While I was asleep, apparently the site was hacked. Luckily, (big) part of the lemmy.world team is in US, and some early birds in EU also helped mitigate this....
“god created man in his likeness”. Oh yeah, did he create aliens in his likeness too?
Depends on what that “likeness” is. What if “God created both man and alien to be bloodthirsty creatures to fight each other”… and the winner gets to fight God live on GodTV. In the meantime, tune in to PlanetaryWars channel this weekend to see a whole civilization annihilate itself!
SystemD is blamed for long boot times and being heavy and bloated on resources. I tried OpenRC and Runit on real hardware (Ryzen 5000-series laptop) for week each and saw only 1 second faster boot time....
Arguably, Systemd does exactly that: orchestrate the parallel starting of services, and do it well.
The problem with init.d and sys.v is they were not designed for multi-core systems where multiple services can start at once, and had no concept of which service depended on which, other than a lineal “this before that”. Over the years, they got extended with very dirty hacks and tons of support functions that were not consistent between distributions, and still barely functional.
Systemd cleaned all of that up, added parallel starting taking into account service dependencies, which meant adding an enhanced journaling system to pull status responses from multiple services at once, same for pulling device updates, and security and isolation configs.
It’s really the minimum that can be done (well) for a parallel start system.
Could it be a subdomain, though? What if a spammer started a “Lemmy instance as a service” on “legit.ml”, and started creating instances on “lemmy.u<number>.legit.ml”? What if some of the instances were actually legitimate, while thousands of others weren’t? What if… oh well, the rabbit hole goes deep on this one.
Actually... Reddit has been experimenting with this for a few years in r/cryptocurrency where people earn "moons" depending on a series of rules based on their engagement, submissions, number of upvotes, community participation, and so on.
It's mostly led to people gambling the system to earn money. I definitely don't think the current system is ready to be deployed on a site wide scale, but it would be interesting to see them try 🍿🍿
This is why I'm not deleting my Reddit account, it's all the "power" we users have over what's going on, they're gonna have to ban me to stop editing my stuff... and then we're gonna do the GDPR dance.
This is why I'm not deleting my Reddit account, it's all the "power" we users have over what's going on, they'll have to ban me to stop editing my stuff... and then we'll do the GDPR dance.
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
It's not a bug, it's a feature. Think of it like this:
Instances: define some ToS and Code of Conduct
Communities: define a theme and a sub-Code of Conduct
By having multiple instances, you aren't bound by a single ToS or Code of Conduct, you can pick whatever instance you want that matches the content you want to post to a community.
For example, the same "Technology" community could be on:
an instance directed to kids
an instance that allows visual examples of medical procedures
an instance that discusses weapons technology
Having the community limited to a single instance, would never allow the different discussions each combination of instance:topic would allow, even if the topic is technically the same in all cases.
Forcing communities from multiple instances to merge, would also break the ToS of some of them.
So the logical solution is for the user to decide which instance:communities they want to follow and participate in, respecting the particular ToS and Code of Conduct of each.
On Reddit, the r/Technology community needs to follow a single set of ToS and Code of a Conduct. If you try to discuss something that meets the topic but is not allowed, then you will get banned, possibly from all of Reddit.
Agreed. There are still more granular tools missing, but a core feature of a federated system is having instances with different ToS, different Codes of Conduct, and when two instances can't see eye to eye... just defederate and continue business as usual.
On Reddit, mods would ban people "by association" for posting on subreddits they seemed incompatible with theirs... and creating alternate accounts to bypass those bans was considered "ban evasion", a site-wide offense. That's not even a concept in the Fediverse.
Instances can decide to federate only with other instances that share a common Code of Conduct.
That means the LGBTI can have their own set of federated instances, the Nazi can have their own set, the NSFW can have their own set, and so on. There is no requirement for every instance to federate with every other one.
It's not "anti-competitive", it's what freedom of speech looks like: you are free to be a shithead, you are not free to force others to listen to you.
Keep in mind that "defederating" is the opposite to a "site-wide ban" on places like Reddit, the shitheads can still behave any way their admins will let them on their own instance.
There is no "sway" when everyone can start their own instance.
The main "gap" I see in all this, is the lack of user account migration.
Instances defederating is a feature, not a bug, it's how instances with incompatible Codes of Conduct are supposed to interact: just go each their own way.
What's lost in the process, is users getting taken for the ride. There should be an easy way for users to hop from one instance to another when they realize their current instance doesn't meet their expectations.
That might require having to get verified into a new Code of Conduct on a different instance, maybe a review of whatever post history they want to import, maybe just a multi-accont UI. It's something to be worked out.
My ex from Norway mentioned how unusual it was that so many places and people here fly our flag (USA), so I was curious to hear what it's like for others here on the fediverse.
I just came from a Reddit r/tech thread where all the upvoted comments were people making fun of the title, without realizing the title was descriptive of the linked article.
Make a website for idiots, and only idiots will stay on it.
Its now running on a dedicated server with 6 cores/12 threads and 32 gb ram. I hope this will be enough for the near future. Nevertheless, new users should still prefer to signup on other instances....
Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.
Is there a way to shop around for a Lemmy instance based on how many instances are blocking it and how many instances it's blocking? For example, I noticed that the lemmygrad.ml instance is relatively popular, but it seems like a lot of other instances block it. It also blocks a bunch of other instances. So, if there are any...
I am currently working on a game I was told by one friend to use the language I am most comfortable in. However others have criticised me for not using their preferred language or environment....
If you're serious about making games, it won't be your last one, so you'll have many more chances to try other languages, engines, environments or whatever.
I am terribly sorry (lemmy.world)
Lemmy.world (and some others) were hacked
While I was asleep, apparently the site was hacked. Luckily, (big) part of the lemmy.world team is in US, and some early birds in EU also helped mitigate this....
Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology (abc11.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/359905...
Is Systemd that bad afterall?
SystemD is blamed for long boot times and being heavy and bloated on resources. I tried OpenRC and Runit on real hardware (Ryzen 5000-series laptop) for week each and saw only 1 second faster boot time....
Protect. Moderate. Purge. Your. Sever.
Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don't respect. By default. Urgent....
Reddit CEO Pushes Back Against Blackout—Will Consider Letting Users Vote Out Moderators (www.forbes.com)
Reddit may be bringing back deleted comments (lemmy.world)
If you want to further investigate: Link to Reddit post
I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
In light of recent events in the Fediverse (sh.itjust.works)
How common is it to fly your country's flag, and how is it seen by others?
My ex from Norway mentioned how unusual it was that so many places and people here fly our flag (USA), so I was curious to hear what it's like for others here on the fediverse.
The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next (www.techradar.com)
lemmy.ml is migrated to a new server
Its now running on a dedicated server with 6 cores/12 threads and 32 gb ram. I hope this will be enough for the near future. Nevertheless, new users should still prefer to signup on other instances....
What kinds of things from reddit would you like to see Lemmy avoid as the user base grows?
Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.
Windows 11's latest endearing mess contains rigorously enforced Britishisms (www.pcgamer.com)
Finding an instance that blocks least and is least blocked
Is there a way to shop around for a Lemmy instance based on how many instances are blocking it and how many instances it's blocking? For example, I noticed that the lemmygrad.ml instance is relatively popular, but it seems like a lot of other instances block it. It also blocks a bunch of other instances. So, if there are any...
First time coding a game question
I am currently working on a game I was told by one friend to use the language I am most comfortable in. However others have criticised me for not using their preferred language or environment....
Jerboa UI modifications (lemmy.ml)
I've been playing around with Jerboa's UI trying to make it more consistent and readable
How the web became unreadable (infosec.pub)