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- Comment on Question: How do I use "Secure Chat" and what are the differences 21 hours 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.
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- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 5 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 137 comments
- Comment on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
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- Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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.
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- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 1 month ago:
Paedophiles.
- Comment on This is what solidarity looks like 2 months ago:
Right now blacksky.community is an app that uses Bluesky’s AppView, which in turn uses Bluesky’s Relay. They’re working on their own AppView (which will have the equivalent of local-only posts) and that will use their Relay.
Interesting, from what I understand of ATProto, this would be hard to do on protocol, it’ll be fascinating to see how they do it. Maybe something off protocol like the recent bookmark feature Bluesky got.
I didn’t mean to undercut your point though, they often talk about PDSs as analogous to web pages, so your “different search engines” analogy is very accurate, it’s just not quite there yet.
I’d love to take credit for this, but the ATProto docs themselves make this comparison which is where I’m getting this from.
if I recall correctly either in (((streams))) or Forte (or maybe both) MIke implemented the nomadic identity over ActivityPub as well
This sent me down a bit a of a rabbit hole. It seems (streams) used an updated version of Zot, Zot/11 but was renamed to just Nomad. I can’t find anything about this, the (streams) repo only contains the spec for Zot/6, so I’m not sure about it’s APub compatibility. Apparently, Nomad had been discontinued in Forte in favour of pure APub, anyway.
If you’re thinking about this kind of stuff for Lemmy, it’s also worth looking at socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…/3738
Oh, I know about Silverpill’s work, it’s really interesting! I even mentioned it recently. I’m glad we have someone smart like them working on this stuff.
I do think some kind of separation of user data from servers, like what AT Proto does, is actually quite desirable. I just don’t like that PDSes can have their data harvested by whoever, I think data sharing with a server should be opt-in.
- Comment on This is what solidarity looks like 2 months ago:
Oh, I thought blacksky.comnunity used Blacksky’s relay. If it uses Bluesky’s then yeah, disregard what I said.
That’s not a perfect analogy though because Blacksky makes different moderation decisions than Bluesky.
I’d hope so given how abysmal Bluesky’s moderation is. The discovery feed is filled with transphobia, but you can’t say Charlie Kirk should rest in piss.
Again though it’s not a perfect analogy because the AT Protocol architecture lets you migrate all your data between PDSs seamlessly, and so far only a few niche ActivityPub implementations support that (Hubzilla et al with nomadic identity, ActivityPods using Solid Pods).
I don’t believe Hubzilla’s nomatic identity works with APub though, irrc it uses something called Zot.
I’ve been thinking about how to add nomatic identity to Lemmy quite a bit and it’s something I’d like to work on after 1.0 is out, but it’s hard a problem for sure.
- Comment on This is what solidarity looks like 2 months ago:
A better analogy would probably saying it’s like Bing/Google. They’re independent of each other but broadly what’s on one is on the other.
- Comment on This is what solidarity looks like 2 months ago:
independent but still connected (think about Lemmy instances)
It’s not really connected in the same sense two Lemmy instances are connected. They’re able to pull in the same data as Bluesky as it’s all public and PDSs don’t really have the ability to block a relay from crawling them.
- Comment on On discourse and decentralisation 2 months ago:
The discourse around decentralisation has elevated a form of network architecture that facilitates and contributes to a healthier social internet into a goal into itself.
Big agree with this.
- Comment on sinful 2 months ago:
- Comment on Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCG 2 months ago:
I wonder what objections there could to the statement other than procedural. It’s a nice ‘let’s work on making stuff better rather than fighting with each other’ message.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 2 months ago:
- Comment on Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCG 2 months ago:
This from @mackuba@martianbase.net is good and up-to-date: mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/
- Comment on Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCG 2 months ago:
And the fact that AT Proto requires the full firehouse replicated to all relays.
It doesn’t, not even Bluesky runs a full network archive relay anymore because it proved to be too complicated and expensive.
