Hazelnoot [she/her]

Another vote for the steam controller - it’s versatile enough to work comfortably with every game I’ve wanted to play.

I’ve been using Xubuntu for half a decade, zero regrets.

Changing the domain of an established fedi instance is very difficult, almost to the point of impossibility.

I appreciate the transparency through all of this. It’s nice to know about the problem while there’s still some time to handle it. To be honest - I probably would not follow Beehaw to any new non-federated platform. Its nothing against Beehaw (I love this community and its admins) but I’m just not convinced that we could ever attain enough regular users to keep critical mass on the niche topics I follow. That’s the real advantage of Lemmy - all (well-behaved) instances get to share their user base.

Unfortunately, I also understand why staying on Lemmy might not be an option. Same with forking or using another Fedi software. Either way - I trust y’all to consider all the options and make the best choice. 🐝💙

They are mastodon-specific, but most fedi software has a similar feature. Or at least, all of the mainstream microblogging software does, as well as some of the image / video sharing platforms. I’m unsure about Lemmy and Kbin. Here are the equivalent settings for FireFish:

Defederating actually does stop Meta from accessing data (at least through ActivityPub) if you enable AUTHORIZED_FETCH / similar. That setting requires remote instances to authenticate themselves, which prevents blocked instances from querying anything. IIRC, Lemmy either already supports or plans to support that same feature.

Meta could, of course, just use web scraping, but that can be prevented with DISALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_API_ACCESS. Although admittedly, I don’t think Lemmy has this feature yet.

You’re thinking of LIMITED_FEDERATION_MODE, which is different from AUTHORIZED_FETCH.

Defederation actually does work both ways if the instance enables AUTHORIZED_FETCH. That setting requires 3rd party systems to prove their identity before they can retrieve any data, which allows an instance to block defederated domains. I don’t know if Lemmy or Kbin supports that, but practically all of the microblogging fedi software does (that being Mastodon / GlitchSoc, Pleroma / Akkoma, Misskey / FoundKey / FireFish, and GoToSocial).

I agree that this is nothing to panic over, but I want to clarify that Lemmy is not safe from this. Lemmy and Mastodon both use the same protocol (ActivityPub) and that’s also the protocol that Threads will use to federate. Just as Mastodon users can like, boost, and reply to Lemmy threads / comments, Threads users will be able to do the same. That’s why it’s important to defederate Threads on all ActivityPub-enabled instances.

I feel like this design would work pretty well even for a modern phone. Just flatten the bottom-right menu section and extend the screen over it, and you’d get a regular full-size smartphone with a slide-out keyboard and some handy physical buttons!

“good” is subjective, but I can recommend the Tomb Raider reboots.

The same problem can also be solved with signed messages, like the HTTP Signatures used by Mastodon and most of the other microblogging fedi servers. Signatures allow a message to flow peer-to-peer instead of requiring a direct connection. You would only need a connection when actively interacting with a post on another instance, and its very unlikely that all 10K instances would be interacting with each other. Most likely, the network will consist of smallish groups of loosely-related instances plus a few giant servers that can handle the load of being popular.

For daily work, I use the git integration built into my IDE. Occasionally I need the CLI for something complex.

I’d be able to commit real, serious time towards my open-source projects. Maybe I’d finally get my fediverse app off the ground? I’d also take up art and gardening for some variety.

RiF, up until a few days ago when I decided to take an indefinite break from Reddit.

it’s all people getting mad on behalf of their instances when everybody behind the scenes is chill and understands!

I think that’s becoming A Thing ™️ on the fediverse recently. I’ve seen this exact scenario play out on the microblogging side more than once.

Not a fan of the UI, but I love the community here! It’s the best parts of Reddit combined with the best parts of Fedi.

Sure, but imagine telling your technically illiterate investors that you blocked a bunch of active users as an “experiment”. I can’t imagine that going over well lol

Email is my go-to example when explaining fedi to unfamiliar people. Its especially accessible to non-technical users because almost everyone has sent an email to someone with a different provider.

This is really cool, thanks for sharing! Do you plan to update it again in the future? I’d love to see what happens an about a month!