There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

cynber

@[email protected]

I’m working on open source projects :)

🔗 Links:

GitHubReddit🍪 Get me a cookie:

Go to Ko-fiGitHub Sponsor

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

cynber , (edited )
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

I was chatting with a friend, and she mentioned how she tries to at least set up a README, which includes her vision for the project and her plan for the implementation, design, and goals.

Best case scenario is that the planning helps her complete the project herself. Worst case scenario, someone else can pick up where she left off and use her considerations for the project.

I’m thinking of doing that for future projects too

cynber ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

This is amazing, thank you for reaching out to the dev!

This was on the list of ideas for InstanceAssistant, but I didn’t know where to start. It is great news that it was added to the original extension.

cynber ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

That t-shirt would be cool, but don’t have time to properly test our extension before then

I’m looking forward to December when I’ll have time to work on it. I’ll try to attend some office hours, I didn’t know that was an option

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....

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

This works for viewing all the comments so far, but it doesn’t solve the discussion aspect since commentors from each community won’t be seeing or responding to the other comments. This is a bigger issue with smaller communities, where they’d mostly be top level comments / chains with minimal depth from each smaller community. Yes you can see all the comments, but the discussion quality is poor.

It’s also not as helpful when the automation fails. Something I’ve found is that the ‘crosspost’ field starts to get crowded on posts that link to a popular website. Combining comment sections from ALL of those posts isn’t as useful as having some intentional action from the OP.

A key aspect about this proposal is that it requires the OP to do something. If it doesn’t make sense for a community (ex. different intents behind the Politics communities), then OP shouldn’t lock their post. If OP does it anyway, then you can downvote that post.

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

this proposal would give more controls to the bigger communities

what are the concerns that come to mind?

I’d rather just have different communities

All the individual communities would continue to exist as they do right now. When it makes sense for a post to have a deeper discussion, users can lock and redirect accordingly

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

I agree, instance assistant (our extension actually!) handles this, but it would be much better to have it exist natively.

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Everyone who’s subscribed to the same communities will see all of each others’ comments.

This still relies on everyone using the same app/front-end.

I guess I’m thinking about how it would be helpful in more general cases. If someone has an issue with a FOSS app, and they ask about it in two small communities, it would be much better to have the troubleshooting discussion in one place rather than have both communities missing part of the context.

Ultimately in your example, the user can still make both posts, this doesn’t change that. It just directs the comments to one post’s comment section rather than having it spread out.

Still it’s good to think about cases where OP tries to abuse the system. Would a good middle ground just be the first implementation then? For OP to link to the post that they want to be the main discussion thread, but people are free to ignore that if they want.

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

that’s fair :)

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Look, honestly: if you want Facebook ot Twitter, go back to them.

This post was to talk about the merits/drawbacks of a potential change, and the constructive comments on the post have been helpful for that. Some of the other ‘solutions’ that have been posted here feel even more antithetical to the idea of decentralization (ex. redirecting upvotes, having communities follow other communities) so I was looking for a compromise that would address some of the annoyances without making the site another centralized platform. The intent was to allow users to choose how they want to link cross posts together, rather than having the community (or an app/frontend) make the decision for them. We’ve also been seeing users naturally gravitate to a few instances/communities, so I was looking for ways to redirect some of that traffic back to lesser known spaces.

Regardless, I appreciate the comment. Reading the perspectives on this post helped me see how locking the post completely would cause more issues and annoyances than it would help with. A simple “we are discussing X over on this post, feel free to join” seems like the better compromise.

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Thank you!

Hope it helps :)

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Yep I think the defederation point is the big one which causes the idea to break down. I’ll edit the post to better reflect my thoughts now

cynber ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

We actually have an extension for this, it’s one of the more popular extensions for Lemmy&Kbin, going by the counts on chrome/firefox stores:

!instance_assistant

It was originally made to solve this problem, but we’ve been adding other features as well. Right now you can redirect communities and posts, and redirect links by right clicking on them.

Let me know if it works, and also where it doesn’t so that we can improve it :)

Instance Assistant v1.2.5 released: You can now generate posts for Lemmy/Kbin, search for posts, and redirect posts from foreign instances

Hi everyone, I’m excited to announce one more release before I take a short break. I have some other stuff starting up, so I won’t be pushing out new features as fast, but I’ll still be around to manage the project. (more at the end)...

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Sorry to those that have already seen this. I’m trying to space out the posts so it’s not in a large clump in your feeds. People have different subscription lists, so I’m trying to reach those that haven’t seen it yet.

These are the last 4 posts :)

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

There are a few userscripts out there which I could integrate into the extension. It depends on when this commit gets pushed into Lemmy core:

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397

After that, it could still be useful if someone wanted to block it browser wide. At that point I’d check if people still want something like that.

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Hope it helps!

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Hope it works for you!

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

That sounds good, and it sounds easy enough to implement.

I’ve made the issue here: github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/…/45

I’ll get to it when I have time in the next few months, unless someone else gets to it first :)

Instance Assistant v1.2.5 released: You can now generate posts for Lemmy/Kbin, search for posts, and redirect posts from foreign instances

Hi everyone, I’m excited to announce one more release before I take a short break. I have some other stuff starting up, so I won’t be pushing out new features as fast, but I’ll still be around to manage the project. (more at the end)...

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Sorry to those that have already seen this. I’m trying to space out the posts so it’s not in a large clump in your feeds. People have different subscription lists, so I’m trying to reach those that haven’t seen it yet.

These are the last 4 posts :)

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Good to know, could you share what website you were trying to post from?

I think one thing I should implement is a little toast message that explains what went wrong (ex. No title contents found)

YSK that You can now generate posts for Lemmy/Kbin, search for posts, and redirect posts from foreign instances (with Instance Assistant v1.2.5)

Why YSK: It’s a free and open source browser extension we have been working on, which might make it easier to use Lemmy & Kbin. This update in particular brings a few features that make the sites a lot easier to use, in particular the ability to jump from a post on one instance to the same post on another. Since the URL...

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

That’s fair, I’ve posted here in the past but I’ll take it off my list moving forward. I think early on there wasn’t much content so it was ok, but now that the community is rolling it’s not that relevant

It’s good feedback!

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

For sure, I’ll incorporate a TLDR in future posts :)

Instance Assistant v1.2.5 released: You can now generate posts for Lemmy/Kbin, search for posts, and redirect posts from foreign instances

Hi everyone, I’m excited to announce one more release before I take a short break. I have some other stuff starting up, so I won’t be pushing out new features as fast, but I’ll still be around to manage the project. (more at the end)...

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Thank you, hope it helps!

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Hope it helps :)

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Hope it helps!

Instance Assistant v1.2.5 released: You can now generate posts for Lemmy/Kbin, search for posts, and redirect posts from foreign instances

Hi everyone, I’m excited to announce one more release before I take a short break. I have some other stuff starting up, so I won’t be pushing out new features as fast, but I’ll still be around to manage the project. (more at the end)...

Instance Assistant v1.2.5 released: You can now generate posts for Lemmy/Kbin, search for posts, and redirect posts from foreign instances

Hi everyone, I’m excited to announce one more release before I take a short break. I have some other stuff starting up, so I won’t be pushing out new features as fast, but I’ll still be around to manage the project. (more at the end)...

Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing (www.reuters.com)

Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

cynber ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Not really emergency notifications but news, which tbh isn’t as important in this case because non-Canadian news orgs aren’t affected and are covering it too. So there isn’t an immediate risk I don’t think.

As for the main point: The problem is that a subset of the population ONLY gets information through one platform. The only way to reach them is through that platform, and not reaching them means excess costs when you have to rescue/treat/otherwise deal with the fallout. It’s also the government’s job to inform people and keep them safe.

At the same time, the companies need to be regulated by the government. Can’t just let them have free reign because they seized control

cynber ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

I don’t agree with the solution the government came up with, but the problem still exists and I don’t understand it well enough to come up with an alternative solution.

Making news is expensive, and good quality news (not mucked up by corporate interests) needs a way to fund that work. We don’t want news to be an outlet for corporations investing in a mouthpiece. So traditionally this was done through advertising.

Now people barely ever click through to the websites so the advertising doesn’t work. Meanwhile the places where people ARE seeing the news do have ads. The content is produced by one party, and the profit goes to another.

The problem exists and needs a solution, but I don’t know what it might be. Australia brought in a similar law successfully and Facebook/Google came to a deal. Canada might also be able to do that?

The other long term solution IMO is to make the platforms obsolete with things like Mastodon and Lemmy. That might take some time though

cynber ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

There ARE other downsides to this law, outside of the hissy fit Facebook is throwing.

For example, smaller independent news companies don’t have the bargaining power to come to a fair agreement with Facebook, like the larger organizations can. A solution to that might be to have some standard rates set up, but again, don’t know enough about it

cynber ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

What’s a good place to get/hold domains these days?

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Yes fair enough, I’ll include a better description as a dropdown in future posts.

Instance Assistant is a browser extension with a handful of tools on Desktop. It started out as a button to redirect to your home instance, but with the help of others we’ve included a few other functions and are working on more.

You can see more here: github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant#featur…

Screenshots here: github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant#screen…

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

I need to set up a proper roadmap, the closest I have right now is github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/wiki

RES for Lemmy would probably be an end goal, and at this point I’m not sticking to any particular area. It’s more that I’m working on the things that I figured out how to do since I’m learning lots as I go. For example, multi-account switcher is a commonly requested feature from RES and something I’d really like to use myself, but I’d need someone with more experience to check my code to make sure I’m not leaking account details anywhere.

Having default sorts should be possible, and a simple way might be to just check the URL. So if on a lemmy site & on home page, it would check if “dataType”=Post and if “sort”=“TopDay”, and if not it will swap the URL. I’ll see if it works in practice and maybe push it in the next update :)

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Yea someone actually just commented on the API and I should be able to find posts by link/title on other instances. Previously I was trying with the simple URL manipulation, but this would be a reasonable workaround. I’ll give it a try soon :)

That was one of the first things I wanted out of this project, so it would be amazing to get it going

cynber OP ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

Hope it helps :)

Researchers claim to have detected vulnerabilities in VPN clients that went unnoticed -at least publicly- since 1996 (tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com)

Tests indicate that every VPN product is vulnerable on at least one device, the researchers say. VPNs for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and macOS are extremely likely to be vulnerable, that a majority of VPNs on Windows and Linux are vulnerable, and that Android is the most secure with roughly one-quarter of VPN apps being...

cynber ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

have control of your local network

traffic of a particular kind

Could you give an example of what this looks like? I’m sure I’ll have friends sending me similar articles / YouTube videos. Would be nice to have a simple and accurate analogy

cynber ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

I’ve been using Nova Launcher for years now, but I explored other options a few months ago because of the ownership change. Lawnchair was the best one I found, but I didn’t switch to it because it looked like it was missing features I needed. Folders was an important one.

Which version / source are you using for the app? I got a bit lost trying to find a recent version. The last release on the GitHub is from 2018, and the last prerelease is from a year ago. There’s also an issue for the folders which I was following, and it actually just went stale: github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/…/2471

I also see Lawnchair2, but that looked like a fork or something

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •