nutomic

nutomic, 3 years ago

Do you know what the status of their federation is? It looks like their instances narwhal.city and dev.narwhal.city are federating, but I dont see any info if that is already stable, and compliant wit the ActivityPub standard. In our case, we are working on becoming standard compliant, and will probably finish that within a month or so (see issue #1220](github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1220).

On another note, I saw a bunch of posts on their site from dev.goldandblack.xyz which seems to be an anarcho-capitalist instance. I’m not sure if that is linked to the lotide developers or not, but its very contrary to the Lemmy userbase which seems mostly anti-capitalist.

nutomic, 3 years ago

That’s exactly what it means.

nutomic, 3 years ago

The right amount of politics for us, but feel free to go back to Reddit.

nutomic, 3 years ago

Fascism and racism have a large overlap, because they both target the same minorities. So yes, I think anti-racism needs to include anti-fascism.

nutomic, 3 years ago

Thanks for the laugh.

nutomic, 3 years ago

Thanks for your comment, I’m really happy to read something like this. I’m glad that people can really get along here :)

nutomic, 3 years ago

The problem is that you as average user have no way to confirm that the app on your phone is actually compiled from the published source code. In that regard it would help if Signal was distributed through F-Droid, which compiles directly from source, but the Signal developers have explicitly forbidden that.

nutomic, 3 years ago

One thing you should consider is that all Lemmy instances and communities are moderated by volunteers in their free time. It is important that we make their job as easy as possible, so they dont get overworked, and can focus on other tasks. If we removed the slur filter, it would cause a lot of extra work for them, as they would have to decide in each case if the slur usage is justified or not.

Like we said many times before, removing the slur filter is not up for debate, not unless someone comes up with a better alternative. But we are always open to discuss adding or removing certain terms.

If this is a deal breaker for you then thats okay, I’m sure there are many other platforms where you can use these terms.

nutomic, 3 years ago

I have never heard of it before, and with 10k downloads it seems extremely small. Matrix has way more than that and is fully open source and federated, so I would just use that.

nutomic, 3 years ago

No, they only have transport encryption with TLS. This is why we recommend Matrix instead. I think Mastodon is working on E2E encryption for ActivityPub, but it seems extremely complicated.