FediOnFire, a Fediverse project similar to Firesky, which offers an IRC-like view of the global firehose, has shut down after a misunderstanding led to community backlash.

  • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    37·
    16 hours ago

    If you read the article, it really makes the fediverse look like a shithole. Someone on here uploaded csam to take down a project they didnt like. Wtf?

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      11 hours ago

      Fediverse users are not inherently good people. They’re just people.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      5 hours ago

      Not really uploaded. There’s plenty of mastodon instances which have open distribution of CSAM or Loli (A look at our blocklist on fediseer can show just how many there are. Non-risky link btw.). All one needed to do is use that service to retrieve one of those posts using its own search function.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      235·
      15 hours ago

      I mean… if you spend time actually discussing the fediverse, it IS a shitshole. We drove off fucking Alec of Technology Connections for crying out loud.

      It is the problem any message board had where the “old guard” get really pissy when they see new people who aren’t making the same in jokes and deferring to them at every step. So you have endless bullying and shitposting and so forth to make sure they understand “the community”.

      Mastodon is still awesome if you mostly get ignored by them but it goes to shit REAL fast once they see people are having fun and it doesn’t involve them. Been scaling back over the past few months as a result.

      Lemmy is doing a bit better. In large part because most of the horrors are confined to the tankie servers. But you still get the groups of people who make the olde reddit “I am technically correct and you will respect that” crowd seem to be not that bad. It is kind of depressing when the best outcome is often that someone posts a complete non sequitor and then wanders off rather than ACTUALLY have a conversation about the implications of “AI” and astroturfing.

          • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            9 hours ago

            Yeah, I really wish people would be a little more tactful when they go on performative tirades like this. It’s giving “old man yells at cloud” energy. Ridiculous behaviour when you think about it. People can block clouds, yelling is worse than useless.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        310·
        12 hours ago

        We drove off fucking Alec of Technology Connections for crying out loud.

        Sorry but we are better off. I love his videos but his presence is toxic. Some people just love to argue and he is one of them.

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      14 hours ago

      The fediverse is “the internet”. Like, in conception, it’s taking everything that’s publicly available on the internet and making it auto-mirrorable-at-request.

      So yes, on some fundamental level, it’s a shit show. Because the internet is the worst of us.