Oh, he is even “urging” them, so brave!
Also @[email protected].
Oh, he is even “urging” them, so brave!
I’ve literally never seen anyone say this except FediPacters as a strawman.
I’ve seen that quite a few times already, mostly in the form of “it’s stupid to preemptively defederate, we can always defederate later”.
RHEL is not Fedora. It’s still lead by a community council, even if you don’t agree with some of their decisions.
In case of your first link it wasn’t even about making a decision. The project has always had the clear stance to not include patented works, so there were no two ways about it.
Fedora! To me it sits right at the sweet spot of stability and bleeding edge (they call it “leading edge”), and I’m very happy with how they run things (including the most recent controversy!).
That’s why picking the right instances is important, to make sure it’s not some random person in their basement. Read the about pages of the instances, see what they publish about their operations. The people behind the .world instances regularly blog about what they are doing, spending and earning for example. Some are even run by non-profits. I personally feel much better with those kinds of people running a service I rely on, instead of a company that talks to me only through their marketing department and first and foremost wants to maximize profits.
But that’s also exactly my point. You should be able to transfer your account to another instance, so you’re not stuck if the one you picked turns out to be bad or has to be shut down.
Fix is on the way: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/1021
Remember that this is how every service you sign up for works. What’s special about Fediverse services is that they synchronize posts between the instances, other than that they work like any other website or app.
Remove yes but not transition it to a new instance
I don’t see how this is worse than completely removing or taking over your account.
If it’s easy to migrate an account then it would be possible for an admin of a rogue instance or even just a rogue admin of a perfectly fine instance to take your account.
This is the case right now. Admins of your instance have full control over your account. They can remove it or lock you out at any point if they want to.
Apparently ChatGPT is really good as a personal tutor. You can ask it specific questions and it will answer with detailed tutorials and step-by-step guides.
While this is probably still true, I doubt it’s a big factor when talking about mass adoption.
The author of this blog post just realized that things posted publicly on the internet are indeed public, and that Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V exist.
This is not some special property of the Fediverse, it’s how the internet has always worked. If you post something publicly (say on your personal blog) then others can see it, make copies and redistribute them, even if you later decide to delete the original content. Companies like Google build massive indexes of everything posted by anyone ever, and there is nothing you can do about it if you want your content to be publicly accessible. If you share something with just a group of people, and someone decides to make it public, then it’s public. Nothing new about that.
The GDPR works in exactly the same way in the Fediverse as with the existing services right now. If you want something deleted you have to send a notice to every service that has your content. In reality you’ll just send it to the X biggest services, because they represent 99% of the users that could potentially see that content, and that’s usually enough. You can do the same with the X most popular Fediverse instances. Even better, we might be able to create a standardized and automated process for it, because they all run the same set of Fediverse apps using ActivityPub after all.
Afaik DMs work just like unencrypted (so regular!) emails. If you send your company secrets to [email protected] then you’re probably screwed, same thing with @[email protected].
The more the merrier for the Fediverse
In principal yes, but not at any cost!
Keep in mind that the Fediverse is also a distributed governance model, and it can be seriously harmed if one bad actor gets too much leverage. Meta’s business model is to control as much of the users and content as possible, which runs counter to the idea of the Fediverse. They want to use it to bootstrap their new app, but they’ll try to superseed it as soon as they have enough leverage to do so.
My server is a DiskStation, so I use HyperBackup to do an encrypted backup of the important data to their Synology C2 service every night.
The thing is, people might not know that they have to look for the Docker setup. Now if they search for “Lemmy on Synology NAS” they land on this guide, telling them to use Docker.
Afaik this is not an error from Lemmy but from nginx, which is not able to relay the request to Lemmy and therefore returns a 502 bad gateway response. Imo this just means the servers are over capacity, so most likely a scaling/infrastructure issue.
I had a quick read of the code and it looks pretty solid to me. Not the most “enterprise” code imaginable, but definitely no code smell or quick hacking job.
I think being able to migrate your identity from one instance to another is a core requirement to fulfilling the promises of federation. The idea is to be able to freely leave a bad instance, but all you can do now is completely start over on a new instance, losing all your posts and followers. That’s way worse, and not how it should be imo. No big instance has gone rogue yet afaik, but as soon as one does this will be a major issue!
To really accomplish that we would have to create a mechanism for a user to own their own identity, e.g. in form of some sort of secret key file. This would introduce a huge number of usability issues though! Handling key files is really hard, so that’s probably not an option in the near future.
What we definitely should add is some sort of instance single-sign-on, so you can log into another instance by having your original instance authorize the login attempt. This should then allow the new instance to use your original account (for subs and posts), and also migrate that account to the new instance (update handle on all your posts, migrate your followers, …). This would be a bit worse than owning your identity, because your original instance could just refuse to authorize any SSO attempts, but it would still be a big improvement imo.
Same. Having all their custom software available and just one click away is amazing, and with Docker you can install everything else just like a regular server. It’s the best of both worlds imo.
An app to manage important config and unit files (fstab, hosts, sysctl, systemd units, …), and present them as settings menu or editor with auto completion and tooltips. Kinda like how VSCode handles settings, where you can use the GUI or a context-aware text editor.