SorteKanin
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Alright alright, definitely in those contexts there is no problem, of course.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
I mean, that’s still acknowledging that damage is being done, just less than actual graffiti. I’d rather not associate the fediverse with defacing public spaces with half-scraped off stickers.
Again, feel like a t-shirt or a cap is a much better option.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
It might be because I am in Denmark which has quite a functioning and lawful system and where I see the most graffiti is in public transport, like on trains and train stations. The transport company spends a lot of money cleaning that graffiti, making public transport more expensive for everyone else (hence antisocial behavior).
So I can understand where you are coming from but my perspective is just different.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
I definitely do not find graffiti cool. It’s illegal and antisocial behavior. The art can be cool of course (although it very rarely is in my experience), but the illegal act is not.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Isn’t this not much better than graffiti? I think advocating for the fediverse is great, but let’s not plaster unnecessary and potentially illegal posters/advertisements everywhere.
If you want to display an appreciation for the fediverse, perhaps there are T-shirts with the fediverse logo?
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
We’re actually seeing a rise in new user applications over at Feddit.dk. The hostile behavior of the US has gotten some Reddit users to seek alternatives to american platforms.
- Comment on How We Lost Communication to Entertainment 3 weeks ago:
Fediverse platforms are not in competition with each other. In fact, it’s more like symbiosis.
Why do you need a culture shift if anyone can just pick whatever platform they personally prefer? If you want a certain cultural approach, then feel free to use a fediverse platform with that approach, but there’s no need for anyone else to follow the same choice, unless they want to.
- Comment on How We Lost Communication to Entertainment 3 weeks ago:
I think the author brings some interesting points, but ultimately I think it’s a faulty premise.
The fediverse is whatever the user wants it to be. That’s the whole point really. If you want a reliable communications platform with zero dropped messages, aka email 2.0, then you can definitely build that on the fediverse and people can join such a platform if that’s what they want.
If that’s not what you want… Well then don’t join such a platform. Join another one. You do you.
We don’t need anyone telling us how to communicate or consume content or whatever we want to do with the fediverse. The whole point of the fediverse is that everyone gets to decide for themselves, so there’s no need to be prescriptive about any one approach.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
From what I’m reading of the series, it sounds like the ending is bad? But it’s super popular. I’m confused, should I watch this?
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 3 weeks ago:
Google respects “before:2012” for now at least.
- Comment on What is this colour? 4 weeks ago:
I would say no, ochre would have more of a red or orange-y tint.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Kind of weird but suit themselves I guess
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
How come?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
There’s nothing that can be done to stop it
That’s not true at all. You can definitely do something:
- Make a sign up process that filters out most low effort bots (e.g. applications, invite trees)
- Get more moderators to catch the bots earlier. In a similar vein, encourage users to report bots.
- Defederate from instances that don’t have similar measures and don’t take bot prevention seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It definitely does. You just defederate from the instances that don’t do something to avoid bots.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 month ago:
I feel like it is just a matter of time before either:
- The fragmented communities develop more and become distinct, so that they are more unique and shouldn’t merge.
- One of the communities becomes the more popular “default” option, and the other becomes less active as people gather in the more popular one.
Even if that doesn’t happen, redundancy isn’t bad. We’ve seen how hard it is to migrate when there’s only 1 real option and that option disappears or goes bad for some reason (i.e. reddit). If there was another fairly active community with the same focus, that would make it easier to keep going. That’s part of why decentralization is good.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 month ago:
This is a non issue. Different communities and instances have different rules, norms, cultures etc. There’s no need to smash everyone together in a monoculture.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 month ago:
Exactly. This is a non issue and actually a feature.
- Comment on Mastodon features 1 month ago:
I mean, just set the limit to a ridiculously high number then? I’m not aware that Lemmy has any in-built limits, but I could be wrong.
I believe that Mastodon instances with limits only link to external posts that exceed the limit, they don’t display the whole post.
Of course you can always run into network limits if you get huge posts, but that applies to everything and doesn’t have anything in particular to do with Mastodon.
- Comment on Mastodon features 1 month ago:
Isn’t character limits an instance setting?
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
No, that’s what I wrote as well. The identity service would not know what sites were visited or ideally not even how many sites were visited.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
I’m not sure that is feasible, because in order to trust the answer, I feel the asker must know and trust the one providing the answer. It sounds like you’re imagining a system with many different ID providers? What prevents me from creating my own provider that just answers “Yes”, even for people under 18? If the site asking does not know it is my fake ID service providing the answer, I’m not sure they can trust any answer.
But I won’t pretend to be an expert on this topic, so perhaps it is feasible somehow.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
In principle it should be possible to do a zero-knowledge proof.
This means that the website asking for age verification asks a yes/no question like “Is this user 18+?” and the age verification service (like a digital ID provided by the government or whatever) answers “yes” or “no” accordingly, but without telling anything else about the user. Also, the verification service should ideally not know who asked for the age verification.
So the site you want to visit only knows the thing they need to know: Whether you are 18+ or not. Nothing else. And the age verification service only knows somebody asked for age verification and provided the answer, but do not know which site you visited.
This is all possible, but I don’t have high hopes this is the intended implementation of any government seeking age verification, so don’t get your hopes up.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 month ago:
Never meet your heroes. Speaking from very literal experience regarding Stallman.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 2 months ago:
Tinnitus has no cure and is generally a permanent condition, so my guess is yes.
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 2 months ago:
The video posted elsewhere in the thread explained it well
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 2 months ago:
I don’t get 4 to 5
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 months ago:
This kinda erodes cultural differences between different communities though. Different communities may have very different approaches on how to talk about a post. I feel like this approach just leads to monoculturism.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 months ago:
Finally someone who gets it. This “problem” is in fact a total non-issue. Different groups talk about the same thing all the time. This is good, not bad.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 2 months ago:
the conversations should be combined
Disagree. As OP points out, there is value in separating the discussions as well.