Draconic NEO @ Draconic_NEO @lemmy.world

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There's already some funky interoperability that comes from the underlying structure of communities kind of being user accounts, where mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities, and post to communities by mentioning them. But it's not pretty.

If you put the mention at the top like Mastodon defaults it'll look very messy on Lemmy because it will be trying to insert a MD link in the title field. If the mansion and hashtags are placed at the bottom of the post instead though, the post will appear fine on Lemmy.

There are a few guides on how to create posts that are compliant, Basically it's like this:

[Title] separated by blank line [Body]

[Hashtags (optional)

[Community mention] you can only mention one community and if you want the post to appear on Lemmy that Community should be the first mention. If you want to mention people on Mastodon their mentions must come after.

Biggest drawbacks currently are:

1. Title will be repeated in the body
2. Issues mentioning people in addition to the community, also can't post to multiple communities at once.

Oh wait, I just looked back at it and it doesn't say the part about being a Canadian run Instance anymore, I could've sworn it said that last I checked.

Also their server IP is Finland, though since Lemmy instances are on VPS servers I guess that isn't indicative, since they can end up being anywhere in the world.

Pretty sure they did that on purpose, trying to skew the narrative. The goal is to make it seem like it's all doom and gloom because it'll get people to read the article to the end, and maybe in their minds get some people to stop using adblockers.

I don't know how true that is about YouTube intentionally CPU bombing ad block users specifically.

I will say though that websites run by big tech companies getting much heavier and more poorly optimized is ultimately just a fact of life. They don't care about optimization, in fact it benefits them more that people have the latest and greatest hardware so that's what they're going to target. Ultimately that means that these websites will get slower on older hardware with time, and people will rely more and more on alternative frontends to access content, and it won't really matter if you have ad blockers or not (turning it off on a bloated site that is bogging down your CPU might actually make it worse).

Yeah it would be good if more communities and instances chose to enforce setting a language, they can do that by excluding unspecified from their community which will disallow people to make posts there that don't have the language set. Obviously nothing can be really done for posts that don't set the language, as well as for most apps which don't set the language whatsoever, or have really weird ways of doing it.

Yeah I just want to make sure people know so they don't get their hopes up and get disappointed or frustrated that it doesn't act like personal defederation.

That is very likely what I'll use it for as well, since I basically stopped browsing all due to the NSFW communities who's posts would pop-up randomly in it, sometimes even unflaired 😬.

filter out instances that are in a language I don’t speak.

I'd avoid that as it's a bit overkill and many of those instances may also have English-speaking communities. A better solution is to exclude the languages you don't speak from your settings so the posts and comments won't appear for you.

It seems like it because there was an attempt to favor Kbin during Reddit migration (Also the guy running Feditips tried to poison the narrative against Lemmy) but it didn't go through because kbin kept breaking, especially with federation and moderation.

Eternity, also known unofficially as Infinity for Lemmy is another good one. It functions the same as the Infinity for Reddit client but for Lemmy instead. It's still early in development but it has gotten much more stable.

Pretty sure Sopuli is Canadian run, unless their description is incorrect.

Probably get a unit w/o having it implanted, modify it, then get it installed unofficially. (Don't ask who or where, because that won't be shared publicly, as it will almost certainly be illegal).

Just don't be too excited since it only blocks communities on instances, not the users on it.

Excerpt from Join-Lemmy.org

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

It's still definitely useful, but it's not as great as it's been hyped, and won't solve the spam problems from specific instances.

Yeah but have it be a feature of Lemmy itself and have it automatically look for communities and subscribe to ones that have a discovery setting enabled.

Thing is, it's not in the mods or admins' best interest to leave it up in the name of "user choice" and "free speech", these platforms host the content on them and the people hosting it are liable for it, plus making people be able to opt-out of moderation actions would attract unwanted people to the community, the kind of people who would seek that violating content and interact only with that.

Lemmy is NOT a "free speech" or "user choice", nor are the majority of fediverse platforms. I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to the fediverse, it's that people think it's that. Really Federation is ultimately the same as a centralized site, that is self hostable, but with the added benefit of these different self-hosted sites communicating and cross-posting to each other. While this would be considered decentralized at the end of the day the site owners are the ones calling the shots, the can delete anything they want, ban anyone they want, or sever connections to servers if they want. They are within their right because they own the site and pay hosting and/or maintain the servers. Why should they put themselves at risk for the sake of "user choice" or "free speech" when they don't owe you the user anything?

With Nostr it's different because operators can purge whatever data they want off a relay, but your account isn't bound to a relay and information doesn't need to be copied to every relay like with Fediverse's ActivityPub. It offers the "user choice" and "free speech" experience by cryptographically isolating the user from the relays and by using them as... well... relays instead of instances.

In short the reason they don't do it is because the way the Fediverse is built isn't really suited for it, due to both liability, and the function.

One could make a tool like Reveddit or Unddit for Lemmy though that fetches the removed comments from the modlog and puts them back in the thread, but that wouldn't be like bypassing or disabling moderation.

I'm not a fan of the misskey forks because most of them are very buggy and have very bloated UIs. I tried Iceshrimp and hajkey and both were terribly buggy. Sharkey was okay but still very buggy, biggest issue by far is the fact that follow attempts typically hang for long amounts of time if they even go through at all. Not sure if it's a frontend issue though or an issue with the software itself, I tried Sharkey's Mastodon API to use the Mastodon app and it seems to work okay there. I still wouldn't trust it over mastodon which is much more polished and stable.

There are some cool features in it like the cat ears, the gallery, and very robust theming elements, but ultimately stability and usability come first for social platforms I'm going to use seriously

Nostr is what you're looking for. People who hate mods, defederation, and want a free speech chamber, look no further. You can host your own relay if you want but it doesn't make very much of a difference since accounts are independent from servers.

Just be aware that most people dislike this undermoderated enviornment due to how toxic it can get, but it seems like that's what you're looking for so I don't think it'll be that much of an issue for you.

Yeah there's a tool called LCB (Lemmy Community Boost but it's not a perfect solution to this issue. A good idea would be to have something like that built right into Lemmy, where instances can have an internal account that will look for and subscribe to communities which opt into discovery.

Soemthing like how the join-lemmy site works where it finds instances, but for communities. Obviously this would need to be enabled and allowed by instance moderators, smaller instances and personal ones with limited space probably don't want to pull from every community in the fediverse, but for larger ones, such a feature would be greatly beneficial.

same as Linux.

You couldn't be more wrong bud. Flatpaks do not require sudo, executables run from a directory (like how Steam games are run) don't require sudo either. You only need sudo if installing from the main package manager like deb, rpm, pacman or whatever your distro uses. Most games on Linux aren't installed from the main package manager though.

(On either OS if they are not showing terminal output)

If it's a package for the package manager you could download the archive for it and pull it apart to see its contents, it's usually very clear when such software includes kernel drivers or kernel patchers. Most software on Linux uses the package manager to install or a script to unpack, both of which are relatively easy to explore even if the software isn't open source, haven't found too many linux apps with Binary installers, they might exist but if they do they aren't popular or common.

I can definately see that being a problem, all systems have their downsides. A system like that though I feel is necessary in a game with decentralized online play.

For centralized ones it doesn't make as much sense since those already have anti-cheat (automated or human run) and bans from the service, which aren't perfect either, innocent people often get banned when they didn't deserve it, it's just not as apparent because in those communities anyone banned is witch hunted afterwards, there's a lot of appeal to authority in those communities.

All user crowd control systems, even the lack of one is going to have negative effects to their usage, even if they aren't apparent at first.

I think on iOS it's technically possible (or at the very least was at one point) but apple would nuke your app from the store if you tried, so I'm doubtful they would try pulling something like this for apple users specifically.

On android barring a Rooting exploit in the OS (which would also get your app nuked) it just isn't possible, and Rooted users don't really need to worry because they should know better than to grant a game Root access if it asks.

Could allow people to curate their own blacklists if they don't want to play in groups like that, then they would have the option to play in public and online, it would be more rough and they would have to keep it up but having those tools would allow them to play publicly without needing to join a forum or group while still curating their experience. Obviously would be more work but it would be a good fallback.

If that's too hard they'd still have the option of joining one of those groups.