I've just done a bit more testing, since my friend emma in this Raddle thread was able to confirm in her own #Postmill instance (I've tested against #Raddle too because why not) that it's a caching reverse proxy causing images to stay longer on the server. I'm able to confirm that using a query string bypasses the proxy's cache and results in the expected 404. Hooray, and I couldn't expect any better from Raddle! :ai_yay: They always take #privacy seriously. :alice_wine:
I've used this method against #Mastodon, #Pleroma, and #Misskey. The first two still returns the image I've uploaded even though I've deleted my account AND used a query string to bypass proxy cache (yikes). Misskey forcibly rewrites the URL to strip out the query string, therefore I can't conclude for 100% sure that it's a proxy's fault. But I'm still pretty confident it is the reverse proxy's doing in the case of Misskey due to the observation I mentioned earlier where the generated file URLs that never got accessed don't get cached.
Alright I'm done with this shit, #fediverse devs, do whatever with this info with mind :seija_coffee:
Reminder that #Raddle 's website maintainer Ziq used sock puppets to make raddle seem more popular, as they did on Reddit to avoid bans from the moderators of /r/anarchism and /r/anarchy101.
Yet another reason why I chose #Raddle over #Lemmy for hosting my #Touhou forum: reliability. You can often see lemmy.world (which has the largest Touhou community AFAIK at 132 subscribers and 96 submissions, vs https://raddle.me/f/touhou at 124 subscribers and 970 submissions) and lemmy.blahaj.zone (2nd largest 2hu with similar subscriber count but way less submissions) out of service. Might be due to too many users using at once, some server crash, idk.
Whatever the reason is, the Lemmy software being so heavy has to be a factor. I mean come on, it requires JavaScript ffs.
Raddle meanwhile is so lightweight (written primarily in an appropriate language like PHP like a sane web-facing service would, and DOESN'T require JS), and server reboots (and I only witnessed one in my entire 5 years on that site) take only seconds. Postmill is a champ!
Btw, this is me testing the limits of kbin's microblog feature, so the following post will be long. I will post a TLDR at the end.
It has been nearly a month since I've first joined #fediverse. Even before the #reddit exodus, I was already growing tired of the site for the fact that despite how large the communities were, they were very cold and impersonal. There was also the fact that for the #queer community at least, we had been siloed off from the rest of reddit, because nearly every topic involving #LGBTQ issues were very often met with hostility by a good amount of users, often followed by a locked topic. It was even getting to the point where I didn't even feel safe in the some of the more socially liberal spaces.
The fact that mods were being stripped of some of the few tools they had to keep their communities hospitable, I knew the writing was on the wall. I tried many reddit alternatives during the blackout, including #raddle and #tildes. But once I figured out how #kbin, #mastodon, and #lemmy worked, I found myself feeling right at home on the fediverse.
I think the main reason why is because many of the people here are misfits from other platforms. Many of the users on mastodon are former twitter users who were driven off by the corporate culture of twitter, and later by Elon Musk and the poisoning of the platform. Others are former redditors like me who found platforms like lemmy, and are in the midst of trying to rebuild the community they once had on thier former platform.
Fediverse definitely doesn't feel "mainstream" like the sites that many of us come from , but perhaps that is part of the appeal, and why I have taken to it far quicker than any other social platform I have tried in the past. I'm just hoping as the fediverse continues to grow and attract new users, that it doesn't lose it's quirky and experimental spirit.
TLDR: I like fediverse. It's weird, quirky, and I feel more open here than I was ever able to be on reddit. Don't ever change.
raddle.me/f/touhou, the only very active link aggregator alternative to r/touhou
Hey you. Yes you, Touhou fan. Tired of r/touhou's too restrictive rules? Want a very active general 2hu forum that's hosted on a #reddit alternative with an explicit strong anti-bigotry stance? Then why not hang out and chill at #Raddle's f/touhou? We've recently reached 100 subscribers and 520 submissions! :D
one thing I didn't expect from playing with #kbin and #raddle is just how fast they are. and I don't want to detract from the devs who did a good job making their software feels so pleasant and satisfying to use, but really this is about how goddamn slow reddit is.
and twitter, and android, and basically all modern mainstream UIs. how gradually and insidious all these analytics and normalised spyware and hypecycled overengineered frameworks have gotten us used to platforms that do the same thing as BBSes and Usenet and phpBB forums but take 1GiB RAM and three seconds lag to post a 100-word post.
by "speed" here I mean specifically the latency of feedback to a keypress or other user input. it's something you think you don't care very much until you get something to compare, and then you realise it's been a type of gooey friction slug constantly making you slightly irritated all day.
@pcjroyfz Hi, it looks like most have migrated to #Raddle, which is another reddit alternative. It can be found at https://raddle.me/f/touhou, and it currently has 121 subscribers and 942 submissions. See you there! :D
Doesn't look like #kbin has a working API yet. Lemmy does but I'm obviously not going to support that.
I also thought about setting up a puppet bridge for #Raddle, which I've seen a few queer themed communities pop up on. For some reason though I feel like the Raddle staff would be very against third-party bridges or clients, and would be aggressive at blocking them, much like Reddit.
Whoops! Turn out I spread some Misinfo about Lemmy. It's still developed by NazBols and you definitely should stick to kbin if at all possible, but the post I quoted was from someone who hated the very concept of federation. #lemmy#kbin#raddle
What are your opinions on the other Reddit alternatives like Squabbles.io, Raddle, Tildes, etc?
So obviously a lot of us are partial to kbin/Lemmy but have any of you explored the other alternatives like Raddle, Squabbles.io, and Tildes?...