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- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 1 week ago:
I really, genuinely, no sarcasm, do not understand why it’s not a real alternative.
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 1 week ago:
I don’t think Mullvad is blocking anyone. I’m not sure if Archive . Today is still doing what they did in 2023, but if they are, it would be more correct to say Archive . Today is blocking you for using Mullvad’s DNS servers.
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 1 week ago:
Here’s your alternative:
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 1 week ago:
Please stop using archive . today and its other domains.
In the past, they prevented Cloudflare DNS users from resolving the site, because Cloudflare didn’t forward EDNS data that would allow Archive.today to dox users.
And recently, they embedded malicious DDOS code into their captcha that would cause visitors to unknowingly DDOS someone.
They are extremely shady and no one should be using them.
- Comment on I have made a Kubernetes to Docker-compose converter/devolver. It's horrible. It's glorious. 2 weeks ago:
Vibecoded app or not, I really hope this refreshingly unhinged writing style is all you.
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 2 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s behind an experimental flag, only applies to new rooms, and isn’t available on the public app.element.io instance right now (the Labs screenshot they showed doesn’t show the option on element.io+matrix.org when I checked just now):
github.com/element-hq/element-web/pull/31513
For it to work, looks like it needs another in-progress feature to allow new members to decrypt previous messages (Matrix can’t do that yet???):
(That one isn’t even in the spec yet, it’ll take a lonnnnnng time before we see any real movement on it, possibly a year or two. A year or two before you can see encrypted messages from before you joined a room. Insanity.)
A contributor calls this encrypted metadata feature a “partial prototype:”
github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/1214#is…
Pretty crazy they’ve been discussing this for nearly 10 years and it’s just now “a partial prototype,” but that’s Matrix for you.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
So it was all of your messages?
Can you explain what bridge you used and how you got the whole history moved over?
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
Every messages in your server’s entire history, or just the channel layout?
I know the Mautrix bridge can create the channels for you, but their backfill feature was not designed for full archival, it can’t really do that.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!! Really looking forward to this, Movim is already pretty nice.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
And I believe the devs are working on adding discord-like channels with multiple groups under a single community.
If you have a link to a discussion or issue where they’re tracking this, I’d love to follow it.
They’ll also need to figure out how to let rooms have more than 1000 people, which is currently the limit on Movim (and it might be an XMPP limitation). Right now, Matrix seems like the only option for a Discord migration, but I hope that changes soon.
I might move my Discord community to Matrix, but I’d want a full 100% clone of the server’s history. Seems like that’s almost possible? Discord scrapers can dump a whole channel to JSON, and the Mautrix Discord bridge already make it look like real users sent bridged messages. I think with a little customization, the Mautrix bridge could be modified to import an enormous JSON file to fully mirror an entire Discord server, instead of just grabbing messages in real time.
I really hope someone works on that soon 🙏
- Comment on Here's the scoop 9 months ago:
Be careful, that’s an AI generated review. Definitely try to find other human reviews before you buy it.
- Comment on Here's the scoop 9 months ago:
If you go through that user’s other reviews, while they are very funny, they’re also very AI generated. Tons of contrivances and the classic “and honestly?”
They were almost all posted on April 13th, and they all drop the “brand name” of the product in just really unnatural ways. This is 1,000% a bot.
- Comment on How do I build up a lemmy instance right from the scratch ? 9 months ago:
Ah I see. I’ve gotten into some back and forth with the maintainer of Caddy about these build inconsistencies and lack of versioning, and he responded by locking issues on me… twice.
After that communication, I resigned to just keep things as they are because upstream is not willing to make the experience better for use cases like these.
He is impossible to work with, but Caddy is just really good :/
- Comment on How do I build up a lemmy instance right from the scratch ? 9 months ago:
What issue did you have? If I can handle it for the user automatically, I can add a best effort attempt to avoid it.
- Comment on How do I build up a lemmy instance right from the scratch ? 9 months ago:
Hi!
The project is still active! I just haven’t needed to develop any updates because it’s currently stable, and the upstream Docker compose template, which is a reference for my project, hasn’t changed in 9 months:
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 10 months ago:
Just being open source is not enough to solve this problem. You would need a record of your “home instance” stored somewhere that Lemmy would always have access to it. You can’t use browser storage or cookies, because that’s restricted in browsers on a per-domain basis. The browser extension has its own storage so it doesn’t have this restriction.
I can’t think of an architectural solution to this problem without a browser extension.
The closest alternative that could be upstreamed is what Mastodon does, which is prompt the user to enter their home instance every time they try to interact with something while not logged in. An upstream solution can never be fully automatic like a browser extension, but this may be “close enough.”
- Comment on FOSDEM 2025 - MapTCHA, the open source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap 1 year ago:
They explain it in the video. They already use algorithms to detect if things are buildings or not.
But if their algorithm can’t make a determination or is uncertain below a certain threshold, they send it to Maptcha to get a bulk human opinion.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 year ago:
They’ve been on some kind of emulation crusade then, because it looks like they just killed Ryujinx:
