Everything on the Internet is public domain.
If I disappear for 3 weeks, assume I’m dead.
Yea but it’s a local form on the device and not a 3rd party server, which is another layer of insecurity. And I’m not sure how much of the rest of communication needs to get proxied too.
I dunno, that’s just way beyond my comfort zone unless I really want to self-host that stuff.
Anyway, okay, nothing seems to be all that well secure at this point.
You can compile the app code yourself too.
It has happened before. Or somewhat more likely, a contributor provides code that the maintainer merges without looking too hard.
I’ve been wondering that myself. I’ve only entered my pw into Jerboa, which is made by the Lemmy devs (and Liftoff once, but changed the pw since).
Now I only ever use FOSS apps, which all seem to be under some amount of scrutiny, but idk how much is enough.
I’ve always been particularly wary of Voyager/wefwef. Not that I wouldn’t trust the devs, but the whole concept of entering a password into a 3rd page that only passes it onto the right page, damn that’s just dumb on principle.
It’s particularly weird since this is home for so many techies and privacy/security advocates.
Are you for real? If I see that someone is posting daily in a community, they’re obviously passionate about the topic, and I send them a message politely offering them to be a mod, that’s spam? Jesus Christ, what do you expect before being allowed to send someone message, a written invite with a cake?
This is the kind of nonsense that gets people to throw the “snowflake” moniker.
For the record, a bunch of people respond with “I’m honoured, but I’m too busy, sorry” kind of reply, and some happily join.
It works pretty well for me. (But yes it might also be a problem for some, who knows.)
That might be the key to the mystery.
Yup, at least not at this moment.
I’m thinking more between instances where one or both might be overloaded. But I see even under normal conditions some things don’t federate properly, so I dunno about messages.
App apocalypse… Appocalypse? Goddamn has this really been staring me in the face the whole month and I only see it now?
I was on Reddit and I’m feeling slightly insulted. “We” from Reddit may just as well call the old guards snobs, how’d you like that?
Honestly, the OG Lemmy instances had a major problem, that they weren’t very clear on what kind of users and community they want. The old timers might have known, but to the new people it wasn’t clear.
As a result, tons of people were signing up to lemmy.ml and beehaw, because those were the two on top of the list.
Then these two begun to get more picky about new users and content, and some other instances like lemmy.world spun up as general purpose for everyone, and most people “from Reddit” just signed up to those.
So now the OG instances are back to being special purpose, why are you still complaining?
I guess you can always kick everyone who signed to lemmy.ml in the last 3 weeks, and lemmy.world can defederate from everyone, exactly as intended in the design of Lemmy and the Fediverse. /s
I know. My point was that everyone has some political disagreement with someone else, and I can’t care about those feuds or I’d have no list.
That’s great, thanks. I usually use foss apps in the first place. I just wasn’t sure how webapps work, at what stage the wrapper oe whatever changes the web site.
Ya my Lemmy acct is pretty imports to me right now, heh.
Not sure how I’d run the code myself… Guess I’d need to have a web server running? Maybe on my phone even? That sounds like a rad idea.
Hey that looks good. How does this work? If I Iog in through this, do my login details go through some other party? I don’t quite get these web apps honestly.
Maybe this was not done intentionally, but now there is a post with a list of ‘health communities on Lemmy’ with the first entry guiding to exploding heads. https://lemmy.world/post/396561
I’m building that list and no, it wasn’t intentional. It being first is completely accidental. As you can see, “general health” communities are at the top, and well the one from xheads is the most general purpose (another one is on Midwest US and the other is Mander so more scientific).
I didn’t know or even care where the communities come from. In the post I clearly state I don’t vouch for any of them, and people can let me know if they think some don’t belong.
I called for help or advice on multiple occasions, guess how many people offered any? Zero.
Honestly until this post I didn’t even know there’s any controversy with that instance. I never visited it, it’s just been under my radar. I know some instances don’t like other instances and it just becomes noise to me, honestly.
I don’t know what would you have me do here? Remove the link? What other links should I remove because some instances have some oddball users? Should I remove Lemmygrad links too?
I’m not claiming to be the Red Cross or anything, but I was hoping to have a neutral list that’s as complete as possible.
This may seem like a problem specific to this list of mine, but see how easy to suddenly be indirectly accused of supporting nazis or something. Let’s not be so hasty alright?
Btw, I was just about to try to figure out how or if to include lgbtq+ matters in the health community, and wanted to go ask some actual lgbtq+ people because I want their input rather than just guess myself. Now I’m wondering if I’d also be accused of being a provocateur or something else for trying to be open to everyone.
From what I gather (I don’t run an instance), the posts can take a while to fetch, the comments don’t get fetched at all (only new ones will be synced) and votes are kind of a mess and their display partially instance-specific.
Moving profile to another instance would be great.
But for now, I really wish that instances would be absolutely clear of their purpose, political leaning, restrictions etc. Some are - like Lemmygrad, Mander.xyz or Lemmynsfw, you’ll get the gist of what they’re for very quickly.
But other might catch people off guard, like Lemmy.ml or Beehaw when they make some changes that are entirely logical to them, but not super clear to users.
It’s especially awkward since these two used to be the biggest instances.
And then there are the small instances that come with their own set of problems.
Can’t blame people for congregating on a handful largest, neutral instances then. Even if that’s not to the liking of some people.
Well I don’t vote on things I don’t read, but indeed so many links are so garbage.
Slide for Reddit had this neat browser built-in that would pull just the text like in reader mode. It didn’t work all the time, but damm, so good. Normal web pages are just sickening.
Ideally link aggregators should contain the entire article, but who really wants to do that, especially since often even selecting all text is a pain.