No. You are incorrect.

This gives me an idea;

Don't store incoming data from remote instances into the "Main DB" immediately. Store them into SUBORDINATE DATABASES!

The logic of how you arrange these subordinate databases should be simple; depending on which instance you're communicating with you could select a subordinate database like so;

• First; we need to have a "Main Delay" database. This database is used by all the instances we Both Federate With, and Mark as one we Trust! and we merge all records here into the main database on a specified timeframe to give ourselves a little time to roll back the clock if something betrays that trusted status.
• Secondly we need to have unique little databases for each little instance that we Federate with, but do not yet mark with trust! These little DBs are merged into "Main Delay", then Main on a different time-delay schedule. This gives us even more time to roll back large-scale attacks, spam or flooding via ActivityPub as well as time to just smack the "Defederate" button as soon as they start to misbehave and, optionally, jettison the garbage data that caused the need for Defederation as well.

Nobody should be afraid of her insane ranting; she's pathetic and could use some competition to refocus her ego.

Empress is a neurotic narcissist who needs to be NUKED at every release and HARD MUTED, IGNORED, AND DEPLATFORMED by every sociopathic rant she makes.

We should not be giving her attention by talking about her; she needs to be SHUNNED into OBSCURITY. Let her fucking philosophize in her own damn isolation. Her behavior is unacceptable by most social standards and her contributions to society are not so significant we can't do without them.

Being a cute fwyfwy; hbu?

OwO

Your response only shows how unconcerned of an admin you are. If you wanted to prove your opponents are reactionaries; you definitely shouldn't be accusing them of being trolls on alts or calling them out as pathetic or as ideologues. Your response only lends strength to those calling for your instances' defederation.

These are just extreme examples but... 5 different nazi memes, each with their own uniquely embedded/hidden swastikas is still spamming hate. 5 different unique nazi dogwhistles is still spammed hate. 5 different calls for laws to be passed that don't in and of themselves call for legalized murder of trans people; but result in the murders of trans people to go unpunished; is in of itself, spammed hate.

I would support this defederation as well. We don't want their kind here.

Honestly; running your community that way violates the Lemmy Code of Conduct, which a large number of instances choose to adhere to, as well as the more general template version; the Citizen Code of Conduct.

Therefore you can expect many, many instances to quickly defederate you if you do not take steps to ensure your communities do not spill over or propagate hateful content. I think this instance is not quite as itchy on the defederation button; but even I would support your instance being defederated simply because you evidently choose not to moderate "anything offensive at all".

It's only a matter of time before the trolls and edgelords you hope to attract to your community will test the limits and post truly illegal things.

I suspect that maybe you were exposed to a certain post over on lemmy.ml @ local link: https://lemmy.one/post/657560

I'd invite you to read through my comment deconstructing the silliness of that entire post...the accusations and links are highly flimsy and poorly support the assertions being made. https://lemmy.one/comment/708741

I won't deny that it's likely that DDG isn't as privacy focused today as it may have been when it was initially founded; but I haven't seen anything on the fediverse compile enough reasons today that would support the panic I'm seeing over it if you just look into what few sources are quoted and being used and assess critically what might be going on.

That being said...

I do recommend SearXNG. Highly.

The metasearch engine that SearXNG offers usually works well and allows you to pick, choose, and sift through the various search engines and even define and create new ones you can use for yourself so that you can easily search whatever you need.

Searx instances in general are kinda like email providers too; just find a good one for yourself and start using it; no real account is required...just find one that works for you and set up your preferences and all.

I do not recommend Kagi! Kagi is a paid search engine. In general I do not consider their paid service to be better than Searx and would not recommend using them. Usage of a paid service requires creating an account...and we all know where that garden path lies.

There are So many issues/inconsistencies with this laundry list of "Problems".

Nefarious History of DDG founder & CEO:

• Every link under this header is effectively broken except the wikipedia link.
• Yes; onion links count as broken my friend. You need to link the clearweb version too for our clearweb using readers. Furthermore it is more difficult for the casual reader to verify that the server they arrive on when they use an onion link is actually the source it claims to be coming from. (Because TOR onions do anonymize locations)

Direct Privacy Abuse:

• Link is broken; onions don't resolve on clearweb
• Reaction link is broken (timeout)
• this is a good testable procedure to show your concerns
• four year old source that seems to heavily imply that this is just normal use of the Canvas API for layout purposes. source questionable; as it is not a typical tech news focused reporting outlet.
• The FAQ states why certain engines are not included with the browser but I see no hard refusal language. They do call it out that the relevant providers went silent when asked how things work and offer this as the reason why they have not yet chosen to include them. It's entirely possible that if the companies explained their ad-tech to Epic team's satisfaction they might consider the partnership. We know they probably won't explain that tech; but the possibility exists based on this document alone.
• This is probably a reasonable source; and if this isn't ever printed in English or made available in English ever; I can understand. However the lack of an English language version of this source could be frustrating. I did run it through translate and verify the claim though it's just one line in a newsletter.

Censorship

• This entire header is irrelevant. DuckDuckGo isn't specifically censoring the content. However; downstream search engines such as Google and Yahoo definitely ARE and DDG is returning what they do.
• No, they are not complicit in censorship by doing this; they are just as affected by it as you and I are and are working with the data they can obtain.
• Censorship requires specific action to suppress information and it is not evident that DDG is doing so in the example provided in the source links.

Cloudflare

• The reasons under this header are also irrelevant. These are nasty things that Cloudflare is doing. Go yell at Cloudflare.
• I'd suspect that DDG didn't do their homework on Cloudflare; but the alternatives to Cloudflare are simply not large at all; and may have been more costly.
• Not defending their choice to go with Cloudflare but; Cloudflare does have a rather absurd near-monopoly on the kinds of services they can provide.
• Show me a viable alternative to Cloudflare that meets your privacy model. I'd love to learn about one.

Harmful Partnerships with Adversaries of Privacy Seekers:

• Once again you're listing things that other companies have explicitly done. Everything under this header is largely irrelevant
• Amazon & AWS: a large number of FLOSS projects use it or provide binaries and containers you can run (for/on) it.
• Microsoft: like it or not they have to work with, around, near them; they provide Bing.
• Yahoo/Oath: Same as Microsoft they provide a search engine.
• DDG is one part "Metasearch Engine" and one part "Search Engine" in that they do also crawl the web to augment their results.

Advertising Abuses & Corruption:

• All of this lacks any usable sources or proof.
• Your one link is an onion; which is not a usable source link.
• The IRC logs provided appear to be missing a truckload of context and IRC logs never really do provide solid prove as they can be edited/cherrypicked to show/support your argument.
• The provided logs do only show ChanServ making a ban.
• IRC channels such as this one are notorious for being highly focused on their specific topic as they state in their rules.
• Your apparent ban in that channel Does not mean they are censoring you; but it does mean you barged into their IRC channel, probably without reading their rules carefully, and got banned for breaking those rules.
• As someone who has sit in channels like that on OFTC and even Freenode before the splits happened for 20ish years; I can assert that your communication style was not civil to the standards of that channel. Joining an IRC channel to yell at project maintainers is never going to earn you anything more than a ban if their channel is actually monitored or moderated.
• I may not have been there myself; but I know that is how things are typically done on IRC in general.

MEGA itself does respond to valid DMCA notices; just as an FYI. I don't consider MEGA to be all that copyright resistant.

However; it's likely to be usable if long lived links were zippped using a specific password to encrypt. It's either that and/or links be ephemerally generated for a week at a time for requests.

Hold your 'Maters!

I genuinely enjoy GBoard. Now; I get it. It's not for everyone and it hasn't got the best...track record.

It does actually surprisingly work very well; and I have yet to see anyone on the FLOSS/F-Droid side of things manage to create a keyboard with similar functionalities. I get that it may be an impossible ask, but it seems like nobody on F-Droid is interested in creating a keyboard inspired by GBoard that actually has all the similar QoL features that GBoard offers.

Is lemmy.ml properly federating with us? Is that something you can check? Are we observing lemmy.ml having slow-downs or congestion problems?

I'm having similar problems where the subscriptions to the communities on lemmy.ml are still showing as "Subscription Pending".

!genderqueer@lemmy.one

We're open for all!~

lemmy.one disables downvotes. While I do sorely miss them; it also helps me a lot.

No longer do I have to do a deep "which shade of grey is this post?" dive. I ask myself "does this break a rule of my local instance?" then Report it if it does.

YES!

So many instances are far too small to scale rapidly against the waves of people...So there is probably going to be a lot of this going on. 😹

• 100% backpedal on all controversial changes announced within the previous 6 months; including any changes announced at the same time as said controversial changes.
• Form a task force of admins and developers to backport all; critical moderation tools and changes introduced since the new.reddit launch; to old.reddit. (Complete this task within 1-2 years.)
• Irrevocably Hard remove with no severance /u/spez from his CEO position and any position of power at reddit.
• Hire a new CEO from the pool of the community team(s).
• Cease all Dickery at once
• CANCEL THE IPO!!!!! This shit needs to wait until reddit gets it's act together.
• Prioritize hiring humans to run reddit AEO; choose them from your MASSIVE FUCKING POOL OF SUBREDDIT MODERATORS! DO NOT USE AI OR HIRE ANYONE WHO HASN'T MANAGED AT LEAST 25K USER SUBS
• Ban all forms of facism; this is including forms of EXTREME viewpoints that grossly exceed reasonable discourse, peaceful free speech, advocate for extremist governmental regulation, violence or oppression of any kind against any group or subset of people.
• fuck /u/spez - Just make sure he never gets a C-Level job again please.
• continue to build reddit out in a way that allows for fair and ethically priced services from reddit (Ads, unlimited API access, rev sharing, premium features that are cosmetic items only, etc)
• Pick up the same "Do No Evil" ethos that Google abandoned; prioritize your users and revenue equally and balance the obligations better.

feel free to ping me on reddit if needed. /u/Zazie_Lavender on reddit

If you wouldn't mind; I would like to create a community for genderqueer folks like myself; titled genderqueer

additionally if any additional moderator help is needed; I'd be glad to pitch in...many redditors are looking mighty pissed off now and may join us on the lemmyverse.