I’m new here and not up on the history, but I have a couple of questions:

1. When an instance defederates, does it disconnect from all other instances? Or can the administrators choose which other instances they no longer want to sync up with?

2. In the case of content remaining on my local instance that originated on another instance that has since defederated, would I be able to tell? Would it be possible for Lemmy to add a visual indicator that this content had become disconnected from its originating instance?

Try being a violinist and watching people play violin in movies. That’s also painful.

On other platforms it’s possible to block users so you don’t see their posts and comments. Is there any such facility in Lemmy?

I see someone hasn’t used Microsoft Teams.

My colleagues and I had set up a nice self-hosted XMPP server which everyone could use to chat in-house without any of the traffic leaving our network. We had it end-to-end encrypted and it was quick and easy. Then management (with the support of a few employees who like hype) switched us to Slack. It wasn’t private, all our confidential messages went out to the internet, the boss could technically read anything we wrote, and many people didn’t like the UI. Once management got frustrated wit it they switched us to Microsoft Teams. After using that for a year, I miss Slack. Teams is a bloated buggy mess with a UI designed to confuse and no privacy, and it also has all the disadvantages of Slack.

A few of us have secretly switched to Matrix and Element. It’s good. Don’t tell management.

In an average workplace that seems like a bit of a losing battle to fight since everyone can message each other on personal phones anyway. But I can see it if it’s a workplace that handles sensitive information and restricts the use of personal devices.

My workplace went remote-only. So they don’t really stand a chance of preventing us messaging each other on our personal devices. I do try to keep the work machine separate though.

Without practical uses it’s nothing but a Ponzi scheme, which is why every thread about crypto has a few true believers urging others to “invest”.

It’s true, and it’s not much like real intelligence, all the hype notwithstanding. On the other hand, statistics and calculus are pretty powerful tools and so are the ML systems that use them.

I have worked with these people. They are very good at skimming the surface of every new thing and convincing others they are experts. Meanwhile, the really smart people are often busy with the projects they’re already deeply immersed in, so they can’t turn on a dime like this, nor do they want to.

If they ever find his body they can put “safety just is pure waste” on his headstone.