VerifiablyMrWonka

VerifiablyMrWonka, 9 months ago

This window gets direct sunlight for 2/3's of the day. I hope it's not that, I can't give it much more 😂

VerifiablyMrWonka, 10 months ago

Beautiful model, mostly a more difficult version of a scratch build though.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 10 months ago

This was an issue at the start of July. I would hope that most all instances would be patched now. I know mine is.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 10 months ago

Does Lemmy not let you just attach them to your post?

VerifiablyMrWonka, 10 months ago

Could you please report this on Codeberg. I've got a sneaking suspicion is been fixed already but better to be sure.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

Imgur have quite recently blocked my VPN (privately hosted, not mainstream). They don't like non-domestic IPs accessing their service it appears. I fear the only way to fix this is not to attempt to pull and cache imgur images :(

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

Boosted and upvoted because I think you're right. 😀

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

This isn't the case though? Upvotes (aka favourites everywhere else) are what affect the "algorithm" the functionality thats broken is Karma tracking.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

Of course a bad actor can set up their own instance and just create thousands of fake bot accounts and do the same.

A competent admin would then just defederate from them. Easy. But now throw in that all kbin instances look like bot fests and what do you do? Maybe what lemmy.ml have done and just block kbin useragents at the firewall.

Having an aggregate account that just sends totals could work, but then vote brigading just became even easier. What's that aggregate bot? Did you just send a vote ratio of 300:1.9k for this comment? Lovely.

It's a very hard problem to solve and I'm not sure it's doable. The only thing keeping ActivityPub together is the fact that it's so transparent and bad actors are easily spotted and blocked. As soon as you muddy the waters the primary benefactor is the bad person.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

So what happens with 300 people downvote a post and 500 upvote it? For that to work you'd need an 'account' per post/vote/user combination. Now your instance has 1000's of bot accounts that are now indistinguishable from bad vote manipulation.

ActivityPub broadcasts all these activity types. It's how it works. You can't federate these things without, well, federating them.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

Thank you for doing the investigation so I don't have to. He'll be going on many peoples block lists at this point.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 10 months ago

or a Genestealer Cult

If I remember my reading they discovered the cult on one of their colony worlds. Then they developed a cure and got on with life.

There may have been some "you will have the injection for the greater good" involved but quite frankly I'm fine with that.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

Yep. Though activitypub calls it something else as well. It's renames all the way down

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

It does, AFAIK affect the post ranking i.e. order of posts. So it's got that going for it - which is nice.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

Just keeping things spinning at this point is taking up most of Ernest's time.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

It has an option to always show what instance communities and users originate from.

If the concept of federation is confusing or daunting why would having it be more visible help? Genuine question.

Sign up, browse stuff, comment on stuff, curate your feed by subbing, all the other details are just noise.

Caveat: Unless you're on a small instance that isn't aware of the communities you might want. But let's face it, if the concept of federation is confusing you you probably didn't join some micro instance hosted by your mate Joe.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

Me too! Something I definitely wouldn't mind doing.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

I've seen lovercraftian nightmares

I love this.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

There are tests (and if the readme is to be believed a 71% coverage) they live in the top level tests/ folder.

As to the .env file you just need to rename the example one and either amend these values (with appropriate urls)

SERVER_NAME=localhost
KBIN_DOMAIN=localhost:9443
KBIN_STORAGE_URL=https://localhost:9443/media

MERCURE_URL=https://localhost:9443/.well-known/mercure
MERCURE_PUBLIC_URL=https://localhost:9443/.well-known/mercure
CADDY_MERCURE_URL=https://localhost:9443/.well-known/mercure

Or add them to a new .env.local file.

Start it all up and jobs done*

*well, you need to run the asset pipeline and add an admin user but that's all in the Readme.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

I want to downvote your position, because you're wrong, but I wont in favour of fostering *mite relations.

Bovril though can GTFO.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

He's apparently found some people to help with the infra side of things - which is the hardest thing to do. This means more focus on improving the product. :D

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

Bloody love KGATLW and this is a great track.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

Yeah. I have a concern that because of the length of time it's been down we'll be seeing bigger than normal fragmentation of communities.

It's already the case that the previous "big" communities from places like beehaw.org and lemmy.ml have been replaced by KBin ones meanin that going forward this instance may be hosting the greater number - which isn't good for the fediverse.

VerifiablyMrWonka, 11 months ago

I love flame, I also use the same theme as you :D