Elevator7009

The weird thing about your catbox posts is that at one point in time I was clearly able to see them. I remember those Pokémon posts you made in [email protected] and even commenting on them. But now I cannot see them.

I’m cool with Active but I also only look at Subscribed and sometimes Local.

In comparison, there’s other communities with a sea of posts with no upvotes getting posted daily. But no interaction.

In my experience, if I find something to say and say it, I’ll often get a response, especially if it is mostly being propped up by one active mod. (Shoutout to [email protected] and @[email protected]) Even if it is a community that just posts pictures. I try to do the same and comment when someone has something to say in my communities.

Yeah I was honestly surprised this got posted and nobody said something like “the entire point of not automatically federating in new communities is to cut down on resource consumption,” because to be honest? That was my first reaction. If nobody on a server is subbed to a certain community, it will not pull in its content, which is probably very helpful for smaller home-run instances. This kind of defeats that purpose. Although its damage is limited by the fact that only people actively engaged in creating a community will try to use it, and it will probably only be used by new communities.

I feel like the intent of this post is obvious. Whether you personally believe it’s a good idea or not is one thing; but there seem to be quite a lot of people responding to “let’s avoid politics!” with “everything is political”. It frustrates me.

Yes, I understand and agree with the fact that every small little action is informed by unpleasantly political realities like our demographics, our own explicitly political beliefs, who it affects negatively, who it benefits, etc. But if I ask “hey, is this instance full of politics?” I think it’s quite obvious I want to avoid a feed full of depressing news, threads about how [political candidate] and their supporters are being awful today (even if I agree). That even if my feed full of anime and cute animals and whatever else is still political (by my choice to avoid politics, ability to do so, the fact cute animals are prioritized for how they look while other important animals get less attention, by anime being Japanese and reflecting their culture and views, etc.), it’s not really quite the same kind of political as what you would see in Politics or WorldNews or the like. I feel as if people are pointing out an unhelpful and depressing technical reality that runs counter to what I feel is the obvious intent.

I don’t want to come in and assert that the posts I don’t like must so obviously be made in bad faith, and would like to understand the intent behind these posts. Especially since to me they read less as “hey, you might want to consider this small little choice actually has effects… how everything can be political,” a friendly informational statement, and more as “let us set up a community free of politics—BUT EVERYTHING IS POLITICS GOTCHA.”

Once again I am astounded at mobile apps being the blocker. I use the Fediverse nearly exclusively from mobile on the browser and my experience is totally fine.