Interesting that Zoom is not making an attempt to build features that increase trust, enable innovation and encourage robust debates in their app. Seems like a missed opportunity.
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Admin of https://kglitch.social, an experimental Kbin instance.
Egypt already has 12 million homeless people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_sovereign\_states\_by\_homeless\_population
1.2 out of 10 people in Egypt is homeless.
Jordan, with a population of 11 million people, already has 2.1 million Palestinian refugees and 1.4 million Syrian refugees.
Those countries are in no position to help.
Look elsewhere for solutions.
Instances with
more than one admin
clear policies and active moderation
engaged user base
regular backups
no porn
...will stand a better chance than most.
Proton Mail has been around for a long time and has a good reputation.
If you want to try self-hosting email (lol), mailcow is supposed to be very easy to set up.
You know how if your email app stops working you can just install another one and still communicate with anyone else with an email address? The fediverse is like that except it's not email it's twitter and reddit and YouTube all rolled into one. So if twitter was part of the fediverse when Musk bought it and destroyed it you could move to another server with a better moderation policy and pick up where you left off.
Recently I was doing some Azure integration work, with OAuth, Teams and Outlook. At one point I noticed that logging in with a MS account causes my browser to do ~10 redirects between different services while downloading over 30 MB of Javascript and thought "Huh, this looks like decades of technical debt. Either MS devs are waaay smarter than me or this is a pile of garbage". I guess both could be true.
Context:
Elon Musk’s X has instructed staff not to suspend users that post explicitly racist, sexist and homophobic content, or who send sexual material to another person, as part of a new policy that has radically stripped back the company’s moderation of abusive material.
X is so fucked.
The ActivityPub protocol makes it possible, but most apps only make use of the pieces of ActivityPub that suit them. For example, in Lemmy they lean heavily on the Group actor type as the basis for Communities, which Mastodon doesn't use at all. Peertube creates content using the Video activity type, while Mastodon only creates content in the form of a Note activity. Lemmy produces a lot of Link activities, which get rendered into a Note when viewed in Mastodon. And so on.
It's all a work in progress and I'm confident integration will get better over time. The framework is there.
Kbin has limited support for Mastodon posts but it's UI is still very much focused on the reddit-style functionality.
The initial enthusiasm is wearing off.
Check out these graphs (scroll down) https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They don't show October yet, but there are some downward trends visible.
Firefish is federated so you're not limited to content and people on Firefish. You can see Mastodon (and Akkoma, and Lemmy, etc etc) content inside Firefish.
Another anecdote:
My girlfriend and I bought our phones (different makes and models, sadly) at the same time, about a year ago. I have been doing 80/20 religiously while she dgaf and does what she likes. I have not noticed any change in how much charge mine holds while she has started to complain that hers needs charging more often. Her phone cost twice as much as mine.
"TruthGPT", lol. Is that what you get when your training data set is 4chan and Gab posts?
Whenever another fixture of the 20th century leaves us, I spend a few minutes watching their clips, listening to their songs, reading their writing, or whatever they did. Gonna do that now.
RIP
With some ways of looking at things, the world as a whole is getting better, rather than worse.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving
I'm pretty sure long covid and climate chaos will put a stop to that soon enough but we'll see. For now, some stuff is getting worse and some stuff is getting better.
OP is simply incorrect.
I'm coding a Lemmy alternative right now and have been testing this functionality out extensively. Deletes of posts and comments certainly federate, I've seen the AP traffic to make it happen. Also, the docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/05-federation.html#delete-post-or-comment
I haven't tested what happens when the 'delete account' button is clicked... Mastodon solves this by sending a 'delete this user' Activity to every fediverse instance so there's nothing about ActivityPub that makes removing an account and all it's posts in one go impossible.
How long has it been there? Months?
The lemmy.ml devs were ok with Nazi instances being on join-lemmy "because people can just choose to join a different instance if they want" (or words to that effect) so it'll be interesting to see how far they take that line of reasoning.
Have you checked your C:\windows\temp folder lately?
They're authoritarian leftists, who support Putin. They have more in common with fascists than most people do.
Life IS the purpose. If you're alive, you're already fulfilling your purpose whether you are aware of it or not.
The issues you raised about those sites were fixed within two hours.
https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed
You got it.
This is a limitation of the ActivityPub protocol so similar kinds of behaviour / problems shows up in mastodon, etc as well. Until someone subscribes, it doesn't exist locally and posts don't start to flow unless there is a subscriber.
How is it that we've been using microwaves with plastic containers inside them for decades and yet no one has checked this before?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital\_Services\_Act says that "Companies that do not comply with the new obligations risk fines of up to 6% on their annual turnover [i.e. revenue before expenses] in the European Union."
According to https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/, twitters revenue was $4 billion in 2022. Let's assume it's $2 billion now. Also on that page, it shows half the revenue comes from USA, half 'rest of world', let's assume that means EU. So $1bn. 6% of that is $60 million. Per year.
Not exactly a killing blow, I guess. But paying that money has to come out of profits so this makes turning a profit significantly harder.
A lot of non-tech communities just need one or two people to post a couple of links in them each day, to get the ball rolling. Then they have a chance at growth.
Don't just read and reply, share new content. You can find links on mastodon, your RSS reader or even Reddit.
The big shortcoming of 32 bit hardware was that it limits the amount of RAM in the computer to 4 GB. 64 bit is not inherently faster (for most things) but it enables up to 16 exabytes of RAM, an incomprehensible amount. Going to 128 bit would only be helpful if 16 exabytes wasn't enough.
By all means, put some effort in. Please.
I can confirm that the 1984 Threads movie is pretty traumatizing. Not in a horror movie kind of way, in a "this is realistically what would happen in and after a nuclear war, which is the end of everything in the worst way you can imagine" kinda way.
It's on youtube.
Surely keeping the csam out means someone on every nsfw instance needs to look at a whooole lotta porn, including sick stuff they really really don't want to see. For no pay. I can't see a way for that to last long so either an instance bans porn or stops moderating and gets defederated.
The Mondragon Corporation is a federation of worker-owned coops in Basque, Spain that involves 81,000 people and has been running since the 1950s. They have coops for manufacturing, banking, retail and education and they all work together to support each other.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon\_Corporation
The book "From Mondragon to America" (available on Kindle and elsewhere) goes into extensive detail about how it works.
That week recently when there were floods in every country except where there were fires in every country. That was wild.
FYI discussion on lemmy.ml about it
But none of those things are important to Republicans. That's just stuff they say.
Here is his profile https://sh.itjust.works/u/dramaticcat
A whole bunch of 8kun / 4chan garbage. If that's not against the rules, it should be.
Yes
One reason why people need to join smaller instances.
Yes, although the server will not ignore the deletion activity if that server is running Lemmy. We're talking about Lemmy here, not the fediverse as a whole. OP singled out Lemmy in the post title and said "lemmy devs are not concerned with..."
I'm sure there is more to be done in this area. It'd be great to know for sure which software treats deletion activities properly (I'm really unsure about Kbin, I think it does not) and which does not so instance admins can make informed decisions about who they federate with. Perhaps this information could be made available right within the UI that Lemmy admins use to control their instance, rather than an obscure documentation page somewhere...
IMO having deletes federate should be part of a minimum standard all fediverse software has to meet (plus mod tools, spam control, csam filters, etc) before it is allowed to federate but obviously we're nowhere near having that sort of social organisation.
AppleScript. Amazing little language that comes with the OS. Can be used to to automate any app, send keystrokes, etc. Completely ignored by Apple and very underrated.
Oh hello, 553 page PDF!
The article claims it's source is Euro-Med Monitor but https://euromedmonitor.org makes no mention of organ harvesting. No press release, blog post or anything.
Lots of other ghastly stuff though, holy shit.
A convicted rapist (also charged with 91 other felonies) running for president, with as much chance as winning as the other guy.