That’s good on them for doing that. It is also good for Mastodon in general since it means they are building the staff that can grow the service.

I try to prioritize doing the least work as possible. This has shockingly helped my career as my laziness means I’m efficient at work.

His buddy, Robert Rodriguez, did him a solid.

J. Draper makes a lot of interesting videos on London history, including bits not normally discussed.

Miles in Transit is a guy named Miles who takes a lot of transit. And that is a fun fact.

Movie Bob is an interesting movie reviewer that I like.

Patrick (h) Willems is not a content creator, he is a cinematic interpreting powerhouse.

I don’t know, since I’m not going to follow up on a conversation with a bad starter that just wants to talk without knowing what they want to talk about.

What you’re doing sounds like a lot of spam that I’ve been receiving.

We already kill cows to eat them. Wearing their skin is just using more of their material.

I’m not that surprised. If you live in a rural area, you aren’t going to get the services of a city. Hospital care is part of that.

But you’ve consistently stated that the first step if an admin tries to build that sort of thing and does something that you disagree with is to leave. Don’t try to talk with the admins to help build a stable place, just leave.

I don’t see that as a good first step.

Outside of .ml and beehaw, what admins are that active and communicative with users in general? Who is publishing policy on how they are running their instance and showing how they are following through on it?

Most Lemmy instances are small hobbies run by vibes dictoral control of a single person and people change over time. Unless you build your own instance, admin relations will always be something that you have to deal with.

The mod in question is a major Star Trek nerd and there was a massive falling out recently with the user base of startrek.website and the mods/admins, which is why a lot of them moved to .world in the first place.

The implication would be a de facto war with China as this would be viewed as an American invasion of Chinese territory.

While the world may act as if Taiwan is independent, it is recognized under international law that Taiwan and China are the same country.

But what if your email did shit like that every year? Or now you have to switch messaging with a group of friends and some don’t want to jump to a certain new app?

But who changes their email every year?

They tried making prestige TV first, not enough people bought it.

Federation is as easy to migrate an email, but moving from one email account to another isn’t seamless. There is even more of a sunken cost as the database is public facing and can’t be move across instances like an email archive can be.

And the purpose of federation isn’t the ability to switch accounts freely, it isn’t built into the system. The purpose is like email, you can access multiple servers controlled by different groups from your own server controlled by people you’ve vetted.

Yeah, and the end result may be that a lot of subs leave. However, I would try other things first.

But why do through all that first before trying to talk to the admins?

And I wish that kind of world existed where people could fund that kind of media landscape.

I’ve just been aware that, for over a decade, streaming prices weren’t sustainable because they were subsidized by cable and broadcast.

Depends on where they move, doesn’t it?

And that requires a lot of coordination, both with the user base to make sure the jump goes well for them and probably with the admins of the instance they are jumping to in order to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Pick a good instance and it won’t happen.

Up until a week ago, .world was acceptable. Then it wasn’t. People change and communities change. Without an attempt to even discuss policy, this is going to become a major problem that keeps growing.

Why not just leave it behind as a record?

Why would one instance keep the data from a group of people that left and whose community is now locked? Or maybe the admins give mod privileges to a different set of mods and now you’ve got two competing groups.

Again, the whole point of federation is that we don’t cut all ties

A community is intentionally destroying itself to make a new one somewhere else. That’s a larger impact than you are making it out to be.