Draconic_NEO
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 7 hours 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? 7 hours 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 week 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 week ago:
Nope, just micro-blogging.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week 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 week ago:
I think that kind of goes without saying.
- Comment on Nicole has taken a dark turn 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 2 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. 2 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. 2 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. 2 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. 2 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.
- Comment on Created a community for the Gender Abolition movement c/GenderAbolition@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago:
I posted the main thread from blahaj.zone, his comment here and all our replies don’t show up on blahaj.zone at all. I checked the modlog and he was banned from the instance.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 2 months ago:
you can, names are shown in other frontends like phtn.app.
- Comment on Created a community for the Gender Abolition movement c/GenderAbolition@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago:
He’s been suspended from the lemmy.blahaj.zone instance I don’t think he can do that.
- Comment on Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon 4 months ago:
Couldn’t disagree with you more, the thing about federation is that it isn’t viewing the content on the server it was posted on, it is crossposting it to all other federated servers. That means you are when federating remote content you are literally platforming it. That also means you are liable for it if it’s objectionable or illegal content. So being able to not accept those crossposts is important. Honestly defederation and limited federation are not as big of issues as you and others think they are, you can ignore the majority of the defederated servers and it’ll be fine, the issue comes when people want the world and aren’t entitles to have it, like I said in my other comment.
Email is an example of a successful federated platform and it barely has defederation support.
You are insanely naive for saying this. If you’d used non-corporate email servers, like the much smaller email providers out there (which are basically extinct at this point) you’d know just how wrong this actually is. Most smaller email providers out there are blocked or limited by the big ones and the ones that are blocked your mail will never reach the inboxes of people on the big servers, not even the spam folders on those servers. They won’t bounce it back to you either, so it’ll just go into the void.
Most email these days is used primarily by the all mighty trinity: Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo, and a Few on Hotmail and AOL and while there are a few smaller companies out there like Proton, when it comes to something that isn’t a company or is self-hosted you can expect a lot of problems with domains being blacklisted, IPs being blacklisted, or both. And it’s actually much worse than defederation.
Perhaps that is how at least the non-threaded fediverse should work… However, that would also mean that some instance hosting heinous shit would keep being visible to everyone. It’s a tricky problem.
You’re beginning to realize why the decision to limit spam and illegal shit was chosen over catering to the people who want the whole federated world instead of what they’re allowed access to. Ultimately it is better for everyone if the depraved shit and spam gets blocked, than it is for the people who want the whole world to have their way. If you want the world, go to Nostr, you’ll learn why most people do not want the world.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 5 months ago:
That’s great, hopefully Lemmy can support something like that soon. I know the devs said following tags is out of the question but I don’t think that means content shouldn’t have tags.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 5 months ago:
I think that Lemmy would benefit from a tag system, one that allows both adding tags to communities but also to posts, the upshot is that these could be handled like hashtags on other federated platforms like Mastodon. Lemmy already does this with posts in a community, but it’s just a hashtag of the community name, would be good if users could add their own tags.
- Comment on Lemmy Release v0.19.7 5 months ago:
They usually release a lot of bug fixes after a major update, and 0.19.6 had some nasty ones, mostly UI related. Which unfortunately wasn’t entirely fixed in 0.19.7 but at least they’re working on it.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 5 months ago:
That doesn’t mean it isn’t an open standard, that means they are using it as a closed system. This isn’t a case of XMPP not being open, it’s a case of servers using it choosing not to be open. Therefore the problem isn’t XMPP not being open, it’s services themselves not being open. As an example Reddit uses Matrix in their awful chats function, but you can’t message other matrix users there or message reddit users from Matrix. That doesn’t make Matrix not open, it means someone is using it in a way that isn’t open to others.