retronautickz

@retronautickz@fedi196.gay

Pallas | 29

Queer | Disabled and neurodivergent | vegan |

#Hyperacusia #ActuallyAutistic #ChronicallyIll #Photophobia #Amblyopia

Proud owner of a weak-ass spine and vertebral column, and of a wonky optic nerve

Fan of vintage fashion, old films/tv series, old school visual kei and classical music

New to Kbin, but not new to the fediverse

Avatar description: A portrait of Ludwig Van Beethoven painted by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.

Cover description: A picture of the sky

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JollyTheRancher, to fediverse

Looks like lemmy.world has been hacked, I'd advise not going there for a bit.

retronautickz,

@JollyTheRancher Lemmy.blahaj.zone seems to have been compromised too. Other servers are going offline as a preemptive measure until the vulnerability is fixed.

retronautickz,

I wanna give it a try, but I've been looking at the servers and I haven't found the one for me and what I'll use the account for. Nor do I know of any account on a pixelfed server I could be interested in following...to just follow accounts on completely different federated servers it wouldn't make any sense to me.

OC Question: Why are some instances defederating instances which don't sign the fedipact?

Something I don't understand currently about the whole Meta/Threads debacle is why I'm seeing talk about instances which choose to federate with Threads themselves being defederated. I have an account on mastodon.social, one of the instances which has not signed the fedipact, and I've had people from other instances warn me that...

retronautickz,

Is not instances that don't sign the fedipact, as there are instances that haven't signed it, but are still blocking Meta-owned instances.

It's instances with admins that actively chose to federate with Meta that will get defederated, why? because even if a server defederates from Meta owned servers, if another server they federate with is federating with Meta, Meta still has access to data and information coming from the first defederating server.

My mastodon account is in a instance that signed the pact. This server already limits Mastodon.Social, but as the federation is not suspended, but rather limited, a user from my server, myself included, can interact with people on Mastodon.Social if we follow each other/I follow them or we are in the same group.

This mean that if my acquaintance on mastodon.social interacts with a post of mine, even if people on Threads cannot directly see my post, they still can see and interact with the comment made by that mastodon.social account. That way Meta gets data from all the people and servers that interacted with my posts.

So, the only way to really stop Meta from gaining data and information about and from users and servers defederating from them is to also defederate from servers that are openly supporting federating with Meta.

retronautickz, to random

Is there any community/magazine for musical theatre and opera?

Because if there isn't, I'm going to make one for each.

Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter (www.theverge.com)

Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it seems that the influx...

retronautickz,

"decentralised"? Only as a publicity stunt.

They aren't truly open to people opening their own servers.

While larger, more general communities are thriving on the Fediverse - I'm missing out on the niche communities

Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it'd be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I'd doubt they'd form a...

retronautickz, (edited )

Well, these communities/magazines will not apear on their own, users have to make them. So, if you're interested in creating a magazine/community for a topic, just open it. There's always going to be someone who's also interested in participating.

Also, check, because sometimes there already chirp and/or Guppe groups for those non-techy things that you can follow from Kbin and interact with as if they were magazines

retronautickz,

"The growth" of the fediverse in general or of any platform in it is not responsibility of one server. The only thing Beehaw admins are responsible for is Beehaw.

If you want Lemmy to grow create your own communities and threads, participate in other people's communities and posts, etc.

there are more than 1000 Lemmy servers, many of whom are open to community creation (something that Beehaw never has been)

Go create content on Lemmy if you want it to grow.

BTW, "growth" is not necessarily a good thing on the fediverse. Growing too much can be the death of a server.

retronautickz,

The average user doesn't want to migrate here, though. The average user is either content to keep their Reddit account or thinking on migrating to another big centralised platform.

Open-source decentralised platforms like the fediverse and its projects aren't remotedly interesting for the average user.

Instead of deleting your Reddit account, consider using chatgpt to make comments instead

And make sure not to click on any links. If enough people use chatgpt or other LLM's to generate comments that are wordy but clearly just filler, it'll give advertisers pause and tank the value of the site as training data. Reddit's response will probably be to start banning users it thinks are doing this but normal users will...

retronautickz,

What if...just hear me...what if you just enjoy your time on the threadiverse and live Reddit alone?

OC Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery.

It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....

retronautickz,

The beauty of the fediverse is that those people exist in their own servers and you can simply join servers that defederate from theirs.

retronautickz,

Upvote = favourite Boost = upvote Downvote = downvote

retronautickz,

I've got some news about the demographics of the threadiverse

Why can't magazines/communities aggregate content from other instances?

When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It's the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue...

retronautickz,

Because they're two different communities/magazines hosted in two different servers from two different platforms

Federation makes it posible for you to participate in both

retronautickz,

We already have sites that offer small communities; what we needed was a replacement for Reddit.

The thing is neither Lemmy not kbin were made to be Reddit replacements.

The reason Reddit/Facebook/et al are so huge is because people want to have a single community to talk with

They're also centralised and their respective servers can tolerate much more content being shared/posted onto them than a fediverse server can. Having different communities allows for a given server not to be saturated.

Idk why there are so many general use instances when the threadiverse would be a great place for themed instances to exist. But even with thematic instances you can't avoid similar communities existing (because multiples servers could exist for the same topic/fandom/etc.

Something that connects communities about the same topic from different servers into a "macro-community", so everything posted in any of the communities can be read when you click one of them, without putting to much pressure into a sole server, would be cool. But I don't think is posible with AP alone.

retronautickz,

It's having different communities/magazines (and also groups) that allows you not having to be subjected to the whims of mods, because you can decide which one of those to subscribe to.

We cannot centralise communities because this is not a centralised platform.

Not even in Reddit there's only one subreddit per topic. It's just that centralisation allows you to ignore the existence of those subreddits you don't follow...

What could be done is:

• Having some kind of nomadic identity a la Hubzilla, but for communities. Anything about a topic is immediately copied on any community/magazine about that topic and. This way, if the hosting server of any of those communities dies, the content in the communities hosted there could migrate to similar communities/magazines across different instances on the threadiverse. (This would require adding Zot protocol. I'm not sure this can be done with AP)

• The ability to curate your feed by tags. That way one could see the threads and posts on a topic across instances by following a tag rather than by having to follow different communities/magazines on the same topic. You could also avoid seeing post containing certain tags by blocking/hiding tags.

banning and defederating communities

Hey all, I recently left reddit like many of you. I have a question regarding lemmy and the fediverse on the history of banning and defederation. I have noticed several posts calling for varying communities to be disconnected. were these removal requests as prevalent before the mass migration? Usually I am all for communities...

retronautickz,

Yes. Defederation of bad actors has always been common and it's expected.

retronautickz,

Lemmy is way older. The true veterans are hiding somewhere

retronautickz,

Why would anyone still be on Twitter when Mastodon, Akkoma, Calckey, GoToSocial, etc exist?

Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances (kbin.social)

I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message...

retronautickz,

Could it be a problem due to the newest Lemmy software upgrade?

For what I read it's a complete mess.

It denies access from non-en-us browsers, for example.

It wouldn't surprise me if it messed with federation too.

But, they're the devs. They did this mess. Why would they present a software upgrade that clearly had a lot of issues is beyond me...

retronautickz,

Well, I mean, there may be two reasons for that:

  1. Admins/mods actually asking members of their servers about something (You can see this posts due to federation, but you shoulnd't participate in them). Sadly there are no federation levels in Lemmy and Kbin that would allow someone to make their post accessible only to people on their server, their followers list, a bubble of "friend servers", servers on the same software or the whole fediverse.
  2. People not understanding how federation and distribution/decentralisation work. I've seen a lot of newcomers struggling to understand the difference between platform and server and thinking that Beehaw is a different social network from Lemmy, when, in fact, Beehaw is Lemmy.
retronautickz,
  • There's Vanilla ice cream, and also "vanilla" ice cream
  • Burger and sandwich places should offer cooked vegetable options to add to the burger/sandwich for people who cannot eat or simply don't like raw vegetables
retronautickz,

Quoting the FediPact:

Openness for the sake of openness is meaningless. Two things that are very valued on fedi are consent and freedom of association. The whole point of the fediverse is that instances are free to choose who they talk to. We don't have to federate with the likes of gab, for example. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell, chasing a capitalist pipe dream

retronautickz,

Matrix is decentralised but not part of the fediverse as it doesn't make use of ActivityPub or any other federated protocol. It's isolated in its own protocol.

retronautickz, (edited )

On the Fediverse no, there isn't. The closest thing would be Matrix (as someone mentioned above). But Matrix, while, decentralised, it's not truly part of the fediverse.

So a chat platform is something the fediverse is lacking, but idk how posible it is as federation = less security and less privacy. For example, it wouldn't be able to add end-to-end encryption.

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