Mane25

joined 1 year ago
[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago

Is it not disgraceful that you have to use a trick so some third party company doesn't install software you don't want on your hardware? I think that's appalling!

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

SLA? If that means something like "service level agreement" (I don't know, you didn't specify, I'm guessing) then I can still find examples where it falls well below what I would expect from a public service such that if there was an agreement in place that I would definitely be opposed to it as a tax payer.

And if X isn’t viable there are other platforms that are.

I mean yes obviously, there are much more viable platforms like Mastodon, or even a self-hosted website.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Is Twitter/X viable for that? They can decide, and have, to randomly put information behind login walls.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would also like to know this. The communication is terrible. Is @20cx12@lemmy.world part of feddit.uk or separate? This is what I meant when I said it should be "well and truly distanced" from this instance. Somebody else needs to set up the UK instance, not be reliant on what ever Flaky Tom decrees. I'm not in the position to step up, and perhaps nobody is - but please could people honestly communicate that so we can look for alternatives?

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I feel like I gently warned about this during the process, relying on an inactive admin always seemed like a bad idea. I hoped it was taken care of and that somebody else was assigned console access but no assurance was provided, no explanation as to what the actual situation was, so I left here for another instance. Turns out my fears were true and I'm glad I didn't waste any more time here.

I have no idea why folk were so eager for Tom to turn back up again, why that was a source of any delay, or any reason to change plans for "Quackhouse" once they were in advanced stages.

I feel like all this has really crushed what was a promising UK community on Lemmy, a double-blow now, and I hope any new instance that appears is well and truly distanced from this one.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

It was the AMA that was the last straw for me, on top of everything before. It had been going downhill, but that was where I lost all hope it would improve.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

If it were a new platform and somebody wanted to try that I'd at least watch what happens, but Musk has burned through too much credability.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't agree with you that small instances lead to poorer quality, if anything there's a better sence of community in a small forum.

I'd rather have more in common with old style unfederated forums than big social media.

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That type of thing is concerning. What browser are you using out of interest?

[–] Mane25@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I would always out of habit avoid any links that go to somewhere other than the advertised destination - so if it goes to an analytics platform I would copy and paste the text if the text of the link is a URL, or find an alternative. Always hovering links and being absolutely sure of where they go should really be taught as standard practice.

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