Nice try, Apple /j
GingerKun
joined 2 years ago
It seems a lot worse than that... At least somebody would have to hack a 90s forum to see your DMs.
On one hand, those posts were way out of line as a professional representative of a company talking to one of their employer's clients.
On the other hand, fuck Nic Chiallan for repeatedly threatening legitimate critics of the US Government with "DoD Lawyers" for using their protected first amendment rights. That's actual government tyranny, or at least a pathetic attempt at such.
A single "entire" instance being ruined is a much smaller problem than a whole platform.
As for the duplicate community problem, I would love to see either a multi-reddit-like feature or the ability to merge/co-mingle "duplicate" communities across instances.
The solution to tyrannical mods or admins is simple: "take your ball and go home" by starting your own instance, or your own community on a separate instance. That said, instances and communities grow by growing trust between users and mods/admins by a track record of acting in a rational and trustworthy way.
Privacy is definitely a problem for Lemmy. You should assume everything you post or comment is public and in the open, and impossible to fully delete, because it is. Post accordingly. You could theoretically be identified by the sum total of all personally identifying information you freely post over a long enough time or by your writing style if a government considered you a real threat.
That said, many instances do not even require an email address. I don't know whether instances store data like IP addresses, but you could check the lemmy source code to find out.
Edit: But also, who's to say their server source code is unaltered? Federation lives and dies by trust and mutual cooperation, and that cannot be guaranteed.
There are some achievements, or at least one involving shooting one into a certain planet. The way they're set up (no steering), you'd either have to do some calculations to plan a course or use trial and error.
I don't want Meta or the Zuck to benefit in any way from any work I do posting on the fediverse.
I bet a lot of people got really butthurt about that building, but I think it's amazing.
I don't know the exact details, But apparently, Google implemented xmpp wrong (possibly maliciously?) in a way where Google Talk users could see other xmpp servers' content but those servers users could not see Google Talk content. Which meant that Google forced the Libre servers into obsolescence.
Alleged rioters!
I don't want my VPN provided by spooky Microsoft and attached to my Microsoft account.
What's your favorite color? I'd have to go with cherry red, but white is also tempting.
Nice, I might try this setup.