Leraje @ leraje @lemmy.world

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No doubt, but he's very likely going to be the next PM. Even if the current proposed legislation doesn't get through the Lords or get scrapped or not implemented before the Tories get booted out, he clearly sees this sort of bill as a good thing and will introduce his own.

It's not just the Tories, Keir Starmer has already tried to get VPN's included in the bill. Don't kid yourself its going to be any better when Labour get in.

Apple, SIgnal, Session, WhatsApp and a few others have already said they'll simply withdraw from the UK market if this bill goes through.

Big fan of Gogs personally. Simple, light and a doddle to install.

It's an OK article but would've liked Max to be a little kinder in terms of an explanation as to why both Lemmy and KBin are at the state they're currently in.

Six weeks ago, the two dev teams (and for KBin that was one person) were writing code for barely used platforms. Now all of a sudden, the code they're writing is catering to over a million people across hundreds of instances. This is Alpha software so of course some tools and documentation are missing. These two dev teams have been in fire-fighting mode for the last few weeks I expect. There's no large dev teams here, no billionaire backers able to throw money at an issue.

The article was good overall but it would've been better if there'd been an explanation offered as to how they're being developed and why some features are not in place yet.

And its not messy if you have PJs on?

Either that or an app that has been vetted by government stooges and given the thumbs up as its trivial for others to access the content on.

All the Apple users I know routinely use iMessage and WhatsApp.

I'm pretty sure that's the end-game, yes. At least as far as communication based tools go, which would include chat apps, VPN's, cloud storage etc etc. The ruling classes in the UK are very nanny-state and genuinely believe that a persons right to privacy comes a distant second to being able to rule over us and control us more effectively.

The issue for non-UK countries is that when world governments see that its possible to pass these sort of laws, they'll be keen to do the same. And most people are not tech-savvy, they'll have no real idea why it's important or invasive. It's difficult enough to get people to switch to Signal. Imagine trying to explain why breaking encryption is a bad thing for them.

Which would be fine except Starmer approves of all the things contained in the various bits of legislation.

Knowing this gvmt, they'll try and prevent access at the ISP level. They've already started making noises about tackling 'the menace of VPN's'.

Signal have already said they will withdraw completely from the UK, as have WhatsApp, Session and a few others.

I think you underestimate the deep stupidity and tech-ignorance of our politicians, coupled with their burning desire to know everything that we do. This is a set of people who think hidden == illegal.

Totally your call :)

A Mastodon user can subscribe to a Lemmy Community in the same way they can Follow a Mastodon user e.g.

• Mastodon user: @username@mastodoninstance.org
• Lemmy Community: @communityname@lemmyinstance.com

So they could now post to that Community and see every direct reply to that post and reply to those replies but they can't currently just stumble across Lemmy Communities in their federated timeline because Lemmy can't do that yet.

Lemmy's federation code is not as mature as Mastodon's. Mastodon is probably the most mature codebase in the fediverse. This means that a Mastodon user sees a Lemmy community as just another user, so they can 'subscribe' to that community and post to it and join in the comments section of posts they've created.

So it's not so much that Lemmy knows not to show Mastodon content, it's more that right right now it's not able to (in a Lemmy-to-Mastodon direction), Lemmy federates very well with other Lemmy instances but not so well with non-Lemmy instances. That will improve as Lemmy gets developed further.

The other thing to bear in mind is that Mastodon and Lemmy present content differently. Mastodon is a microblogging service like Twitter whereas Lemmy is a link aggregator like Reddit. This means that Lemmy content is usually longer and has a title whereas Mastodon content is shorter and has no title. All these things will need to be ironed out as integration deepens.

Give a Firefish (fka Calckey) instance a go. It's a bit like Mastodon and a bit like Tumblr and a little bit like TikTok.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

I use WebCord on Desktop and Aliucord on Mobile.

I have VSCodium installed via flatpak. Works perfectly.

Edit: has open-source extensions too.