im not on lemmy but you likely are interacting with the whole fediverse. the fediverse itself is onthe internet and be reflective of that. Personally I used to play mmos and the chat on that gave me a good example. mmo chat is a horrible cesspool, but generally only because of a minority of players. Once you block enough the chat becomes pleasant. In addition subscribe to what you like and remember the same subject can be on multiple domains so if the crowd is not great in one you can always unsubscribe and subscribe to one of the others. I subscribe to any I find on a subject and unsubscribe is one is making me feel uncomfortable. Treat it like the real world. If you hang out someplace and don't feel happy then you generally go hang out someplace else. Im not saying to leave lemmy im saying use the tools at hand. I hope the tools for user empowerment increase as the federation matures. I know for lemmy I can block domains but it does not seem to do anything but I prefer that work to my instance not federating with things personally.
@nekohayo the view should be centered only if it's showing the domain, example: google.com, otherwise, when the user clicks on it, it should show the full URL left-aligned
Hey, I’m fortunate enough to upgrade my home-server. I’d like to make some future-proof decisions. Which Matrix server do I choose? Dendrite? Conduit?...
Synapse is the most feature-complete server, and still the one to receive spec compliance updates the fastest.
For a small number of users and bridges, it being written in python is not a concern performance-wise.
Not sure what you mean by multiple domains. The domain of the home server IS its identity, same goes for user addresses. You can’t have multiple addresses all hooked up to one account on one instance. (At least not until account portability is a thing)
You could run multiple homeservers with different domains, tho. They’d essentially be separate instances, interoperable through federation same as everything else.
Synapse is what matrix.org currently runs, while Dendrite is what it will eventually use.
Thanks. Yeah I know most of the story/history of Matrix. I’m just now making the decisions for the years to come. And Dendrite has been the announced successor to Synapse for quite some time now… I’m not sure what to make of this. If it’s going to happen soon, I’d like to switch now. And not move again and relocate my friends more times than necessary.
Judging by the graphs on my Netdata, Synapse plus the database are currently eating more resources than I’d like for just chat. Afaik the other projects were meant to address that. But I’ve never used anything else. And I’ve always refrained from joining large rooms because people told me that’d put considerable load on the server. If there’s a better solution I’m open to try even if it’s not the default choice… It just needs to work for my use-case. I don’t necessarily need feature-completeness.
Yeah, with the multiple domains: I meant I have 1 VPS and like 3 domain names for different projects. I have a single email-server, one webserver and they just handle all three domains. Even Prosody (XMPP) has “VirtualHost” directives and I only need to run it once to provide service on all the different domains. With Matrix this doesn’t seem to be the case… I’d need to launch 3 different instances of Synapse simultaneously on that one server and do some trickery with the reverse http proxy. That’d be more expensive and take more time and effort. I don’t really care about how the identities are handled internally, I can provide them in a format that is supported. And the users are seperate anyways. It’s just: I’d like to avoid running the same software three times in parallel.
a #UX question. If a site has both a signed out home page, and a signed in one (for example a feed or dashboard), what should you see if you're signed in and try to view the home page?
@joelanman Sure. But github decided that their webapp runs under the top level domain, while murial didn’t. So the home page of the app is the subdomain, where you are logged-in. If a user understands this is another question, but it’s usually just about which subdomain to bookmark.
Technically, changing usernames can be done on various Fediverse platforms following Mastodon’s protocol for moving to a different domain. There’s no reason why the source and destination domain would need to be the same.
Practically, usernames are used as unique identifiers in most ActivityPub and wider Fediverse implementations, making changing usernames quite difficult.
When you follow an account, you follow a username. This is looked up using a protocol called “WebFinger”, named after the old UNIX “finger” command. This could in theory return something akin to a user ID rather than a link to a document with a user name, but I haven’t seen many implementations of that.
I was confused as these two person are on different sub-domains of bsky.social (url after the @ symbol). Does this mean they are on different instance? AFAIK most mastodon server I see have different domain (specifically, different combination of top level domain and second level domian).
EDIT: I see, theur user name is the subdomain, and things before @ is their display name. Not the most conventional system, but it makes sense.
Allegedly. Also he registered the domains in his personal name and directly connected his bank accounts to the bitcoin transaction out of the system.
Probably most lemmy users are engaging in better opsec than this guy is. And it took them years to bust the guy. Just goes to show you that crime pays but botany doesn’t.
“If one root server directs traffic lookups to one intermediate server and another root server sends lookups to a different intermediate server, important parts of the Internet as we know it could collapse”
this doesn’t pass the sniff test. Records sometimes being out of date for some users is par for the course for DNS. Domain owners already need to account for that. Also, the "intermediate server"s in question would be things like the .com and .org operators’ servers. I would hope the likes of Verisign and the Public Interest Registry can handle a delay in sunsetting a DNS server to accommodate something like this.
It seems like every user on annihilation.social is a racist idiot, and indeed seems to be the entire purpose of that instance. Who do we talk to about starting a discussion on defederation so that they can’t use lemmy.world to spread their vile hatred?...
Ill say what I always say. I want users to be able to block domains (there is an option for kbin that I am on but it does nothing), urls, communities/magazines, users, basically everything. Honestly I would sorta like the system to look at your personal up and downvotes and be able to give you a personal order based on who/what has a greater rank for you as a user while choosing a time period (last hour, last day, last week, last month, last year). I want everything possible to be configurable at the user level. I would also like to have options to take people who I follows rankings to be included or sign up to block what another user blocks.
@ari funny thing is get this, they can reset their passwords themselves. they go to me to bypass my boss' password policy. The DC still has some policy applied to passwords I give it but yeah... I mean you know sometimes I just go in and override my password when it changes. funny fact about that my actual domain account doesn't even have domain admin anymore and i don't use it to log in so it's just there as a non privileged user in the directory. Every time I have to use it i just sign in to the dc reset the password because it's probably expired to the same thing. that doesn't really matter though because it has no privilege in the domain... the only reason i do this for some users is because if i don't it will create weird power dynamic office politics
Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage… All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page…...
I was thinking about this and imagined the federated servers handling the index db, search algorithms, and search requests, but instead leverage each users browser/compute to do the actual web crawling/scraping/indexing; the server simply performing CRUD operations on the processed data from clients to index db. This approach would target the core reason why search engines fail (cost of scraping and processing billions of sites), reduce the costs to host a search server, and spread the expense across the user base.
It also may have the added benefit of hindering surveillance capitalism due to a sea of junk queries from every client, especially if it were making crawler requests from the same browser (obviously needs to be isolated from the users own data, extensions, queries, etc). The federated servers would also probably need to operate as lighthouses that orchestrate the domains and IP ranges to crawl, and efficiently distribute the workload to client machines.
When I click links in lemmy comments that explicitly include http in the url, the resulting page is always https. To me, the preferred behavior would be to default to https if no protocol is specified, but to respect the user’s preference if given....
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Most instances don’t have a specific copyright in their ToS, which is basically how copyright is handled on corporate social media (Meta/X/Reddit owns license rights to whatever you post on their platform when you click “Agree”). I’ve noticed some people including Copyright notices in posts (mostly to prevent AI use). Is...
The creator is the automatic copyright owner, or in some cases their employer. Copyright is automatic through international treaties like the Berne convention. The Berne convention is from the 19th century and was created by the authoritarian european empires of the time. The US joined only in 1989. I think your question shows that the idea has not fully taken hold of the public consciousness. Automatic copyright is now the global norm. (I always wonder how much its better copyright laws helped the US copyright industry to become globally dominant.)
Very short and/or simple texts are not copyrighted. IE they are public domain.
Adding a license statement gives others the right to use these posts accordingly. It only serves to give away rights but is not necessary to retain them. The real tricky question is the status of the other posts. I’d guess most jurisdictions have something like the concept of an implied license. Given how fanatical some lemmy users are on intellectual property, not having it in writing is really asking for trouble, though.
What such a license means for AI training is hard to say at this point. The right-wing tradition of EU copyright law gives owners much power. They can use a machine-readable opt-out. Whether such a notice qualifies is questionable. However, there is no standard for such a machine-readable opt-out, so who knows?
US copyright has a more left-wing tradition and is constitutionally limited to certain purposes. It’s unlikely that such a notice has any effect.
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Privacy Badger 2024.5.17 is now available on all supported browsers.
This update fixes breakages on X/Twitter caused by their domain change. We've temporarily disabled widget replacement for tweets, to be re-enabled shortly, once the bug fix gets released to enough users.
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I own my old ISP’s domain. less than twenty email addresses active. Everything else is rejected. I ran it for a week with a catch all bucket and I can tell you now many of those people should be thankful I have and not some unscrupulous scammer. Things like cellphone, social media and medical records accounts all still linked to a ISP domain that has been dead for nearly a decade. The place where I host it sent me a email recently and asked me what had happened to that domain. The user websites are still regularly queried and I’ve considered doing a goatse or tubgirl on all the linked images. Fortunately I’m not in my twenties anymore and decided not to share the chaos.
I read a great post where a guy bit-squatted (bought a domain that was 1 flipped bit away) Google and managed to replace the Google logo on google.com for millions of people. He did the same for facebook and ended up getting thousands of post requests with user data which normally would have failed to resolve or just timed out.
There is still plenty of unexpected fun to be had with domains.
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Which Matrix server implemetation do I choose in 2024?
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Usernames in the Fedivers 😫
Why can you never change your username in Mastodon, Lemmy or Peertube? Is it a condition introduced by ActivityPub or a forgotten feature?
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Propose defederation?
It seems like every user on annihilation.social is a racist idiot, and indeed seems to be the entire purpose of that instance. Who do we talk to about starting a discussion on defederation so that they can’t use lemmy.world to spread their vile hatred?...
Search engines down? (discuss.tchncs.de)
Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage… All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page…...
Does jerboa change all links to https, or is that an instance feature?
When I click links in lemmy comments that explicitly include http in the url, the resulting page is always https. To me, the preferred behavior would be to default to https if no protocol is specified, but to respect the user’s preference if given....
Releasing Windows 11, version 24H2 to the Release Preview Channel ✈️ (blogs.windows.com)
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What is the Legal copyright on a Lemmy Post?
Most instances don’t have a specific copyright in their ToS, which is basically how copyright is handled on corporate social media (Meta/X/Reddit owns license rights to whatever you post on their platform when you click “Agree”). I’ve noticed some people including Copyright notices in posts (mostly to prevent AI use). Is...
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