Eddie Hitler
Don’t make me tell Spudgun where you live!
It would be nice to see some some of the admins go rogue also. I know it’s a lot to ask for people to sacrifice their jobs but some people still have ethics. And some people are in a positions where they can leave their job and pick up another one within hours or days if they’re in the demanding field.
That makes it a lot easier to understand. I was confused on how messages propagated. Your last paragraph is what cleared it up for me. Won’t this lead to strange comment chains? You could have a hundred different people commenting on a chain and they’re all a mix of federated and Def federated instances. Some will see some comments and others will see other comments but none will see all the comments unless they’re completely federated with all the sites. This is where it loses me. Not that I don’t understand what’s happening, it’s I don’t understand how it’s supposed to work in a threaded environment. I guess once I start seeing in an action I’ll get a better grasp of it. I don’t think this is going to work out as well as it was intended to.
Cheers.
Hi,
New here and still learning the ropes. With lemmyworld being defedrated and the way activitypub works, can I still post to, interact with(up vote, down vote) and subscribe to instances originating from beehaw? Or would being federated put all people who log in from lemmy.world on a block list from interacting with the communities and only being able to view?
Cheers.
I never had premium. But I deleted my 8-year account today. I took a screenshot as I was using power delete suite. I was tempted to make a throwaway account and post it to some of their subreddits that are still trending and see if I could start some kind of stupid little movement. Maybe they think a little bit longer if they start seeing people delete long-term accounts. And I’m sure there are lots of accounts out there that are much longer term and much higher Karma than me. Actually sacrificing some of those accounts could actually make a difference.
I’m not sure if I’m understanding this one. But assuming that you’re hosting your own server and you work away from home and want to connect in on the weekends. If you have https forced and it’s also on in the app you’re using to connect, any traffic between your end and the server is automatically encrypted. The only thing your ISP is going to see are data packets going from you to your server back and forth. Same if you’re hosting for 10 users. All of VPN does is give you another point hop between the server and your client. Vpns are useful if you’re trying to to block your ISP from seeing that you connect to a certain site on the internet. But just logging in remotely to your server it’s absolutely useless.
Right now this is something like the old wild west of the internet in the late 90s. I think a lot of the initial instances that were spun up weren’t ready to deal with the amount of traffic they’re seeing. Servers are probably being updated, upgraded. And then on top of that I’m not sure if the software on the back end was ever tested to scale with large volumes of incoming traffic, which might be causing bugs to appear. Add to that a lot of the apps we’re using are in Alpha stages and maybe causing login issues and you can see it might be a cluster 💣 for a few weeks.
Sit down. Buckle in. Enjoy the ride.
I 100% agree that it’s the owners choice if he decides to block content. But as far as I know if a instance is defederated and the instance owner doesn’t publish a block list, users on the server would have no idea it existed in the first place.
There are already a couple of search engines that show instances. Maybe if some of the developers could add categories so people could find things they are interested in. This could be a useful tool for building communities. As long as it’s an uncensored database of indexes I think this would be great. If you know one that is indexing instances by category please post it.
I’m sure instances will post guidelines and rules once they get everything straightened out. I’m just a strong advocate for personal choice. Once again I understand why some people want moderation and I understand eventually it may well be needed for some communities. As long as the owners are open about this that’s fine, but not all operators are going to be transparent with these policies.
Giving it a try now. One thing I noticed it’s lacking or maybe I haven’t found yet is a sort top by hour. A lot of people have been requesting this jerboa also.