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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

@solrize

Well, let me go by example: The strength of E-Mail lies in the fact that its a robust standard that, instead of siloing users into their platforms, brings people together into one single userbase.

Similarly with federation in social media, this makes userbases not compete but collaborate. If I created an ActivityPub-Powered project right now, I'd have to convince nobody to use it and still be part of a community.

One difference however is that social media is public. As the person that runs the server, you do have to put in some measures to make sure that your users are actually feeling safe. The most extreme of these measures is defederation, where you just completely cut off another server, but there's also other ways to limit other servers, like for example, hiding their accounts by default in say the "federated" feed in Mastodon and co.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (7 children)

@solrize

There's no gatekeeper to satisfy because even when one server defederates from you, you are still able to curate and protect your own community.

Personally, who cares if there's some Nazis and trolls less in my feed? 🥴

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

@boogetyboo there's still a good chance you're using your Internet Service Provider's DNS.

Not only does this mean its super trivial for them to block things they don't want you to access, but this also means they can see (and they probably log) everything you do; no good for privacy or freely accessible info

Try switching to something like quad9, and reboot your devices after to make sure they've cleared their DNS cache

PS:
You can just add dns.quad9.net to Settings > Network > Private DNS on Android if you don't want the app.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (9 children)

@solrize

The fact that you're not even noticing the federation shows how effective it is ;)

You're probably browsing communities that aren't on Lemmy.world often without realising, I'm here replying to you from wetdry.world (a mastodon instance), and the OP also doesn't come from Lemmy.world

The cool thing about this is that no single server, company, or entity in general gets to decide over the wider fediverse, because everything is spread out and shared between thousands of independent servers. This is completely opposite to what traditional social media services have built.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@Socsa @barbara OMEMO is Double-Ratchet, and so is olm/megolm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO
https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm

So in that sense, OMEMO and olm/megolm are practically identical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@sigmaklimgrindset well, for one, it is a completely separate app

No seriously, where ReVanced is a collection of patches for the official YouTube app(s) (and some others)

NewPipe is a built-from-the-ground, independent, no-Google-Code YouTube client that relies entirely on scraping the website using NewPipeExtractor

As such, the entire experience apart from the content itself differs.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

@unterzicht that IS it's use. It is primarily used in show-off posts where people present their systems so that people in the replies can get a quick glance on what they're running.

The reason this is big news is because neofetch was by far the biggest project of it's kind

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@max641 a friend of mine (nift4) is working on something called Neo-Wellbeing, but I don't know how far it is at this moment in time; apart from "it isn't ready yet" at least

For now, I'd go with Fisch's reply

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Custom ROMs win again!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@big_slap

Fun fact:
The entirety of bluesky was supposed to be an activity pub extension at some point.

https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2535398

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@Benjamin its basically automatic e-mail in the sense that it doesn't matter what e-mail provider you're on but you can still contact each other across mail providers

Here you can substitute mail providers with social media platforms, and it happens ✨automagically✨, without anyone doing anything

To put this into perspective, I see hundreds of posts that aren't by people that signed up on wetdry.world on my home feed, and I can still interact with them, yet wetdry.world is my home.

Maybe the little explanation video on https://fediverse.info helps

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