I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+

Mlem for iOS already has this

No, it wouldn’t. The Beehaw server is located in the United States. External communities aren’t retrieved via your machine, but via their server.

I’m a mod of a moderately sized subreddit (~15k) with lots of people who use Reddit only to interact with that community. We’ve been trying to disseminate information about our official Lemmy, Kbin and Raddle alternatives, but adoption has been slow to nonexistent. So I’m probably going to stick around in both, if for no other reason that to moderate said subreddit.

They explicitly told me in Matrix to not write that, so I just wrote two paragraphs summarizing the two posts they linked in the application guide.

None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as I‘m aware

Rumor has it they banned a lot of mods and communities for encouraging exactly that to their subscribers, so it was considered quite risky.

Hm, that’s definitely not true. Just ask the admins to remove that user and let you try again.

I know of several different groups working on this, from the main developers of Lemmy to people hacking together browser plugins to make this possible already now. I think we will start seeing some of the first of these released in the coming week or two.

No they don’t? 🤔 I’m pretty sure they did once, but right now I am able to upload images with no account. Just dragging the file into the browser window works.

You’d be surprised how much critical infrastructure was implemented through trial and error and has just been left like that for years…

All the more reason that federation is necessary in modern social media.

Wait, how is the GDPR applicable here? I thought the GDPR was just about data protection…

As a mod I’ve been considering this, but with the amount of moderators and communities that have been banned for attempting to steer their users to alternatives, it’s simply not worth the risk. For now, I’ve just linked visitors to our Discord server instead, and people should be able to find the Lemmy and Raddle alternatives there if they wish to.

Oh lawd, I bet there will be a dozen instances for different political inclinations that all have each other blocked lmao

That doesn’t necessarily invalidate the point they’re making. Other forms of analysis, strikingly, provide pretty much completely equivalent results.

How do you know?