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Quokk.au September Yarning Circle (self.meta)
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Welcome everyone!

First of all, what is a ' Yarning Circle '? Well it's a place to have a yarn, a conversation, in a circle where everyone can speak equally. In this case we're here to discuss the state of the instance and it's future. Something I hope to host monthly going forward. Oh and thanks to slrpnk.net for letting me steal their formatting of community posts.

๐ŸŒŸ Community Highlights ๐ŸŒŸ

  • !lll@quokk.au - little left library: "A community to share leftist literature", a cozy little place to find something to read on a rainy day.

  • !y2k_memes@quokk.au - Y2K Memes: This makes me feel old.

  • !90s_memes@quokk.au - 90s Memes: This makes me feel older.

  • .ml de-fed?

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป What's Up? ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป

Prior to switching over to PieFed from Lemmy, Quokk.au was de-federated from the 'triad', as it stands with the move we are now re-federated with lemmy.ml. In the near future I would like to hold a vote to decide if you would like to continue to remain as such or move towards de-federating them. Please let me know your thoughts.

  • I've started working on a few small customisations to PieFed. Mostly centered around the web interface, changing layout.
  • New (WIP) themes such as a replication of old.reddit and a PHPBB inspired theme.

๐Ÿงถ Yarn ๐Ÿงถ

Please let me know how you're finding your experience so far with Quokk.au, and if there is anything I can to do help improve it for you.

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[โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As much as I hate the tankie triad and would love to defederate them, I think leaving it up to the users is the beat course of action. However I do believe we should take steps to protect users who join the instance. Possibly providing a warning page about the tankie instances, why they are problematic, why we chose not to defederate, and how users can go about blocking the instances themselves.

However if we can't or won't take those actions to give users the information to protect themselves, I think defederation is the next best option.

I do not believe we ahould remain federated unless we have some form of protection for the instance as well as our users.

Side note: Just want to come in and also say hi to everyone as I have just joined. I've been using the fediverse for a couple years now and just recently swapped from Lemmy (my main instance being slrpnk) to piefed, due to my issues with the lemmy devs. I started on piefed.blahaj.zone as I am familiar with the Lemmy version, but decided to give quokk.au a chance as I prefer anarchist oriented instance (and unfortunately the only other one I have found on piefed is run by the db0 admins who I have issue with as well).

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  • [โ€“] [S, A] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks for your input Comrade_Spood, and welcome! Pleasure to have you here with us.

    I guess that's one of the benefits of PieFed over Lemmy is that per instance de-federation is apparently working much better. Combining your suggestion with Unruffled's above I'm currently thinking of making a sort of 'Welcome to PieFed/Fediverse' primer page, with some warning on the Triad/other questionable instances and information on how to block them.

    Alternatively, I wonder if there's the possibility of making it opt-in rather than opt-out. So by default new accounts do not see it, but if they wish they can allow it.

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