SorteKanin
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 2 hours ago:
Even if you could, Linus Torvalds is not a fan of the v3 license.
Why not?
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 11 hours ago:
The Free Software Foundation explicitly forbade tivoization in version 3 of the GNU General Public License. However, although version 3 has been adopted by many software projects, the authors of the Linux kernel have notably declined to move from version 2 to version 3.
How come Linux doesn’t use GPL v3?
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 1 day ago:
Should the government collect taxes on the buoyant times but then refund them during market downturns? That would be a nightmare. No government wants to be on the hook for refunds during a downturn.
AFAIK Danish tax on stock gains/losses works like this. Stock gains are heavily taxed while stock losses give you a tax rebate.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 weeks ago:
I started and almost finished The Forgotten City. It’s really good, if you like mystery.
- Comment on Trying to avoid US elections content as a non-US citizen. Is this possible on the default Lemmy-UI? I prefer it over Tesseract, Photon, Alexandrite and Voyager (which have built-in keyword filters) 3 weeks ago:
I just block most political comms, I don’t see too much of it I would say.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
User blocking merely blocks their communities. You’ll still see comments from the instance and you’ll still see posts in other communities from their users. You’ll also still have their votes influence your feed.
Defederation is the more proper tool to use. Individual user blocking is not effective.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
You mean you personally blocked them? You need to actually be on an instance that defederates them for it to mean anything. User blocking hardly does anything, it just hides communities from that instance, that’s all it does.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
You really should join an instance that defederates from those instances. That is the way to actually “vote” on the fediverse, not via simple user blocking that doesn’t actually achieve what you think it does, as the other reply points out.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
I mean, lead them to instances that defederate hexbear for starters? Seems reasonable anyway.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
Sounds hollow coming from an instance that doesn’t even defederate hexbear.
- Comment on Transphobia in the fediverse 1 month ago:
Everything on the fediverse really depends on where you go. That’s kinda the whole point.
- Comment on Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1) 1 month ago:
It’s on the internet. Public. Got it. It’s almost as if, and hold on to your hats here, the whole point of posting on something like Mastodon or Lemmy or so is to have a public discourse, as you cannot know who will be replying anyways. It’s almost as if, and this is getting wild, I know, read-access being public is intentional and explicitly part of the design.
This is true for Mastodon and Lemmy and I generally agree with this sentiment.
That said, ActivityPub is more than just Lemmy and Mastodon. ActivityPub is more general than that. Lemmy and Mastodon are designed in a way where public discourse is the default and everything you write is expected to be public. But ActivityPub on its own has no such assumptions. There’s nothing about ActivityPub that says that you cannot build a more private social media with it. But actually you can’t really, because of the problems that the blog post points out. But the vision I think for some people is that this should be possible.
I’m personally not 100% convinced that that vision is even possible though tbh.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
Sure. But lemmy would still not show Mastodon posts outside communities even if they supported that extension. Both parties need to move towards each other.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
ActivityPub is an extensible protocol. It is not just one thing. Lemmy only supports posts that follow that extension I linked above. That extension has a definition and Lemmy follows it so in that way it is “standard”. But it is an extension, not part of the core protocol.
Mastodon and most other fediverse services do not support this extension.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
Its not that anyone is “doing it wrong” and Mastodon doesn’t really support Lemmys communities either. So Lemmy works in a bit of a funky way that doesn’t match most other fediverse services.
Its just a bit strange that Lemmy does not support the more common posts outside communities since that is how most of the fediverse works, so we’re kinda missing out on a lot of content that we can’t see on Lemmy.
This is the FEP Lemmy uses but most other fediverse services do not use it and Lemmy does not support anything that doesn’t use this FEP. So again, it’s not that Lemmy is doing something wrong, but Lemmy is not supporting how most of the rest of the fediverse functions.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
As for the posts outside communities? That makes sense lemmy-wise I think. Where would those posts be?
I actually think it’s quite straightforward, they’d just be on a users page. This is actually how Reddit has also done it ever since they introduced the feature (much before they enshittified everything else).
You can think of it like every users profile being a community of its own but only the user itself can post to it. Just conceptually speaking.
That would also let you follow users just as you can follow communities.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
I mean you could equally ask why does Lemmy not support posts outside communities? It’s on both parties to interoperate I think. Lemmy also uses a specific extension to ActivityPub while Discourse’s posts and Mastodon’s posts and such are pretty standard, but still not picked up by Lemmy.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
It has ActivityPub support so it is connected to the fediverse in some ways. Lemmy doesn’t work with it though AFAIK because Lemmy doesn’t support posts made outside communities.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
If there was a Reddit/Lemmy style website (where people create communities for various subjects but it’s all available from the same website using the same credentials) with forum style discussions
Isn’t this just Discourse?
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
I’ve seen some mods power tripping just like good old Reddit.
The difference is that when that happens on Reddit, you can’t go anywhere else. On Lemmy, you can go to any other instance and do it better if you feel the mods elsewhere are bad.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
I need to perform a magic trick to make my feed “better”. At least it’s not that addicting
Lemmy’s feed is intentionally (or I think it is intentional at least) worse in this aspect than Reddit’s feed, in order to not be as addictive. Take that how you will.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 month ago:
Maybe what I see as red is actually what I see as blue to someone else.
This is a very common interesting thought, but what I’ve started thinking is even more interesting is this related thought:
Why does red look like it does, to you? I’m not concerned with how other people see red here, I’m just thinking about a single person (me or yourself, for instance). Why does red look like that? Why not differently? Something inside your eyes or your brain must be deciding that.
You could say “oh it’s because red is this and that wavelength” but what decides that exactly that wavelength looks like that (red)? There must be some physical process that at some point makes the qualia that is red - but how does it do that? The qualia that is red seems to be entirely arbitrary and decidedly not a physical thing. It is just a sensation, an experience, a qualia. But your eyes/brain somehow decides that ~650 nm wavelength translates to exactly that qualia. What decides that and how?
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 month ago:
So what you meant to say is that you don’t see a difference above 60 Hz. But other people definitely can tell the difference. Don’t generalize on everyone based on your own experiences.
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
Do you think that the conversation around, e.g, python programming or wood turning techniques will vary so much that it warrants many specific flavors?
I don’t see why not. Human culture is like a fractal after all :P. At least I don’t think we should discourage creating different places for the same topics, because different approaches is part of decentralization.
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
for the cases where the culture is more-or-less universal
When is this ever true? The idea of a “universal culture” is exactly what I mean with this encouraging centralization. Even a specific community (subreddit) on a centralized service like Reddit will have a specific culture that is not in line with any “universal culture” (it’s likely to be skewed towards whatever culture exists in western english-speaking countries, just to mention an example).
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
I personally am not a huge fan of this idea. Instances are at the end of the day communities of their own in a way. One community may want to discuss a topic in one way and another community may want to discuss it in another way. This seems to be a way to centralize all discussion around a topic in one community, but we should rather go for decentralized communities.
But hey that’s just my opinion, if others like it, go for it.
- Comment on Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation 1 month ago:
They have a page on “supporting long form text in the fediverse” - but this is already supported? I think it’s only Mastodon and other microblogging places that put restrictions on how long posts can be.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
That is a nice success story!
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
But this is only a default right? Surely an admin can open registration anyway?
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
I guess a new flag to only exclude it from the list but not exclude it from the stats 🤷