I think Calckey/firefish, because of it history and characteristics, tends to have more themed instances. Many of the so called “general” instances, are multi-topic or multi-fandom themed instances rather than actual general purpose ones.
I think someone not used to these things would see ‘Coming Soon’ and just leave it as not launched yet.
It’s probably not launched yet. The main instance hasn’t open (or rather moved from calckey) and other intances are moving from either old Calckey or foundkey.
Firefish has already set up a new site and infrastructure under their new name. The flagship instance of Calckey.social is in the process of moving over to Firefish.social. The migration effort is intended to retain users, posts, credentials, and data. The move is expected to officially happen over the course of the next few days.
I would say to wait at least a week to check the official instance.
Is there a place I can go on lemmy where I can say “is there a community/magazine that has people’s weird ideas they thought of in the shower” and if anyone knows of a place they’ll point you to it?
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: !lemmy411, !wowthislemmyexists
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: !showerthoughts
i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.
Well, it depends on your instance. Some of them aren't popular, and some of them don't allow downvotes at all. But, over here, it's apparently hip to just click into a profile and downvote everything they've posted because they said something you disagree with. I won't name names, because that'd be just as bad, but you can look through my profile if you're really interested.
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: !news, !politics
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: !news, !politics
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: !news, !politics
America’s top diplomat on Friday said the US would take action if China declined to intervene in the military deployment of North Korea, a hermit state and Beijing ally the US has long accused of playing a destabilising role in East Asia....
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: !noncredibledefense
With the stories about data from period tracking apps being shared with law enforcement, I was wondering if there was a self hosted alternative I could host for my daughter. My searches so far have not returned any good results. Thanks!
As someone who uses Nextcloud, why do you suggest obfuscating the name of the calendar event? My nextcloud instance is only accessible from outside my LAN via HTTPS, so no concern about someone using a packet sniffer on public WiFi or something of that sort. The server is located on my property, so physical security isn’t a real concern unless someone breaks in with a USB drive or physically removes the server from the rack and steals it. If someone was to gain access to my network remotely, they’d still need login credentials for Nextcloud or for Proxmox in order to clone the VM drive.
To be clear, I’m not disagreeing with you; I’m wondering if I may be over-estimating data security on my home network. Considering you’re posting from infosec.pub, I’m assuming you know more about this than I do.
Also, I feel like I need to say that the fact that OP even needs to consider data security for something like really makes me wonder how parts of our society have gone so wrong.
Im interested in learning programming but there are so many diffrent programming languages and guides that I feel overwhelmed and dont know where or how to start. any useful advice is appreciated.
You are starting a journey which is not short, that will be full of amazing things but also frustration. You also mentioned in a post that you want to create a videogame like EU4 and HOI4. I think that is a good goal to have, but also a quite ambitious one.
In my view, you should focus on finding a way to learn programming that keeps you motivated and prevents you from quitting early in the process. Choices of programming languages, technologies, platforms and things with fancy names should be done with that in mind.
So, how to learn programming? I think that you should…
Find some materials you find yourself comfortable with. Those materials might be reference books, video tutorials, guides, online courses or anything else. You need to find what you like to use as a reference.
Start making things as early as possible, and complete them as often as possible. In other words: start simple, small projects that you can complete and start them often, don’t wait until you can implement a quicksort to write something you are interested in writing. Maybe even don’t write a quicksort at all. Focus on doing stuff that interests you while making you learn.
Find humans that you are comfortable with to share your progress with, ask and learn from. This community may very well be that group of humans, but you can think of others too. Maybe some friend, maybe someone you know online. This is useful because other people can make your learning process faster and, importantly, less frustrating. Other people can also help you with the two previous points in this list: finding materials and giving some ideas for new activities or projects.
So, where exactly to start learning? I think that you could… (different options)
Start learning a programming language, such as Python. Python in particular is easy to learn, very powerful, well supported and has huge community. It will help you learn programming and it will be useful after you have learned. Other languages can also be okay, for instance C#, which is maybe slightly more difficult than Python but it’s a good choice for game development.
Start learning a game engine, such as Godot. This way you will need to learn the game engine AND programming in order to do anything, and that’s maybe a little too ambitious, but it is more pragmatic.
Find a community, school or similar that can guide you through the learning process and stick to it. I am talking about sites such as www.freecodecamp.org, exercism.org or www.theodinproject.com. I am not recommending any of these in particular because I have no experience with them, just mentioning them so that you know what I am talking about. These communities usually have a plethora of challenges or guided exercises that walk you through learning how to program.
There are many options, and you will hear a lot of recommendations of what worked for other people. That is fine, but you need to find what works for you 🙂
YSK: When making posts on Lemmy/Kbin always put at the end some hashtags related to your post topic.
So users from Mastodon and Pixelfed can interact with your post without even need to use their Lemmy/Kbin account or learn about "how to use the ActivityPub".
This also helps to have more content avaliable across the Fediverse due to better discoverability.
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: !youshouldknow
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: !youshouldknow
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: !youshouldknow
Lemmy.ml is the instance ran by the developers of the Lemmy software. I’m sure they would just love to some sort of key verification for federation than just domain name, which they should be doing anyway because domain names can change.
I think a lot of them were tankies who thought it was cool to have ML in their domain name. They have lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml iirc. Honestly I don’t know whether to be happy those communities took a hit or sad that I might lose one way of identifying and avoiding auth-left instances.
Afaik it is all connected to the domain name, so they could definitely start to impersonate any .ml instance. Other instances could detect that the signing key for federation messages changed, but that’s about it. Their admins would probably have to block/defederate them manually.
lemmy.ml is still up as of right now. Possibly they contracted a subscription to the domain name to keep it up. They had to do something to retain it otherwise the site would be unreachable. If lemmy.ml does have to change names it will be a hassle since I’ve got a good number of community subscriptions there.
This wouldn’t happen to an instance with a regularly subscribed domain name. Problem is the .ml domains were free and the associated country decided to claim them back. The risk of using a free top level domain is something that should have been considered. I don’t think it’s worth the risk versus the cost savings considering how difficult it is to migrate a Lemmy instance.
Only instances with a “.ml” at the end of the name may or may not be affected. Lemmy is a collection of instances so the loss of a few will not cripple the whole thing. Content over the whole is not greatly affected.
If your home log-in instance is one that’s affected, you’ll have to find a new one. You’ll know right away because the instance will be unreachable. Not a big deal, last time I looked there was over 1200 instances to chose from.
Another consideration is any communities living on an affected instance may have issues. All communities are common to Lemmy, but each originates from a particular instance. We’ve not yet seen a major instance go down so I don’t know how Lemmy deals with communities getting orphaned like that.
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: !aboringdystopia
I saw one called “nosleep”, likely by other names too, I wish they would add universal prefixes to names or use a deticated instance to host it. Just some flag that lemmy can work with
There are a few technical problems with that. First of all, the cost of each instance would become quickly unbearable since everyone has all the duplicated data.
Second problem, a malign entity could just come, create its own instance, spam everything and everyone with ads or whatever and suddenly every instance is full of that stuff. Also, how do you handle defederating in that case?
What has been proposed before instead was to make some kind of mega communities that gather all posts from communities with the same name across instances
This is not the solution! Being able to pick a server to trust your data and content moderation with is a feature, not a bug.
What we do have to do is make this feature more resilient and easier to use. Like adding the ability to easily transfer accounts and communities between instances, or even change the domain name of an entire instance.
A centralized system wouldn’t have this problem since the only reason they can’t just use another domain name is because of refederation. A great example of this happening is piracy websites, which notoriously get shutdown only to pop up five minutes later with a new domain.
This is actually a critical flaw IMO in federated applications as a whole. Not being able to change domain names makes your entire platform (as an instance runner) tightly coupled to the initial decision you make when first setting up the instance.
joinfirefish.org is a bit messy and compliacted
I thought I would try out firefish/calckey but found a few issues....
is there a community for finding communies?
Is there a place I can go on lemmy where I can say “is there a community/magazine that has people’s weird ideas they thought of in the shower” and if anyone knows of a place they’ll point you to it?
I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.
i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.
Florida's new Black history curriculum says "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit" (www.cbsnews.com)
If China fails to intervene in North Korea, US will take action, says Antony Blinken (www.scmp.com)
America’s top diplomat on Friday said the US would take action if China declined to intervene in the military deployment of North Korea, a hermit state and Beijing ally the US has long accused of playing a destabilising role in East Asia....
Period tracking app options?
With the stories about data from period tracking apps being shared with law enforcement, I was wondering if there was a self hosted alternative I could host for my daughter. My searches so far have not returned any good results. Thanks!
sh.itjst.works down?
Hello, I can’t log on sh.itjust.works. ils it down or something?
It's foolish to think open source isn't possible on Android. (UPDATED, Top of All Time on r/fossdroid)
cross-posted from: feddit.nl/post/318319...
How to start learning programming?
Im interested in learning programming but there are so many diffrent programming languages and guides that I feel overwhelmed and dont know where or how to start. any useful advice is appreciated.
What Happened to lemmy.fmhy.ml? What Happens if an Instance Disappears?
What Happened to lemmy.fmhy.ml? What Happens if an Instance Disappears?...
lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] (very.bignutty.xyz)
An update:...
What WiFi relay system can I host at home?
I live in an apartment that provides WiFi that has MAC address whitelisting with a cost per MAC address slot....
This (lemmy.world)
There’s less Reddit meta content on Reddit, why did I come here?
Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)
very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za