tinyzimmer

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tinyzimmer,

I used to particularly enjoy getting banned from subs for being mean - with a link to my comment being a reply to someone calling me an idiot and me telling them why they are wrong.

tinyzimmer, (edited )

This page aims to cover that (at least for using mTLS) https://webmeshproj.github.io/documentation/using-mtls/ - but you are right - administration docs in general need a lot more love.

EDIT: I've added a link to that page in the part of the insecure "Getting Started" that says "this is insecure don't do it this way". Hopefully that helps people in the right direction a bit more - but I have a long road of more documentation ahead of me.

As always - any and all contributions are welcome :)

tinyzimmer,

Except it is encrypted, and pretty secure. That's not really related to the issue. Facebook complied with a subpoena as they are legally required to do so. Signal would have to do the same. The only difference there is that Signal doesn't retain decryption keys for your data so subpoenaing them would be pretty pointless except to prove that some conversation happened.

tinyzimmer,

I think you are over conflating "reddit-isms" and "internet-isms". Reddit is where stuff like this has been most prominent for a while - but the whole funny naming thing has been around since the birth of the internet.

tinyzimmer,

https://archive.is/pSpem

tinyzimmer,

Can't wait for the beta to start!

KarinSpaink, to kbinMeta
KarinSpaink avatar

Two questions from a Reddit refugee, who can't find her way around here:

  • How / where can I retrieve a list of magazines that I’m subscribed to? Via the top menu bar I can get all postings of all subscribed magazines in one big feed, but a) I like to browse by subject/magazine, and b) in the one-feed-fits-all method, the busier magazines push postings in small magazines out of sight, which is a pity.
  • is there a way to make my favourite way of reading postings and comments - by newest, instead of by hottest - a permanent choice?

Thanks!

tinyzimmer,

If you click your name in the top right you can go to your Profile which has a list of subscriptions as one of the tabs. Also under your settings you can make your home view be just your subscriptions instead of everything.

No way to set newest as default that I'm aware of yet - would be nice because I'm like you in that regard.

tinyzimmer,

Yea it's a bit weird I'm noticing. It doesn't change the behavior of going to the main website. But it makes it so the links in the top bar default to only your subs. Like if you click the logo it'll take you to your subs.

tinyzimmer,

How far is he willing to take this? I mean AskHistorians hasn't gone full NSFW yet - but they are in a protest mode. Albeit one that still will end up producing decent content, just less frequently.

tinyzimmer,

I respectfully disagree. A sub like AskHistorians generates tons of traffic for the site via google searches alone. It's also got 2 million subscribers that happily remain subscribed for the quality content with all the spam filtered out.

tinyzimmer,

There are a lot of customizations out in the wild provided as CSS scripts to install with Stylus or JS scripts to install with a monkey plugin.

I'm using this plugin for collapsible comments everywhere right now. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468923-kbin-improved-collapsible-comments

Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on Lemmy than Reddit?

I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it's because I am limited to using the desktop and can't aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself...

tinyzimmer,

Samesies. The majority of the subs I used on Reddit have gone dark - but I am still using it to catch news articles that aren't making their way over here. But that has been rapidly changing.

If Boost goes, though - I go. But it randomly had a pretty big update today so I'm not sure what's going on there.

tinyzimmer,

Pretty slick. The absolute positioning and sizing of the avatars and voting buttons is a little finnicky on Chrome. But tweaking the sizes a bit made it workable.

tinyzimmer,

Not sure honestly. And I reallllly suck at CSS so take what I say and did with a grain of salt. Here's what it looked like before my changes (me replying to you):

I then lowered a few sizes.

        .comment figure > a > .no-avatar {
           //
            border-radius: 5px;
            width: 1.615em !important;
            height: 1.615em !important;
          //
      }

Same for the vote buttons

tinyzimmer,

I'm on Linux (Arch with KDE) for whatever that's worth. So I am very likely using different fonts than you. I haven't messed with any of the browser font settings though so those should all be the defaults. Happy to pair with you on this further if you want. Tho not sure the best medium for that.

tinyzimmer,

I mean...yea. You damn near broke the internet with this.

Anyone else think that spez might be the fall guy for the board?

As more and more articles and interviews come out about spez and how he's inspired by how Musk running Twitter, I genuinely can't believe he's this stupid. Anyone else think that we could see a repeat of what happened with Ellen Pao when all the gate subreddits were banned? All of these quotes from Spez are coming out, and the...

tinyzimmer,

I won't be surprised if the board ousts him over the PR mess he has created in the wake of this. But I highly doubt you can compare the two so closely. The board wants money and is presenting him with strategies. The dude is the CEO and is acting on those recommendations on his own accord. All the earmarks of a tech CEO who has finally drank too much of his own kool-aid. If anything I could see Ellen Pao being entirely his doing - and this is some weird cosmic force of karma coming back for revenge.

tinyzimmer,

I could be wrong - but I'm not seeing anything that will help search engines index kbin.social effectively. There is a loose robots file, but I'm not seeing any indicator of site maps. Pretty much a necessity if you want to get crawled automatically.

tinyzimmer,

So I can't speak for moderation tools. The search question intrigues me because there is a search feature but I can't tell if it has any sort of filter support.

As for the image issues. I just came across stylus and https://github.com/aclist/kbin-css/ - the user experience is worlds better with it installed. And there are tweaks for a lot of the image issues and other quirks of the main theme.

That being said, the ability to install these styles should be streamlined into the server I think. External extensions come and go - which would leave anyone using them dead in the water.

tinyzimmer, to opensource

Hey folks. Normally I'd throw this on a few subs on Reddit - but things are really going downhill over there. I've sort of landed on an aspirational project that is the culmination of 4 or 5 different ones I've done over the years and I'm ready to start sharing it with the community.

For lack of a better name, I'm calling it "webmesh" at the moment. It aims to be a WireGuard mesh provider akin to projects like TailScale, OpenZiti, etc - but with a controllerless architecture maintained by raft consensus amongst nodes in the mesh. I'm also trying to avoid implementing custom userspace protocols as much as possible and keep the codebase relatively simplistic by relying on existing kernel technologies and tools.

Short term I could see this turning into a type of SaaS on top of the open-source code (happy to talk to anyone interested in joining on such an endeavour), but I also feel like there is a large amount of potential for standardization of some of the concepts to enable better connectivity across devices at the edge. I don't want this to be Web3 or blockchain or cryptocurrency. But I do think it could become what those things promise (without the built-in financial incentives).
After looking through Lemmy's architecture a bit more - I started getting some wild ideas in that space too, but I would need to write a Rust SDK first.

The project is split across three repositories for now. An API repository containing protocol buffers for the inter-node API and Raft logs. The "node" itself which is the implementation of the API and where the bulk of the documentation/examples/etc resides. And an operator repository where I am putting together a Kubernetes operator to allow bootstrapping meshes on k8s clusters.

Repos are all here: https://github.com/orgs/webmeshproj/repositories

Excited to hear any feedback people might have. Cheers :)

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