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sab ,

Did they though? It might be my filter bubble, but whenever I saw web3 being pushed I saw a small refraction of responses of people who also thought it was a great idea (typical salesbros - so a good idea for others to do, just not for themselves). But the vast majority of people reject it for being a scam.

So how many people fell for it, really?

sab ,

You should read the thread she posted. Half of it was about management telling her to stop whining when she brought up any of the misconducts against her.

sab ,

I don’t see how they would, since ios Firefox doesn’t use the same rendering engine it uses on other platforms, Gecko. Instead it has to use Safari, just like any other browser on there.

Duplicating support for all existing extensions would be pretty much impossible if you don’t control the rendering engine.

sab ,

I heard about allowing alternative app stores, but I’m not sure if that also removes the browser engine restrictions. (would make sense though, from an anti-monopoly pov)

sab ,

Ahhh, that makes sense. Thanks!

sab ,

I heard that rumor before, is there any source to this? Like, which antivirus companies?

sab ,

I’m starting to wonder if complete anonymity on a computer is actually worth it

Everything is so much easier when you put it in absolutes - because it’s no longer reasonable.

sab ,

ಠ_ಠ

sab ,

I guess that’s my fault for not specifically asking for reliable sources.

sab ,

m.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7KYmGnj40

sab ,

How long does the plant last? Asking for a friend.

sab ,

In the end it’s all just a linguistics game though - you’re profiting off the work somebody did, without paying the rate they charge for it.

But that’s exactly the kind of answer you’ll get in a community focused on piracy. Most people wouldn’t be here if they hadn’t already justified piracy.

sab ,

Stupid clickbait title. Here, saved you a click:

O’Connor told them they should call her accountant before they call 911.

“See, when the artists are dead, they’re much more valuable than when they’re alive. Tupac has released way more albums since he died than he ever did alive, so it’s kind of gross what record companies do,” she told PEOPLE at the time.

O’Connor continued, “That’s why I’ve always instructed my children since they were very small, ‘If your mother drops dead tomorrow, before you called 911, call my accountant and make sure the record companies don’t start releasing my records and not telling you where the money is.’”

sab ,

Which site has the least strawmen?

I know I shouldn’t go into comment sections of these kind of posts, but man is this depressing.

sab ,

Haven’t come across that yet myself, but I did see lots of mentions of “nazis” to describe anything that’s not left-wing.

sab ,

I think that’s what they’re saying: in most of the world it’s used as a gradient/spectrum, just a few countries consider it absolutes (you’re either left or right).

sab ,

Wait, is “advocating death for” the evolution of “right to exist”? That sure escalated quickly.

sab ,

Not my opinion, but from what I’m seeing it seems more like in this thread: Left = Good, Right = Nazis

sab ,

countries that have better voting systems that allow for more than two parties are the exception, not the norm.

Are you sure about that? I have no numbers to back it up, but at least here in Europe many countries have more than two parties to choose from, and the winning parties form a governing coalition (alliance).

Unless by beter voting system you mean something like Ranked voting etc, in which case I agree, that is unfortunately very rare.

sab ,

No argument there. But given that they mostly popup in the context of “I think all nazis…”-circlejerks, that’s kinda to be expected.

sab ,

Very nuanced take, I like it.

CHROME (google) is planing to implement DRM (kinda) into their browser (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )...

sab ,

They don’t need everyone to comply, just the vast majority.

Asians are not just Korean, Chinese and Japanese people

Afghan, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahraini, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Bruneian, Cambodian, Chinese, Cypriot, Georgian, Indian, Indonesian, Iranian, Iraqi, Japanese, Jordanian, Kazakhstani, Kuwaiti, Kyrgyzstani, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivian, Mongolian, Burmese, Nepali, North Korean, Omani, Pakistani, Palestinian, Filipino,...

sab ,

Eurasia is a single continent,

Depends on who you ask

the distinction between the two is cultural.

Fully agreed there.

sab ,

You guys?

Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

I’m considering getting a laptop for Linux and want to know a few things before I do. Some important info before I start: I don’t plan on using the laptop for anything too intense, mainly writing, digital art, streaming, browsing, and maybe very mild video editing (cropping at least and shortening at most). I would also...

sab ,

If you’re in Europe, I can recommend Tuxedo Computers. They specialise in making Linux based computers, and are highly configurable.

The dominance of cat content VS dog content on Lemmy reflects its current techie userbase

I originally joined Reddit in 2011, and in the beginning it was dominated by cat content. It was rare to see a post about dogs. Sometime in the mid 20-teens this phenomenon reversed. It’s always been a “pet theory” of mine that this reversal was due to Reddit becoming mainstream, and that it’s initial nerdy/techie user...

sab ,

!cat

sab ,

That sucks :/ Maybe the new ones will eventually show up if you subscribe.

sab ,

Can he phase through walls? :o (Wild cards)

sab ,

I don’t think email is a good example because you’re in complete control of who you send an email to.

You can easily check which instances your server is federated with in the footer of your server. If any of those external servers have subscriptions to the community you’re posting in, they will receive an update, so it’s safe to assume it’s being sent to all of them.

sab ,

For transparency, this is what a Like payload looks like. The first part is just context for the activitiypub protocol and is pretty much the same for each message. The second part contains the actual data of the message, and the most personal detail in it is the url of your own profile, and the url of the post/comment you like:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"@context"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"lemmy"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "https://join-lemmy.org/ns#",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"litepub"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "http://litepub.social/ns#",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"pt"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "https://joinpeertube.org/ns#",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"sc"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "http://schema.org/",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"ChatMessage"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "litepub:ChatMessage",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"commentsEnabled"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "pt:commentsEnabled",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"sensitive"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "as:sensitive",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"matrixUserId"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "lemmy:matrixUserId",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"postingRestrictedToMods"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "lemmy:postingRestrictedToMods",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"removeData"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "lemmy:removeData",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"stickied"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "lemmy:stickied",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"moderators"</span><span style="color:#323232;">:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"@type"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "@id",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"@id"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "lemmy:moderators"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		},
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"expires"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "as:endTime",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"distinguished"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "lemmy:distinguished",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"language"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "sc:inLanguage",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"identifier"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "sc:identifier"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	}],
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"actor"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "--URL OF THE USER PROFILE--",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"object"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "--URL OF THE POST OR COMMENT--",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"type"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "Like",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"id"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "-- URL TO THE INSTANCE THAT PASSED THE MESSAGE--",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#183691;">"audience"</span><span style="color:#323232;">: "-- URL TO THE COMMUNITY THE POST IS PART OF--"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>
sab , (edited )

Also, there’s way too much trust in instances.

I say there’s too much care about votes. Because someone can just give themselves infinite votes from their private instance, it makes it all the more worthless.

Instances should have their own settings on what instances are allowed to keep a local copy.

There’s a setting for that, it’s called the allowed list - configures who are allowed to federate with you. Beyond that - if it’s out, it’s out.

sab ,

This completely goes against the entire philosophy of the Fediverse

Care to elaborate on that? As far as I know this is built in to all the ActivityPub applications.

sab ,

If anything, wouldn’t that make vote abuse even easier? Just send 100 upvotes with 100 random hashes.

sab ,

I’m not sure when or if other servers will stop pushing, but did you unsubscribe from all communities before doing so?

Would be interesting to see if that would stop incoming traffic.

sab ,

It’s the (default) maximum length for user- and community names. It can be changed in the admin, up to 50,I think.

sab ,

I’m not the original poster.

But I didn’t realize this was configurable at first either, and even went so far as to request the limit to be increased face-palm.png

sab ,

I’ll allow it.

sab ,

In effect, not really.

All the communities you’re subscribed to will now also have to push all their updates (posts, comments, upvotes) to your server, even when you’re not interacting with Lemmy.

As someone else mentioned, it would only be efficient once you have a decent (hard to pinpoint) amount of users on your server.

sab ,

Yes. Once for every post, comment and vote.

So say you have your own personal instance, and you use that to follow community news on lemmy.world. If throughout the day that community receives 10 new topics, 50 comments and 100 upvotes, it would have to make 160 calls to your server.

So when you decide to read those 10 topics (if you even read all of them), you would then make roughly 10 api calls.

You would be saving those last mentioned 10 calls by using your own instance, but at the cost of 160 calls made throughout the day.

sab ,

Generally speaking, lemmy is much more cpu bound than it is bound by bandwidth - so the added bytes don’t matter that much. The example above was just for 1 community. Now imagine the user is subscribed to a dozen communities, but doesn’t even browse lemmy that day. That’s probably thousands of api calls made to keep his server on sync, and 0 requests saved.

Like the big instances have literally hundreds of thousands of workers running in order to get all the updates out. If one of those calls fails, it gets put back into the queue for retry.

OP asked if having his server added to the lemmiverse would alleviate the load “Like with torrent”. That is demonstrably not the case - it only adds more workload on the other servers, with a break even point that’s highly variable. Yes, your server will be nice and snappy, but the origin servers have to pay the price - death by a thousand papercuts synchronisation calls.

sab ,

You definitely could, but it’s not really sustainable.

Worst case scenario: if everybody does this, and there’s 50.000 subscribers on a certain community, then that community will have to update 50.000 other servers whenever one user leaves a single message or vote.

Sure, your own server wouldn’t have a hard time, but it every popular server (with lots of subscribers) would. It would either take a long time for you to receive their updates, or you wouldn’t get them at all.

The best thing you can do, is join a medium size server: it won’t be as overloaded as a big server, and wouldn’t cause as much strain on the fediverse as a personal server.

sab ,

I can say with full confidence that I have absolutely no idea.

I’ve heard this idea thrown around before, so I take no credit for it: One way to circumvent the issue would be to have actual relay nodes. As in: nodes that don’t hold contents or users themselves, but just “broadcast” incoming messages to several instances, so that the source instances don’t have to. This would of course have its own drawbacks and limitations, but it would alleviate the bottleneck.

I’m sure some kind of solution will be found though. Call me optimistic, but I think the lemmi/binniverse has a bright future ahead of it. I, for one, have burned my reddit bridges.

sab ,

No down vote from me, but surely by now you know how people feel about crypto.

At any rate, I don’t think an immutable ledger is desirable for speech (what’s the point of moderation), perhaps more something like torrent would be preferable. And, as someone else mentioned, relay software already exists.

sab ,

My bad, I thought you meant the other crypto (as did everyone else, presumably). I know cryptography was first, but I think it’s safe to say that that abbreviation has been irrevocably tainted.

sab ,

That’s far worse! At least the lemmings reputation was caused by being chased off a cliff by Disney producers. A golum canonically has no free will.

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