To my knowledge there’s no stagnant water on my property, I’ve run water through all my ptraps, and I’m careful to not leave doors open. Yet at any given time there’s at least 3 in my house. I can’t sleep, i can’t sit on the couch, i can’t exist in the fear of being sucked dry....
What is this take, Huffman is ruinning Reddit with classic enshittification (a scholarly term)
Huffman and his ilk need to get the Marie-Antoinette treatment because they are fucking robbers trying to enclose the commons of our collective discussion.
We don’t need them, they blitzscaled to outgrown opensource community decentralized platform like now defunct IRC/NNTP
Now they want to cash out before the open source movement produces a superior product. I can’t wait until they get the taste of ash in their mouth.
Thank Huffman for setting Reddit on fire, the world will be a better place when you and reddit are gone.
Beehaw is not federated, it functionally has ceased to exist.
There will not be a winner instance.
If all of the Lemmy federation cannot be read from any random instance, then it already is a failed experiment.
Not 1% of1% of1% of 1% cares what the instance name is or what their rules are. I am probably still missing many orders of magnitude.
The beehaw controversy is obvious. You don’t need to know the specific. I don’t know them and I don’t care about them nor what their story is.
The lesson is clear, tyrannical instance owners exists, and they will leverage your participation against you and cut your relationship.
There exists poisonous instances on Lemmy and they must be disempowered. Instances must be nothing more than portals to the whole. They must have no power.
I don’t believe most Lemmy users will tolerate maintaining more than one account on once instance. If I can’t see it from my account, then it doesn’t exist. This is all starting to sound like old school phpbb forum with new paint.
It is very obvious what is to be done to honour federation. When you go to lemmy.example.com/c/cats, you get every /c/cats from every instance.
Then your client applies to personal filter list to hide what you don’t want to see. And then it applies the filters of the moderators you are subscribed to.
Yes, I want it all in one place. Preferably in my own, self hosted, single user Lemmy instance. Zero external filtering with my consent, sorting algorithm fully under my control. I will apply my own filters, spamblock, Adblock and moderation subscriptions as I see fit.
The current design apparently depends on the ceaseless efforts of atlas-type unpaid volunteers with ultimate and unaccountable moderation powers and a “decentralized” system that heavily favour the biggest community on the biggest instance.
That plus a lot of hope. Just so much hope for the system to somehow not go in the direction of the gravity toward which it is built.
Lemmy is built with federation as an afterthought, decentralization as something to be overcome.
Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think....
And they will also be needed to distinguish votes by spammers and bots
All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based
But then you would have to take the admins word for it that the data is legit. This creates a window for data manipulation by making the data and a local algorithm dependent on someone else’s decision
The tech is right there, it’s 20 years old. I’m pointing at it in response to people saying “this is too hard, we can’t have 700 instances sharing a few kilobytes of text !, You’re asking too much”
The pseudocode for this feature is as follows Cron job to be run at regular intervals (say top of the hour) Query database for all content (posts, comments) between last packet and now, place in packet. Query database for all moderation actions ( votes, censure, blocking, pinning, etc ) between last packet and now, place in packet. Take packet, name with name on instance plus date range. Export as dht enable magnet link torrent Forward magnet url to all known federated instances
Twitter users right now (sh.itjust.works)
Fairphone 3 gets 7 years of updates, besting every other Android OEM (arstechnica.com)
Thoughts?
The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops (web.archive.org)
Microsoft Word document after you move an image: (lemm.ee)
I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?
To my knowledge there’s no stagnant water on my property, I’ve run water through all my ptraps, and I’m careful to not leave doors open. Yet at any given time there’s at least 3 in my house. I can’t sleep, i can’t sit on the couch, i can’t exist in the fear of being sucked dry....
Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1874605...
thought you stood a chance? (media.discordapp.net)
How can you whitelist individual cookie@website from "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" instead of having to whitelist the entire website ? (lemmy.ml)
For example, let’s take the website github.com...
Someone please tell the /r/firefox moderator to include a link to /c/firefox in the sub close banner (lemmy.ml)
I found a major communication problem with public perception of Lemmy. they seem to think a community is tied to a particular instance (www.reddit.com)
This is a big problem. It creates the illusion that /c/cats on one particular instance is the real /c/cats....
Protect. Moderate. Purge. Your. Sever.
Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don't respect. By default. Urgent....
Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous
Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think....
How does federation work? (i.ibb.co)