A company (any company) decides to integrate with ActivityPub, and the entire fediverse has a toys out of the pram moment every time that happens, gradually closing off into smaller and smaller federated circles, that stop federating with the rest of the fediverse.
A reminder, Tumblr are supposed to be adding ActivityPub.
Wordpress has.
Discourse I believe now has.
So who exactly is it that gets to decide which companies are and are not allowed to be part of the Fediverse?
It's all very very much like a dictatorship, whether you want to accept it or not - that's exactly how it is being operated.
You aren't going to see ANY of those 1.2bn users, until someone on THIS server follows someone on THAT server. That's the point of federation. It isn't like Twitter - you don't just see everything that everyone over there posts. It's no different on Mastodon - there has to be a social connection before posts start showing up here.
Put another way, if hateful stuff starts showing up on the Fediverse from meta users, it is because someone on the Fediverse is following the people posting hateful stuff.
When meta eventually starts federating - you aren't going to see posts from @asjmcguire until someone here is following my account.
As for if meta makes changes that makes federating hard, that's not our problem. If they make changes that make federating with THEM hard, that's their problem. There is no reason the rest of the fediverse needs to follow what changes meta make. It doesn't hurt us if they break federation with the rest of the fediverse. Meta is in reality no different to mastodon in that regard, it's just another platform - but for example Pixelfed isn't going to bend over backward to make life easier for meta.
It seemed strange that Twitter posted this update on its business blog until the company mentioned that rate limiting has had a "minimal" effect on advertising. Many pointed out that limiting the number of tweets users could read per day would make it harder for advertisers to reach users and for Twitter to make money....
I mean I find it mind boggling that people aren't noticing yet, that Elon has basically pulled a bait and switch. Especially now that it is becoming even more obvious. Take a product that everyone is using, and degrade the free aspects of it to the point that the only way for people to be able to continue using it - is by paying for it.
His excuses are ludicrous, that he thinks that advance notice would let "bad actors" change the way they operate, as if those bad actors wouldn't have just changed the way they operate as soon as it started being limited anyway.
Hell there is a thread floating around somewhere which shows that you can just reverse engineer the app and get the API key that way. The bots and "bad actors" will therefore continue, and legitimate users will be the only ones impacted.
Just going to remind you that we STILL don't have the fancy Instagram messaging in the UK because of the GDPR. Not sure how exactly the GDPR is hampering us being able to react to a message with more emoji than just a heart, or be able to reply to specific messages - but thats what Instagram claim is the reason it's not available anywhere that has the GDPR
According to my doctor - after diarrhea, it takes about 5 days for the digestive system to start working properly again (because the bacteria has to build back up to enough). So that would be my recommendation. Have diarrhea and then it doesn't really matter what you eat after that, the poster would be back home again before they had to worry about pooping.
As someone who has diarrhea anytime I'm going to be in a stressful situation - I can testify that it takes me about a week to "form" poo again.
This is actually an entirely possible scenario - given the EU's digital markets act that kicks in next year, this would be a quick and easy way for Meta to be compliant - they can say they are using an open standard, which fully complies with the requirements of the EU act.
So, I live with my parents, and I recently (a few months, but I've been using it a lot more the past few weeks) set up a personal home server on an intel NUC I got secondhand (which I wiped and all). We have 2 routers/access points (idk the terminology; two boxes with antennas that we can connect to, both for the same network,...
OK lets start with the phone, what app is responsible for the suspicious activity message? Because I'm not aware that is part of Android. The closest symptom is that Android will disconnect from networks that it claims do not have internet connectivity. Which would fit more closely with your intermittent connection issues. We could really also do with knowing what router you are using for the actual internet. It sounds like you are using mesh system for the wireless side of things. Can we also know are you using the ISP DNS server, or have you pointed the router to more reliable DNS servers? You should probably never use the ISP DNS servers - aside from any other reason, because it makes it much easier for the ISP to record what sites you are visiting.
it's probably related to the bug that is known about and getting fixed - that kbin is currently case sensitive - which breaks things a bit when it comes to remote communities.
This is pissing me off to no end. I went on reddit and signed in out of habbit as I have a couple times already and before my account was gone and it wouldnt let me sign in....
You bring up an interesting point, because of how the fediverse works, every server (that has an active subscription) essentially has a mirror of the original data. So if Facebook have data from people who never consented to that, then they would surely be breaking GDPR rules? GDPR rules say that they can only PROCESS the data (or mine it - if you want to use a more realistic term) if a user has explicitly agreed to that, implicit agreement doesn't count. So this is going to interesting to see how they manage this - providing that they don't process the data and simply present it, as is - they don't break GDPR, but the second that they start processing it, they breach GDPR. Now - they can process data that belongs to their users, but they would have to write code that ensures they don't ingest posts from any user that is not a meta user - for the purposes of harvesting it.
Oh I'm sorry. I was under the mistaken impression that we were talking about billions of humans. But I see now that you have forgotten about them because you are only interested in Meta, and not the actual humans using meta.
Also thank you so much, apparently instead of just having a debate. You immediately resort to bullying and insults.
You probably want to go and check your settings - scroll to the bottom and check which boxes you have ticked. I think by default mine was only set to notify me if I had replies on MY OWN posts, but not if someone replied to one of my comments on someone else's post.
In the UK we call them daddy long legs, I don't know what they would be called in the US - though I think it might be horseflies(?). Anyway I was told at School that IF they could break human skin, they would be deadly to us - but they haven't evolved that ability - yet. So I think they would be who I would befriend first - just in case.
There is a theatre attached to our house. It has only existed since 1991, before that it was a single story machine workshop, and before that - all manner of other things. There is a large Theatre Pipe Organ in it, and we host midweek groups who come down on their special outings (WI, Probus Club etc). One day we had one of these groups in, and as usual when they left we went around the building checking the toilets etc to make sure everyone was out. Most of the time people arrived by coach, but sometimes if the group was closer to us, and a smaller size, they came in cars.
This day we checked everyone was out, and as usual quite exhausted - we locked up the building and went through to the house for a smoke and a coffee before heading back through to tidy away the plates and bowls and start collating the left over scones, butter, jam, cakes etc so store in a fridge and pick our way through over the next several days.
On returning back to the foyer - the fire extinguisher which sits on a bracket on the wall, was sitting upright in the middle of the floor. It couldn't have fallen off the bracket, because it would be laying in it's side near the wall in that case. It was sitting upright - a good 3-4 metres away from the wall. There is simply no way it could naturally have ended up where it was - without someone physically putting it there. But the building was locked, and we would definitely have noticed if it was there when we locked up the building and left, because we would have had to walk around it to leave the building.
No, it's just that kbin has only recently started federating, and I believe ernest said it's still not FULLY federating yet. It's very new. kbin currently also has an issue where it is case sensitive but pretty much nowhere else is - which is causing some odd quirks. The proper format is @magazine so @china
Heard about his on the self hosted podcast and just installed it and it works great. Dont use the given compose file just make your own with the linuxserver image. Here's mine and it works over tailscale and through my reverse proxy....
Another update and possibly a solution for some case where posts were not properly deleted. Seems I jumped the gun on this and the restores haven't been intentional - at least not in this particular case....
Currently I only have 2 comments still visible which for some reason the Power Delete tool couldn't remove. I will check back in a week though if someone can remind me, and see if any of mine have magically reappeared.
Thanks for building up this community here! I used to love reading it on reddit. I have a story from many years ago, I'm not a good storyteller but I'll try!...
Excellent! I'm so glad I subbed. I wasn't terribly active outside a few subreddits that interested me over in the other place, so I missed like 99.98% of what communities it had. This though, brings a huge grin to my face.
No there is definitely more to come - a large part of the problem is that the mods of larger subreddits, rely on 3rd party tools in order to efficiently moderate. And when the API pricing kicks in, those mods will no longer have access to 3rd party tools to use for moderating. Many will give up - why should they give up their free time to make Reddit money, when Reddit won't allow them to have the tools they need to make the job easier.
Could we get official word on what Kbin's stance is towards federating with Meta?
I would like to know if I can feel safe here, or if I should pack it up and start looking elsewhere sooner rather than later....
Twitter says it couldn't tell people about rate limiting in advance | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
It seemed strange that Twitter posted this update on its business blog until the company mentioned that rate limiting has had a "minimal" effect on advertising. Many pointed out that limiting the number of tweets users could read per day would make it harder for advertisers to reach users and for Twitter to make money....
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here (www.independent.ie)
Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.
Sunday 9pm GMT - it will have been 3 days (lemmy.world)
Is kbin.social anti-corporation? Should it be?
I'm seeing discussions on other instances about how a "federated" corporate instance should be handled, i.e. Meta, or really any major company....
Server maybe? causing "suspicious activity detected" message on android
So, I live with my parents, and I recently (a few months, but I've been using it a lot more the past few weeks) set up a personal home server on an intel NUC I got secondhand (which I wiped and all). We have 2 routers/access points (idk the terminology; two boxes with antennas that we can connect to, both for the same network,...
Will This Setup Work? - Nextcloud/Lemmy/PixelFed
Hi folks,...
I'm on the way to Aldi
Anyone want anything?
Peertube 5.2 now allows to transcode a video on another server. Cheap low power server can be used to store the transcoded video. (joinpeertube.org)
How are you guys accessing and interacting with this community?
I'm interested in knowing what you guys are using to access this community, whether or not it's via mobile phone or via laptop or desktop....
Subscribing to small (previously unseen by kbin) communities
How does this work on kbin at the moment?...
Reddit keeps undeleting my account and posts. Is there anything I can do as an American Citizen?
This is pissing me off to no end. I went on reddit and signed in out of habbit as I have a couple times already and before my account was gone and it wouldnt let me sign in....
Meta's decentralized social plans confirmed. Is Embrace-Extend-Extinguish of the Fediverse next? (reb00ted.org)
Do we not have reply notifications on Kbin? (especially for comments)
I just noticed that...
Animals and insects suddenly are as smart as humans, which species should we try to befriend first before a world war between species occur?
To me, the first should be ants, they're practically everywhere and there's a lot of them
What are some unexplainable things you have seen?
It could be anything, something weird at night, a sound, a light or a cryptid.
How do I subscribe to !china@latte.isnot.coffee?
I want to subscribe to this magazine on another instance, but it doesn't seem to let me.
Snapdrop. selfhosted airdrop for your own network (github.com)
Heard about his on the self hosted podcast and just installed it and it works great. Dont use the given compose file just make your own with the linuxserver image. Here's mine and it works over tailscale and through my reverse proxy....
NSFW instance lemmynsfw - drawn NSFW content (updated) (lemmynsfw.com)
SEE SECOND EDIT DOWN BELOW...
OC Updated: Reddit is quietly restoring deleted AND overwritten posts and comments (mstdn.games)
Another update and possibly a solution for some case where posts were not properly deleted. Seems I jumped the gun on this and the restores haven't been intentional - at least not in this particular case....
"Don't touch my bag!" OK, I'll do exactly that!
Thanks for building up this community here! I used to love reading it on reddit. I have a story from many years ago, I'm not a good storyteller but I'll try!...
Search not working ? "Server Error"
Is search working for anyone? I only get...
The Reddit blackout was pretty underwhelming
In the last 3 days I've been paying attention to r/all, expecting several posts about it and......