The Newcomer's Guide to Mastodon, from a Crusty Old-Timer (wedistribute.org)
cross-posted from: https://m.freespace.nohost.me/post/2872...
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cross-posted from: https://m.freespace.nohost.me/post/2872...
One of the most difficult problems for instances which do federate with Threads (full support for both them and the Fedipact) is the lack of moderation and very large number of bad actors on Threads. The ability to share block lists and automatically apply certain types of block would help a lot. Does anything like this already...
Right now there are similarely named communities across the fediverse....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1203717...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1190537...
I like how they list if a site is part of the fedivers or not.
What do people think about incorporating a Stellar address that is unique to your federated account with your chosen insurance....
Lemmy.ml has now blocked Threads.net
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in favour of Germany’s anti-cartel watchdog, which had argued that it could take data privacy issues into account when considering antitrust cases....
Some insights from Alex Stamos that I found quite interesting....
The php client will help with creating bots and/or mod tools. ChatGPT bot can reply to your comment....
Sorry for reposting, but I think it is crucial to talk about this. Fediverse forward 🏁
Let me preface by saying, I would love to hear counter points and am fully open to the fact that I could be wrong and totally out of touch. I just want to have some dialogue around something that’s been bothering me in the fediverse....
cross-posted from: reseed.it/post/3728...
I strongly encourage instance admins to defederate from Facebook/Threads/Meta....
An interesting article I saw (from 2019) describing the potential intrinsic tendency for decentralized platforms to collapse into de facto centralized ones....
From what I understand, Threads will be joining the fediverse, and Bluesky is going to be federated. Will I eventually be able to access both from my Lemmy instance? I’m also still trying to wrap my head around the whole concept so I’m not even sure if I’m asking my question correctly
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