If that really was their end game, they’d just use bots. Much more effective that way.

those of us that are concern about privacy arent protected.

You aren’t protected anyway. There is literally nothing to stop Meta from creating an unmarked service to scoop up all ActivityPub data that it can.

This is just a guess, but I think that the likelihood of Twitter federating is almost to zero, unless forced by legislations to do so. It simply doesn’t benefit from that

That, and Musk’s ego won’t allow it.

Didn’t that only start when he was threatened for being kicked off Twitter?

Exactly. No one is gonna kick you off your own platform, or in fediverse terms, your own instance. The most others can do is defed from you, but that’s easy enough to get around if you’re determined.

The same reason Trump has his own social network.

Own instances give a lot more control. They can be as outrageous as they like, full on Trumpian, even. They can also control what gets said in that space much more effectively, seeing as how they are the mods and admins. And they don’t have to worry about Meta or Reddit (I doubt Musk even cares) getting media backlash and removing them from the platform entirely.

Sure, Threads can defed from any controversial instances but it will be trivial to create a mirror that effectively refederates the problem instance.

It’s very, very useful.

For one thing, its a ridiculously easy way to get cross-distro support working for whatever it is you’re doing, no matter the distro-specific dependency hell you have to crawl through in order to get it set up.

For another, rather related reason, it’s an easy way to build for specific distros and distro versions, especially in an automated fashion. Don’t have to fuck around with dual booting or VMs, just use a Docker command to fire up the needed image and do what you gotta do.

Cleanup is also ridiculously easy too. Complete uninstallation of a service running in Docker simply involves removal of the image and any containers attached to it.

A couple of security rules you should bear in mind:

1. expose only what you need to. If what you’re doing doesn’t need a network port, don’t provide one. The same is true for files on your host OS, RAM, CPU allocation, etc.
2. never use privileged mode. Ever. If you need privileged mode, you are doing something wrong. Privileged mode exposes everything and leaves your machine ripe for being compromised, as root if you are using Docker.
3. consider podman over docker. The former does not run as root.

The internet. It’s a fucked up place. Nothing like what the big players on the internet would have you believe.

So long as there exists a way for people to not get prosecuted, these things will exist.

Google drive isn’t self-hosted though,

Doesn’t matter to most people, and for those it does matter to, there’s OwnCloud and a ton of other options

and they charge for any significant amount of storage.

Storage costs money, dude, and GDrive don’t cost much.

I’m running Ubuntu server, so there is no desktop to access via rdp, and I don’t have to open an ssh port to access this.

If you are worried about opening SSH to the internet, you should be absolutely fucking terrified of opening a browser based admin portal to the net. SSH is fucking bulletproof compared to any web admin console you can think of.

Why are these not more popular?

Because the use cases for these are very niche.

Those who simply want access to their files will find Google drive much easier.

Those who need advanced access will use RDP or SSH instead

I’m sorry you have such a shit family bro :/

Kbin is a seperate software project from Lemmy. However they are very much compatible with each other in terms of ActivityPub interactions. Meaning I, on a Kbin instance, can interact with you, on a Lemmy instance, flawlessly.

True, yet big enough to have decent topic coverage. The software itself is pretty great

I’m on Kbin! Can confirm it’s great!

Understand that the Lemmy devs do not have ultimate power over your instance, and that your instance admins may feel very differently to them

Oh…oh…excuse me, I’m feeling sick 🤢 like, I knew these guys were crossing serious lines but to think it is 100% fully intentional with no ignorance to the dangers involved…fucking 🤮

To them it seems that pro contact means contact with the person you’re attracted to, even if it’s not (edit: explicitly) sexual yet. Kinda like how you might talk with someone you’re crushing on but not yet banging.

There already is a perfectly acceptable word for this though. It’s called ‘grooming’. It is called so because it is a precursor to what will inevitably become what they themselves call ‘abuse’.

You know how when you’ve been talking to someone you really want for months and the sexual tension has been ratcheting up higher every minute, then something just makes that explode and suddenly you’re just not thinking, just doing? How the everloving fuck do they expect pro contact to end anything other than in an immeasurably fucked up and scarring version of what I just described?

If it was a lot more like ‘how do I deal with this so that the people around me are safe?’ I’d be a lot more sympathetic to the mag and instance to be honest.

There are some pedos that do their utmost to deal with it in a safe way, like avoiding kids where possible and getting psychiatric help. I’d have no problem at least leaving that group alone.

Just because they aren’t directly hosting illegal content, doesn’t make it danger free. They freely encourage ‘pro contact’ as if it isn’t a very strong possibility that, when someone is in contact with a person they’re attracted to, they may well … take the next step.

That is the current front page of the MAP magazine on rqd2. You can look for it yourself or you can use this link. By all means don’t just take my word for it.

I only preface this with one warning.

I have moderated various platforms over the years, some with kids and some with vulnerable people including troubled teens and disabled people. I’ve seen just about everything and shaken off everything. The only exceptions involved the sexual abuse of minors. Those are the ones I remember. Dealing with this kind of stuff, even as just a moderator, an outside party if you will, hurt my soul.

What’s on this page is by no means graphic, either in textual details or images, but is instead disturbing in another way. Knowing what kinds of situations the kids these people talk to are inches away from, or heck, possibly are neck deep in already, and they talk about it like you and I might talk on a relationship magazine on any other instance.

You have been warned

https://rqd2.net/c/map

The idea of this person actually existing is more gross than the alternative. Because if they actually exist, then it means they’re not just a troll trying to make trans people look bad.

People like this are guaranteed to exist. With the wide spectrum of sexualities out there plus the sheer numbers of human population, there was more than likely going to be a few that are trans and pedo. Just like how there are Catholic pedos, Buddhist pedos, certainly hetero pedos and yes, some gay pedos.

Any attempts to hold up a trans/pedo or a gay/pedo as the norm for trans or gay communities needs to be shot down as the disingenuous crap that it is, because we know damn well that we can hold up a cis/pedo or a hetero/pedo as the norm and it would obviously be just as invalid.