Yea this has really big astroturfing vibes.

The fediverse is not really about avoiding censorship as it is about providing choice. That means the choice to listen to who you want to listen to (i.e. what servers to (de)federate from/to), the choice to post whatever you want (but you might get banned from your own instance or any other instance, that’s their prerogative), the choice of administrators and moderators (i.e. which instance you sign up to and what communities you participate in).

All of that stuff doesn’t really have to do with censorship directly, but it has implications for censorship. The fediverse is not built primarily to avoid censorship though, and in some cases it is made to make “censorship” (moderation) easier, rather than harder.

It’s funny how it used to be expensive. In Danish we have a saying to say someone is poor if “they can’t even afford salt for their egg”, as if an egg is cheaper than salt. Because it actually used to be that way.

One more vote for using WASM. Using WASM has the benefit of allowing the user to use almost whatever language they want, as long as it can compile to WASM. So the user doesn’t have to learn some bespoke scripting-specific language.

That’s not what I said. Read about the XY problem and then come back and explain what you actually want to achieve, and give some more information like code examples.

This screams of XY problem. You’ve gotten a new problem from using this method and you’re asking for help for that, but probably there is an underlying better solution that solves your actual use case without running into this problem at all.

It doesn’t really help for me, but the beauty of the fediverse is that it doesn’t have to. You can like PieFed, I can prefer Lemmy and we can both still talk :)

On the other hand, it has some weirdly opinionated features:

• Hiding downvoted comments (mob rule)
• Marking people with many downvotes as “low reputation”. I get it, getting many downvotes is a bad sign but I don’t think the software should try to make a ruling here, I think human moderators should look at the whole picture. It doesn’t make you a bad person that people disagree with you.
• Communities organized into “topics” - I’m not certain if these groupings are decided by the dev or the admin? Either way I find it a bit problematic.
• Marking certain communities as “low effort” and not counting “reputation” for those. I don’t feel like the software should be making this kind of value judgement.

It creates circles of like-minded people where it is really easy to reject “other” thoughts and accept “our” ideas without much questioning.

I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but there is an argument to be made that we should actually go back to smaller, more secluded forums on the internet that are less connected with outside views.

I’m not sure about the format but I know that towns in Denmark also occasionally calls for meetings. This doesn’t sound that weird to me

Townhalls are weird.

Town halls? As in the building or does this mean something else? Aren’t town halls quite common and normal elsewhere?

Flags everywhere is weird.

We kinda do this in Denmark too tbh. I personally don’t find it that weird due to that.

I started and almost finished The Forgotten City. It’s really good, if you like mystery.

Frankly, all of your points sound quite ignorant. Syntax is literally just a matter of getting used to it. Comparing HashMap ergonomics doesn’t make sense, you should rather compare to struct construction. There are many good reasons for different string types and number types. There are good reasons not to bake in async. Rust documentation is in the code for a very good reason and it’s actually really nice to read docs like that (obviously read it on docs.rs, not in the code itself).

I could go on but there are answers to all of your specific qualms if you just bothered to look for yourself.

I think it would work fine as an emoji though.

A major Danish news site recently said they’d delete their accounts on Twitter :)

Although no plans for making a Mastodon account instead :(

the reality is such that the vast majority will go with the flow

This also works the other way though - once a critical mass moves elsewhere, the mob is quick to follow. I would encourage you to be part of that early snowball that starts the avalanche - be the change.

mostly my local police, fire department, and local govt are only on xitter

The thing is, they are there because the users are there. After all, they want to reach the most people with their important official messaging.

You have to leave to make them leave.

Right - perhaps an alternative user for your “scientific research” is an appropriate measure in that case? :P just a suggestion

any discourse here is almost immediately met with deletions and bans … trigger happy mods

This really depends what instance you go to and what their standards of moderation are. If you’re not happy with your current instance admins / community moderators, then go to another instance or another community (or petition your current mods/admins to improve the situation).

I get controls to block all of the communities that I don’t want to listen to … Lemmy gives you the ability to block instances

Yes, mostly. Keep in mind that blocking communities and instances only affects which posts you see in their feed - the members of those communities and instances still get to vote on the other stuff that is in your feed and affect the post ranking in that way. The only way to avoid that is defederation.

new lemmynsfw community every 30 seconds

Wouldn’t an instance-level block fix this?

no distinction in NSFW topics either - whereas there should be NSFW (Porn) and NSF[L] (Gore), etc.

Tbf this is no different than Reddit and there’s a lack of support in the underlying protocol - it’s not entirely clear how this should be more generally implemented either. You probably want a more generalized tagging system, not just one additional category on top of NSFW.