rglullis
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- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 4 hours ago:
That creates an incentive for trolls to create accounts at the popular instances using this mechanism in order to destroy their reputation.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 5 hours ago:
Replace “hashing” with “encrypted” (perhaps just using a symmetric key that the admin sets up) and then it gets impossible to know for any outsiders who is the real user behind the vote.
I for one just wish people understood once and for all that anything you do on social media is public.
If you are not comfortable backing up your opinion or action, then don’t do it.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 5 hours ago:
How long until it gets abused, and trolls start brigading though instances that hide their votes?
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Yeah, sorry. I really don’t want to rehash this discussion. Browsing by all only makes sense because the whole network is so small that people still believe that drinking from the firehose is the only way that can satiate they content consumption needs. And for the thousands of users here on Lemmy saying “this is too much content”, there are tens of millions still locked on Reddit because no other place has the content they are looking for.
Until last year, users could not filter the instances themselves, so it was up to the admins to limit things at the federation level. Newer versions of Lemmy already give this tooling to end users, so if the bots bother them, I am just going to say “sorry, you have everything in your power to stop this from bothering you, go ahead and block it yourself”.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
If you intend to create inorganic content like that maybe the best solution would be a dedicated community so that folks who are happy to have updates and be able to discuss with folks can go there, and other folks can avoid it
That is the exact reason why I ended up creating 15+ topic-specific instances, plus alien.top when I started mirroring reddit content. The idea was that the bots would live on alien.top (and could be taken over by their real owner, when they authenticated via Reddit) and all these instances and communities were to be the destination of the posts.
Turns out that even with this separation, some people would still complain about their feed being “taken over” by alien.top. So, people could simply avoid it by simply curating their own feeds and stop “browsing by all”.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Running the topic-specific instances is not the hard part. The hard part would be to manually find content, posting and then ensuring that it is replicated across the whole Fediverse.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
I’m already dealing with more than 15 topic-specific instances, some of them with multiple communities, plus Communick. If I try to keep track of “who-is-following-what”, I will go insane. I’d rather believe that eventually more people get to learn about these instances and start contributing as well.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
“Botspam” is when you have someone mass sending programs sending messages that do not enrich the content of the network. A bot that is mirroring perfectly good accounts from other platforms is far from the case.
Put another way: if the content is relevant to the point where part of the people want to have it, and if the content being mirrored has a proper context for some members of the community, then we shouldn’t count it as spam.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Because it’s their responsibility to curate their own feeds.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Keep pushing/promoting the LW communities…
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Ok, I have 1.92k comments, not posts.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Going through the effort of manually posting screenshots in the sports communities would go way farther than getting a bot to cross post.
Sorry, this is a bit condescending.
Go take a look at my profile. I have almost 2000 posts already. I’ve been posting 10-20 posts every day to all the different sport communities. Do you think that dedicating a good half-hour every day to read a bunch of feeds and sharing them is not already enough effort?
I’m not saying that we should rely only on mirror accounts, but I’m saying that it makes no sense to ignore them. I’m not proposing to take just a random army of AI slop and put it here. I’m saying that we can look at the places where the content curation already has been made and replicate it here.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
fanaticus.social seems a bit zombified. Instance hasn’t been updated since 0.19.3, last I checked the admin hasn’t been active for months and the baseball communities (which were in the beginning the most active) were pretty much silent the whole season.
I have a handful of sports-focused instances which would surely benefit from this:
- !nba@nba.space (and communities for every NBA team)
- !nfl@nfl.community (and for the teams)
- !main@soccer.forum (and the main leagues/biggest clubs)
- !tennis@matchpoint.zone
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
With approaches (2) and (3) we don’t have to mirror all of the accounts and we don’t have to mirror every post from them.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
I’m old enough to remember when Reddit had a built-in RSS feed reader. You could add the RSS feeds you’d like to follow and it would present it to you on a separate page. But the cool thing is that you could up/downvote it like any other link. This meant that every blog entry could become a submission on its own, and all the user had to do was upvote it.
I tried to build something similar on the Fediverser page, but to this there is still too much friction. People need to:
- Sign up to the Fediverser site
- Become a community ambassador
- Add different RSS feeds as content sources
- Get in the habit of visiting the site to repost the contents they think it’s interesting.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
If there is interest in this content, users will create a Lemmy community and post content there.
This is clearly not true. Content is missing and not everyone takes the initiative to post to help bootstrap communities. We don’t have content here because we don’t users, and we don´t have users because we don’t have content.
Maybe they will even link to the sportsbots mirror.
Which would be fine, except that sportbots mirror does not have a page of its own. It is built in a way to just push the updates to its followers.
I had proposed to Lemmy devs a system to let people post ActivityPub content directly, but this was considered more trouble than its worth (to them).
But don’t just set up a script to do it for you, that’s just something people are going to block.
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Would it be one bot per mirrored account?
Yes. There is no information on sportbots about how many accounts they have listed, but I’m guess it’s in the “high hundreds - low thousands” range.
There would probably need to be some fine-tuning about the number of posts. Some reporters post a lot, that could potentially flood those communities.
With options (2) and (3), I could come up with strategies to solve this. We could, e.g, repost only what has reached a certain number of likes on Twitter, or limit one bot to post only once per hour/day. Etc.
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- Comment on Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism 1 week ago:
Even with Tor you also have to trust the exit nodes. So, yes, I agree you will still need to trust someone, but we can control/design to have less things depending on this trust.
Specifically with ActivityPub, everything is designed around the idea that the server owns it all. It doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing.
- Comment on Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism 1 week ago:
This is also why I get so pissed about the Fediverse “don’t scrape me bro” crybabies and their whole talk about “consent-based following”.
Malicious actors do not ask for consent. Malicious actors know how to bypass authorized fetch. Malicious actors will have absolute no qualms creating accounts on the same server as you just to be able to follow you. You can even argue that malicious actors will even build an instance that you find super appealing in order to be able to collect your communication.
It doesn’t matter how you feel you are entitled to a “safe space”, if you are talking in public. People might ignore you, but they are never go around with their ears covered just because you are asking them to.
- Comment on Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism 1 week ago:
The problem is the inverse. There are times where you don’t want to be connected to any message.
Nostr is being developed by stupid bitcoiners, and it suffers from the same stupid mistakes as BTC. Pseudonymous transactions is not enough for a payment network. Just like pseudonymous messaging is not enough for secure communication.
- Comment on Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism 1 week ago:
You don’t need to go full p2p. You can still have servers and you can still have operators who work to prevent issues at the edges, but the servers need to be only blind communication relays and routers.
- Comment on Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism 1 week ago:
No. Nostr is even worse because it ties your identity to your encryption keys.
- Comment on Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism 1 week ago:
And pretty much dead, I was following this project but they stopped development in 2020.
- Comment on Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism 1 week ago:
No. Federation is the wrong decentralization model for anyone worried about malicious state actors. Just like email encryption, it doesn’t matter how secure you/your server is, you still need to rely on the weakest link on the chain and that is simply unacceptable.
If you want to have secure social media, we need to move away from Federation and we will have to build a fully distributed network where data only lives at the edge nodes and participants can only communicate after exchanging their own personal keys.
Anything else is just infosec cosplaying.
- Comment on Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash 1 week ago:
Just bullies who unfortunately think they own the place.
- Comment on Reddit is Dead. Lemmy is Dead. Everything is Dead. 1 month ago:
It’s less than $2.50 per month, for 4 different services, and I’m also pledging 20% of the profits to go the open source projects.
I’ve been told by multiple people that I’m actually charging less than what I should. If you think that you can offer all of that for less, please go ahead.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 1 month ago:
The number of discussions about American politics are orders of magnitude higher than discussions about any of “other topics”. This is more than enough to justify the use of hyperbole.
- Comment on Reddit is Dead. Lemmy is Dead. Everything is Dead. 1 month ago:
If one can pay $30/yr for basically a private social network that’s garbage and advertizement free, I think that should be more popular. But to make that happen we need an even easier system to set up;
$29/year to have an account at Mastodon, Lemmy, Matrix and Funkwhale (with 250GB of upload quota to your personal library). No “setting up” required beyond downloading the clients. No ads, no tracking.
and we need the social effect.
Get the $119/year package for 5 people. Invite 4 of your friends. Tell them that if they like it they can split the costs of you or pay it forward by getting another 5-package for themselves and inviting more of their friends.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 1 month ago:
You want to use the extreme end of the distribution curve and make the argument that it is close to the median case. It is not.