This guy is being reasonable, get the pitchforks!

Nothing is private on the fediverse, and Mastodon’s bodge only gives the illusion of privacy. There should be zero expectation that any fediverse software will follow their non-standard extensions.

It demonstrates that nothing on the fediverse is private, and bad hacks that pretend otherwise are a terrible idea.

There’s easily over a thousand fediverse instances at this point, having to whitelist them all would be impractical.

Some forum software is starting to support activitypub with plugins. If they add the plugin then you can follow and interact with the forum from Lemmy. The best option for everyone is to start pestering forum admins to add those plugins so they get users and Lemmy gets more content.

Long term creating migration scripts for popular forum software like phpBB, so content, users, etc, can be moved to a custom Lemmy instance would be an option.

Helium was interesting, but they locked it down so you can only use their proprietary hardware for access points, it seems kinda scammy.

IPFS is used by several archive projects like Anna’s archive and libgen.

Meshtastic is a distributed local mesh network for text messaging.

Thanks, hadn’t seen that one before

https://sub.rehab/ is also good.

If anything it’s the opposite. They want user retention so they have an incentive to show you people that won’t work long term.

There’s nothing you can do for profile data, public key encryption is an option for DMs.

Every app is a dating app if you use it wrong enough.

One of the advantages of votes being public is that it keeps instance owners honest and, perhaps more importantly, means they know other instance owners are honest.

If they weren’t public it would be easy to modify your lemmy instance to send 10 votes with fake hashes for every real vote. There would be constant accusations of brigading and faking votes.

If what instance you chose truly didn’t matter this wouldn’t be as big of an issue. Unfortunately defederation causes a tangled mess of netsplits.

Are mastodon users stupid or just on a which hunt

Yes

Pretty sure lemmy can have the defaults set to local only, so you can keep the federation on, but by default local users only see local stuff.

Mastodon and witchunts, name a more iconic duo.

If you interpret their sub rule “Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology” in the strictest sense then I guess anything about FUTO is against their rules, since it isn’t open source.

Still seems a bit dickish to delete comments like that. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I read it as being pronounced something like “flow-marked”

Facebook moderation is infamous for pants on head stupid false positives, but I’ve never seen one this bad.

My non lawyer, and probably wrong, advice is to send them a polite reply asking them to refer to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram (1971)