Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024) (wedistribute.org)
Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.
My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog (jewy.blog)
cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/7623718...
PSA: you can't delete photos uploaded to #lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude to lemmy. That would be bad 😱 (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs....
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 58 (fediversereport.com)
Announcement of an Open Science Network. NodeBB joins the fediverse.
Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity (wedistribute.org)
Rethinking Moderation: A Call for Trust Level Systems in the Fediverse
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/5772572...
The Great Monkey Tagging Army: How Fake Internet Points Can Save Us All!
If Stack Overflow taught us anything, it’s that...
xmpp android app with omemo and unified push notifications support
Anyone aware of a conversations fork with support for unified push notifications? Or a similar xmpp android app with omemo (just the same as conversations’ support) and unified push notifications support, available through the official f-droid repor or a f-droid repo if not available from the official ones?...
The path to Funkwhale 2.0: more federation! (blog.funkwhale.audio)
Open source meets open science - announcing the Open Science Network initiative (bonfirenetworks.org)
Interview About Building Trust & Safety in Decentralized Systems (wedistribute.org)
Just wanted to share this interview we just put out with Jaz Michael-King, the guy that founded IFTAS. They’re doing some really wild stuff trying to wrangle in harassment, spam, objectionable content, and CSAM, and are looking to provide tooling for the Fediverse, as well as trauma resources and training for moderators....
Mediated networks and power dynamics in ATproto (merveilles.town)
Interesting thread that summarizes it well.
Is diroot.org having license issues?
disroot.org provides several decentralized federated services, as email and xmpp, besides other cloud services as well… But not sure if asking here is right or not, but don’t know anywhere to ask either…...
Trolling and Comparisons
Point A: There is a lot of trolling on weekends here on Lemmy, it’s pretty blatent. It usually starts on Friday and lasts through Sunday morning....
The perfect Lemmy app?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/12409937...
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 57 (fediversereport.com)
Pixelfed is introducing Curated Onboarding: A Personal Touch to Community Building (pixelfed.blog)
This sounds like something Lemmy would also really benefit from.
You Can Now Self Host A Bluesky Instance (techcrunch.com)
Negative experiences like this kneecap people migrating to Lemmy. (www.reddit.com)
Meta tests cross-posting from Facebook to its Twitter/X competitor, Threads (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/10361406
Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer (blog.fyralabs.com)
Thorough report about the recent Fediverse spam....
I wish messaging apps of same type were federated.
I wouldn’t mind if EU made it mandatory for them to be. I really hate that I have to use Whatsapp because it’s the sole way I can stay in touch with people I must be able to contact....
Get Your Own Fediverse Trading Cards! (wedistribute.org)
An awesome new app just got released for free on itch.io, that lets Fedizens create their own MTG-style playing cards.
Solutions and origins of the spam wave currently hitting the Fediverse (mastodon.de)
It’s mostly about mastodon, but spammers also have hit Lemmy communities. This mastodon post contains solutions to mitigate the wave for admins, and also link to the origin of the thread. Turns out they’re japanese kids from discord.