This is literally why the FBI & CIA exist.

This is why we need federated comms.

Each instance has a low-activity community under instance.tld/c/community. For most instances and most topics, this will mean checking a comm yields maybe a few new posts a week, and if you want to see all the content related to that topic, you'll have to check every instance your server federates with individually.

Having a single instance.tld/f/community that aggregates all the per-instance comms so there's one topic-specific place with everything would be far more enjoyable of an experience.

This functionality is probably the biggest benefit that could be facilitated by federation, since we already have federated post comments. Activity is high enough now that posts feel lively, and the main feed has enough interesting stuff, but the one thing that still feels lacking compared to reddit is being able to browse a sub and find a reasonable amount of fresh content if you haven't checked back in the last week or so.

Subscriptions are also far less useful if you have to manually find and subscribe to every instance's comm with the same name. Being able to sub once to the federated comm and sub to all the instance comms would make the subscriptions feed go from my least used feed to my most used.

No they won't. My favorite projects aren't Google projects.

The 15+ electron apps on my devices would like a word with you. I think I dislike JS more as a user than a dev because at least Typescript exists now.

I think the ActivityPub sphere needs to transition from "fedi replica of X service" to "Y component that would be useful to existing fedi services".

Event planning is one of them. Simple, encrypted one-to-one DMs is another. Moderation tools is a big one too.

Would be a shame if each software has to independently reimplement the same features desired by each flavor of threaded reply service.

Sounds good in theory.

But I've had so many issues with D-Bus fucking shit up on my systems that I'd be very reluctant to hinge my only way of recovering from failures upon something so brittle.

Granted, D-Bus hasn't given me any trouble since moving to NixOS. The hell of trying to recover my arch systems from a perpetually failing D-Bus would make me very apprehensive to adopt this. I could see myself using run0 by default, but keeping sudo-rs or doas around with a much stricter configuration as a failsafe until the run0 + D-Bus + PolKit is absolutely stable and bulletproof.

They're trying to invent military murder quadripeds that look like dogs. The cutesy dog-like prancing is PR

part of the problem if you ask me

This isn't even new, just getting worse faster than it used to.

Comments exactly what I expected. Disappointed how many people here are knee jerk celebrating the failure. Feels like being in a room full of Republicans when someone says anything about Mexico or Islam.

I hope they fix their shit for Luna 26 for the sake of science and human discovery.

If I had formal experience with Java & qBasic, I'd become an electrician too

Notice that they circumvented democratic decision-making between moderation teams to force subreddits open. 1/10 mods wants it open = open. Why would they not do the same here with users, whom they respect even less?

I suspect they will do one or more of the following:

• selectively honor results based on when the users of subreddits opt to open them.
• never open voting in subreddits where mods choose to open the subreddit
• set voting window to align more closely with timezones with demographics that will favor opening.
• use their powers from hosting the platform to fuck with results (i.e. voting only working from new reddit or official app, shadowbans, fucking with login/voting of anyone who has posted the word "lemmy", etc.)
• All of the above.

This should be a lesson on how corporations embrace democracy within a system that they ultimately control to let people believe they have some form of self-determination.

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