oatmilkmaid @ oatmilkmaid @possumpat.io

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I don’t believe that there’s a lemmy-ui or server side option for it, but some mobile apps do let you block instances which for me is good enough.

Sadly I don’t think it’s possible on the Lemmy-ui/server level, but some mobile apps allow you to (maybe just one, note sure. Either Memmy or Voyager since I use them interchangeably). I also look forward to the ability to block instances fully on desktop.

Which one was your favourite

Leave blocking communities and instances to users. If you don’t want to see “extremists” in your All page, block the community. Block the users in the comments.

Defederation should happen based on the instance community’s collective decision (no vote was done for defederation) and when an instance is actively working against the rules of a federated instance. Hexbear has not shown itself to be breaking the rules or to be planning to, and the arguments used by the world admins were all opinions and not based in reality. The admins of hexbear specifically made a post telling their users to respect federated instances rules.

Yes, the users are opinionated - but that in and of itself isn’t worth defederating with.

Mind you I’m not about to start asking to defederate from world, but I’m still kinda worried that this type of preemptive defederation is going to be the norm for world.

I feel like the admins of hexbear are fairly conscious of their user base and have made sure to take all the necessary steps to properly federate with world. What’s concerning to me is that world preemptively defederated without hexbear showing any signs of hostility or malicious intent. Remember how long it took world to defed from exploding-heads? A literal nazi hub?

It all seems like de federation based on political ideology which, I mean, is in worlds own rights to do, but the fact that they’re the largest instance making preemptive decisions based on nothing isn’t boding very well.

I feel like it’s been so active because app developers almost all default to lemmy.world. It’s a bit concerning honestly, I wish things were a bit more spread out because everyone is at the mercy of Lemmy world and as we’ve seen several times it doesn’t look like the admins of the instance are making decisions based on community feedback.

This was explained by the dev at some point when the app went to the store. I believe this is related to push notifications. There is a post about it/comment by the developer but Lemmy.world is giving me server errors when I try to find it.

Not sure where the appcenter tracker is coming from though.

Are you sure it’s the app and not websites you visit through Lemmy or your instance tracking you? I’m not seeing any tracking on my end when just browsing.

Currently reading Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Picked it up a long time ago and never finished it. Had some time out at a cabin and picked it back up. Pretty good so far.

GitHub, read the community description and the file on contribution.

It’s what struck me when I switched to Android… the play store is awful. Good on Apple, hopefully Google will follow suit.

As a proud member of the fuck cars community, I wish the US (and Canada) would invest in their national public transportation systems. It annoys me to no end when people go “but the country is soooo big it would cost so much money” meanwhile you have a functioning passenger train system running through the majority of Europe, fast train systems through most of China, Japan, South Korea…

The problem is that landowners aren’t willing to make space for rails, and unlike most countries, the railroad companies have no interest in passenger trains.

Invest in public transportation, get rid of 30 lanes highways and city centres, promote bike lanes and public transportation, tram busses, subways, LRT, anything. Make your cities more accessible. Ban cars, idk

This was me when my dad would use limewire, break the family PC, and blame me because I was playing “those video games”.

Yeah, like I said the Lemmy setting is ridiculously generous with what it considers read and how it hides things. Best way to circumvent this is just to use an app that’s has the option to hide read posts in-app and doesn’t use the Lemmy settings. I think Voyager (formerly wefwef) does it, maybe Memmy? Not sure about the Android applications. Connect probably

I guess it does look a bit cramped in compact mode. I personally love it otherwise because it shows up all by its lonesome on the top right corner.

Maybe an option to disable it or not have it in compact mode since stuff is already greyed out and easier to see as read when compact?

I really love the updated one. Looks great on the iOS screenshot too.

I’ve come across this before but it seems to only be a visual bug. Refreshing the post will make the message disappear. Did it actually send for you?

I know this sounds strange. This could be totally innocent, but I’m bringing it to people’s attention.

Whenever I use new software from Github I try to learn a bit about the coders.

In the case of Fruittopia, according to Github, it’s The Coca-Cola Company.

When I signed up for the IOS Testflight it said that the creator was Minute Maid. Strange, I thought and looked up that name. That’s what led me to this DailyMeal News article and one from the Globe and Mail Pick with care: Some juices are soft drinks in disguise. It’s not a common juice name so seemed strange

When the app was finally released on iTunes it contained the name Minute Maid, again, in the listing (check on the cached Google results page).

But now when you check the iTunes Minute’s name is gone, and it’s listed as The Coca-Cola Company. Are they trying to hide something?

This all seems suspicious, and before I trust the app I was wondering if anyone knew the real story behind this. Is this the same person? Why the differing names in the Itunes store and on Github?

sh.itjust.works doesn’t have custom emojis and so is fairly safe from this specific exploit. Only local users of instances with custom emojis were at risk if they had visited a malicious page on their home instance.

Lemmy-ui pushed a fix for this vulnerability just 8 minutes ago, so we’ll see if that makes it here.

So I did some… “research”… and this might be the source image