Somewhat agree. IPFS makes sense to use as a caching layer and certainly it could help reduce operational costs of a Mastodon instance, but it's too slow to be the main server and it is impractical for mobile clients.
What I'd like to see is the possibility to send multiple URIs when storing/sending information about attachments. This one leave to the client to figure out whether to use a HTTP link or IPFS, or magnet links, or embedded data...
The US government wants to make sure only they can use DataFarming platforms to spy on and influence US citizens. They're following the example set by the CCP, which has been blocking foreign-owned platforms for years, for similar reasons.
The GDPR is as toothless as it gets. Tracking did not stop because of it, it just led to every site pushing even more dark patterns to trick people into giving consent.
If the US does push for something like DMA against Apple and Google, then I'll start believing it.
@vincent I am working on a twitter-to-bird.makeup importer and I have some questions:
Are you okay with that? Would it be too bad if you suddenly have some hundreds of users, each of them importing hundreds to thousands of twitter profiles?
What would be a reasonable request rate? Is something like Mastodon's built-in rate limits (300 requests / 5min window) ok?
My post about communick on @fediverse was unfeatured and I got a 3-day ban for "advertisements".
The post was well received and had 100+ upvotes. I've written it after someone found a comment of mine and said more people could be interested.
I did talk about communick a lot on that community, but my participation was far from spammy. I also subscribed to plenty of other communities and kept any communick-related comments to the "right" place.
@manualdousuario is Element so difficult to use compared to Signal? I got both my aging parents to use Element, and aside from issues on my server UX is okay. The onboarding needs some handholding, but I guess that it's just a matter of patience and setting the right expectations.
Evidence number 37 that ActivityPub needs to find a way to decouple actor identities from DNS:
Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next. https://communick.news/post/520100
Crazy idea of the day: how could I integrate https://cupid.careers into the Fediverse?
If you don't know, it's a "OkCupid for Jobs" site that I did a couple of years ago. People answer questions and the system tries to find other people who are the most aligned with your professional values and the companies.
@evan , how would one go about it? Make an account that publishes the questions as polls, and internally collect the responses?
In this one, #Gentoo says no to #AI, and Linus Torvalds finds it "hilarious", we also have a flaw in #Flatpak, plus #Cosmic showing off its theming capabilities, at least for GTK apps, plus some good news for Linux gaming!
@ruud , can you please confirm my account @rglullis is being perma-banned over a post that was perfectly on-topic and had +100 upvotes?! What was so bad about that post that could've been addressed in the post itself by one of the mods?
Step 3 of my evil plan regarding #fediverser and the #redditmigration has been executed. Anyone with a reddit account can go to https://portal.alien.top to claim their account at the alien.top #lemmy instance, and when they do so it gives you a list of your current reddit subscriptions and recommends the corresponding lemmy community.
Now, on to build and extend the lemmy communities so that we have more recommendations to make.
@maker Would you be interested in a Lemmy instance as well? I registered handmade.cool some months ago and wanted to make a Lemmy instance focused on artisans.
Dear @murena , I really want to be able to promote /e/OS, but it gets really difficult to do if Location services are completely unreliable or don't work on the Fairphone 3, even after all these years.
The BVG (Berlin transit) app can never find the station when I want to buy a ticket. Is it an issue with the app, the GPS on the phone, the lack of Google Services, all of the above? Why is it that I can never get it to work when I need it most?
One interesting phenomenon I am observing: what used to be a link to a Twitter thread on Hacker News is now a link to fosstodon or hachyderm. The center of the conversation place is changing, Twitter is becoming the periphery.
