Draconic_NEO
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world
- Comment on It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0 4 days ago:
As great as it would’ve been to have Python on the Web instead of JS I don’t think that would’ve gone well when the Python foundation decided to make Python 3 incompatible with Python 2. That change already broke a lot of shit (Kodi addons never quite recovered from that) and I remember many people excusing it, but if websites ran on it, that wouldn’t have been inconvenient, it would’ve been far more devastating.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 2 weeks ago:
The only positive thing I ever heard about lemmy.one is that they federate with Beehaw. At the time I was already skeptical of that being a good thing since Beehaw has harsh opinions on moderation and had already said they wished to exit the Fediverse. So I dismissed lemmy.one back then as being one of those unremarkable and poorly managed instances, and it seems I was largely right. It is still sad to see an instance leave like this.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 3 weeks ago:
That’s kind of sad but also isn’t surprising. They didn’t exactly put in a huge amount of effort to maintain it, nor did they put in much effort to grow it or make it appealing as a server for people to join.
- Comment on Reddit infiltrators, need a shortened Lemmy link to evade Reddit filtering? DM me 4 weeks ago:
We shall see I guess, though unless they opt to only allow access to logged in users it’ll still be technically possible to do, especially locally in your own browser. Though people do lose interest over time, especially as platforms lose relevance.
- Comment on Reddit infiltrators, need a shortened Lemmy link to evade Reddit filtering? DM me 4 weeks ago:
I mean web scraping also exists and scraper based Reddit frontends have been and still are a thing. Also using accounts API isn’t ideal since they can figure out that an account is being used to look at stuff like that and either suspend it or worse just make shadowbans visible and not apparent to that account.
Can’t so easily fuck with a web scraper or tool just looking at the raw web page data.
- Comment on Reddit infiltrators, need a shortened Lemmy link to evade Reddit filtering? DM me 4 weeks ago:
I don’t really get why this solution isn’t used much or even suggested. I mean fetching the data without an account is a foolproof way to detect shadowbanning and silent removals. Frankly I’m surprised no one has simply made an extension or tool to do it automatically.
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3) 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, email hosting is a pain. Also don’t get me started on just how unfriendly large email providers are to self-hosted email. Typically always false flagging it as spam and sometimes bouncing or dropping it instead of even sending to spam folder. People downplay this problem but it’s a serious problem when it comes to self-hosted or non-corporate email services.
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3) 5 weeks ago:
This is amazing, it’s nice to have a scoring system to be able to rate how decentralized and also how active the different services are.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 5 weeks ago:
Mastodon and Sharkey (Misskey fork), though I use Sharkey much less.
I also have a Matrix account which is a different kind of Federated service (chat and instant messaging) though not Federated in the same way as Lemmy and Mastodon (uses a different federation protocol).
- Comment on Any fediverse like discord clones? 5 weeks ago:
What do you think Federate means? It absolutely does, Matrix Federates over the Matrix protocol, which is a separate protocol from Activitypub which is what Lemmy and Mastodon use. It doesn’t Federate with Lemmy and Mastodon because they are different protocols but it absolutely does federate. Honestly there’s no reason for it to Federate with Lemmy and Masotodon. ActivityPub isn’t a good protocol to use for chatting, Matrix as a chat protocol is superior. Not to say that activitypub is bad, it’s great for social media platforms like forums and blogging, it’s just not good for instant messaging.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
They certainly do not seem very tolerant of that now, they very commonly ban people for thinly veiled homophobia and transphobia that would normally slide on other sites. They do not even seem mildly willing to tolerate the intolerant.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
Nope, just micro-blogging.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
Yeah Spinster is generally considered a hate site, and consequently is very widely defederated, even from general purpose instances like lemmy.world. Also it’s less of a Reddit alternative and more of a Twitter alternative but is technically redundant since you can do everything you did on there on the real thing instead.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
I think that kind of goes without saying.
- Comment on Nicole has taken a dark turn 1 month ago:
And this is why it is especially important that instances upgrade to 0.19.11 ASAP since that version both offers DM removal when banning users with content removal, and also hides images from being rendered in DMs. Unfortunately a vast majority of instances are on 0.19.9 or earlier.
- Comment on Nicole has taken a dark turn 1 month ago:
Vast majority of people do, it is the default UI when you use a browser, and by far it is the most fast and lightweight one. For most people accessing on a web browser Lemmy-UI IS Lemmy. Obviously many people use alternative UIs and Apps but the point is a change in the default UI that people use is a majorly impactful change.
- Comment on Follow libreddit with lemmy client 1 month ago:
you can use codeblocks to show it how it is by the way
like this
¯\\_(ツ)\_/¯That shows the exact code you typed without applying any formatting to it whatsoever.
- Comment on Follow libreddit with lemmy client 1 month ago:
It’s a markdown issue due to how markdown styling works. It would be nice if we had a fancy editor like Reddit does since MD can be fussy in some circumstances, especially trying to make blank lines.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 month ago:
lemmy.blahaj.zone has a decent amount of women and both their admins are women, it’s not a “women’s space” as one would describe since everyone is welcome there but it’s probably the closest thing one would describe as an instance “by women for women”. I am obligated to mention that it is a queer instance and that many of the women there are either trans themselves or strongly supportive of trans people, and do not tolerate transphobia or anti-LGBT sentiment (including refusal to support LGBTQ people) at all.
- Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post. 1 month ago:
It makes sense that it would be highly dependent on comments because for one, Lemmy’s default filter is activity based so the more activity a new post has, the higher it will rank, until displaced by a newer post. The second part is that if there aren’t any comments there people might be less likely to leave comments and the post is more likely to do poorly as it’ll get bumped down by posts with higher activity. Obviously not everyone uses the activity sort feature, some sort by new, top, or scaled, but since activity is the default most will use that. Especially since it shows posts with the most discussion and activity, the ones most likely to find other people interacting on.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 months ago:
You should also add secretly whitelisted Facebook trackers in their adblocker, something they did a while back.
- Shipped a TOR feature that leaked DNS
Yikes I didn’t know they did that but I’m not surprised. There’s a reason the people behind Tor say it should only be used via the official Tor browser, because only the Tor browser can provide that level of protection against those kind s of leaks, as well as much better fingerprinting resistance than chromium-based brave is going to give you.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 months ago:
Don’t forget about the fact that a while back they secretly whitelisted Facebook trackers in their adblocker to “make pages run more smoothly” they got a lot of shit for it when people found out looking through the source code. When I heard that they did that it basically cemented in my mind that they were shady and untrustworthy, that’s in addition to the Crypto and rewards stuff.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 months ago:
See guys, I know people didn’t believe me when I said there are people who push for and encourage for projects to be corporatized instead of community run but here is one of them. These types of garbage arguments always bring up the idea of cybersecurity but always neglect to mention one of the biggest security and privacy threats to the corporate governed model, the corporation itself. Especially once enshittification really sets in.
And before you vomit some horrible misrepresenting argument reminiscent of Dave Plumber’s speech against backdoors in Windows, you know damn well that when I say the company itself is a privacy and security threat to the project that I’m talking about deliberate attempts by the company to make money off the project through tracking, ads, crypto mining, and any other number of shady shit. You know, things that are officially sanctioned.
- Comment on What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat? 3 months ago:
I like it, it’s nice to be able to bring RSS News feeds automatically into the Fediverse, and if people don’t like it they can just ignore or block the communities.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 3 months ago:
You can use the Tesseract Lemmy frontend to view votes in your communities. However it will only work on instances on version 0.19.8 or greater, so if your mod accounts are on an instance like that it won’t give you the option or let you see them.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 3 months ago:
You can usually use another instance that shows names if you have an account there, it’ll show at least the federated stuff.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 3 months ago:
Mods can already see voting data, at least through the API on the latest version of Lemmy.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 3 months ago:
I know, it’s a really big problem here and on the Fediverse in general because people get so outraged and entitled over something that just is the way things are, this wouldn’t work any other way.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 3 months ago:
It’s not good practice. Really one shouldn’t be assuming anything is private or some entitlement to privacy on a service where all content you post is made publicly available to any and all linked instances. They miss the point of a federated public forum. If one wants privacy, data must be kept locally only. That’s why Lemmy has local-only communities, the “private” community aspect that many people want just won’t be federated, because you can’t make something like this private otherwise.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 3 months ago:
The whole concept of the Fediverse as social media is that all the data is public. Stop acting like these servers are giving out private data.