta is indeed loathsome and has an awful history and present of being a bad actor — but responding to “You all are operating on emotion” with the bad faith emotional ad hominem response “Why are you so hard for Zucc?” is kind of proving the point.

I think there’s lots of good arguments around being wary of Meta and defederating (and some good ones in favour of wait and see) but the level of discourse around this issue on here is really not great and too much attacking others (and it’s not just you — the post you’re responding to as well was rude too with “you clearly don’t have a clue what you’re talking about”). The absolutist way people are talking and treating people who have other perspectives has made me feel much less positive about the potential for good discourse and community on this platform.

I may misunderstand how the fediverse and the software works but my understanding is content such as images gets copied over to federated servers and so it seems to me like the ability to defederate would be a requirement in order for servers to stay in compliance with the law and be able to limit various illegal and morally horrible materials from being copied onto their server and network.

Given that (unless I’m wrong about how this works or there’s another way around it I’m not thinking of), at the end of the day is it really possible to not have the ability to defederate? There will be times when it would be needed it seems to me. Or for malicious bot servers, nazis, etc. — lots of potential reasons a full defederation would be desired or required.

I know absolutely nothing about how Lemmy works but there’s hopefully some way or will need to be eventually a way to remove old posts from a certain instance. For instance if there is illegal content it would need to be removed. Building a good solution for this that could be done optionally in the defederation process would probably be good and will be necessary at some point anyway.

For instance you defederate from a nazi server — you’d absolutely want the nazi posts gone from your server. And legally you’d need to potentially depending on where the server was hosted — and of course other kinds of illegal content and networks.

I’m not sure what the current state of the tools is though.

I’m glad to hear the issue with the Hot algorithm is a bug, but the Active feed seems to be almost completely static as well and has been that way for a while. It’s been all the same old posts basically the entire time I’ve been on Lemmy. Hot was the escape hatch for me until it stopped working as well, but I feel something needs to be adjusted with Active too in addition to fixing Hot. Especially since Active is the default.

Yeah Active and Hot have become basically completely not useful for me. They just show old posts. And new doesn’t show what I’d want either since it doesn’t show posts with lots of activity and it shows a bunch of random stuff. Active has seemed to just show old stuff for the entire time I’ve been on Lemmy. Hot used to be better but Hot seems to have become more static as well for some reason.

Hopefully this can be fixed and these modes and how they display content updated because I think this has a major impact on Lemmy’s ability to be a Reddit alternative if the main feeds just have the same old posts in them forever.

Kbin seems to not have this issue in the same way. I prefer the Lemmy interface otherwise though, so I hope this can be improved on Lemmy, but otherwise it’s shifting my use over to kbin when I want to browse.

There’s a lot of value in smaller scale too. Not everything needs to be mega-platform level for the mass market. We can have great communities in smaller spaces online too — sometimes even better as a result.

I loved the globe! I know it’s a small thing but it made this instance have a good feeling to me. The new mouse logo looks a bit weird (I couldn’t figure out what it was at first esp at small size) and not the same vibe. I’d love if it went back to a globe!