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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemm.ee communities migration megathread⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
!wales@lemm.ee is aware, lemm.ee/post/65857349
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
3 panels. First a man putting on a hat: “It’s a terrible day for rain”. Then someone replies: “What do you mean? It’s not raining.” He say back, with tear rolling down his cheek: “Yes. It is.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who owns the press?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Be careful with the Private Eye, they were big early pushers of Wakefield and the antivax movement.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Link us your website then.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Social Media Guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Looks correct, but boring as you kept it pretty readable, the total opposite of what a regex should be.

^(?:(?:feddit\.(?:i[te]|uk|org|de|nl))|(?:lemm(?:\.ee|y\.(?:ca(?:fe)?|ml|(?:sdf\.)?org|world|zip|nz|blahaj\.zone|dbzer0\.com)))|(?:sh\.itjust\.works|programming\.dev|sopuli\.xyz|jlai\.lu|aussie\.zone|beehaw\.org|slrpnk\.net))$

Now this is getting there, but to make a real regex, we need to go to Emacs’ syntax:

"^\\(?:\\(?:feddit\\.\\(?:i[te]\\|uk\\|org\\|de\\|nl\\)\\)\\|\\(?:lemm\\(\\.ee\\|y\\.\\(ca\\(?:fe\\)?\\|ml\\|\\(?:sdf\\.\\)org\\|world\\|zip\\|nz\\|blahaj\\.zone\\|dbzer0\\.com?\\)\\)\\)\\|\\(?:sh\\.itjust\\.works\\|sopuli.xyz\\|jlai\\.lu\\|aussie\\.zone\\|beehaw.org\\|slrpnk\\.net\\)\\)$"

~~I am a weirdo who actually like regex~~

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Social Media Guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

^(?:(?:feddit.(?:it|ie|uk|org|de|nl))|(?:lemmy.(?:cafe|ml|ca|org|world|zip|nz))|(?:sh.itjust.works|programming.dev|lemm.ee|sopuli.xyz|jlai.lu|lemmy.blahaj.zone|lemmy.dbzer0.com|aussie.zone|beehaw.org|lemmy.sdf.org|slrpnk.net))$

Shout out to my favourite lemmy instance, shmitjustoworks. Real cool people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This graph but with fediverse apps?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

I’m not sure about all of it and had to remove the racist/sexist stuff, just because I don’t know any software on the fediverse with controversies like this…

Soapbox, a fork of Pleroma, is made by a TERF who previously worked for Gab.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
What do you mean load JS from 30 sites to see images? Lemmy-ui seems to only request JS from the instance you’re on:

Screenshot of Firefox network tab showing three network requests for JS from feddit.uk
Decentralisation as a shifting mental frameworkfediversereport.com ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is set to formally declare it believes trans women are men, says leaked NEC paper.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Reminder, the SC didn’t rule that trans people had to be excluded from gender segregated things, only that they could. Labour doesn’t have to do this, they’re choosing to, and even if they did, they’re the fucking government. What is the point of an elective dictatorship if the party of government is going to be so unwilling to actually change anything?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PrivacyGuides is testing ActivityPub federation on their Discourse forum 🎉⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Hopefully they’re more attentive to this than they are for their Lemmy instance (lemmy.one).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers for Israel criticised for suggesting a reduction in obesity resulting from the war in Gaza may increase life expectancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

“So we pointed out, secondly, that this claim was based on entirely unfounded speculation, which also ignored factors that might result in lengthening the lives of Gazans, given the public health situation existing in Gaza prior to the war, including the extent of obesity. These factors include the possible reduction in the availability of confectionery and cigarettes.

What a ghoulish thing to say, really speaks to how nasty this man is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The linked linkers, because we’re link aggregators that link together.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

I use the term woman and you knew exactly what I meant

I didn’t actually, I wrote that to probe out what you actually meant because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

A blonde woman is a description of a woman’s hair colour and you know this.

And trans/cis is a descriptions of whether a woman was assigned female at birth or not. Woman is not synonymous with cis woman.

They have different names, which you yourself, use for a reason.

You give them different names, I’m using adjectives because the distinction matters in this context.

I am not denying the legitimacy of transwomen [sic]; nor is Keir.

But also:

This is exactly the same as saying transwomen [sic] are not women, because they are not. They are transwomen [sic].
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

Should a transwoman have the same rights and respect as a woman? Absolutely. Are they the same? No, they are not.

‘As a woman’, a trans woman is a woman, different from a cis woman sure, but still a woman. This statement is fairly absurd if you substitute trans with another adjective, like is a blonde woman different from a woman?

Kier’s words are still not transphobia. There is no fear, dislike, prejudice, discrimination, harassment, or violence in his statement.

The prejudice is denying the legitimacy of trans women as women. ‘Adult human female’ is a dog whistle for ‘not trans’, so by asserting that a woman is ‘an adult female’ he’s saying trans women aren’t women (and that trans men aren’t men).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

This is not huge. He is literally saying what the law says, which is exactly what you expect a prime minister to do.

Damn, if only the PM had the power to get the law changed.

The PM declined to repeat his previous statement “transwomen are women,” instead asserting: “A woman is an adult female - the court has made that absolutely clear.”

This is transphobia, seriously listen to him weasel out of it. He was asked if trans woman were women in general, not specifically for the purposes of the Equalities Act.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
They are actually saying Tories apologies for being too pro-trans.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] What just happened to 4 million posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I thought it must be a Reddit repost instance, thanks for pointing to the right one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] What just happened to 4 million posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

i apparently cannot figure out ascii shrugs, nvm

¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ => ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just so we’re clear, what this crawler does is go through all servers that use ActivityPub known to it, and congregate that data to a list of known services (Lemmy, Mastodon, Piefed etc.). How is does that is by querying a standardised end point to get the instance info (.well-known/nodeinfo which will then point to a different path to get the actual info).

For instance, here’s what it will collect for feddit.uk:

nodeinfo json
json // curl -s https://feddit.uk/nodeinfo/2.1 | jq { “version”: “2.1”, “software”: { “name”: “lemmy”, “version”: “0.19.10-feddit”, “repository”: “https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy”, “homepage”: “https://join-lemmy.org/” }, “protocols”: [ “activitypub” ], “usage”: { “users”: { “total”: 4184, “activeHalfyear”: 718, “activeMonth”: 485 }, “localPosts”: 25750, “localComments”: 122835 }, “openRegistrations”: true, “services”: { “inbound”: [], “outbound”: [] }, “metadata”: {} }

The important stat here is the localPosts, which is all the posts made by local users in any community, local or remote. It does not include posts by users from remote instances made in local communities. You can also see this data on the instance sidebar in lemmy-ui.

lemmy.zip going down will only reduce aggregated stats for total posts by 47,280, as that’s what they report for their localPosts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] What just happened to 4 million posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
But zip has < 50K posts.
[Question] What just happened to 4 million posts?feddit.uk ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I spent a couple hours trying to create an account on pds.flamingos-cant.xyz that uses a did:web following the instructions here and the account at the end ended up with a did:plc, so IDK how you create a PDS with a did:web but it’s clearly not something they put a lot of effort into supporting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
But what about the DIDs, the things used to actually identify accounts within the ATproto ecosystem:

But Bluesky has developed its own DID method, did:plc. Today, did:plc stands for “Public Ledger of Credentials”, however it originally stood for “Placeholder DIDs”, with the hope of replacing them with something else later. The way that did:plc works is that Bluesky hosts a web service from which one can register, retrieve, and rotate keys (and other associated DID document information). However, this ledger is centrally controlled by Bluesky.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Has world really not enabled parallel sending yet? That feature was made specifically for them.

Single mod who didn’t want to create a meta posts to ask for more mods.

But the sidebar does say to DM them if you’re interested in modding. Not wanting a meta post is weird though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There’s also three Fediverse comms (here, ml and zip) like do we really need another one?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Does it really matter when you can access the same content from Piefed? It’s one of fedi’s great strengths that different experiences can be tailored on the same platform.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You guys are a lot braver than me lol, I’d never run the Lemmy main branch in prod.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

why create this post here instead of !fediverse@piefed.social ?

This community is much bigger? He’s asking a question so probably want the input of the most people possible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Seems they’re all running the same version, or Piefed doesn’t tag releases:

piefed.social nodeinfo
sh curl -s https://piefed.social/nodeinfo/2.0 | jq { “openRegistrations”: true, “protocols”: [ “activitypub” ], “software”: { “name”: “PieFed”, “version”: “0.1” }, “usage”: { “localComments”: 12382, “localPosts”: 1169, “users”: { “activeHalfyear”: 561, “activeMonth”: 309, “total”: 800 } }, “version”: “2.0” }

feddit.online nodeinfo
sh curl -s https://feddit.online/nodeinfo/2.0 | jq { “openRegistrations”: true, “protocols”: [ “activitypub” ], “software”: { “name”: “PieFed”, “version”: “0.1” }, “usage”: { “localComments”: 503, “localPosts”: 214, “users”: { “activeHalfyear”: 85, “activeMonth”: 34, “total”: 85 } }, “version”: “2.0” }
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Fair point. It probably hard to see this things when you’ve been in the thick of Lemmy for as long as most of us here have. It’s easy to dismiss not liking lemmy-ui because alternative frontends exist (written from Photon), but does that matter when the overwhelming majority of instances use it as their landing page.