You're not the only one who thinks that way -- opinions differ!
Correct. Dorsey's early involvement is certainly grounds for concern -- the way I think of it, he's gone now but his stench lingers on -- but he's not influential there going forward.
The Bridgy Fed dev didn't get browbeaten into anything, he thinks the opt-in approach is better (and I agree). And he's also said the backlash was probably deserved.
There's a bit more on Mastodon then Lemmy - https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration has the details. But not being able to move posts is a big limitation. And even the functionality that's implemented has some unpleasant surprises -- see https://erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-mastodon-migration
Yeah. It's endemic in society, so there's no reason that specific social networks are magically exempt from it.
Sure! There were actually several good examples in the thread you were in. But, it'll be interesting to see what else people point to.
Thanks much for the detailed response! And thanks @TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org for the detailed response as well.
The community is called "Fediverse", and this is about the fediverse, so yes it is the correct audience.
And there's plenty of anti-Blackness on Lemmy. In fact there's even a bunch of anti-Blackness in this thread -- as somebody on another instance said, it's illustrates why other instances have defederated lemmy.world! So, if you're looking for examples, have a look at this thread.
Thanks, agreed that section heading needs work!
There have been other waves, it's just that once they get shut down everybody loses interest and moves on. The PR for the one of the changes Mastodon just made was implemented in May 2023 after the Doge spam wave. And here's a June 2019 post talking about exactly the same kind of attack: "The problem we are experiencing is the spammer signing up on random open instances and sending spam remotely."
They don't, at least not from your instance.
Thanks very much, fixed now!