Draconic_NEO
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world
- Comment on What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat? 1 week 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 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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. 3 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. 3 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 3 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 4 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.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 4 months ago:
Particularly Lemmy because Lemmy admins have fundamentally broken the idea of federation with defederation. It generally doesn’t matter what email you use or what email the receiver uses, baring more niche services. It does actually matter what instance you’re on.
You’ve probably never tried using email outside of Google, Outlook, Yahoo or Proton but let me tell you it doesn’t just work. A lot of the servers have been blocked by the big first 3, sometimes soft-blocks being redirected to the Spam folder, but often times hard blocks where they don’t get through at all. So it very much does matter what email service you do use, as many of the smaller ones and domains you might obtain to set up your own have been defederated, much more aggressively might I add. It doesn’t take much for a domain to end up on spamhaus’ or other spam lists, and it’s a big pain to get them off said lists.
Let’s compare with Defederation of activitypub services (because Lemmy devs didn’t invent the idea of deferation, it’s part of ActivityPub standard and is a thing on all activitypub platforms), something that typically happens when a server is spamming, spreading violent or hateful messages, or otherwise engaged in unproductive or harmful behavior (i.e. trolling, rudeness towards others, etc.). We don’t use spamhaus or a similar equivalent service to filter “spam” automatically, much of it is done by server admins themself, there are tools like Fediseer meant to keep track of instances which are trusted as well as identifying known bad actors, but since this is community driven and not monolithic it is different from spamhaus and the like.
In all honesty the Defederation boogeyman is a very stupid argument, especially when comparing it to email which has ironically been hit the hardest by it. It has effectively been reduced to a handful of big players while all the other smaller ones out there find themselves unable to compete. Meanwhile on the activitypub side defederation is still an issue but it is a minor one and is limited to edge cases or bad behavior. One thing that is important to note, and why it isn’t talked about more frequently to other people is this. When people invite others to join the Fediverse, they naturally assume the people who are joining are NOT trolls, alt-right sociopaths, neonazis, pedophiles, spammers, etc. and thus are not likely to have their accounts banned or the servers they start get widely defederated. If you are one of those people chances are you aren’t the target demographic for most fediverse servers out there, and thus you will face friction, bans, and mass defederation because people do not want you in their spaces or to listen to your dogshit propaganda.
The Fediverse was never about freeze peach, it’s about collaboration and cooperation between services, and most services do not want to collaborate with people who are assholes. The people still claiming that it is for free speech are lying or misinformed, because on most servers if you speak your mind and say things that are unacceptable or evil, there will be consequences. That means bans from those servers or defederation if you run your own.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 4 months ago:
It’s an excuse, people don’t want to just say they don’t want to do it, so they make an excuse not to, saying it’s ““complicated””. They don’t feel like it or hate it for some irrational reason, possibly a misconception or just hate change.
If you see someone making excuses like this, or even casually making fun of the idea of decentralization and the fediverse, challenge them on it, point out how they are making excuses simply because they don’t want to do it, or say no. Ask them how it is “complicated” and make them give an explanation. 90% of the people I’ve done this with couldn’t come up with one and just acted embarrassed after, because they couldn’t come up with one. It’s a mindless excuse.
- Comment on Lemmy Federate updates: Mbin support and federation mode option 4 months ago:
That’s good to know.
- Comment on My blog now has Lemmy comments 4 months ago:
Doesn’t Lemmy already support federated wordpress blogs as locked communities? I don’t really see how this extra complexity is needed.
- Comment on Lemmy Federate updates: Mbin support and federation mode option 4 months ago:
Would seed-only mode still be acceptable for an instance larger than 100 users? Asking because another instance admin is concerned about the possible ethical issues that might arise if larger instances use this. They haven’t used the tool up to now due to concerns of increasing storage and disrupting/affecting the natural All page by federating many new communities automatically, which is why seed-only mode was being considered.
(If I misunderstood something or got something wrong I apologize)
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 4 months ago:
I would encourage that, but if your instance doesn’t defederate them you may have to go a bit farther since you’ll still get replies from lemmy.ml users, as users are not blocked as part of this functionality. And that is by design, it’s not meant to act as a replacement or alternative to defederation, it’s meant to act as an alternative to blocking all communities on an instance.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 months ago:
For Twitter it really doesn’t make sense because it has become undebatably a “Nazi bar”, metaphorically since they aren’t an actual bar, but they still support and tolerate Nazis (and other manners of horrible people). Some people insist that it isn’t and there are “normal level headed people there” but that doesn’t matter, it’s still a Nazi bar, because it accepts and tolerates Nazis. How can someone expect to not be judged for going to and hanging out in a place like that?
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 4 months ago:
The one on the left is a MAGA, they’re unable to listen to logic even if the answer is right in front of them.
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 4 months ago:
Well right wingers want to ban books and services like IA make that harder since they provide easy access to download or digitally borrow those books. It makes it harder for them to deny people access to those books since they can find them online. Of course, there are other ways people can still obtain those books, IA isn’t the only one, but it’s the easiest and the most convent.
- Comment on Robot moderation could be coming to your town 4 months ago:
I’m in agreement. The social credit idea really doesn’t bode well. Karma resrictions on Reddit are one of the bad parts of Reddit and I for one am glad that it’s not a thing here.
- Comment on Lemmy Federate - tool to help communities sync across instances 4 months ago:
That’s why it’s really important to have an option to share your own instance communities without receiving ones from others. Allows others to know of you, while not taking on more data load than you have to.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 months ago:
I don’t know, it’s hard to say what actually happened. I will admit that it seems weird but I don’t want to jump to conclusions about how or why they did it, maybe you could post about it on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com to get different opinions on it.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 months ago:
Yeah I saw it on their modlog. It’s very useful to check the modlogs of remote servers, especially since admin comments removals and site-bans for remote users don’t federate in the modlog.
(which your agreement to could be seen as agreement with trans-segrigation in sports).
Nah, I was explaining how the only way to get better at chess is to play better people, and there’s no reason for any classes based around gender. And the explanation for difference in skill, is simply that the best men refused to play women, so they never improved. The first female grand master was only that good because her dad was crazy good and made her and her sister play him constantly.
You need the experience of high level play to be able to play at a high level, and any gender divide in division just prolongs that. So I was arguing against any segregation at all.
I guess it was likely a miscommunication or misunderstanding. They probably thought you meant something different than what you actually meant.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 months ago:
You were banned in blahaj.zone for your comment on Chess: Image
They take the whole trans women allowed/not-allowed in sports thing very serious there, and I agree with them mostly. The sports thing is a dog-whistle transphobes use because it sounds reasonable even though it really isn’t. It is especially unreasonable in a game like Chess (which your agreement to could be seen as agreement with trans-segrigation in sports). It’s likely they reacted way too harshly, outright permanent instance bans over something small like that are very extreme, a warning would’ve probably been the best thing to do, maybe a temp ban at most.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 months ago:
Lately sh.itjust.works been more good about nuking spam and troll accounts, and they also have automated defenses set up to mitigate abuse.
