People raise a good point that in countries where political dissent can actually be dangerous, this would very much dissuade people from voting on things they believe in, or even coming anywhere near Lemmy period.
A better approach I think would be to have the user’s host instance save their votes (the database obviously needs to remember what you voted on), but when federating those votes with other instances just hand over a cumulative total, e.g., “here on vlemmy.net we have +18 votes for this comment”, which the other instances can then add. There’s no need to send user information with that data.
I’d also recommend lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities as it sorts by active users and other metrics. Set which instance you’re on with the house button in the top right so all the links take you to the instance you’re logged in on.
0.18 is now officially available. I expect it will be a few days as instance owners test the upgrade and decide whether or not to switch over. Especially since the captcha fix isn’t coming until 0.18.1....
This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance
The only official way is for the admin of your instance to defederate from the instance you want blocked, but that affects every registered user on your instance, even if they’re against the action.
I just released a user script that lets you block instances yourself on the client-side as a regular user - basically just removes post and comments from the HTML if they match your block list.
Nope it can block other instance's communities. This script will block all posts at an instance level though, rather than having to keep adding blocked communities when people create more on that instance.
Yep I'm hoping we get more user-level control over the instances we see. This script is a naive client-side approach of just removing the HTML nodes of matching posts, but having it done on the server side would be ideal.
YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private (i.imgur.com)
Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…...
Welcome Newbies! (vlemmy.net)
Welcome to Vlemmy!!...
Error: couldnt_get_posts
When going to the vlemmy.net home screen, I get the following error:...
v0.18 is officially released and includes much needed CSS semantics!
0.18 is now officially available. I expect it will be a few days as instance owners test the upgrade and decide whether or not to switch over. Especially since the captcha fix isn’t coming until 0.18.1....
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance
[UserScript] Block posts and comments from specific instances (greasyfork.org)
Requires: greasemonkey/tampermonkey/other script injector....