For certain projects I monetize, there are reasons I don’t share the code.

Patents don’t magically find people infringing your intellectual property. The owness is on you.

That being said, I have bills to pay, and mouths to feed. Giving my solutions away for free, doesn’t help those issues.

eh… no. its not.

• coming from an actual developer.

Amateurs.

I have evolved from using file extensions, and instead, don’t use any extension!

yea… every modern IDE makes it extremely obvious of the unicode character…

SO… yea…

If you really wanted to be evil, zero-width space is the worst.

https://symbl.cc/en/200B/

You don’t see it.

What would be the probability of u/spez being behind this attack, in an attempt to sabotage lemmy?

Lets be honest… he is too busy single-handedly destroy reddit to worry about messing with Lemmy. I think lemmy is the least of his issues right now.

That, IS instance agnostic. Works with any instance. Just visit Mlmym.org and enter the instance.

I got lots and lots and lots of ram and CPU ready for the occasion.

Although- physical hardware hasn’t been the issue with many of the performance issues with lemmy.

I have a kubernetes cronjob, which automatically cleans those up every few days.

Along- with one that cleans up the activity table.

The blockchain would just add the ability to verify somebody said, what it says they said.

Ie- if I say, hey, towerful is a great person. A blockchain could be leverage to ensure that that was said by me.

It does have a use- but, there is a big price to pay for using it, in terms of complexity, performance, and sized used.

In this case, I would call it unnecessary overhead, unless we determine there is foul play occuring at the point of centralization.

Edit- Although, it is still possible for users to sign messages, and still use a centralized location. That gives the best of both worlds, without the needless added complexity.

Well- I have not seen much evidence that supports this is actively being used… yet.

Just- bringing more attention to how easy it is to do.

This, isn’t a problem specific to activity pub, lemmy, or any individual platform in general.

Reddit faces this problem every day. Facebook faces this problem. Twitter faces this problem.

They all do.

And, each platform has to determine the best method for that platform to deal with this issue.

I am in agreeance with you, regarding the usefulness of the posts. However- I am looking at it from an administrative perspective.

Going back to my stance- I do not limit the content my users wish to see, UNLESS, it involves illegal, or extremist/hateful content.

It’s not my cup of tea- but, I am also running an instance for people who may share different viewpoints, and I do not wish to limit what they are able to do.

My viewpoint-

If the users of my instance want to view reddit data redistributed to lemmy- that is their choice.

A plus side- lemmy allows you to set the defaults to only show subscribed content too.

We are working on it. :-)

https://fediseer.com/

And, associated (work in progress) GUI. https://fediseer.kube.xtremeownage.com/instances/whitelisted

(EXTREMELY… work in progress. Literally just got that set up a few hours ago… But, will continue to push changes, until we have something that is usable.)

Eh- its not really a spam instance.

They are very straightforward with what their instance does- It crossposts reddit to lemmy, in that instance’s communities.

In that case, its as simple as don’t subscribe to it. Don’t subscribe, and it won’t popup on your feed.

Well- because instance owners have full control over what they want to do with the data too.

It’s not forced. It’s just- a directory of instances, which were vetted by others.

Well- we have a centralized registry of instance reputation being worked on and developed right now.

Give it a week or two, and you will start to see the emergence of tools to assist with combating these issues.

I am working on trying to build a GUI for one project to help combat spam.

There is also lemmy_helper And- its only a short matter of time before we gain access to much more powerful tools to help.

Looking at it that way- you are correct, and there really isn’t a way to fix that.

I am just providing an alternative. That being, if you were subscribed to say, lemmy.ml/c/mycommunity, and lemmy.ml went down-

You CAN run a few commands, and convert lemmy.ml/c/mycommunity to a locally hosted community on your instance, without too much effort.

The best approach might be to work on a service intended to run locally besides lemmy-

That way- data privacy isn’t a huge concern, since the data never leaves the local server/network.