retronautickz

@retronautickz@beehaw.org

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Should political extremism, far-left or far-right, be an allowed part of Lemmy's Fediverse?

I’m simply asking this question because of Lemmygrad.ml existing, and that there isn’t a far-right equivalent of it yet. If Lemmygrad has any standing for its right to exist under free speech, where is the line drawn for other extremist political ideologies? If Holodomor skepticism is allowed, then what stops Holocaust...

retronautickz,

You cannot stop someone from downloading a software to open their own instance. What you can do is to block bad actors/cut federation with them. Which is what most instances do with both alt-right/nazi and tankie instances.

retronautickz,

Veganism is not a diet.

Neither is vegetarianism. Both are philosophies that involve plant-based diets.

retronautickz,

All this elitism and drama over the vegan and vegetarian community reminded me why I hate vegans (yes, I'm a vegan who hates vegans. We exist)

I will never understand vegan elitism. The goal should be reducing harm as much as we can. Elitism does nothing to promote veganism as a philosophy and there will always be someone more strict and more ridiculous than you.

There are people who say eating mushrooms isn't vegan because fungi share similarities with animals. I kid you not.

Can I suggest naming the community simply plant-based?

That ways it not only includes the philosophies of veganism and vegetarianism, but also people that for religious reasons or health problems have to follow a dietary regime based solely or mostly on grains, plants, etc.

retronautickz,

You say you hate vegans? That’s fine, start another group but leave our group alone.

I see you decided to ignore the fact that I AM VEGAN (which I even mention in my comment) and that I was clearly joking.

retronautickz,

Do you really think Meta wants to be "one of us", that they plan to be on equal ground as the rest of the already existing instances managed by individuals and not by corporations? Are you that naive?

retronautickz,

Good. There's no place for corporations on the fediverse. Specially not for a corporation like Meta that has shown time after time how dangerous they are.

retronautickz,

This pact isn't legally binding, but more of a moral "I stand against Meta" thing

retronautickz,

It's decentralised and open-source, but not federated, as it works on its own isolated protocol (similar to Matrix)

retronautickz,

Yes ,and no.

It depends on how you define both terms. If decentralised = federated, matrix is federated. But if federation is defined as a model of social network in which different servers based on different platforms interact through the use of the same protocol(S) (decentralisation + interoperability), being isolated, Matrix doesn't fit the definition.

Because Matrix doesn't accept other platforms to enter its protocol, nor plans on adding it's commonly not considered to be truly federated

retronautickz,

Those are still Matrix (platform) style servers.

You don't have something like Mastodon vs Pixelfed vs Lemmy in terms of diversity of products.

retronautickz,

I know they are ActiVItyPub based. I'm talking about the diversity of platforms, not which protocol they use.

that it’s federated (which is not necessary to be a federated service).

What do you mean by this?

retronautickz,

The thing is, I never talked about UI.

Server =/= UI =/= fork =/= platform

Twitter is completely centralised because all the data is inside of a unique server and cannot interact with other social media platforms. You cannot talk to someone on tiktok through twitter.

You can federate, through the use of plug-ins, on/with Wordpress and (soon) Tumblr, but neither are decentralised, as each concentrates its data in a sole server.

thenexusofprivacy, (edited ) to queer

We're here, we're queer, we're federated: How queer, trans, and non-binary people helped create Mastodon and are shaping today's fediverse

https://privacy.thenexus.today/here-queer-and-federated-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

Happy !

THis is a draft version, so feedback is very welcome!

@lgbtq_plus

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retronautickz,

The great benefit here is that, because the nature of decentralisation and federation, even if bigoted people exist within the fediverse, they are in their own isolated instances and we never see them; while in centralised social media "the algorithm" is designed in such way that we are forced to see bigoted posts/people

This makes the fediverse much safer for and attractive to queer people and other marginalised groups

retronautickz, (edited )

Lemmy is an special case because people here don't seem to grasp the concept of Federation, are choosing servers that aren't for them or not defederating from bad servers (not Beehaw's case) because they think federation is people putting up with their bs or that they have to put up with other people's bs.

I'm mostly talking about mastodon, all the -key(s), pixelfed, peertube, etc. They're populated by marginalized people because the big centralised alternatives promote a hostile environment for them/us.

Also the fact that your feed in Reddit had to be curated specifically to contain only queer subreddits says a lot.

In centralised social media I had to curate my feeds that way, here (fediverse) I can follow different groups and people from different servers that I know I won't encounter bad actors because they're isolated in their own instances

retronautickz,

Copyright should protect the artist, not corporations. But it's become a business, with companies made only for the sole purpose of (sometimes falsely) claim copyright of works.

We can see this with videos being copyright strike when they were making clear use of "fair use", or when some years ago there was an issue with channels about Classical Music having their videos taken down for copyright claim coming from a company that alleged to have the rights over different pieces (not the performances, that are protected by copyright), but the piece itself, from different eras/centuries (20th and 21th century compositions are protected by copyright, 19th, 18th, 17th, 16th and 15th century compositions are not)

There also have been cases of an artist/author losing the right to reproduce their own work after getting out of a contract because the publishing house/music company got full right on their work. Sometimes getting to the point that the artist couldn't perform because the music company had the right to the image of the artist.

So, how can copyright be shaped in a way that upholds the right of the artist, but doesn't allow for any kind of corporative abuse to exist?

damon, to fediverse

If anyone has any bandwidth. I would love to get a project going for an encrypted fediverse alternative to Discord. Thoughts?

retronautickz,

While Matrix is decentralised, it's not considered part of the fediverse as it has it's own protocol and cannot federate with other decentralised platform.

But, personally, I don't think a fully federated chat/message platform based on ActivityPub is fully possible, or even a good idea

retronautickz,

How would federation with other platforms work? Or would it have it's own protocol (Diaspora* or Matrix style), with federation reduced to a descentralization of servers?

Federated Fanfiction Platform?

Is there a Fediverse option for hosting fanfiction, or maybe web novels/serials/etc? Like an AO3 alternative, basically. I looked around but couldn't find one, the closest thing that kinda works are the blogging platforms like writefreely. If there isn't, do you think fanfiction would be a good candidate for federation?

retronautickz, (edited )

No federated alternative as of yet. It's one of the platform types that the fediverse is lacking.

Dreamwidth (which is not a platform to host fanfiction, but rather to discuss it, share recs, etc) has had federation proposals, but nothing has come out of them.

WriteFreely is in the fediverse, but it's more of a blog platform the style of blogger, wordpress, or medium.

retronautickz,

I haven't tried any of the macroblogging platforms, but I plan to. For what I've read Hubzilla has a feature call Nomadic Identity that, while it makes server migration easier, creates problems with federation, but nothing too severe as to render it unusable.

It just that, because it's a Zot feature, when you go from a clone to another, your contacts from platforms other than Hubzilla (or anything based on Zot are lost), but If you don't care much about that, it's a great feature because it means that you can keep using the platform even if your home server is offline

retronautickz,

For what I understand, it's just like you are saying. The biggest problem/annoyance is when the home server goes down permanently. So yeah, having some kind of backup would be a great idea

retronautickz,

Whatsapp is so big here that it's not just that everyone uses it, you are practically require, forced, to use Whatsapp.

I hate whatsapp, but they require it at the university if I want to be informed. Doctor appointments are also. via whatsapp.

retronautickz,

Interesting that you aren't mentioning that the instances that are being kept from joining the FediPack are instances know for housing bad actors/promoting hate speech

retronautickz,

Luckily ActivityPub it's not the only federated protocol...

retronautickz,

it's based mostly on old Instagram which was way more photography-focused than it currently is.

It's also basically used as a image hosting place for artist on other platforms on the fediverse as many servers on the microblogging federated platforms do not allow or severely limit multimedia uploads. (same thing happens with PeerTube and Funkwhale and videos and audio respectively)

retronautickz,

i feel like it’s still difficult to think of what to put for things like art i’ve done, but i’m gonna do my best to do give it a good effort next time

There are resources that can teach you how to describe images/create alternative text. What I wound recommend is:

  • Describe only what it's essential to convey the image. You don't need to describe the several shades of green in the grass or the several shades of brown in a character's hair.
  • Describe the important details/things as complete as you can
  • Give context if required. "A man sitting under a tree" isn't the same as "A man sitting under a tree as part of a protest against deforestation"
  • Always determine the type of image/art
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