Draconic NEO

Anyone think he’ll want to take over the rest of Mexico and make it part of America?

No, they can sort of interact with each other, but the data structure and the functions of the sites are different. Mastodon is Microblogging like Twitter, and Lemmy is a Link-aggregator/Forum type platform.

It’s been broken for a while, the devs haven’t really worked on it. It may be fixed in the future but it’s likely it won’t ever be touched again.

These should probably be added as extra default themes to the Lemmy software as a whole, that way they’ll be in all instances for accessibility purposes, not just a single instance.

Just don’t use Reddit’s app. I feel like that should go without saying but there are people who are unaware of how much spyware is packed into that piece of garbage.

It also has VPN bypass mechanisms built-into the app. It’s not good to install this.

Anyone advocating the use of the official app is either an idiot or a shill.

It takes much less if you don’t use their app, all browser based tracking implementations use Cookies, and IP address (usually for aggressive ban evaders).

Their app contains much more aggressive tracking techniques, including a VPN bypass, so I wouldn’t install it on your device at all. It’s better to use the mobile site on Firefox with ublock origin, possibly with OldLander and RES to make the mobile site more usable.

Reddit uses browser cookies to identify people uniquely, they do that in addition to using the IP address associated which they may not always use to initiate a ban of the account.

Use a browser like Mullvad browser with a VPN or Tor browser to create and access a new account.

Also never use the Reddit official app, it has way more trackers than possible in a browser including a VPN bypasser built-in.

Also and this might be obvious, don’t use an email associated with any previous accounts. That’s a low hanging fruit they target easily.

FYI this smacks of terf rhetoric, the same nonsense about trans women assaulting people in bathrooms, when unfortunately the reality is that they are more likely to be physically or sexually assaulted.

Also aren’t you the same person who ran !conservativememes2@lemmy.world?

Because advocating running people over totally isn’t encouraging violence 🙄

Could probably be patched back in if you really need it or want it. Linux is open source after all.

Think of it this way, when you make a post that post will be automatically distributed by your server to everyone who is a subscriber, depending on the type of platform that could mean subscriber to the community, or it could mean to your user account in the case of things like Mastodon. When the post is received it will be copied and re-hosted on all the servers which have subscribers.

Exceptions to this happening are in the case of a user being banned or server being defederated, in which case the request is denied and the post isn’t re-hosted by the instance with the ban or defederation against the user or server who made the post. It should be known that bans and defederation only typically happen in extreme cases such as defending against spam, hate speech, or abusive users.

Might be a more simple explanation but I’m trying to keep it more simple since it helps people better understand the process.

It means it’s deleted by you but it isn’t permanently deleted, you can restore it anytime you want. When it is deleted only you and admins can see it, until it is dumped from the database, then it will only show as Permanently Deleted

I mean yeah, that applies with any service that uses an RSS feed. RSS is just a syndication protocol, it’s meant to only broadcast. If you want to contribute, you’ll need to be a part of the service which is broadcasting i.e. Lemmy or Mastodon.

Pretty much all of the activitypub services out there offer RSS feeds, so if you want user-created RSS content you can subscribe to the Feed of a community or user on Lemmy, or a user on Mastodon.

Seems like Matrix would be more suited for that kind of chat based environment.

All that really matters in the end is decompileability or source code availability. The other licensing stuff is extra and doesn’t matter because businesses fail and people die. When incapacitated, or sunk into obscurity it’s yours for the taking.

Couldn’t disagree with you more, the thing about federation is that it isn’t viewing the content on the server it was posted on, it is crossposting it to all other federated servers. That means you are when federating remote content you are literally platforming it. That also means you are liable for it if it’s objectionable or illegal content. So being able to not accept those crossposts is important. Honestly defederation and limited federation are not as big of issues as you and others think they are, you can ignore the majority of the defederated servers and it’ll be fine, the issue comes when people want the world and aren’t entitles to have it, like I said in my other comment.

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Email is an example of a successful federated platform and it barely has defederation support.

You are insanely naive for saying this. If you’d used non-corporate email servers, like the much smaller email providers out there (which are basically extinct at this point) you’d know just how wrong this actually is. Most smaller email providers out there are blocked or limited by the big ones and the ones that are blocked your mail will never reach the inboxes of people on the big servers, not even the spam folders on those servers. They won’t bounce it back to you either, so it’ll just go into the void.

Most email these days is used primarily by the all mighty trinity: Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo, and a Few on Hotmail and AOL and while there are a few smaller companies out there like Proton, when it comes to something that isn’t a company or is self-hosted you can expect a lot of problems with domains being blacklisted, IPs being blacklisted, or both. And it’s actually much worse than defederation.

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Perhaps that is how at least the non-threaded fediverse should work… However, that would also mean that some instance hosting heinous shit would keep being visible to everyone. It’s a tricky problem.

You’re beginning to realize why the decision to limit spam and illegal shit was chosen over catering to the people who want the whole federated world instead of what they’re allowed access to. Ultimately it is better for everyone if the depraved shit and spam gets blocked, than it is for the people who want the whole world to have their way. If you want the world, go to Nostr, you’ll learn why most people do not want the world.

They’re choosing to attack the public square anyway, because they don’t want their shelters, they want the whole fucking world. And they can’t have it.

This is the best way of putting it, the whole thing about people complaining about defederation. Honestly fuck the people who are like this, who do you think you are asking for the whole world when you weren’t entitled to it in the first place. You weren’t entitled access to Facebook content from Reddit or vice versa. It’s the same here.

I know that part of the reason people like that came her in the first place was because Mastodon and the OG fediverse services made that empty promise to them in the beginning (also saying a lot of shit about freedom and free speech) so those are the people that have been attracted. It really needs to be said loud and clear that this isn’t the case or intention, and catering to people who want the world when they don’t deserve it, is not the goal of the Fediverse or decentralization.

Just replying again to remind you to check up on it when you’re sober. I think it would be beneficial for you and other people in that situation to post about your experience with .ml in the community I mentioned since not many people call out the power tripping by .ml admins despite it happening quite often.