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- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 5 days ago:
Yeah, people are tribal and decentralisation lets people express that in ways centralised platforms don’t. Something, something, tech won’t save us.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 5 days ago:
Clicking though to community to post and selecting a community from the create post page are same problem rearranged. A user who subbed to ~technology@piefed.social isn’t going to know the difference between !technology@lemmy.world, !technology@lemmy.zip and !technology@piefed.social.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 5 days ago:
Solution 2 in the post, multicommunities. I’m not sure it actually solves the problem though, as you still have to go to the actual community to post and I imagine multicomms add an extra layer of confusion to that.
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 5 days ago:
And that relates to a book shop selling LLM-written books how? Digital artists still draw what’s attributed to them, an AI author hasn’t written what’s attributed to them.
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 6 days ago:
What’s your point?
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
Can’t wait for the follow up post decrying PeerTube for only allowing videos, or Bookwrym for only allowing book reviews. Just because it’s ActivityPub doesn’t mean it has to be a Twitter timeline.
Once a major actor in a decentralised network starts to mess with the protocol, there are only two possible output: either that actor lose steam or that actor becomes dominant enough to impose its own vision of the protocol. In fact, there’s a third option: the whole protocol becomes irrelevant because nobody trust it anymore.
You mean like Mastodon? Where’s the angry diatribe about Mastodon not allowing posts to have more than 4 pictures despite other platforms allowing more (Pixelfed allows up to 20 for example)?
- Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration - Greenpeace UKwww.greenpeace.org.uk ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Demo of Emissary's upcoming data migration tool. 2 weeks ago:
They mention SWICG’s data portability spec, I assume they’re referring to LOLA: swicg.github.io/…/lola
- Comment on How many instances have you been orphaned from? 2 weeks ago:
Just lemny.org.uk for me.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 2 weeks ago:
Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world
Hexbear runs an allowlist, they only federate with instances they select.
- Comment on Question: How do I use "Secure Chat" and what are the differences 3 weeks ago:
The secure chat option is something called Matrix, which is a separate service that doesn’t integrate like Reddit’s chat. Lemmy just supports being able to set a Matrix account as the place to reach a user.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 3 weeks ago:
That’s not worse the Prime Minister Farage, which could be the case come 2029, so I don’t see your point.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 4 weeks ago:
This is an impressive amount of trolling, even for you Flax.
Feddit.UK’s intended audience is His Majesty’s subjects within the United Kingdom
No. The monarch doesn’t own me and I refuse to owe it anything. Hopefully one day the British state will get rid of the embarrassment of being headed by a family of nepo babies.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Obviously it’d only be a subset of HTML. No website that uses user-submitted HTML (Tumblr, AO3, Royal Road, etc) actually allows the full suit of tags.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Cool!
Image markdown style formatting to allow more advanced control of how images are rendered. e.g. 
You might as just let users write the
<img>tags directly at this point, at least then you won’t add noise to third party apps’ accessibility stacks.(I honestly wouldn’t be opposed to letting users write HTML directly, it was one of Tumblr’s best features imo)
- The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to Youwww.404media.co ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 137 comments
- Comment on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web 1 month ago:
Not really, Chrome has an overwhelming dominance on desktop despite not being preinstalled on any desktop operating system.
- Comment on Mastodon: Our ideas about Packs 2 months ago:
Interestingly, the person who added these to Bluesky say they’re a bad idea: blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/?author=hailey.at&post=…
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 months ago:
Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.
What, you can absolutely ban people on a decentralised network. You may not be able to expunge someone from a part of the network they control themselves, but you can expunge them from the part you control. Bluesky has this power and has used it in the past.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 2 months ago:
They won 84.6% of the vote
I know? I literally voted for the man and reported on him being elected here.
it’s important to examine the characters of influential Individuals
I’m sorry, what? I don’t understand what that has to do with what’s being talked about.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 2 months ago:
It’s still interesting to discuss since they’re going to be leader for years
Only one year, unless he’s re-elected. The GPEW hold leadership elections every 2 years, but it was postponed last year so as to not coincide with the general election.
Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.
It’s still inaccurate to call them ‘the UK’s Green Party’ as both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Green parties which are separate from the GPEW.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 2 months ago:
Why report on this now? The article even acknowledges that this happened last month. Also, there is no ‘UK Green Party’, Polanski was elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 62 comments
- Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 2 months ago:
Masto interprets a
Noteset asas:sensitivewithout asummaryto mean ‘blur any media attached, but don’t collapse the text content’. I believe the same is true for non-Notes, but obviously without thesummary= CW logic. - Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 2 months ago:
So a summary included in a non-Note is not CW’d by Mastodon currently.
I know, I was just saying that it prevents a non-Note from being CW’d, as the
summeryis used as the post’s content. Masto treats aNotemarked assensitivewith nosummaryto just mean to blur the images. - Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 2 months ago:
If it has a summary, I will use that as the content
But isn’t that how Mastodon handles content warnings? Baffling that they’d do it like that frankly given that it prevents long-form content (when masto actually starts supporting that) from being CW’d.
- Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 2 months ago:
How they see it: sfba.social/…/115267196743748430
Do note that Mastodon forces a redirect to the original instance for non-local posts, here’s a direct link to the comment: sfba.social/@karlauerbach/115267230182946226
It seems that threadiverse posts are being seen by more mastodon users now, which is great, but maybe the formatting could use some improvements?
There’s actually some related (yet-to-be-merged) changes to this on the Mastodon side, add support for links in Attachments (this is how Lemmy and the link federate links).
I don’t think anything’s changed, just two users finding a post in a hashtag (Lemmy adds the community name as a hastag for posts). I’ve seen some masto users complain about this in the past on the #lemmy tag.
- Parents outraged as Meta [Facebook] uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting manwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments