Wander @ Wander @yiffit.net

30-something grey wolf therian and furry. Admin of yiffit.net lemmy instanc

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Thank you! I'll have a look.

Apparently you can use it if you just download the apk file from a third party mirror site, but it's not available via app stores.

What this feels like:

https://youtu.be/8lgLYGBbDNs

I think you're way too optimistic. Threads is a closed ecosystem at the moment.

I'd say people worrying about Karma.

I'm really enjoying Jerboa. It stays lightweight and fast!

Double Rainbow all the way across the sky, woaah woaah so intense!

We can monitor actual active users that an instance has. Anything artificial in volumes enough to have an impact would be noticeable in some way to other instances.

I don't want to shame anyone, but I've had people sign up give me their full DoB and offering to show me their ID. I know of people who disclose their id to get access to nsfw discord communities.

To anyone surprised at this: welcome to the fediverse, please treat everyhing you do or say as public.

The way to achieve privacy around here is by following the long forgotten arts of the old internet before Facebook was a thing: use a Nick name and don't tell strangers on the internet your real identity.

Your home instance will act as a proxy and only they have access to your email and IP address. That does stay private.

So, as long as you trust your home instance to not leak or disclose your connection or sign up data (which would be illegal in EU countries), just sign up with an alias.

A very positive aspects of this is that it should allow us to detect voting manipulation by correlating the activity of certain potentially malicious actors. If Lemmy instances take vote manipulation seriously and do their best to block bots this has the chance to make Lemmy / Kbin much more transparent and credible than Reddit ever was.

If you want privacy on the fediverse, use an alias. It's as easy as that. This is akin to the old adage "don't tell your real name on the internet" which Facebook destroyed.

It's not possible to make votes private is your care about no manipulation happening. Otherwise any self hosted instance could just communicate any made up amount of votes.

That sucks imho

Do they still require your phone number to sign up?

Nice catch. With upvotes and downvotes being public manipulation is much more difficul

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It's just like having different subreddits about the same topic. Just subscribe to both.

Text gets mirrored but not images. In general it helps, but not by much unless you host for several hundred users.

Mastodon has something called relays which are servers that share all posts from one instance to another. It'll eventually come to Lemmy as well.

The All timeline shows posts from communities that have at least one user from that instance subscribed to them.

If no users from instance A are subscribed to community X, this community will never show up in that instance's All timeline.

This is because otherwise instances have no idea what communities are out there. It isn't until a user subscribes to a remote community that the instance starts receiving posts for that community and learns that it exists.

When a user subscribes to a remote commmunity, the remote instance starts sending updates for content that's newly created for that community and the user's instance knows it exists and is able to display that received content in the ALL timeline.