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- Comment on fediverse/activitypub based linktree alternative 23 hours ago:
I suppose Mastodon-likes (we really need a name for these) have their bio-links which are kinda similar, but fairly limited at 4 links.
- Comment on fediverse/activitypub based linktree alternative 1 day ago:
- Comment on Tourists dismantle cross and use stones to create Star of David 5 days ago:
Please make the primary link an archive link so we’re not driving traffic to the Daily Heil. I’m honestly not sure we should allowing stories from there at all.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 week ago:
Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations.”
She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs “to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography.”
Stop trying to enforce this at the service level, for God’s sake. What are you going to do when people switch to stuff like Tor?* ‘Online safety regulation pushes kids to that dark web’ will be a fire headline in a couple of months/years.
* I remember seeing someone link to something here they described as ‘Tor for apps’ that I can’t find, does anyone have that at hand?
The report also found more children are stumbling across pornography accidentally, with some of the 16 to 21-year-olds surveyed saying they had viewed it “aged six or younger”.
I’m sorry, but this is genuinely a failure of parents. Like, I’m not normally one to trot out the ‘parents should helicopter their children’ defence against regulation of social media, but giving a bloody six year old not-monitored-enough access to the internet is on the parent.
Also, I’d take this all a lot more seriously if parent actually used the tools already available to them:
We actually already have measures to deal with this: back in 2011 the government worked with ISPs (internet service providers) to come up with a Code of Practice on implementing ‘parental controls’ for all new customers. In 2013 this was adopted by all the major players. So when you (an adult – because you have to be over 18 to do this) register for an internet connection, you are offered adult content filtering by default. You can tweak this, if you like, for example you can decide you’re happy for your family to access social media sites but not pornography. Or if you don’t anticipate any children using your connection, you can opt out of adult filters altogether. Research conducted in 2022, however, found that although 61% of parents were aware of these filters, only 27% actually used them. Again, sing it with me: lol.
Back to the BBC article.
More than half of respondents to the survey had viewed strangulation as children, prompting Dame Rachel to also ask the government to ban depictions of it.
This is an implicit admission that age verification is ineffective. If it was, then children wouldn’t see it and then we wouldn’t need to ban it.
- Comment on Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world’s weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1 week ago:
What’s more, this composable moderation, along with an open API for clients, allows Bluesky (the company) to adhere to its legal obligations to block content, while allowing Bluesky users to sidestep those blocks
I honestly have my doubts governments will find this acceptable once they pay enough attention to figure out what Bluesky is doing.
- Comment on Should large Fediverse instances and Bluesky encourage, not require, users to opt-in to bridges that connect to Bluesky and other non-fedi social web platforms? 2 weeks ago:
The Bridge should just work based on the account’s discoverable flag, ie if it’s true you’re opted into the Bridge.
- Comment on an incomplete list of fediverse instances scraped by meta to train AI 2 weeks ago:
Copy and pasting my own list from here
List of instance
txt beehaw.org furry.engineer ibe.social fediworld.de framatube.org trailers.ddigest.com nrw.social lemmynsfw.com video.hardlimit.com digitalcourage.social xn–baw-joa.social tube.kockatoo.org equestria.social wisskomm.social social.anoxinon.de freiburg.social toobnix.org toot.bike mstdn.lalafell.org peertube.linuxrocks.online social.rebellion.global mastodon.cipherbliss.com social.sdf.org corteximplant.com typo.social www.404media.co mastodon.ml video.liberta.vip tilvids.com todon.eu hessen.social digipres.club shigusegubu.club mastodon.me.uk zdf.social mastodon.sdf.org spore.social kolektiva.media gruene.social share.tube nso.group mastouille.fr masto.es vivaldi.com literatur.social mstdn.mx kirche.social mastodon.hams.social federation.network lile.cl todon.nl betweenthelions.link ipv6.social linuxrocks.online peertube.otakufarms.com pawb.social mastodon-belgium.be jasette.facil.services machteburch.social mastodont.cat mastodon.eus eupolicy.social social.bau-ha.us toot.berlin amicale.net hexbear.net mastodon.bida.im reddthat.com shelter.moe mastodon.nl dju.social bonn.social mstdn.chrisalemany.ca social.sciences.re tldr.nettime.org lemy.lol climatejustice.social rollenspiel.social mastodon.org.uk social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua pouet.chapril.org ecoevo.social social.politicaconciencia.org darmstadt.social peertube.tv lemmus.org libretooth.gr hackers.town tooter.social anarchism.space diode.zone video.infosec.exchange mastodon.thirring.org aussie.zone social.bund.de apobangpo.space shitpost.cloud berlin.social toot.aquilenet.fr social.beachcom.org lemmygrad.ml mastodon.radio nerdculture.de programming.dev decayable.ink kafeneio.social functional.cafe things.uk fuzzies.wtf diaspodon.fr dalek.zone sunbeam.city tooting.ch fediscience.org mastodon.tetaneutral.net social.librem.one im-in.space lemmy.sdf.org legal.social post.lurk.org mastodon.uy noc.social tube.pol.social lemmy.ml don.linxx.net infosec.pub kolektiva.social masto.bike furries.club zhub.link lemmy.world openbiblio.social mastodon.zaclys.com mamot.fr clacks.link discuss.tchncs.de cyberplace.social graz.social pl.kitsunemimi.club mastodonczech.cz masto.nobigtech.es hostux.social pawb.fun mastodon.trueten.de norden.social systemli.social mander.xyz ciberlandia.pt woem.men sopuli.xyz lemmy.ca feddit.uk - Comment on Prince Harry denies giving Prince Andrew bloody nose at family gathering 3 weeks ago:
What a shame, would’ve made me like him more if he did.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 3 weeks ago:
- Good luck enforcing that;
- No, let’s not just ban everything that some people find objectionable.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 3 weeks ago:
the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments
No? It was said it shouldn’t be done in the backend, a frontend or an alternative client can still do PieFed style comment listing.
- Comment on ‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask' | Need To Know 3 weeks ago:
He just needs to install GMod.
- Comment on Fediverse Report #127 - an overview of all the fediverse clients 4 weeks ago:
The Threadiverse app with the most standout feature is probably Quiblr and its recommendation system. I can’t speak to if it’s actually any good, as I don’t use it, but it’s interesting nontheless.
- Comment on UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage 4 weeks ago:
Of all the things to get mad at Reddit/UK govt for age restricting, war forage should should be far down that list. Watching people get blown into pieces is literally traumatising and ideally children shouldn’t be exposed to it.
- Comment on Government response to the Repeal the Online Safety Act petition 4 weeks ago:
God, it’s so stupid that the govt thinks making every website either do its own age verification or pay out of pocket to some we’re-totally-not-going-to-sell-your-data firm really goes to show how out of touch they are. Why not require OS-level parental controls to be exposed through some API (that browsers would wrap around) and require service providers to gatekeep content based on that, that would at least be more robust than this, something a simple VPN can get around.
Right, right, this is Tory legislation banking on the fear of having your porn habits linked to your ID deterring you from accessing it.
- Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them 4 weeks ago:
Ofcom is the designated regulator and has the power of enforcement. The law doesn’t define what it set out what age verification means, only that they much be ‘highly effective’ (Section 12 (6)). It is therefore left to Ofcom to set out in its Code of Practices (Section 41 (3)) what ‘highly effective age verification’ means, which is what this guidance is. This isn’t Ofcom being nice, this is them telling you how they’re going to enforce the law.
- Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them 4 weeks ago:
Section 4.37 of Ofcom’s Guidance on Highly Effective Age Assurance for Part 3 Services:
In addition, service providers should not publish content on their service that directs or encourages UK users to circumvent the age assurance process or the access controls, for example by providing information about or links to a virtual private network (VPN) which may be used by children to circumvent the relevant processes.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Client side moderation is a Bluesky thing, I imagine this wouldn’t work on Reddit et al. but that depends on how it’s implemented and is going to be specific to whatever website your accessing. Or you can just use a VPN, like the BBC put it:
When BBC News wrote about the seven methods of age verification adult websites may use in the UK and the companies who may be employed to do it, one reader comment resonated with many others.
“Sure, I will give out my sensitive information to some random, unproven company or… I will use a VPN,” they said. “Difficult choice.”
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This is really trivial to get around: gist.github.com/…/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b331…
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 4 weeks ago:
Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It’ll be interesting to see if many do.
Why would they? They’re only legally liable for their own users, not ours.
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 4 weeks ago:
This already exist: onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 4 weeks ago:
Too bad cryptobros are more interested in using it as a speculative investment/scam machine than an actual currency.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t say if God changed though, I said if God changed what they willed. From some quick Googling (I haven’t actually read the bible), this seems to happen in the bible (Jeremiah 26:13). God can change their actions without changing themself.
The Euthyphro dilemma is moreso about polytheistic religions. It doesn’t work with nor was it written about Monotheism.
2 millennia of Christian philosophy would disagree with you there.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 4 weeks ago:
No it’s not? I’m arguing that morality must be something separate from God. If the only thing that makes something morally right is that God wills it, then if God ever changes what they will, what is morally right will change.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 4 weeks ago:
You’ve just moved some words around. God must have reasons for thinking something is good, otherwise goodness would be arbitrary. You can argue that god is only one who can know those reasons/criteria, but I don’t think there’s a good argument that these reasons/criteria can’t exist without them.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 4 weeks ago:
Because God must use some criteria to assess if something is morally right or not, otherwise morality would be arbitrary (see the Euthyphro dilemma). These criteria can exist without God, therefore morality can exist without God.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 5 weeks ago:
Did you mean to link this theguardian.com/…/audrey-white-74-tells-of-pain-a… ?
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 5 weeks ago:
This is the Torygraph, don’t read the comments unless you want to do psyc damage to yourself.
- Comment on Channel.org open beta 5 weeks ago:
It is open source, though the section in the FAQ just links to github.com, but I found the actual source code: github.com/patchwork-hub/channels. Seems to be a Mastodon fork, which becomes even more apparent when you actually look at a channel: channel.org/@feelgoodart
From what I can gather, this is a way of having an account boost content from certain creators or hashtags with some filters applied on top, honestly pretty cool but I wish they explained it better then ‘connecting the open social web’.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on UK to lower voting age to 16 5 weeks ago:
He’s actually already the most popular politician on TikTok.