group of people who don’t want to compromise on any of their values

Of course I don’t want to compromise my values in order to see growth of a platform that I use precisely because it aligns with my values.

The definition of UN should be simple enough:

In common language, “hate speech” refers to offensive discourse targeting a group or an individual based on inherent characteristics (such as race, religion or gender) and that may threaten social peace.

A related reading would be the paradox of tolerance, which goes far in explaining why we do not want this shit anywhere near our communities.

As for anti-Semitism, I’ve seen some of it in response to Israel’s ongoing genocide, and of course the current context makes both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiments a very real problem. However, I think people on here mostly seem to be able to distinguish Israel and Judaism, and when they don’t it seems moderators are generally doing a better job than on most platforms in my experience. But I doubt you’re here in good faith, so I don’t see much point in discussing something like this with you.

That’s a pretty mainstream belief for a lot a people who have been completely ostracised and discriminated against by the fediverse as a whole.

If you feel discriminated against because people don’t want you around, feel free to vote with your feet.

Hate speech has no place here, no matter how comfortable these creeps feel around their fascist politicians and policemen at home.

Hating Jews was “pretty mainstream” in the NSDAP.

Hate speech is hate speech no matter how many bootlicking pieces of shit might agree, and this is not a platform that’s friendly to the miserable fuckers who have nothing better to do with their lives than to spread hate and intolerance. They have Twitter and Truth social to spread their shit.

And if we have fewer people over here because the fascists don’t like us, well, cry me a fucking river.

The podcast is also posted to PeerTube: !dot_social@flipboard.video

The episode in question is here: https://flipboard.video/videos/watch/7a8904e2-fd7f-4004-bcc1-a4abc1c796f3

On the positive side Mastodon is working on a fix.

Seems to be some misunderstanding somewhere - Jerry states elsewhere that the costs are covered by donations.

The Mastodon instance I’m on has around 200 people (not all of them active), and received around €800 in donations last year,. Total costs were less than €300.

I think the problem of scaling kicks in when we go after demographics that are less charitable on average.

the flagship instance of Bandwagon.fm will be taking 0% of any money musicians make.

Good stuff.

To support development, Bandwagon’s flagship instance will be offering a $10 per month Premier plan that allows musicians to sell their music and offer their tracks at a higher bit-rate, among other features.

So they will take 0% of money, except a flat fee of €10 every month in order to be allowed to sell music at all? This seems a bit more problematic, as smaller artists would lose money every month by trying to position themselves in the market.

I like the business model of selling subscriptions to the artists but giving them 100% of proceedings quite a lot, but it would be nice if they for example only had to pay a monthly fee once sales surpassed €10, or if they could sell a limited amount of tracks for free in order to test the waters before putting all their music out for sale.

Writing this comment listening to @torstentorsten@bandwagon.fm by the way. Recommended to anyone interested in German singer/songwriter music. Who isn’t.

I think this is going to be pretty huge.

I ended up subscribing to @feed@404media.co (404 Media) after following them on Mastodon. It just feels like a more direct way of following media that fits with how I consume stuff online these days.

OP linked to an entry in their newsletter. If you check out their site, they are being pretty clear that they’re in the business of “Independent technology for modern publishing”, stating in pretty big letters that “Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.”.

Reading their newsletters would get boring fast if they started every single one of them with repeating what they are.

I don’t think this is accurate for either of the two projects to be honest.

PieFed made sure to make their API as close to Lemmy’s as possible, and they created feeds so that it would be as easy as possible for Lemmy to integrate in the future.

Vibes between the developers of the two platforms seems good enough.

No need to make up drama where there is none.

There is always a chance of open source projects dying off, but if there’s an active user base who enjoy the software it will usually not die easy.

Mbin is a good example of this. It started out as Kbin, which was a project dominated by one very active developer who made the whole thing on his own. Unfortunately he did not prioritize getting other people on board, and he then suffered what seems to have been pretty severe health problems. Last thing we heard from him was a picture from a hospital bed. I hope he’s alright.

Thankfully, as what he had made was open source, Kbin lives on in the form of Mbin. If you check my domain you’ll see I’m still on a site called “kbin.earth” rather than mbin - this is why.

PieFed’s developer is better at taking other developers onboard. If you check out !piefed_meta@piefed.social you’ll see monthly development updates. The head developer (Rimu) runs the show, but seven other people contributed last month alone.

If Rimu decides to quit, other people can and will take over as long as there’s an interest. PieFed has the added advantage here of being written in Python, which is a language many people know.

So it should be pretty robust, all in all.

As for the future, PieFed just now launched app support. I guess one thing to look out for is the emergence of alternative user interfaces.

Developments are happening fast and the developers are quite creative. It’s fun to follow. :)

How old are they?

The minimum age for Snapchat is 13. The direct mesaaging part of it allows for fun and harmless messages between friends. I think allowing her to use it if she’s 13+ is reasonable.

What you could do is to ask her not to allow friend requests or messages from anyone who are not her friends, not to use the AI assistant (which can’t be disabled), and to not use it to consume content from influencers (which is in a separate tab to the right). You cannot really police this, but it’s not the end of the world if she sees the feed of some dumb influencer. Maybe while she’s home you can show interest and use it together with her.

Position data must of course also be disabled. Snapchat is a bit creepy.

The fediverse is always (somewhat) public, making it not inherently child friendly. Getting together with other parents to set up a Pixelfed instance to use in the friend group rather than to have them use Instagram is a cool idea, and allows parents to be admins and decide who can federate without taking control of the accounts of the kids. It might be a nice way for them to learn that whatever they do online is run by some person whom they decide to trust. And it could keep them off Instagram a little longer.

I don’t really know the first thing about parenting though, just my thoughts. It’s a tricky question.

The link doesn’t seem to work for those who are not signed in as users.

Try this: https://sopuli.xyz/post/27371098

I get the pleasure of hanging out in well moderated communities where I feel like I am doing my part. Doesn’t need to be more complicated than that.

It seems some users have some sort of group functionality and have had it for “quite a while”, but I don’t see it myself so couldn’t test it.

But yeah, groups in Pixelfed have been “just around the corner” for a while now.

There are very recent updates. Judging from this comment, some users seem to have some sort of grup support already.

I don’t see it on my Pixelfed instance. I’m not sure if that’s because it’s still on v0.12.4 (not the newest v0.12.5), or because it needs to be enabled by the admin. I also have no idea how it currently works.

People keep giving the advice of following hashtags. That might be good advice for really obscure ones where you’re almost guaranteed to be interested in anything posted, but I think it’s terrible advice generally.

Follow users, and hide their boosts or unfollow them if it turns out they make your feed less interesting.

Yeah, I personally don’t believe in blacklisting specific words as a moderation policy in general.

I think it has served Lemmy well though - the automatic filtering of certain words might have deterred some deplorable people from settling down here. :)

I think it’s fine like this - gets the point across!