UnanimousStargazer

if not most mobile apps don't even support DMs at all, so you can use those.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not a suitable work around for me.

I use Voyager and consider it by far the best client, but I'm not going to switch apps because Lemmy doesn't allow DMs to be blocked.

It's also not just about hiding, but the sender should be aware the DM cannot be send.

You cannot block a user that already send you a message.

You also cannot delete a DM unless the administrator helps you. If you receive abusive material you're more or less stuck with it.

I don't want DMs, but I must accept them now.

Thanks!

You don't need to allow other people on your server.

If you start your own server, you moderate yourself.

Whether others want to federate with your server is up to them.

The best way to get a quick understanding I think is to listen to episode 561 (2015) of This American Life about NUMMI in California:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015

Toyota was more or less forced to start building cars in the US in the early eighties and did so in an unlikely joint venture with General Motors. GM was very interested in learning how Toyota build their cars. Bottom line: the Toyota Production System or TPS is mostly a way of management thinking that is completely different from the way most companies in the world manage people.

It is based on trusting employees, enforcing employees by training them, allowing employees to report errors as soon as possible, viewing the production proces as a manager with your own senses, understanding the production proces, truly following a vision and more.

Toyota actually does what most managers learn in management schools but don't practice. Most managers outside Toyota want to be a boss and not a leader. But Toyota wants leaders that are being followed by employees based on intrinsic values.

Interestingly, the Toyota Production System is heavily influenced by the Training Within Industry program developed by the US Army during WWII and taught in post-war Japan by the US. And statistician W. Edwards Demming who showed Japan what true PDCA looks like.

Although an initial success, the production plant ultimately stopped operating. It was purchased by Tesla, and AFAIK, as of today Teslas are being build in the same plant in Fremont. But I highly doubt TPS is used to build Teslas.

Really? Didn't know that was possible but it's great to hear that.

This is a good question, because it never gets a proper answer.

I think most people consider it a way to approve or disapprove an OP or comment, but it's completely unclear why.

Let's say you post an OP about basketballs in the community!basketballsarecool@someinstance. If your OP describes all the cool things about basketballs, you'll receive upvotes. If your OP describes basketballs are useless, you'll receive downvotes. And it probably will be the reverse in the community!basketballsareuseless@someinstance.

Lemmy could at least stand out if the development community would remove downvotes. It's an unnecessary polarizing passive aggressive way to disagree with somebody, that leads to all kinds if unnecessary negative emotions.

But it would be even better if the whole upvote / downvote system can be disabled. You don't know who is upvoting / downvoting and what does it say?

What platform? Windows? Unix? Linux?

The Court of Justice if the EU will very likely disallow the use of this authority in the future, but it often takes time to litigate in court up to a point where an organization can proceed to the EU Court.

It's a terrible way of politicians trying to circumvent fundamental rights, even though their goal always is to prevent crime. The simply pass the bill, wait until it becomes law, start doing their business, claim victory and then complain the EU Court disallows it.

Sigh.

I'm not registered on this instance, so your comment is completely wrong. It's also a personal attack, but you don't even know me.

As soon as an administrator starts deciding I cannot access Threads, I obviously will move if I want to see Threads posts.

I'm quite dumbstruck however by the large amount of people that think an administrator should block a server like Threads even before they have started using ActivityPub.