Who used them?
So the other 55% of the time it’s a Lemmy user? I.e. the majority of the time!? There is so much irony in your post.
Is Lemmy just one instance? Or is your gotcha that if you add all of the lemmy instances together this one kbin.social instance just BARELY doesn’t account for over half of the problems people notice. Because that’s not quite the win you were going for.
When I was in kbin and could see who voted because voting metadata is visible there, almost always left wing comments (e.g. supportive of trans rights) received downvotes from someone on lemmy.world while the upvotes were from multiple, varied instances. So I’m not sure kbin is the biggest problem unless things have changed since then
There are two problems: federation works best with a variety of instances of like-minded people, and people on open-registration generalistic instances abusing that to wreak havoc on other instances.
Same as Instances can fully de-federate from other instances, they should also be able to de-federate voting from “non-friendly” instances.
2 weeks from now “Elon musk plans to lock the ability to like and retweet behind subscription”
This new arrangement of deck chairs will make the Titanic’s voyage perfect.
I thought this was The Onion at first.
But Musk is doing a great job of achieving his goal of killing Twitter. I wonder who paid or blackmailed him enough for it to be worth the 44 billion?
They were one of the largest investors in Twitter before the purchase. Musk said he would buy it, then tried to back out, and his hand was forced
