After using Arch for years due to the convenience of the AUR, I took the plunge and switched to NixOS. My company uses it and I thought it would be a good idea to learn as much as I could about it. I've been absolutely loving it, you basically get the stability of debian/rhel while being able to use a package repository bigger than the AUR. It's super easy to configure the system exactly how you want, which has been really useful for hosting game servers on super low powered hardware. It's easy to remove anything you don't need. It also makes configuring your applications really convenient because in most cases you can set up the package configuration in the main system configuration file, which is super helpful for syncing application configurations across systems.
I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...
I think it has something to do with fear of an upcoming recession, platforms need to prove to their shareholders that they can still maintain profitability even in the face of economic downturn. Keep in mind the US hasn't experienced a real recession since the tech boom, which may explain why all this money grubbing is so severe and sudden.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I'm a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until...
It would be really nice if the search would show all communities in federated servers, and maybe communities in servers federated with those severs, etc.
I don't your personal account will get in trouble for subbing to rule breaking communities, but if the instance hosting those communities is blocked by this one you won't be able to see those posts anymore.
My primary argument is that they post hateful content and covid conspiracies and it is irresponsible to platform this by including it in our federation. Secondly we already got rid of lemmygrad. Thirdly, there's little to be lost in the defederation given the type of stuff being posted over there. Do as thou wilt...
I would probably be helpful for TheDude to give some additional context to what's going on at lemmygrad that led to the ban, I haven't been over there to check but tankie communities I've had the misfortune of interacting with tend to lean pretty heavily into conspiratorial content and definitely have streaks of homophobia/transphobia.
I definitely think de federation should be on the table if an instance has a significant portion of their users breaking our site rules, or trolling/spamming our communities. We don't want to have our communities overrun with people who want to promote a negative atmosphere because the admins of another instance are unwilling/unable to moderate their users effectively, as it will just put undue burden on our admins and community moderators.
I'd say before de federating we should definitely try to engage with the offending instance's admins to see if they're acting in good faith, and if they have a plan for mitigating the issues.
Personally I don't think we should federate with instances that make themselves safe-havens for people who post bigoted/conspiratorial content and dog-whistling, as having that kind of content on our /all feed will drive away users from groups the content is targeting, making the community worse overall.
If you visit a popular community like /c/memes@lemmy.ml with your web browser, the images shown are hotlinked from the Lemmy instance that the person posting the image utilized. This means that your browser makes a https request to that remote server, not your local instance, giving that server your IP address and web browser...
I'd imagine that applies to a website sharing or selling logs of user ips that visited, if you go hit some other server, you give them your ip so they can talk back to you. You're basically doing this on almost every website because almost all will use third party cdns like fonts.google.com or others for Javascript libraries etc. If linking content from another site is the actual interpretation, the modern web basically can't legally exist in the EU.
Honestly this has been par the course for him the entire time he's been at RB, he started strong last year as well, but majorly fell off as the season progressed.
Over the past few days, I've witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation...
What distro(s) do you use?
What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?...
Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?
I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...
Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?
Correct me if I'm wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I'm a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until...
June 9 2023 - Announcement - sh.itjust.works
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[Vote] guess I gotta make a post for this over here. Do we defederate with exploding-heads.com
My primary argument is that they post hateful content and covid conspiracies and it is irresponsible to platform this by including it in our federation. Secondly we already got rid of lemmygrad. Thirdly, there's little to be lost in the defederation given the type of stuff being posted over there. Do as thou wilt...
[Discussion]: Community standards for defederation
Didn't want to further derail the exploding heads vote thread, so:...
PSA: The Lemmy federation convention of hotlinking images to other peer federation servers makes it easy for a rogue instance to collect end-user IP addresses & browser strings, don't assume otherwise
If you visit a popular community like /c/memes@lemmy.ml with your web browser, the images shown are hotlinked from the Lemmy instance that the person posting the image utilized. This means that your browser makes a https request to that remote server, not your local instance, giving that server your IP address and web browser...
What have you been playing lately?
Is there a better first post than this one?...
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Addressing the Exponential Growth of Communities
Over the past few days, I've witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation...
Possibly integrate the lemmyverse search into the lemmy web app
I apologize if this isn't the right community to post feature suggestions....