This can always be re-evaluated later, but in lemmy’s early growth period, especially when new instances are just getting started up and established, it really helps with building a healthy culture. When a collection of popular instances federating with each other dominate, then we can have the same ability that mastodon does in excising tumors like gab. But masto and its main instances are much more mature than lemmy currently is.
Yup, me and @nutomic@lemmy.ml went down a frustrating 3 day long rabbit hole that started with one library, and ended up with several that don’t have maintainers, and are effectively dead. There are only a few people besides us yelling at them because it broke a lot of downstream projects, so we had the option to either fix some of the lower level libraries, or just skip a lot of them altogether and go with one well-maintained one with less upstream dependencies.
Software is inherently political; especially something like this that serves as a communication platform. Developers do have responsibility for not only their own choices ( such as for example choosing to embed trackers in their apps and selling that user data, which is a political decision ), but also how their projects are used by others.
Take ruqqus for instance. I don’t need to look at the code to know their politics, I only have to look at the types of communities they allow (CW) to know that its a bigoted platform.
Every time we get recommendations to remove the filter I think of this. These bigots end up staying on reddit, or moving to other bigoted platforms, and avoid lemmy, making our lives a LOT easier ☺ . I could care less about “growth” if that growth means an influx of disgusting racists. I’d much rather have a smaller, positive community that defends members of targeted communities.
Its very experimental at this point, @nutomic@lemmy.ml can speak to it better.
I linked the github issue describing this, but essentially the link field, which is the main one used by RSS readers, can either go to …
A good inaugural post for this com…
A community for the modern day library of alexandria: …
We documented most of the work we did in this recent v0.9.4 Release, so that’s also copied here: …
Special thanks to @felix@radical.town for the RSS work! …
You could add
to the
docker-compose.yml
file. But overall if your smtp server doesn’t work, you’ll have to open up an issue with either your provider, orlettre
to see what’s going on.