I wasn’t trolling, my response was geniune and I was disappointed. My comment wasn’t clear, please don’t take it the wrong way.

This was when kbin.social was REALLY active. IIRC probably around June 2023? When Ernest was still active maintaining the kbin.social instance. The Mastodon instance I was talking about is mastodon.art. And if I search around, I’m still right that the instance seems to REALLY like to defederate without valid reason, I will link some thread that talks about this below ^[1].

I wrote about the detail of this in kbin.social, but kbin.social is no longer active so I’ll admit I kind of forgot the detail.

As far as I remember the reasoning stated in mastodon.art federation status is that “right wing” or something along that, at the time. I knew at that time that was wrong. I don’t really care about right wing or left wing (I am just a Southeast Asian, that dichotomy of politics is kinda unrelatable to me, but that’s topic for another time). But kbin.social was definitely not “right wing”, in fact it was one of the “leftist” place I’ve seen on the internet.

Even then, the reasoning feels kinda off to me, other than the fact that it wasn’t true, why would you defederate instance over difference of opinion? If the instance was spamming your agenda to your instance then it’s probably justifiable. But it clearly wasn’t at the time. ^[2]

And regarding “keeping people away from fediverse”, I was talking about the UX of fediverse.

That time, I wanted to follow someone from mastodon.art as said person is an artist I really like that was disappointed with Twitter and trying out several alternative social medias. Somehow they chose to join mastodon.art. I was happy and wanted to follow said artist. I tried following them but I remember I had a hard time doing so.

Turns out my instance was defederated.

At this point, I’m sure most non-tech-savvy user would have given up. But I still tried following it anyway. I tried creating mastodon.art account, and, it turns out, mastodon.art sign up requires approval. At that point, I kinda given up. It’s gonna take lots of time until it gets approved, so why bother?

The admin behavior somehow actually made me doubt that I will get approved too (though to be fair, it ended up being approved). And then, why would I use the mastodon.art account, when the instance is defederate-happy, making it actually hard to discover another artist to follow (in an app that already have some problem with discoverability)?

Since then I started using less and less fediverse. I was kind of annoyed by this experience.

Defederation perhaps is necessary.

But it is prone to abuse by admins. And that degrades user’s experience.

I have to convince them it’s not all an edgy echo chamber of pretend leftists

Hard to do that when all I see is that tbh

Fediverse is mostly unwelcoming–on the UX side but mostly the people themselves

Sadly lots of artworks inside it are from Twitter, and Twitter is very closed right now, making it hard to archive/save the works.

Just skimming through it will be more than enough

I remember reading an advice about this on https://fs.blog/ but forgot which article it was

Found it: https://fs.blog/reading/

The third component of reading is learning when to quit a book.

Good writing is effortless reading. Bad writing, on the other hand, feels like a chore. Good writing is felt instantly. It is packed with ideas and insight and has a certain momentum that compels you to keep reading.

Quitting is not as easy as it seems. If you were taught to finish what you started, that invisible rule is still with you today and might prevent you from quitting bad writing.

When it comes to reading, you don’t need to finish what you start. You can quit. Once you realize that you can quit without guilt, everything changes.

Skim a lot of books. Read a few. Immediately re-read the best ones twice.

All the time you spend reading something bad comes at the expense of reading something good. Reading a great book twice is better than reading ten average ones.

It’s largely about books, but I’d argue it applies to web pages

If its a non-meme community, like an actual serious topic. Post memes about it.

Please please, please don’t

I’ve seen semi-serious subreddit allowed memes enough to tell that it won’t go well.

Bonus: I’m such a hoarder. From tech blogs, articles, videos, to internet artworks

I actually have my own personal project for this: a bookmark app that also serves as archive app

Sadly personal life stuff kinda made this project stop, even though I already bought the domain 😢

Were you fine when Trump got elected as president few years ago? If yes, then I promise you, you’ll be fine.

ESPECIALLY if you’re not American (with the exception of Ukraine probably)

Whatever it is, I think it’s better if you sign out from Lemmy for a while

Notice there’s no “sorry” in the translation

Introvert

A screenshot would be nice

yup. someone is lying here

There are lots of finger-pointing here. Funko said the takedown was done by their partner, BrandShield. BrandShield said it was a URL-specific (or is it subdomain?) takedown, not the whole domain. The registrar, Iwantmyname, responded said takedown by taking down the WHOLE domain.

I think Funko shouldn’t have trusted AI to do legal-related stuff. BrandShield is a stupid idea born from the AI-hype. It’s stupid and shouldn’t have existed. Iwantmyname is just as incompetent if not more–they haven’t even released any public statement about this. Their customer support are also slow to response apparently.

Itch.io should move domain registrar. Funko should stop using BrandShield, it only damages their brand more.

Also what’s up with Funko calling someone’s mom lol. that’s stupid

I also think that this is why AI won’t replace our jobs. I’ve seen many instances where technologies replaces jobs, but this ain’t it

Funko: “Yo mama so fat”

Has Funko, BrandShield, and the registrar released any statements yet?

This is unprofessionalism on MANY many parts

the domain registrar never responded, what a fucking joke. time to switch

What the fuck, I assumed that this issue is resolved by now but turns out itch.io is still can’t be accessed

Can someone explain? How does Funko have such ability?

Mr. Worldwide

Actual funny meme? In my fediverse app?