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## TankieTube is out of "beta" and [everyone's invited](https://tankie.tube/signup)!  ^Definitions:^ * ^TT^ ^=^ ^TankieTube^ * ^PT^ ^=^ ^PeerTube^ * ^YT^ ^=^ ^YouTube^ --- # OpSec * **Email** - Make sure to register using an email detached from your legal identity (remember Stonetoss?). The software requires an email address, however, I've disabled the verification requirement. This means you can register using something like cum@fart.com and it will totally work—unless the address is already taken (in which case you should get better material!). You would need a real address, of course, to have the option of resetting your password. The only other thing I use email for is explaining and notifying users of any moderator actions I take against them, as a courtesy. --- * **P2P** - The peer-to-peer feature allows the software to scale tremendously well when serving the same viral video to many people at the same time (supposedly at least [1000 concurrent viewers](https://joinpeertube.org/news/stress-test-2023), easily, with a wimpier server than ours). A downside of the feature is that it can reveal your IP to a subset of people watching the same video at the same time as you. [[Read more](https://tankie.tube/about/peertube#privacy)]. Therefore, it is recommended to either: 1. Use a VPN. Or, 2. Deselect the P2P participation feature in the user settings menu. --- # Federation TT users can search and view any videos from instances on the [subscriptions list](https://tankie.tube/about/follows), and the instances following TT can view our vids. I occasionally browse the public index and look for new instances to follow (sometimes they're a bust). LMK if you find any cool ones. Mirroring vids, as in multiple copies on multiple servers, is done when instances implement something called redundancy, but I haven't looked into that much yet. --- # Fifty Channels! The major difference from YT is that TT users can create up to fifty (50) channels (the default is 20 but I bumped it up). Channels are analogous to Lemmy communities, except that PT doesn't yet support shared channels with more than one author/user (I believe it's a planned feature). Create a channel for every weird niche topic that you want! I'll eventually create a style guide. If you want to sync or archive a YT channel, then I'd prefer that you create a unique TT channel that corresponds to it for better organization. PT has an automatic channel syncing feature, but I have it turned off right now because it was overloading the transcoding queue. --- # The TankieTube Homepage The YT homepage is built by a sinister algorithm customized to distract and exploit you. The TT homepage contains whatever-the-fuck HTML I choose to type with my paws. Determining what to put on it will be a big and ongoing decision. If you've made a channel relevant to the site's theme, send me a message and I'll probably pin it! --- # About the [Outro](https://tankie.tube/w/dC6D6BeAxQrTZA65viK5zG) The music is [*La Danse Des Bombes*](https://tankie.tube/w/mpnnkyJzL8wZkW3p1HGWtT), a great song about the ecstasy of armed combat in defense of the Paris Commune of 1871, which I discovered thanks to comrade exotiquematter@tankie.tube. PT is French software, so I think that's neat. The sound effects are sampled from a video of the Al-Qassam Brigade resistance fighters in live armed combat against Israeli occupation forces. The sound effects correspond to a [\:hamas-red-triangle\:](https://hexbear.net/post/1673699)  scene in the video. Underneath it all is a 140bpm beat by "K1 The Producer". --- # History & Goals I started out with a $15/mo VPS (run by Nazis, as it turned out) and have migrated/upgraded the server twice since then. It's now using the most powerful dedicated server available from Freakhosting at ~$230/mo💰🥴, because I wanted it to not suck. It has a Ryzen 9 7950x3D, which is ~32 times as fast as the first server. It still doesn't have the transcoding throughput to keep up with YT syncing without creating a double-digit hour backlog. The transcoding power can be boosted by renting additional servers for use as [remote runners](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/remote-runners). It all depends on the amount of support the project can get... #### [Donation Link](https://liberapay.com/TankieTube/donate) 🥺👉👈 I'm afraid to add it up, but I'm sure I've sunk at least $600 into various TT expenses since I registered the domain on 2023-10-27 and started playing around. I didn't want to ask for donations until I was sure I knew what I was doing. Another goal: making the PT vids embed properly in Lemmy!
idk I was thinking federated social media was pretty peachy at the start of the year but with the total failure of the mastodon project to implement basic trust & safety features to keep black people from facing torrents of racism on there it might be cooked
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I created this issue a few months ago and someone picked up the task and implemented the feature! I never had enough time to learn Rust myself so shout out to the comrade who implemented it. This should help ensure users are not accidentally sharing tracking codes. [The originating thread.](https://hexbear.net/post/3007800)
fediversereport.com
>Bluesky remains highly popular among Brazilians as an alternative to X, that got banned in the country last week. Bluesky has added 3 million accounts since the ban went into effect just over a week ago. When I reported on it last week Bluesky had added 1 million accounts. Of these new accounts, around 85% are from Brazil. The popularity of Bluesky in Brazil also shows up in both politics and the media: President Lula, his party PT Brazil, the Supreme Court, and House of Representatives all have their accounts validated by using their domain as their handle. The media is also paying attention, one of the most popular news programs in Brazil, Jornal Nacional, showed their Bluesky handle during the show. Some of the biggest newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo and Correio Braziliense covered Bluesky as well. masterfull gambit mr musk
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579425 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423 > > > This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities. > > > > I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.) > > > > I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community. > > > > Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map: > > > > https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27346179 > When an arrogant presumptuous dick dumps [hot-headed uncivil drivel](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26945936/13091858) into a relatively apolitical thread about plumbing technology and reduces the quality of the discussion to a Trump vs. $someone style shitshow of threadcrap, the tools given to the moderator are: > * remove the comment (chainsaw) > * ban the user from the community (sledge hammer) > > Where are the refined sophisticated tools? > > When it comes to nannying children, we don’t give teachers a baseball bat. It’s the wrong tool. We are forced into a dilemma: either let the garbage float, or censor. This encourages moderators to be tyrants and too many choose that route. Moderators often censor civil ideas purely because they want to control the narrative (not the quality). > > I want to do quality control, not narrative control. I oppose the tyranny of censorship in all but the most vile cases of bullying or spam. The modlog does not give enough transparency. If I wholly remove that asshole’s comment, then I become an asshole too. > > He is on-topic. Just poor quality drivel that contributes nothing of value. Normally voting should solve this. X number of down votes causes the comment to be folded out of view, but not censored. It would rightfully keep the comment accessible to people who want to pick through the garbage and expand the low quality posts. > > Why voting fails: > * tiny community means there can never be enough down votes to fold a comment. > * votes have no meaning. Bob votes emotionally and down votes every idea he dislikes, while Alice down votes off-topic or uncivil comments, regardless of agreement. > > Solutions: > > I’m not trying to strongly prescribe a fix in particular, but have some ideas to brainstorm: > > * Mods get the option to simply **fold** a shitty comment when the msg is still on-topic and slightly better quality than spam. This should come with a one-line field (perhaps mandatory) where the mod must rationalise the action (e.g. “folded for uncivil rant with no useful contribution to the technical information sought”). > * A warning counter. Mods can send a warning to a user in connection with a comment. This is already possible but requires moderators to have an unhuman memory. A warning should not just be like any DM.. it should be tracked and counted. Mods should see a counter next to participants indicating how many warnings they have received and a page to view them all, so as to aid in decisions on whether to ban a user from a community. > * Moderator votes should be heavier than user votes. Perhaps an ability to choose how many votes they want to cast on a particular comment to have an effect like folding. Of course this should be transparent so it’s clear that X number of votes were cast by a mod. Rationale: > * mods have better awareness of the purpose and rules of the community > * mods are stakeholders with more investment into the success of a community than users > * Moderators could control the weight of other user’s votes. When 6 people upvote an uncivil post and only 2 people down vote it, it renders voting as a tool impotent and in fact harm inducing. Lousy/malicious voters have no consequences for harmful voting and thus no incentive to use voting as an effective tool for good. A curator should be able to adjust voting weight accordingly. E.g. take an action on a particular poll that results in a weight adjustment (positive or negative) on the users who voted a particular direction. The effect would be to cause voters to prioritize civil quality above whether they simply like/dislike an idea, so that votes actually take on a universal meaning. Which of course then makes voting an effective tool for folding poor quality content (as it was originally intended). > > * (edit) Ability for a moderator to remove a voting option. If a comment is uncivil, allowing upvotes is only detrimental. So a moderator should be able to narrow the ballot to either down vote or neutral. And perhaps the contrary as well (like some beehaw is instance-wide). And perhaps the option to neutralise voting on a specific comment.
akko.erincandescent.net
[link that was attached to original post](https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/commit/f51003288c7fbfe33942a261603fa3a361721b5a) (1st ever ActivityPub), original post is linked in this post > The obvious choice for ActivityPub’s birthday would be the 23rd of January 2018 - the day it was annointed as a W3C recommendation. That doesn’t seem quite right though - its not as if the spec came into existence in any sense upon that date. In fact, Mastodon implemented it before thne. > > There are several possible dates you might pick, but for me it will always be September 5th 2014 - when I committed the first sketch of a specification I called ActivityPump [github.com] and pushed it to Github > > It wouldn’t be until November that I actually submitted (a revised and enhanced version of) that draft to the working group, but even then I had the very nucleus of the specification written down. > > Happy 10th birthday, ActivityPub. 🍰
gehirneimer.de
Just wanted to [share a thread](https://gehirneimer.de/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/291511) for those who don't regularly venture out of the bear site. Can't cross-post since it's defederated. It's small but has some numbers about community counts, active users, etc and links to more info from [https://lemmyverse.net/](https://lemmyverse.net/). Thought it was notable that Hexbear shows up no matter how you sort it. OP image is community count sorted by active users in the last month.  Edit: sorted by comments 
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3039190 > **i should stress that no development has been made to this since last month** and the only recent development was the sole contributor suggesting the idea to the official ActivityPub repo last week. > > > the contributor proposed sending an E2EE message as follows, using PGP keys that are stored with password encryption on the instance's server: > 1. It requests the recipents public key > 2. If there is a recipent public key, it sends the recipents public key to the sender > 3. If there is a recipient public key, it encrypts the message > 4. If there is no recipient public key, it will warn the user that this message will send unencrypted and the user can reject sending the message or continue sending the message with encryption. > 5. The message is sent to the user > > currently, fediverse services just use existing E2EE services (Matrix, XAMPP, etc.) and while the demand isn't big i think it would be really convenient. especially as a part of ActivityPub, E2EE messages would work over different fedi services to any fedi account, as opposed to separate, incompatible implementations maintained by each fedi service. > > what do you guys think about this idea? cool or no? > > edit: btw if you don't know, "private" messaging on fediverse is equivalent to mentioned-only posting, meaning the instance admins can read them as plaintext. this is why Lemmy has a disclaimer warning that your messages aren't private, has a Matrix account field on your profile to securely message with and why virtually no fedi services have tried implementing E2EE encryption
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3009305 > I'm quite sure everyone understands how dreadful Twitter is: its user base, privacy policy, moderation, and everything else about it is terrible. People usually leave Twitter for one of the four reasons I just mentioned. Most of the time when people leave Twitter, they commonly choose [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/) or [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/), which are both popular open source decentralized social media platforms, and one of them is also known for [cats :3](https://joinmastodon.org/) > > Let's talk about which one is better and make a final decision on what platform you should use instead of Twitter. > > Bluesky [(Finally) ](https://www.engadget.com/bluesky-is-ditching-its-waitlist-and-opening-to-everyone-140026198.html) and Mastodon are both open source, decentralized social media platforms. Both are constantly expanding with new features similar to Twitter, but they are all free to use and do not require subscription (unlike Twitter), and you can do a lot more with both! However, there are a few of negatives with one of the social networking networks over the other, which is Bluesky. > > Now, while I give the Bluesky developers some respect for making it open source and decentralized, there are a few serious issues with it right now, including its user base and moderation. > > One huge thing that BlueSky did was fairly recently released a feature that will make it even easier for people to harass you the moment they join the platform, the feature is called [Starter Packs](https://bsky.social/about/blog/06-26-2024-starter-packs). This is not even an opt-out feature, and there is no genuine moderation involved. Not only that, but Bluesky is full of anti-Iranian racists everywhere on the platform; the Bluesky moderators have done nothing to address it, and it has not changed since, and if someone quits Twitter and switches to Bluesky, they are literally moving to the exact same platform, except slightly decentralized and open source. Bluesky is TWITTER and isn't really so much better in terms of privacy either even as it being open source. >  > > Until Bluesky improves its moderation and other aspects, it is recommended to leave Twitter or Bluesky by deleting your account, find yourself a good Mastodon instance or create your own Mastodon, and make a account on it :3 > > Huge thanks to [Cyrus](https://wetdry.world/@cyrus) and [David's Creation](https://wetdry.world/@DavidsCreation) for giving me some pointers on what Bluesky is doing, you should definitely check both of them out! > > As always, if there is any incorrect information on this post, notify me and I will correct it right away!
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16017036 > Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program. > > We're readying the release of Lemmy `v0.19.4` (currently on `0.19.4-rc.2`), in the upcoming weeks, but still have a few more issues to address, and testing that needs to be done. If you'd like to help us test betas to help find issues, you can go to https://voyager.lemmy.ml or ds9.lemmy.ml for the newest RC, or run your own test ones locally from our [beta docker tags](https://hub.docker.com/r/dessalines/lemmy/tags). > > **Please do not run unreleased builds in production**, as these could cause issues which require [some manual intervention to fix.](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4641) > > We've also added a few [github milestones for our upcoming releases](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/milestones), to keep track of what we'll be working on, but you can also look at our pending [pull requests](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pulls). > > --- > > @flamingo-cant-draw increased the [character limit for alt-text fields](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4724). > > @dullbananas just graduated from high school and will have a lot more time to work on Lemmy for a few months. Has been working on a [custom database migration runner](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4673). > > @matc-pub cleaned up and added a lot of asynchronous loading for various components in [lemmy-ui](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2480). > > @sleepless and matc-pub fixed an issue with [leap years](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2453) in lemmy-ui. > > @sleepless fixed a [bug with admin settings](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2456) in lemmy-ui, fixed an issue with [language not allowed](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2457), fixed an issue with [video thumbnails](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2474), and upgraded to a non-deprecated [QR library](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2475). Has also been adding a lot of the backbone for lemmy-ui-leptos. > > @nutomic fixed some issues with [importing partial settings backups](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4705), [2](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4712), [made NodeInfo standard compliant, and upgraded to 2.1](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4706), added some test cases for [user reports](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4711), [removed unused federation code](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4717), added a [stricter rate limit for logins](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4718), made password reset tokens [non-reusable](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4719), marked [DB fields as sensitive so they don't show up in logs](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4720), allowed [passing of command-line params via environment vars](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4729). Also prevented [removal of comments which are already deleted](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4732), and configured a [max comment width in clippy](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4738). > > @dessalines fixed some issues with [image proxying](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4722), [2](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4737), made some fixes to our [woodpecker CI jobs](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4723). Replies and mentions are now [correctly hidden for blocked users](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4727). > > ### Support development > > @dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations. > > If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider [donating to support its development](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us. > > - [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/Lemmy) (preferred option) > - [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/lemmy) > - [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/dessalines) > - [Cryptocurrency](https://join-lemmy.org/donate) (scroll to bottom of page) >
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15475568 > Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program. > > We're readying the release of Lemmy `v0.19.4` in the upcoming weeks, but still have a few more issues to address, and testing that needs to be done. If you'd like to help us test betas to help find issues, you can go to https://voyager.lemmy.ml for the newest beta, or run your own test ones locally from our [beta docker tags](https://hub.docker.com/r/dessalines/lemmy/tags). > > **Please do not run unreleased builds in production**, as these could cause issues which require [some manual intervention to fix.](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4641) > > We've also added a few [github milestones for our upcoming releases](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/milestones), to keep track of what we'll be working on, but you can also look at our pending [pull requests](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pulls). > > --- > > @ticoombs converted our docker upgrade script to the [newer version](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4622), and has been readying lemmy-ansible for the next release. > > @dullbananas [optimized the actor language inserts](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4612), and [fixed an issue with triggers locking the tables](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4696). > > @sleepless [Removed an unecessary login step from our crates.io publish](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4674), fixed [a deprecated reliance on encoding.rs](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4694), [fixed an issue with onBlur in lemmy-ui](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2449), and added a dependency on [lemmy-rs-client for lemmy-ui-leptos](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui-leptos/pull/51), which included a lot of structural changes. Fixed an issue with [broken direct messages in lemmy-ui](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2452), and a bug with [newly-created communities](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2451). > > @nutomic added [setting the show_nsfw site setting based on content_warning](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4616), [fixed an issue with Discourse federation](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4628), added [NodeBB federation](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4629), fixed an [issue with crashes for missing domains](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4676), [added wordpress federation](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4692), [fixed an issue with early exits when only running scheduled tasks](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4707), added a [timeout on incoming activities](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4708), and made `instance.preferred_username` [optional](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4713). > > @dessalines fixed an issue with broken community [outboxes](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4668), fixed an issue with [search returning deleted / removed posts](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4671). The `liked_only` for `GetPosts` now [doesn't return your own items](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4679), making this more usable to show a history of your likes. > > ### Support development > > @dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations. > > If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider [donating to support its development](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us. > > - [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/Lemmy) (preferred option) > - [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/lemmy) > - [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/dessalines) > - [Cryptocurrency](https://join-lemmy.org/donate) (scroll to bottom of page)
This noob is testing the interconnectivity of the #Fediverse, with the AP (Mastodon, etc.) and AT (Bluesky) Protocol protocols, and also starting to test #Nostr this week. https://mastodon.social/@PlasticParagraph/112410298729450013 #ActivityPub #Bluesky #ATProtocol
Organizer for Front End North, @katiefenn@front-end.social: > Last week the LGBTIQA+ Greens, the officially affiliated liberation group for the Green Party of England and Wales, lost its Twitter account for unknown reasons. It was suspended. It was appealed. The appeal went nowhere. > > I cannot state enough that trans people need to urgently divest from Twitter. The network is actively hostile to us now. > > Maintaining a presence is fine, but we must move the centre of gravity for organising onto other platforms. > I’ve been off Twitter for two weeks now, and I’ve gained a bit of perspective about how much organising still happens on the platform. > > The Twitter thread is still our primary source of news and information. All this becomes inaccessible the moment you move off Twitter. And as more and more people quit Twitter, our community is fracturing and becoming less powerful. > > I think this really hit us hard when the Cass report was published. Our adversaries are organised, and we are scattered. ::: spoiler Rest of the thread When I’ve shared this in some private forums, I’ve been told that those with serious mental health or safety concerns “are better off not on Twitter”. I argue that this is an argument for excluding some of the most vulnerable in our community, and we should treat Twitter as an inaccessible space for organising. It’s the people staying on Twitter to the exclusion of other networks that is causing the problem. We MUST do better than this. --- @emilygorcenski --- @katiefenn but our enemies don’t organize with Twitter, they just use it as the conduit to project their organization. The conclusions of that study were already determined when it was commissioned. The channel must be severed. --- * --- @emilygorcenski That’s true. It shows that they were organised ahead of time when it came out. They’d briefed sympathetic and influential people, and made sure that critics were spending the whole day reading the damn thing while they were giving interviews. In fact, I think the fact that the earliest criticisms were based off of an easily refuted, leaked press briefing really hurt us. We should be doing the same - organise off the platform, and channel it through Twitter. :::
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tl;dr: Twitter co-founder [Biz Stone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biz_Stone) is on the Board. Someone please update this meme:  Anyone know anything about “human rights advocate” [Esra’a Al Shafei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esra%27a_Al_Shafei)? This is all I found of note so far: [S.T.O.P. and the Fight Against Surveillance](https://blog.xmtp.com/fight-against-surveillance/) >The amazing activists sneaking footage out of Uyghur detention facilities in China and those fighting for reproductive justice in the U.S. use the exact same encryption as criminals. Where’s the footage, Esra'a? We’re still waiting on it… From [JWZ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski)’s hot-take: [I see no way this could possibly go wrong](https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/i-see-no-way-this-could-possibly-go-wrong-2/) >Oh, and apparently one of the other board members, Ghavi, is a lawyer at a firm that is all-in on cryptocurrency and "AI" companies. Anyway, on to the Board: >[Esra’a Al Shafei](https://mastodon.social/@alshafei) is a human rights advocate and founder of Majal.org, a network of digital platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices in Southwest Asia and North Africa. She is also the co-founder of the Numun Fund, the first dedicated fund for feminist tech in the Global Majority. Esra’a currently serves on the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit which hosts Wikipedia. She is also on the Board of the Tor Project, developers of one of the world’s strongest tools for privacy and freedom online. > >[Karien Bezuidenhout](https://www.philanthropy-matters.org/team) is an advocate for openness and supporter of social entrepreneurs. As the former director of the Shuttleworth Foundation, her core interest lies in social and policy innovation through practical interventions and sustainable social enterprises. Through her experience as a board member to social change organisations and social enterprises across the world, she strives to make connections that accelerate learning. > >[Amir Ghavi](https://www.friedfrank.com/professionals/amir-ghavi) leads Fried Frank’s core technology practices as the co-head of the Technology Transactions Practice, where he advises clients on cutting edge technology and intellectual property matters. Amir is also a regular speaker, panelist and commentator to the media on digital assets and quantum computing. > >[Felix Hlatky](https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox) has been the Chief Financial Officer of Mastodon since 2020. Felix helped Eugen by incorporating the project in a non-profit LLC in Germany and raising additional funds from Prototype Fund, NLnet and GLS Bank. Felix is the CEO of SOLARYS, a company developing software for volunteer firefighters in the DACH region. > >[Biz Stone](https://medium.com/@biz) is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Twitter, one of the world’s leading social media platforms. Biz’s career spans various facets of technology and social networking, including contributions to the development of blogging, podcasting, and social media. Beyond Twitter, Biz has engaged in various philanthropic efforts and tech ventures, emphasizing the importance of corporate responsibility and the potential of technology to address societal challenges.
gizmodo.com
> "First post in the fediverse," said the Meta CEO in a [Thursday post](https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C4yMa0Gxxph) on Threads. "If you see this and turn it on from your profile, you’ll see likes from federated platforms appear on your posts here."
wedistribute.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13238074 > The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He's helping other projects in the space, too.
You are the only instance that is this hard to connect to lol!!! I went to the trouble of swapping my Misskey instance to one on your Allowed list... it still isn't accepting my invite! That's the only way I can get your posts to appear on the instance... P.S. Re: my username: I forgot which account I was going to give dental advice. Actually, I just remembered. Someone who mentioned braces. I was going to tell them to get Super Floss which is at big box stores and stuff. It's so awesome, obliterates braces gunk (this saved my life in high school, wish my orthodontist told me, screw orthodontists, they are all demons)
git.joinfirefish.org
Development activity had slowed to a trickle, and the project owner and lead developer is now stepping away. The flagship instance, [firefish.social](https://firefish.social/), doesn't seem to be working anymore. It looks like many Firefish instances are planning on migrating to other Misskey forks like [Sharkey](https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey). It's a bummer to see this. Firefish had a decent amount of hype around it for a minute, and the UI and feature set are nice.
wedistribute.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11061890 > Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of choice.
Context: https://hexbear.net/instances
Pros: it will be exciting and engaging to see someone with a federated name and the notice their opinion being dogshit Cons: mathematically proven to not have cons
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/9347983 > ## What is Lemmy? > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > ## Major Changes > > This release is very large with [almost 400 commits since 0.18.5](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.5...main). As such we can only give a general overview of the major changes in this post, and without going into detail. For more information, read the full changelog and linked issues at the bottom of this post. > > ### Improved Post Ranking > > There is a new [scaled sort](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3907) which takes into account the number of active users in a community, and boosts posts from less-active communities to the top. Additionally there is a new [controversial sort](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3205) which brings posts and comments to the top that have similar amounts of upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy's sorts are detailed [here](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html). > > ### Instance Blocks for Users > > Users can now [block instances](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869). Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn't affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities. > > ### Two-Factor-Auth Rework > > Previously 2FA was enabled in a single step which made it easy to lock yourself out. This is now fixed by [using a two-step process](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3959), where the secret is generated first, and then 2FA is enabled by entering a valid 2FA token. It also fixes the problem where 2FA can be disabled without passing any 2FA token. As part of this change, 2FA is disabled for all users. This allows users who are locked out to get into their account again. > > ### New Federation Queue > > Outgoing federation actions are processed through a [new persistent queue](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3605). This means that actions don't get lost if Lemmy is restarted. It is also much more performant, with separate senders for each target instance. This avoids problems when instances are unreachable. Additionally it supports horizontal scaling across different servers. The endpoint `/api/v3/federated_instances` contains [details about federation state](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4104) of each remote instance. > > ### Remote Follow > > Another new feature is [support for remote follow](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1875). When browsing another instance where you don't have an account, you can click the subscribe button and enter the domain of your home instance in the popup dialog. It will automatically redirect you to your home instance where it fetches the community and presents a subscribe button. [Here is a video showing how it works](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1875#issuecomment-1727790414). > > ### Authentication via Header or Cookie > > Previous Lemmy versions used to send authentication tokens as part of the parameters. This was a leftover from websocket, which doesn't have any separate fields for this purpose. Now that we are using HTTP, [authentication can finally be passed via `jwt` cookie or via header](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3725) `Authorization: Bearer `. The old authentication method is not supported anymore to simplify maintenance. A major benefit of this change is that Lemmy can now send cache-control headers depending on authentication state. API responses with login have `cache-control: private`, those without have `cache-control: public, max-age=60`. This means that [responses can be cached in Nginx](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/issues/195) which reduces server load. > > ### Moderation > > Reports are now [resolved automatically](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3871) when the associated post/comment is marked as deleted. This reduces the amount of work for moderators. There is a new [log for image uploads](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3927) which stores uploader. For now it is used to delete all user uploads when an account is purged. Later the list can be used for other purposes and made available through the API. > > ### Cursor based pagination > > `0.19` adds support for [cursor based pagination](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3872) on the `/api/v3/post/list` endpoint. This is more efficient for the database. Instead of a query parameter `?page=3`, listing responses now include a field `"next_page": "Pa46c"` which needs to be passed as `?page_cursor=Pa46c`. The existing pagination method is still supported for backwards compatibility, but will be removed in the next version. > > ### User data export/import > > Users can now [export their data](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3976) (community follows, blocklists, profile settings), and import it again on another instance. This can be used for account migrations and also as a form of backup. The export format is designed to remain unchanged for a long time. You can make regular exports, and if the instance becomes unavailable, register a new account and import the data. This way you can continue using Lemmy seamlessly. > > ### Time zone handling > > Lemmy didn't have any support for timezones, which led to bugs when federating with other platforms. This is now [fixed by using UTC timezone for all timestamps](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3496). > > ### ARM64 Support > > Thanks to help from @raskyld and @kroese, there are now offical Lemmy releases for ARM64 available. > > ### Activity now includes voters > > - Previously, site and community activity counts were only based on people who commented, or posted. [Those counts now include anyone who voted on a comment or post as well.](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4235) Thanks to @Ategon for this change. > > ## Upgrade instructions > > Follow the upgrade instructions for [ansible](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible#upgrading) or [docker](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html#updating). The upgrade should take less than 30 minutes. > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our [support forum](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) or on the [Matrix Chat](https://matrix.to/#/!OwmdVYiZSXrXbtCNLw:matrix.org). > > Pict-rs 0.5 is also close to releasing. The upgrade takes a while due to a database migration, so read the [migration guide](https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs#user-content-04-to-05-migration-guide) to speed it up. Note that Lemmy 0.19 still works perfectly with pict-rs 0.4. > > ## Thanks to everyone > > We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute. > > ## Support development > > We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over three years. This is largely thanks to support from [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl/), as well as [donations from individual users](https://join-lemmy.org/donate). > > This month we are running a funding drive with the goal of increasing recurring donations from currently €4.000 to at least €12.000. With this amount @dessalines and @nutomic can each receive a yearly salary of €50.000 which is in line with median developer salaries. It will also allow one additional developer to work fulltime on Lemmy and speed up development. > > Read more details in the [funding drive announcement](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-10-31_-_Join-Lemmy_Redesign_and_Funding_Drive).
Apologies if this is the wrong comm for the question but I've been wanting to move to RSS more again to help me in avoiding doomscrolling, but I've noticed that the NSFW posts don't show up. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to get them included I'm not seeing? like NSFW=true in the get request or something?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/8543124 > In anticipation of Lemmy's upcoming `0.19` release, and to work out any final issues, we're going to deploy a test release on lemmy.ml within the next few days. > > We're doing this testing on lemmy.ml only, so that we can encounter any issues *before* the release, and to make sure the upgrade process is smooth for other production servers. > > Some of the following will happen during the process: > > - Apps will likely break (only for lemmy.ml) > - Lemmy.ml may experience some downtime for the upgrade to complete (ideally no more than an hour). > - If anything goes wrong, we may have to restore from a database backup, meaning content made in between backups may be lost. > > If all goes well, we'll have an official announcement for the release **after** this testing period. > > I apologize for the difficulties this might cause. At most this will be a week of hair-pulling, but its vital that we catch any issues before telling other servers to upgrade.
**Most nodes have no constitution** In an [effort to find places to create communities](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8499059), I browse lemmyverse.net. There are hundreds of instances. Unfortunately descriptions of instances are either empty or general purpose. This is a terrible organization. No constitution. It’s like these neighborhoods where all the shops try to sell a bit of everything. E.g. like when a tiny shop sells spices, phones, cheese, hammers, rugs, and speakers. Nothing goes together. We say shops like that lack a constitution which defines the focus of their business. When there’s a whole street of shops like this, you don’t know which shop to enter for what you need. You have to try many different shops arbitrarily until you find what you need. The #threadiverse is like that. Not many venues focused on a defined purpose. Have I missed something? Is there a service or document that only lists specific-purpose #Lemmy and #Kbin nodes? **Centralization in wolf’s clothes** The other problem with the Lemmyverse site is there is no “cancel Cloudflare” switch that supports filtering out all instances that are centralized on Cloudflare. I always have to open the filters and manually remove: * lemmy·world * lemm·ee * sh·itjust·works * lemmy·ca * lemmy·ml (← no longer CF but I still filter it out for other reasons) The threadiverse exists inherently for the purpose of decentralization. So it’d be sensible for resources for finding nodes to make it trivial to just list decentralized instances. **Centralization - lack of constitution relationship** The lack of constitution effectively exacerbates the centralization problem. That is, when everything is general purpose, this encourages everyone to choose the biggest general purpose venue -- Lemmy·World, the Wal·Mart of the #Lemmyverse.
social.mondoweiss.net
Looks like the ban was reversed, but lol. Mondoweiss runs their own instance now. Love to see media orgs embracing fediverse tech properly, not just fleeing back to the Silicon Valley monopolies because they got blindsided by some lib fucking mod.
 we also have the most comments. never stop posting