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Instead of a half-dozen platforms competing to own your entire life, apps like Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and others are building a more interconnected social ecosystem.
In the last year or so, though, particularly after Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition alerted users to how quickly their platforms can change or die, POSSE has gotten some traction again alongside ActivityPub and other more open ideas.
POSSE’s problems start at the very beginning: it requires owning your own website, which means buying a domain and worrying about DNS records and figuring out web hosts, and by now, you’ve already lost the vast majority of people who would rather just type a username and password into some free Meta platform.
Reece says he’s interested in building tools to aggregate and make sense of replies, likes, comments, and the rest, but it’s a much harder prospect.
Reece mentions a tool called Bridgy, which both allows cross-posting and aggregates social media reactions and attaches them to posts on your site.
Modern social networks are not a single product but a giant bundle of features, and the next generation of tools might be all about unbundling.
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Click here to see the summaryInstead of a half-dozen platforms competing to own your entire life, apps like Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and others are building a more interconnected social ecosystem. In the last year or so, though, particularly after Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition alerted users to how quickly their platforms can change or die, POSSE has gotten some traction again alongside ActivityPub and other more open ideas. POSSE’s problems start at the very beginning: it requires owning your own website, which means buying a domain and worrying about DNS records and figuring out web hosts, and by now, you’ve already lost the vast majority of people who would rather just type a username and password into some free Meta platform. Reece says he’s interested in building tools to aggregate and make sense of replies, likes, comments, and the rest, but it’s a much harder prospect. Reece mentions a tool called Bridgy, which both allows cross-posting and aggregates social media reactions and attaches them to posts on your site. Modern social networks are not a single product but a giant bundle of features, and the next generation of tools might be all about unbundling. — Saved 90% of original text.
Here’s the sticking point imo: the youth will always drive the direction of the internet, and they are an implicitly destitute demographic.
Corporations know this and so create “free” platforms where the youth can congregate and share content (and of course the corp profits via other means). POSSE works for marketing teams, but the idea of everyone owning their own domain name is just not gonna happen. People don’t even pay for email.
The only way the fediverse can compete with TikTok and the rest is if older users with a bit more money subsidize the younger users who may not even have a debit card. If the money invested by the total fediverse userbase isn’t enough to fund the service for all users, then it will fail vs the for-profit options. That’s how I see it.
I don’t think the problem is only younger users and their lack of money. It’s not like the vast majority of older users of the internet want to deal with anything more complicated than putting a username and password into one site and being done, even if they do have the money to spend on a domain.
Personally I love the idea of POSSE. I think it would genuinely be an improvement on the way things are on the internet right now. But the barriers to entry, both in terms of finances and knowledge, are just too high for the vast majority.
Maybe it’s an instance thing, maybe it’s a Boost thing, but when I search for communities with the simple term “fitness” for example, I only get 5 results that have like, 30 members max....
Right now that is a bit of a sticking point with Lemmy. Right now, as far as I can tell, none of the apps for lemmy really do discovery.
If you are on an instance with a large amount of people, the easiest way is probably your instance’s communities list. This can be found by going to your lemmy instances web domain (in your case programming.dev) and log in. On desktop it will just show a little “communities” link in the top left you can click on, on the mobile site you have to tap trending -> explore communities.
What this “communities” list does is list every community that anyone on your instance has subscribed to. Subscriber and daily active user numbers may not be accurate as they as far as I can tell only count your instance’s users.
What I did when I first started lemmy was go through this list and subscribe to any community that remotely interested me.
The place where you will be able to see the absolute most number of communities is a lemmy indexer like lemmyverse.net which lists almost all instances and has all of their communities listed.
Other than that, though, I think discoverability is something actively being developed on the lemmy platform.
Hope this was helpful and you enjoy your time here o7
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I’m currently beating my head up against Authentik. What I’m trying to do is to use Authentik to secure an unsecured service, like VS-Code server. Supposedly I can do this by pointing the domain to the Authentik server and then Authentik’s proxy points to the Code Server, but everything that I try either redirects back to...
Btrfs and Ostree definitely are different approaches to the problem. Btrfs has all the benefits you mentioned (cow filesystems and snapshots are just awesome) but it doesn’t support the system layers like Ostree does. So you can’t easily export a btrfs system into a container for example or rebase your OS on a new image.
To me both a super useful together too but covering different domains, everything mutable needs a backup and recovery method too, even on an Ostree system.
Stuff like guix and nix also cover a lot of these domains too (or can at least), but still leave stuff like user data as an exercise for the system admin to handle (though an exercise you can use guix/nix to configure something like btrfs to handle!).
Can you provide a bit of info on this? I’m hesitating for a while on this plan, but I need at least 2 custom domains, and the possibility to have 2 users on this domains. Is this feasible with mxroute? Can’t figure this out from their faq 😅
By the repeat infringer policy, I was generally talking about multiple infringing uploads, not just a single video over time. Apologies for the confusion.
One of the nice things about the DMCA for the average user is that it’s generally on the copyright holder to notice infringing content is out there and demand that it be taken down, instead of forcing some kind of pre-upload approval system that would never scale to the amount of content that is being uploaded daily.
I totally think it’s unfair too though, just trying to point out how the law currently works. I feel it’s ridiculous that something could have been created before you were born, you live to a very full life expectancy, and by the time you die the work still hasn’t entered into the public domain. That does not feel like copyright is for a “limited time”.
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t the typical terms of service or privacy policy even mention that you, as a user, have the power to reject tracking cookies, tracking pixels, etc. via your browser configuration and third party tools? As far as I know, the YouTube ToS and Privacy Policy also mention these things. I just tried to read it but they seem to have broken it up into a sprawling multi-site multi-page document where I can’t find the legalese to ctrl+f and pore over.
Can anyone find these documents, so I can read through them please?
There are other ways to control the information Google collects whether or not you’re signed in to a Google Account, including:
Browser settings: For example, you can configure your browser to indicate when Google has set a cookie in your browser. You can also configure your browser to block all cookies from a specific domain or all domains. But remember that our services rely on cookies to function properly, for things like remembering your language preferences.
Device-level settings: Your device may have controls that determine what information we collect. For example, you can modify location settings on your Android device.
Google has been caught hosting a malicious ad so convincing that there’s a decent chance it has managed to trick some of the more security-savvy users who encountered it.
Combining the ad on Google with a website with an almost identical URL creates a near perfect storm of deception.
“Users are first deceived via the Google ad that looks entirely legitimate and then again via a lookalike domain,” Jérôme Segura, head of threat intelligence at security provider Malwarebytes, wrote in a post Wednesday that revealed the scam.
The ads were paid for by an outfit called Digital Eagle, which the transparency page says is an advertiser whose identity has been verified by Google.
When in doubt, people can open a new browser tab and manually type the URL, but that’s not always feasible when they’re long.
Another option is to inspect the TLS certificate to make sure it belongs to the site displayed in the address bar.
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Click here to see the summaryGoogle has been caught hosting a malicious ad so convincing that there’s a decent chance it has managed to trick some of the more security-savvy users who encountered it. Combining the ad on Google with a website with an almost identical URL creates a near perfect storm of deception. “Users are first deceived via the Google ad that looks entirely legitimate and then again via a lookalike domain,” Jérôme Segura, head of threat intelligence at security provider Malwarebytes, wrote in a post Wednesday that revealed the scam. The ads were paid for by an outfit called Digital Eagle, which the transparency page says is an advertiser whose identity has been verified by Google. When in doubt, people can open a new browser tab and manually type the URL, but that’s not always feasible when they’re long. Another option is to inspect the TLS certificate to make sure it belongs to the site displayed in the address bar. — Saved 63% of original text.
EDIT: Thank you for all the great responses! I agree that a forced implementation is no longer the way to go. I’ve left the post as is, aside from this comment, in case anyone wanted to reference part of it. At this point, I think implementation 1 (Sincere Request) is the way to go if anything....
Forcing people on community A to go to community B to discuss a subject of A, when it’s perfectly possible that server B is on the opposite side of the world and provides a far woser UX than server A, or is even possible that server B might have defed’d from server A and thus B can not participate, or where the culture of community B is largely different than that of community A (eg.: B treats subject Z as a game; A treats it as a sport) (see also: beehaw vs everywhere else), is honestly one of the most stupidest ideas I’ve heard on the Fediverse. Yes, “most stupidest”, double superlative. That’s how bad it is.
The internet already routes naturally towards guiding people to where content might be. Users on B might link to content on A, at their leisure, but everyone is not forced to lose everything if server A dies or is beehaw. Ideally community members that take part of both A and B can reference both on webring C, because yes webrings are cool and awesome and they should return and they would solve much of this whole issue by raising awareness that A and B deal in subject Z, for the people who care.
And, ultimately, giving the ability to server A to essentially delete communities in server B feels ripe for abouse, and would lead towards a centralization of the Fediverse (exatly what we want to avoid!) simply because sheer statistics means server A sees more use and thus covers more domain space to start new conversations about subject Z, thus pre-emptively deleting them and coopting user activity from B.
Look, honestly: if you want Facebook ot Twitter, go back to them.
The admins of your logged-in instance can delete any post of yours they want. This is not us doing it. The Lemmy UI is pretty bad at showing this. On some servers, an admins actions are listed as “mod” in the modlog even though we didn’t do it.
Yeah i personally blocked the domains in my app (connect) so i don’t see all the tankies, Shitjustworks blocks almost nothing, i hope lemmy itself adds a option to block entire instances on user level.
Furthermore im for the destruction of .world as its literally to big with over 1/3 of lemmys users. It becomes a walled garden like reddit, literally becomes the thing it swore to destroy. (with even more spongy TOS and questionable legal status (especially in EU ))
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This whole discussion is like arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It depends completely on how you define open source, and there is no single universally agreed upon definition. Per this article, there are over 80 variations of open source licenses all with different term and conditions. Some are more permissive, some less so. Yet they can all be considered a variation of open source, though I’m anticipating you wouldn’t agree? For this particular app, there are some restrictions in place aimed to protect users from malicious forks. IMO this is a good thing. I can’t understand why you are acting like the definition police here, it seems very pedantic tbh.
Many software buyers – even new developers – misunderstand the term “open source” to mean the software is available to use, copy, modify, and distribute as desired. This misunderstanding may arise from confusing open source with public domain or shareware, both of which are free to use and modify without specific permissions or licensing.
The truth is that, for the most part, open-source software is covered by one of several types of open source licenses and is not necessarily free of charge either.
In contrast to proprietary software where vendors typically make it impossible to access, copy or modify the source code, open source code permits the use, reuse, sharing, modification, and distribution of the code in other programs or applications. But just as with proprietary software licensing, open source software is subject to various legal terms and restrictions, depending on the type of open source license in force.
Federated ID seems interesting but impractical. Take your home instance ID and use it to auth to another server, nice to have if the home base is down but if the home is down then how does the remote host validate the user in a realtime sense? Storing tokens or creating a local version of the account would be possible but if the user was banned from the home base then you have to trust replication to clear it from the remotes or have a short enough token expiration to know they need to revalidate against the home base after X time.
A ways out of my expertise, I work more on the lower layers of connectivity so maybe I’m overthinking it. What could be helpful would some sort of local app setup that would create an instance with an easy executable. Creating spontaneous servers has playing with fire potential and doesn’t address domain creation or port allocations, but with the certbot/acme systems out there it seems like it wouldn’t be too far out of the realm of reality. Musings of a mad scientist…
I prefer good faith discussions please. I love the Fediverse and love what it can be long term. The problem is that parts of the culture want nothing to do with financial aspect. Many are opposed to ads, memberships, sponsorships etc The “small instances” response does nothing to positively contribute to the conversation....
Subscriptions have gotten a bad rep lately because of companies that try to turn a product (like a car and heated seats) into a “service”, but there is nothing inherently wrong/unfair about someone that provides a service that has occurring and constant costs based on usage.
Also, for those that want to have full control over their own identity, they can have their own managed server, which is still a bit expensive but will be made a lot cheaper with the next generation of fediverse services (like takahe and mitra) . Once that gets more mature, users would be able to bring their own domain and a service provider would be a commodity like an email hosting service. In the case where I can port account and my identity to different providers by simply changing a DNS record, the power will be fully in the hands of the people and there will be nothing for them to worry about.
How is you experience using them ? (I know BlueSky is invite only, but perhaps someone got lucky) I registered in Mastodon recently and i’m getting the same feeling(and problems) when started using lemmy.
activitypub at its core is incredibly simple afaik… its just a set of defined APIs and that follow ActivityStream schemas
the actual user identifiers we interact with in software aren’t the same as what activitypub uses internally (they’re all URIs so look more like https://<instance>/<path>/<to>/<user>)
it wouldn’t be difficult to use a similar mechanism as they’re using right now to direct a particular domain or subdomain to a user ID: it’s all rewritten anyway!
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Simplest solution for fragmented communities: Redirect comments to one post (by asking or with new functionality)
EDIT: Thank you for all the great responses! I agree that a forced implementation is no longer the way to go. I’ve left the post as is, aside from this comment, in case anyone wanted to reference part of it. At this point, I think implementation 1 (Sincere Request) is the way to go if anything....
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why does the fediverse not serve the authentication problem?
I still have many different accounts on matrix, lemmy, mastodon, etc. and although you may communicate somehow, it doesn’t work properly.
Fediverse sustainability
I prefer good faith discussions please. I love the Fediverse and love what it can be long term. The problem is that parts of the culture want nothing to do with financial aspect. Many are opposed to ads, memberships, sponsorships etc The “small instances” response does nothing to positively contribute to the conversation....
Mastodon vs BlueSky
How is you experience using them ? (I know BlueSky is invite only, but perhaps someone got lucky) I registered in Mastodon recently and i’m getting the same feeling(and problems) when started using lemmy.