Idea: if you mod a community on a lemmy.somewhere you should be able to migrate it to lemmy.elsewhere which would include all post & comment links being forwarded and subbed users having their subscription updated to reflect the new location....
for the first, you still have everyone subbed to the newly created community made by the attacker and all the links are still updated
if instead of migrating everything right away, you have the original server of the community give redirects for each request, then that won’t help if the original server is closing down, but it’s probably the only right way to do it, I guess you could also have an angry instance admin disable the redirect to keep the community on their own server
To the second, is that a problem?
migrating and then recreating the original is actually an issue that Github has when you rename a repo, Github will give redirects for the links to the old name of the repo, but if you create another repo with the old name then the redirects are no longer served and if someone clicks on an old link then they end up at the repo that stole the name instead of the repo that was renamed
so if let’s say there was an official linus_tech_tips community on beehaw and they moved to lemmy.world, some random person could create the repo again on beehaw after the migration to appear official and hijack all the old links out on the internet
you fix that by keeping the old name reserved after migration, I don’t really think that’s a big problem in this case
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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: !vintagephotos
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: !trendingcommunities
This is a concern, but luckily this isn’t required. I set up hobbit.world to host my Tolkien related communities. It only costs $6 a month plus the $35/yr for the domain name to host a tiny instance like this. I don’t need to depend on anyone but my hosting provider.
To be safe I should download backups once a month or so.
But the point is that for big communities that people put a lot of time into, there should be an instance for each one owned by one of the mods.
Edit: Meant to reply to the person concerned about the centralization of communities.
This is a concern, but luckily this isn’t required. I set up hobbit.world to host my Tolkien related communities. It only costs $6 a month plus the $35/yr for the domain name to host a tiny instance like this. I don’t need to depend on anyone but my hosting provider.
To be safe I should download backups once a month or so.
But the point is that for big communities that people put a lot of time into, there should be an instance for each one owned by one of the mods.
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 was against it at first, but there’s probably a lot of value in communities spinning up their own domains and hosting their own focused communities. Instead of a central Lemmy.world which hosts many different communities, we should have lemmyPics.com and lemmyMusic.com and MaleFashionAdvice.com that all run Lemmy software, and then people can subscribe in from remote instances easily.
There’s still a place for general instances in this model too, but I think these communities might get off the ground easier with a $12 domain name and cloud hosting services than trying to all be the next Reddit.
Does it have to be calckey specifically? If not, ubiqueros is misskey and rage.love is hometown. Blacktwitter.io is running normal Mastodon I think. Fediverse party lists neovibe.app (Mastodon) as Black-run. Weirder.earth (Hometown) has strong antiracist moderation but I don’t know the composition of the mod team offhand
I remember seeing a recently formed Black queer instance being posted about but I don’t remember the name, and of course because it’s Mastodon there’s not really a way to search for it 🙄 but I’ll see if I can find it edit got it: blackqueer.life, running Mastodon.
There’s a black owned Calckey instance but it doesn’t federate iirc. I can’t for the life of me remember the name, I think it was @Are0h who mentioned it, you might wanna reach out to him.
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
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: !keepwriting
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: !hufflepuff
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: !reclaimedbynature
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: !thatlookedexpensive
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).
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: !humor
This is a slow learning process for me and some of you already helped me a lot to figure out reverse proxies in general. However, I’m not there yet … so:...
Here is a way to get working Mastodon working behind a reverse proxy that exists on a different machine. Basically, the NGINX server running on the Mastodon instance is configured to “lie” to the the streaming and web servers that the connection is happening over. This way you handle the SSL termination at the actual proxy server. So what you do is change the listen line to 80 and comment out all of the SSL related stuff. Then look for the @proxy section of the NGINX daemon running on the mastodon instance and change the X-Forwarded-Proto header to https as shown below.
If you have not yet created the reverse proxy server itself, check out NGINX Proxy Manager as it makes things stupidly easy. NGINX Proxy Manager runs in a dockerized container and makes setting up Let’s Encrypt certs a breeze. Just be sure that when you define the
I’ve tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do...
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: !openstreetmap
I would really like the option to choose between multiple instances (even accounts on same instance??), which I think is the very last line of your post. :)
On reddit I was very grateful to the RES account switcher, and mobile app that let you easily switch accounts. I would probably never have actually gotten into reddit without those. It let me use completely different parts of reddit to express and explore different interests I think one of the things that made reddit the best social media platform was how pseudonymous it was. Total opposite of facebook "real name policy" attitude.
In the lemmy/kbin situation I am not sure how the interface would be. Need 1) some kind of persistent switching interface, 2) reminders of what account you are in. In RES it showed you your account name at the top of the page in the selector, and optionally above every comment box so you didn't accidentally post as the wrong account.
In the meantime I guess I will eventually install every available extension that does this and assign each one an account lol. Or pick one and make several local forks and install separately. hmm
I’ll agree with you that a server needs moderation or administration staff in proportion to its size. Wether those staff are all volunteers or paid depends on the overall budget of the server.
But I don’t think office space really makes any sense For a decentralized platform like this one - the only place that makes sense is for the actual lead developers of the software that the platform runs. And even then with the WFH culture of today I think even that is not likely to exist.
As for server administration, the most I could really see is a regular online meeting to keep interests aligned as well as a staff audit log for the server owner to review. And Lemmy already keeps a public audit log anyway.
As for your last point I wholly agree with you. The whole point of federated systems like mastodon and Lemmy is to move away from the for profit system so we can avoid enshittification. It’s meant to be a method of spreading the cost across multiple smaller nonprofit organisations. And hopefully we can avoid it and therefore make the platform better.
That being said, the only thing that prevents a corporate entity from joining in is the instances and their federation policies themselves.
The only other way I see parts of the fediverse become for profit is if an existing non profit turns for profit, which is really only a big deal if it’s one of the larger instances. And as for how the rest of the fediverse deals with that. Well it’s again up to individual server owners, and the collective decision they may or may not make.
I’ve always said a social system that isn’t socialised is not a social system - I mean it’s in the name! And the fediverse is really one of the first major attempts at doing that. Wether it lasts or not we’re sure to learn a lot and if it fails, we can take those lessons and try again.
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
My tendency seems to be owning my own business and freelancing until I die (until I get stable enough to build my own products). I've been trying to connect with more business-minded people--"average of 5 people" type of mentality. Currently it seems that the only way of doing this is LinkedIn....
It’s a great idea! Would the ActivityPub protocol contain enough user information as-is? I think it does.
I’m using my Lemmy instance as a personal blog/extension of my LinkedIn. I control the instance and have it kind of locked down policy-wise.
Over time as I master the administration I will post maker projects and other personal projects. So the only thing that keeps you from doing it is how you use lemmy. LinkedIn is unique among “social” medias in that your verified real name and identity is associated with your profile. Nothing stops you from associating your real self with your lemmy account and completely controlling a single instance.
I’m pursuing a hybrid approach. I cross link my LinkedIn with my personal sites so people who find one can easily find the other. I’m at a stage in my career where recruiters actually are welcome because they bring genuine opportunities for my somewhat specialized background.
It’s all an experiment and it will take time to see if it’s worthwhile. In the meantime, I enjoy watching Lemmy grow and learning how to manage my own online persona.
Communities should be able to move servers
Idea: if you mod a community on a lemmy.somewhere you should be able to migrate it to lemmy.elsewhere which would include all post & comment links being forwarded and subbed users having their subscription updated to reflect the new location....
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Come join us with you cellar find photos or help and support with restoration. Bonus points if your photo has a historic impact or story behind it. Sharing is caring. :-)
Is there any tool to track communities subscription growth over time?
The migration of large communities from Reddit to Lemmy is like a world-renowned band performing an acoustic set in a library for 50 people.
The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn’t quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.
Lemmy Theming - Instructions
cross-posted from: tkohhh.social/post/4829...
Looking for a black owned calckey instances with federation enabled
Hi,...
How are comments federated?
I’m trying to figure out how to get the comments of a post given a link to it using ActivityPub....
Keep Writing - A place for writers to encourage and inspire one another
lemmy.world/c/keepwriting...
Hufflepuff - A community for one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in the Harry Potter series
lemmy.world/c/hufflepuff...
Japanese WWII warplane lies wrecked in shallow water off Guam (lemmy.world)
3000 reliable chinesium Tanks (feddit.de)
Found this on !thatlookedexpensive Shit cant even brake without breaking
What is the difference between Lemmy and kbin?
I’m not sure I completely understand the differences. Are they seperate or somehow connected?...
I can’t have children (i.imgur.com)
Crosspost from: lemmy.world/c/humor!humor
Q: Lemmy and Mastodon instances behind existing reverse proxy
This is a slow learning process for me and some of you already helped me a lot to figure out reverse proxies in general. However, I’m not there yet … so:...
linux (discuss.tchncs.de)
Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?
I’ve tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do...
Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin v1.2.0 is now available on Chrome & Firefox!
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1418762...
Mastodon has hit 2 million active users today! (lemm.ee)
Weekly low-hanging fruit thread #5
This thread is where all the takes from idiots (looking at you Armchair Warlord) and screenshots of twitter posts/youtube thumbnails go.
Anyone else wish for a federated version of LinkedIn?
My tendency seems to be owning my own business and freelancing until I die (until I get stable enough to build my own products). I've been trying to connect with more business-minded people--"average of 5 people" type of mentality. Currently it seems that the only way of doing this is LinkedIn....