If I can piggyback with a question: Does anyone know how “Read” status for posts is stored and accessible on both softwares? I know that it’s stored and it would be cool if it was private, but I’m guessing it can be collected and used.
This information exists wherever your account exists. It’s nonfederated data, similar to things like your email address, hashed password, and 2FA master key. No other instance has any need to know what notifications you’ve viewed, so they are never made privy to that information.
To clarify: federation is not like P2P where everyone gets a copy of everything. Federation only shares exactly what needs to be shared for the software to function. In the case of Lemmy, this boils down to the following data:
User profiles
Communities
Posts
Comments
Votes
Follows
Blocks
Private Messages
Some of you may be raising eyebrows at this list. Does this mean that anyone can see your votes & PMs at any time? No, not exactly. There’s two big things to keep in mind here:
When possible, the smallest possible amount of federation is used (e.g.: votes are only sent to the instance where the post/comment is, Blocks/PMs only get sent to the instance where the other user is, etc.)
Unless it’s something the website shows, only instance admins can view the data that gets federated with it. Your PMs may not be secure, but they’re not exactly out on Google either.
At worst, here’s what information can be captured by a random bad actor running their own evil instance:
Your username
Your public bio
Your home instance
Your moderated communities
Your moderation history
Your comment history
Your post history
Your votes specifically for posts/comments belonging to the bad instance
Your follows specifically for communities belonging to the bad instance
Your PMs specifically to users belonging to the bad instance
Your blocks specifically of users belonging to the bad instance
The majority of this information is already publicly searchable on your home instance’s website. Pretty much all of the scary stuff requires you to actually directly interact with the bad guy’s instance. If you’re about to vote or follow something sketchy, consider double-checking who runs the instance before you attach your name to it (that’s what the rainbow link is for).
I don’t love old memes. They bore me. I see and make plenty of new stuff that makes me laugh, including laughing at consumer culuture. But most of thosr memes are not on Lemmy or Reddit.
I use two monitors, and also KDE’s virtual desktops for work. A killer feature for me is that KDE has a window manager option to “pin” specific windows so that they are present on every desktop. This means I can have my terminal and slack client split across one screen and pinned, and then the other screen can contain my “main focus” on each of the virtual desktops - browser, editor, or email. I always can see the chat/terminal but can easily swap the desktop to get to a different focus.
I know that I could just have everything on one desktop and use the alt-tab to change that main window. But the alt tab is slow and non-deterministic. I may have to cycle between five things before I get to the browser, for example. With virtual desktops, I know where each focus is geometrically, and I can always swap over quickly with my key shortcuts.
For the past six years it has been Kubuntu, but I think it’s time to finally abort Canonical and their idiosyncrasies and choose Debian as a KDE base, especially now that Debian 12 includes non-free firmware by default.
AFAIK, you can’t load comments on posts manually. You only get comments that are pushed to your instance after someone has subscribed to the community containing the post.
Unfortunately I think you’re right. I tested it by trying to load the Lemmy post up on a couple of single-user Mastodon instances, and they failed to load it.
It looks like only Mastodon and PeerTube and maybe a couple others list replies alongside the post. It would be nice if more did because I’m relying on the feature for this project of mine: github.com/BentonEdmondson/servitor
The public links with post and comment in are used specifically for federation and can only really be used to build a hierarchy upwards. The use case for this probably will make it make more sense.
Say I subscribe to a remote community from my instance. I won't get anything specifically until an activity happens. The first activity I get is a like for a comment. But I don't have the comment. But luckily the like message has a link to the comment URL. So now I can fetch that. But how can I just show a comment out of context? I cannot, but the comment json tells me what it is in reply to. Maybe a post, maybe another comment. I can just keep fetching up the tree until I get to the post. Once I have all that I have something that can be rendered, the whole hierarchy from the liked comment to the post.
That's why it works that way. It's probably just to save on DB queries, why query the DB for all the comments if in normal federation use case it already has the comment(s) it wants if it reached the post.
But in the use case you give, how could you view the replies below the liked comment? If the replies key is absent you can’t. So you can only see those for Mastodon/PeerTube in that case, not Lemmy/Pleroma.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !android
I understand exactly what you’re saying; you can get the parents but not the replies in that situation.
I’m just saying that in your situation (e.g. someone I follow on Mastodon likes a Lemmy post) it would be convenient for me as a user to be able to view the replies to that Lemmy post, but I cannot necessarily do that because Lemmy does not include replies.
If you use a standard package-manager-based taxonomy, there are five base distributions: Slackware, Debian, Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS (I’m unclear on which of those is currently the lowest rung), Arch, and Gentoo. There are also a handful of singletons, like Puppy and Void, which evolved independently (or from long-dead predecessors) but have no family to speak of. I think the only one of those that isn’t community-driven is Red Hat.
However, most base distributions are set up because their founder wants to try Something Completely Different, and that “something” is generally not user-friendliness. Even in Debian’s case, the core distro philosophy is about software licenses; its user-friendliness is almost a historical accident. Descendant distributions with a premise of “[distro], but user friendly” are not uncommon, though.
I have a 3x3 desktop grid in plasma, it works great for me on my laptop, but I don’t think I could use it without touchpad gestures. I would probably have less or none if I had a big screen.
Most of Mexico historically lives inland. Their beaches are kinda inhospitable. The high plains and valleys are much more conductive to hosting human civilization.
In terms of data privacy it would become a nightmare.
However I think Zuck would be a massive improvement over spez in terms of strategy, diplomacy, PR rizz and general chill. And this is not a very high bar.
Im using a ‘Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4’. Nothing comes even close to be as good as it is when it comes to productivity, consuming media, playing games and surfing the web.
I really really tried it, but it feels like the whole default GNOME suite has never been used by powerusers at all.
Nemo (is it Nemo?) is especially bad. Once you have to deal with several thousand files in a folder (e.g. drive recovery) it totally breaks apart.
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