And make it easier for Reddit to take the moral high ground by saying that those protesting the changes are somehow aligned with this group.
All I can say is this. Get off my side, you’re making me look bad whether you intended to or not.
And make it easier for Reddit to take the moral high ground by saying that those protesting the changes are somehow aligned with this group.
All I can say is this. Get off my side, you’re making me look bad whether you intended to or not.
This here is the Volt family.
Marty volt is small and so he can jump across a small stream. Put up a small net and it’s impossible for him
Victor, though. He’s got some strong legs. He can jump the net and the stream.
In fact, he’s so strong he can jump over a small river but not if you put a small wall across the way. Then, even with a running jump, he’ll be blocked.
And finally there’s Kal, ahem, Clark Volt. He’s super strong. So strong it could be an ocean and with a little jaunt before leaping he’d jump it.
The stronger the volt, the further they can go and the bigger the obstacle you need to make it impossible for them to make it.
So high enough voltage can literally leap through air (that’s the arcing you see in power plants shorting or lightning) or even wood itself. Even rubber, with a high enough voltage, will be conductive since the sheer force of the current will find a path for the charge.
That’s also why we have lighting rods, it’s easier to redirect the current to a safe spot made to handle it than to try and make high skyscrapers out of a material that can resist the insane charges of lightning and still be strong enough and light enough to build with.
Yet disorder and ambiguous goals/requirements by management tends to have a domino effect.
Think O’Reily book covers. There’s always some associated animal with a particular tech stack
Boost as a “shout out” being public is alright. I guess for us Reddit folks it’s like a cross post to our own u/sub that followers could see.
Upvote/downvote, though, should be private. Not sure if that’s ever truly possible though because by the nature of the fediverse it has to be replicated across to other instances and so everything is “open” as I understand it.
It may not be easily visible in the UI but it’s there in the data.
So I try to think of everything here like it’s a postcard not a letter.
Any mail carrier who sees it (and makes a copy) can see it all.
As others have said… a mascot.
But, what would be great in my opinion would be the current folder icon shape stylized like a birds wings.
E.g. flying free amongst the various places of the fediverse
So I’m on kbin. And your comment can be described as
On kbin.social from k.fe.derate.me
And my reply when you see it would be
On k.fe.derate.me from kbin.social
I see that ActivityPub makes it hard to do it and if it can’t be done then it should be visible (so people can know and act accordingly)
The only “alternative” approach I can see would be to have a per instance account that is given the activity (say upvote/downvote)
So… let’s say I’m on kbin.social and upvote this comment.
Kbin.social knowing me (since it’s my account) logs the upvote but does so as if single_instance_system_account@kbin.social did the upvote.
That is then what is replicated across the fediverse.
I assume that breaks the “intent” of the protocol and could be an issue but does let other instances decide to filter out that activity (if they decide to do so) by having some attribute or flag that denotes that this “account” is the fediverse instance account (e.g. not a user).
Boosts, however, should be shared since it’s like a retweet/shout out and are meant to be shared.
Of course that means I can no longer see my own upvote/downvote activity.
If that was also wanted then you could add a table that basically logs that but isn’t federated. E.g. a local instance reference that can be used for that instance to show the activity.
This way there’s less chance of an issue of somebody knowing a users account seeing activity like this:
A man, say in Iran, upvoted something about the prophet that somebody else found disrespectful
A christian teen upvoted something about atheism.
A woman reading about how to leave a domestic abuse situation.
Somebody curious about transgender reassignment
Either there needs to be a way to minimize the risks of such activity being seen/shared across the fediverse or it needs to be very very clear that even if you don’t see it that what you do is shouted across the fediverse and that others can and will be able to see it.
Just for starters (knowing that they can be changed with themes) is color contrast
For example up top whether I have subscribed, all, etc selected isn’t clearly obvious.
I mean I can “tell” if I look really closely but there isn’t enough contrast.
There’s some great SASS tooling for identifying if the colors you have meet the recommended WCAG guidance for contrast/visibility.
Alt text and descriptions for items visual elements too.
While it’s hard to enforce across the fediverse I do like how I’ve seen some people post memes and write descriptive text of what is in the panels.
Here’s one I commented on.
Leave the prefix off altogether so it works cross server and doesn’t take unnecessary space
Ahh. So what would be helpful then, for smaller communities that started here not knowing there was one someplace else would be to add some kind of post that points to the specific community.
As we’re still learning as we go here
True but they can go anytime. In the meantime they’re making a fuss, keeping the issue alive in the news and making Reddit take action instead of making it easy for them.
E.g. “If you want me gone fire me because I’m not quitting so you can save face.”
Chrome has something similar but you have to set it up as a custom search engine
For anybody doing this seriously be careful. High salt/protein and low water sounds like a recipe for all kinds of issues.
For example extremely high water low salts can cause brain swelling and death.
Might want to put a disclaimer that the WiiU port doesn’t count
What would be great would be some list (maybe a wiki) showing where each community has gone.
E.g. 3Dprinting has a discord here, squabble there, and these lemmy instances.
That way the communities can find them and, in time, migrate toward whichever one(s) make sense
Roy Batty isn’t the villain… he’s a victim of the entire system that treats him like one because he exists.
Man… I gotta watch that movie again, fantastic film
And instead of making it closed they made it available under open source licensing. With the only terms being attribution.
They’re not the bad guy here. Nor is Ernest. There’s no bad guys here just a mistake, a call to fix it, a fix and an acceptance of that fix.
Really Ernest showed the perfect example of “if you have to eat crow eat it while it’s young and tender”
How do I, a user with a kbin.social account, create a post there?
That’s a fair point. But there are people who live in situations where such activity has legal/societal implications.
Think some countries that put people to death for blasphemy or people in the states who associate being transgender with being literal child molesters.
Sure keep your account private but that isn’t always feasible even if you try. We see people get doxxed even from innocuous breadcrumbs of statements made over time.
Or don’t favorite/upvote and yet it’s easy to inadvertently do so which can be an issue.
That’s why I’m for a way to handle it, if possible, that minimizes the bad actors. And if not possible then it needs to be really really clear.
Like “upvote” is followed by something that succinctly notes “Favorite saved and ready to share across the fediverse”
Yeah. Because each instance would have a record of that but there’s nothing to stop a bad actor from doing that on one instance and federating that out.
Of course a bad actor can set up their own instance and just create thousands of fake bot accounts and do the same.
Edit: The more I think about it @VerifiablyMrWonka the only way to do it would be to have some kind of activitypub transaction that is flagged as an instances reputation.
E.g. it’s the same as using the per instance account but it allows you to say “here’s how kbin.social” calculated the reputation/weight of this item.
And then each instance can opt to include that or not as they see fit. Maybe they federate with all instances but only show the weight/reputation “favorites”/“reduce” from those that they trust to maintain that info. Lemmy.world, sure, but the new instances such as haxor.1488.de.feder.at yeah… that’s probably a no so by default all of those don’t show/include in that instances feed.
Oh supermurs? He’s great. hegetsus
I was asking for clarification
Did you use the power suite and use it multiple times?
Seems to be a bug and there’s some fork of it that somebody made to fix the issue
Ok zee
Not sure about the license, etc so check the sites repo but here’s the icon svg the site is using
Just that without the text and only an icon it would be hard to differentiate it.
I mean, assuming it defaults to expanded at first, it’s not a big deal. Just something to consider from a usability perspective
As for puzzles Baba is you is great
Have a citation for that? Because that sounds like a great link for an inevitable edited response to all my comment history
Or help if you get the ambiguity out of the way up front. So later when somebody says “hey… I’m going to use your art to sell this multi-million dollar product” or to advertise some unsavory service you’d rather not have your stuff asssociated with there’s clarity on what they could and couldn’t do. And it makes any recourse (if it requires going the legal route) easier.
Like a dentist, always cheaper and better to go with their advice in order to prevent more costly issues down the road.
They could be. Or they could be sales, or brand ad coordination, or hr, or legal handling the various issues related to products, lawsuits, regulations, actual law enforcement inquiries, etc.
Like any corporation there’s a ton of backend staff doing stuff people don’t see because it makes the parts they do see operate.
That assumes there’s a consistent icon theme for every magazine doesn’t it?
That’s true. Just something to consider since there are real life bad actors and things can and will be a security/safety risk for some groups
Some good points but a counter point to consider.
Whether it’s a photo used without permission by a big company or people using your work without attribution there does tend to be a dismissive attitude overall (not that that is the case here)
I can see how somebody could come into this situation with that as the background and just cut right to the chase.
There wasn’t a “cease and desist” (the legal equivalent of an ahem) nor a DMCA copyright takedown (harsher but less financial damaging than a copyright suit with damages)
Their tone was scolding but it was a “hey… heads up… you gotta fix this” without resorting to any of the above.
Ernest took it with the right attitude and Emma accepted it and that’s that.
Couldn’t really ask for a better outcome and Emma has every right to come out swinging harder than she did.
I can’t speak to her experience with this but personally it is sometimes better to be firm (but fair) at the outset so people don’t ignore a softer tone requiring you to escalate it.
That’s just bad for everybody all around.
True but then you have a stack of icons that all look the same.
No big deal when it’s expanded but when collapsed it makes it hard to visually identify what’s what.
Fixes:
Add a single letter based on the magazine like outlook does with contacts
Have an alt title that shows when you hover (not as useful with phones but still)
Default to expanded so you can collapse it but the default shows the icon and the associated label
And the api didn’t expose ads. It’s not like the apps chose not to display them. It wasn’t even an option.