If you answer “yes”, you just might be repeating the whisper of a demon."

So, wait… people who have a competing world view from yours are listening to demons? Now who’s naive? xD

I believe the scientific name for this whole thing is “clusterfuck” xD

the articles from The Verge seem to be very favorable towards the protestors

Because that’s what’s driving traffic for them right now. Let’s not forget that The Verge is also a soulless corporate entity. Peters has been doing a good job at covering the issues, but he wouldn’t be allowed to be as thorough if the topic and angle wasn’t a good driver of traffic.

Crayola knows a thing or two about this xD https://img.ifunny.co/images/3d5e79e75ba23a9eba1fed53236a111c383b7ebbdf95130cf8a37b52c22f4af2_1.webp

It would be nice to not have to sift through so much chaff to find wheat

Isn’t that the nature of social networks, though xD

it should be up to the user to decide what they see for the most part. At least, they should be able to decide what they don’t see.

You can always turn off federation by going into your Kbin sidebar and clicking on the little triangle icon, next to the settings.

Or you can go to https://kbin.social/sub, to view the equivalent of your Reddit home page (i.e. with the communities you’re subscribed to). https://kbin.social/ is more like r/all, where you’ll see stuff from your subscriptions, plus other random stuff.

I mean, there’ll always be way to see that. It’s just not obvious at first glance. But even on Kbin, the URL of the thread you’re in will have the instance after the @ sign.

My point is that we don’t need to make this a dick-measuring contest between instances. If the fediverse grows and gets better, we all win.

That’s a feature, not a bug. If you find a worthwhile discussion, and have something to bring to it, just do it. No need to marry yourself to just the one instance. That’s the beauty of federation, really.

To add a bit more context, this comment is from a former Reddit dev, who is now the creator and developer of Tildes, one of the Reddit alternatives that’s been gaining traction in the last week:

(I used to work as a backend developer at Reddit - I left 6 years ago but I doubt the way things work has changed much)

I think it’s extremely unlikely that this is deliberate. The way that Reddit builds “mixed” subreddit listings (where you see posts from multiple subreddits, like users’ front pages) is inefficient and strange, and relies heavily on multiple layers of caches. Having so many subreddits private with their posts inaccessible has never happened before, and is probably causing a bunch of issues with this process.