shrugal

@shrugal@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solutions to the server-centric nature of the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Starting your own instance doesn’t solve the problem of big communities being reliant on the one specific instance they are hosted on to not go down or rogue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solutions to the server-centric nature of the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine it like friend requests between communities. E.g. x@instance.a, all-about-x@instance.b and x-is-great@instance.c could send each other friend requests and merge into one federated meta-community about x. Then if one instance goes down the other two are still there to keep the meta-community alive.

  The nice thing about manual federation is that they don’t have to have exactly the same name, and the mods can keep malicious or troll communities out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse link-aggregator PieFed launches in beta test⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The database or network are usually the bottleneck in these kinds of websites, not the programming language. It might add a few ms of latency, but the big lags come from DB congestion or bad queries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best games that can be completed in under ten hours?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most point and click adventures take about 6-10 hours in my experience. My favorites are the Monkey Island and Deponia games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to Look for in a NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you decide to go down the Synology route, make sure it supports docker. Their cheaper models don’t support it, and it’s the gateway to self-hosting all the services that are not available directly from the package manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk if you really can copyright a letter of the alphabet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the capitalistic definition of freedom. Everything is allowed as long as you have the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cryptocurrencies and social platforms are a completely different beasts. In crypto I want no moderation/censorship, I want anonymity, and above all there is a payout system so nodes can compete for something. This is all different when building a social network, so you can’t just use the same architecture. Building social structures and trust is desirable in a public forum, not something you want to get rid off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admin.Social - Fediverse Admin Guides⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow that looks good, thank you very much!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not the solution! Being able to pick a server to trust your data and content moderation with is a feature, not a bug.

  What we do have to do is make this feature more resilient and easier to use. Like adding the ability to easily transfer accounts and communities between instances, or even change the domain name of an entire instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anytype — decentralized, p2p, e2ee 'Notion' like app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks good so far, but two major features I want from a note taking app are still missing: Handwriting and table calculations. If they can add good support for those then I’ll definitely switch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik it is all connected to the domain name, so they could definitely start to impersonate any .ml instance. Other instances could detect that the signing key for federation messages changed, but that’s about it. Their admins would probably have to block/defederate them manually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. Most centralized services are accessible via multiple domains, e.g. for different countries. This would just disable one of them, but users could still use another to log into their accounts. For the Fediverse it “disables” an entire instance, locks out users and cuts it off from federation.

  Lets not put a positive spin on a situation that exposes a weakness of the current system. The federation protocol needs to be able to handle these things gracefully, like propagating domain changes and migrating accounts between instances!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A domain takedown was never able to shut a server down, not even with centralized servers. Most big services are accessible via multiple domains of different countries, and this would just disable one of them. But for the Fediverse that means that they also “disabled” an entire instance with all its users.

  This actually shows us that relying on domains can be a problem for the Fediverse! Imo we need to upgrade the federation protocol to be able to handle these things, like propagating a domain change or migrating accounts to other instances.