rglullis
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- Comment on 5 days ago:
Reddit already requires it in the UK
Yes, and do we have any numbers about UK usage before/after the changes? Do we have any idea of how many people there:
- looked for an alternative?
- looked for an alternative and were not satisfied?
- looked for an alternative and migrated successfully?
And for those that were not satisfied, what was failing to them? Was the Fediverse so bad that they rather go back to Reddit, or did they just quit social media altogether?
The UK started asking for age verification ~5 months ago. That should give us more than enough data to take a look at this objectively.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Is there any new development around this or are you just specualting? All I’ve seen so far is discussions about age verification on Reddit, and most of the conversation was about finding workarounds than leaving.
What needs to still improve?
The community here is what needs to improve the most. The majority here is hostile to new users and too prone to demand purity tests from everyone who is just thinking about leaving Reddit.
- Comment on Funkwhale Blog ~ Funkwhale 2.0.0 release 1 week ago:
including a brand-new API (version 2). This means your v2 pod will not be able to federate with v1 pods. 🚨
Wait, why?! What is they are doing that is so difficult to achieve with standard ActivityPub?
- Comment on better Mastodon feeds 2 weeks ago:
There is a client called phantom which (I believe) provides custom recommendation algorithms, but I never tried it myself. Those who use swear by it.
- Comment on Request for Feedback/Collaboration - Bytescape, an Iroh based identity layer for the open web 3 weeks ago:
FYI: I am not going to say that I have all the pieces in place, but I will say that if we put what I’'ve done on fediverser.io with my headless ActivityPub Server, we are like 90% of the way there. The hard part now, believe it or not, is to get other servers to implement the missing parts of AP instead of the selective implementation they have.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Why did Linus Torvalds then disassociated
Absense of evidence is not evidence of absence.
You are failing at this most basic test of logic, this is not what I want to get dragged down into a pointless discussion with you. Enjoy the block, and have a good rest of the weekend.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 3 weeks ago:
installing lemmy means supporting an authoritarian
Non sequitur. The software is free to use, free to redistribute and does not come with any obligation to support the ideologies of the developers. If that was the case, everyone using Linux desktops should be associated with Richard Stallman (author of the GNU project), which is on record defending Epstein by arguing that minors can consent to sexual relationships in exchange with money.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 3 weeks ago:
dessalines power tripped his own software.
AFAIK, he does not have any power over the other instances and communities that are not hosted over on lemmy.ml?
Uhhhh, are you aware how federated networks initialize?
Not interested in being baited into a pointless discussion today, sorry.
- Comment on Request for Feedback/Collaboration - Bytescape, an Iroh based identity layer for the open web 3 weeks ago:
This was one of my stretch goals for fediverser.io, and I would definitely be interested in helping with this. Basically, the real end goal for me would be to create ActivityPub actors that are based on the DID to completely decouple their identity from the ActivityPub server that is serving their inbox and outbox.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Any community that talks about moderation issues. Preferably one that is closer to the users of lemmy.ml.
This is not the place for this. It achieves nothing and gives newcomers the impression that this type of petty drama is an integral part of the Fediverse.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Please find a better place to air out this dirty laundry.
- Comment on ADAPT: the server to bring back the (Social) Web 3 weeks ago:
None of that pays the bills of the developers.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
In the most practical cases, yes. But in theory, there is nothing about the protocol that says that message addressing implies message visibility, or even access control.
Also, be careful of taking your assumptions and treating them as universal truths. One day somebody could build an IRC-like system on ActivityPub and decides to treat a “ChatMessage” object as public objects which may or may not be addressed at a single participant. There would be no “bug” if the server picks up the object, relays to others, or even indexes it and makes it searchable.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t talking about the specifics of Lemmy, but ActivityPub in general. You can not guarantee that just because a message has been addressed to a single actor that only that actor will see it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but if you want a real one-to-one, private chat system use Matrix or XMPP. Treat anything you write on Lemmy as public information.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The fact that a message is addressed to a single person does not mean that it’s only sent to that person. In theory, anyone following you will receive a notification about the message.
- Comment on ADAPT: the server to bring back the (Social) Web 4 weeks ago:
This is how federation was sold to me
But did you pay anything for it?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Are users data protected on the fediverse? 4 weeks ago:
“it works when everyone behaves well” is not the same as being protected.
It doesn’t even take a malicious actor: I am working on a local-first browser extension that is very aggressive about caching content in the database. There is no “please delete this data” for an extension. You of all people should not be making claims about privacy that you know you can not guarantee.
- Comment on Are users data protected on the fediverse? 4 weeks ago:
Asking to delete data that you published on the public internet is the same as asking for water to be not wet.
Don’t fall for the illusion of privacy that the proprietary networks give you: there are people that copy data from reddit just for the fun of it. Always assume that anything you publish online is publicly available.
- Comment on Another Quick Test (Disabled Federated Upvotes) 4 weeks ago:
Please use a test instance…
- Comment on Converser.eu is being flooded 4 weeks ago:
they seem to want this service to stay free and open
The admin might think they are being this generosity is good for the users, but at the end of the day all it just gets them burned out and gives people who signed up the impression that all matrix servers are slow. Meanwhile, acess to my matrix server is not free, ($29/year, less than $2.50/month) but by charning just a little bit I can make sure that it grows at a rate that I can manage and doesn’t make my infrastructure implode.
- Comment on Converser.eu is being flooded 4 weeks ago:
There is a super easy way to solve this: make registration available only for users that contribute.
- Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 1 month ago:
Cara, eu já estou com com uns 70% da API do Lemmy implementada, e passei esse fim de semana todo trabalhando numa entensão pro browser que “puxa” o grafo social localmente e mostra os dados, como se fosse um browser. Quero ver se consigo fazer posts via C2S antes de ir dormir. :)
Tudo isso pra dizer: sim, eu tenho muito pitaco pra dar nessa história…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
He likes the process of working on greenfield ideas and gets bored once he ships the MVP, which is fine. What is not fine is that he makes a ton of hype around new projects, but after he gets tired of playing with it, he refuses to let go. It sucks the air out of the community for very little benefit.
I was hoping that the PixelFed kickstarter would force him to finally focus on the damn thing, but it seems he simply does not have the drive or interest to work at a steady pace in one single product.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was excited about this. Went on to look at the website and was greeted with a “Coming Soon!” message. It all made sense when I saw it was yet-another project from Daniel “Overpromise and Underdeliver” Supernault.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If the idea of a healthy Fediverse requires people moving instances whenever one finds themselves close to bottom-feeders and opportunistic parasites, we already lost.
- Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 1 month ago:
Once you achieve any kind of scale, whoever your client is querying to get the book data for those kinds of queries is going to block you
You know that the whole of wikidata can be copied with just a few hundreds of GBs, right? There are plenty of examples of community-driven data providers (especially in the *arr space), so I can bet that there would be more people setting up RDF data servers (which is mostly read-heavy, public data sharing) than people willing to set up their Mastodon/Lemmy/GoToSocial server - because that involves replicating data from everyone else, dealing with network partitions, etc…
Also, there are countless ways to make this less dependent on any big server, the client could pull specific subsets of the data and cache data locally so the more they are used the less they would need to fetch remote resources.
Think of it like this: a client-first application that understands linked data would be no different than a traditional web browser, but the only different is that the client would only use json-ld and not HTML.
- Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 1 month ago:
Or are all of the books objects stored on activitypub and I get the data from the social graph itself?
Not “stored on activitypub”, but each book could be represented with RDF (it could be something as sophisticated as using DublinCore or as simple as just using isbns to uniquely identity the books (
urn:isbn:1234556789) , and then each activity for “CombatWombatEsq read a book” would be an activity where you are the actor and the book is the object. - Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 1 month ago:
and building an “everything server” that implements every message you might want to send is prohibitive just in terms of complexity and scope.
It is not. A server that “speaks” the ActivityPub is not that difficult to build, I’ve done it. The complexity is in getting the data from the social graph into and creating a good UX for users who are too used with the “app-centric” mentality.