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I don’t think it makes any sense to keep investing in an old language, while writing code for today.

Then don’t go with Go either, shit is from 2009. That’s 16 years ago. If you care about age so much, go with something actually modern, not a slightly younger dinosaur.

But both of them keep getting updated, so this doesn’t really make sense as an argument anyway.

I came here when I wanted to show some solidarity for the API protests by not using Reddit until they’re over. Figured I’d take the chance to try out some alternatives, and stuck with /kbin, now Mbin.

I love Mbin, but it’s no alternative for your use case. That AI moderation will keep affecting you as long as you interact with those affected communities, no matter which software you use yourself.

How does zeebra not ryhme with debra already? I mean, I know english pronunciation is put through a random IPA generator before being finalized, but Wiktionary gives the same exact IPA (bɹə) for the -bra part in both words. So shouldn’t they be rhyming then?

I don’t use Lemmy or Piefed, but I have Active set as my default. And don’t really ever change to a different sort.

I think you can look at this in a gatekeeping way and a functional way. I’m personally anti-gatekeeping, so there’s that.

What I mean with functional is: why do you care about whether something is part of the fediverse? Obviously because you want to talk to it. You want to be able to reach it from places like Mastodon.

I see no benefit in worrying whether something is based on ActivityPub or merely supports it as one of several protocols. It remains reachable either way, unless your own platform restricts you like in Lemmy’s case.

That said, I do see your point regarding optionality. I think instances that choose not to use the fediverse plugin of their software aren’t part of the fediverse. But that’s no reason to call the software itself not a part of it. Just means users need to put extra effort into choosing an instance.

@Fu@hostux.social Sadly Mastodon isn’t really ideal for posting to Lemmy.

In the federated ActivityPub document, the URL of a Lemmy link post is just a link attachment. So if Mastodon allows you to add arbitrary attachments not limited to images, then maybe there is a way. But otherwise you’re probably out of luck there.

This bill requires the OS to ask you for your birth date, explicitly the birth date. That’s all the age verification it requires. So I’m not sure how that’s “not going to qualify as age verification”. Why would the very method specified in the bill not count? There’s no requirement to use other methods to verify the age you’re given. The user just selects their birth date freely and the OS accepts it and that’s it if they’re not underage.

I’m personally against this kind of thing, but I hate how much of a fantasy echo chamber this stuff is here. There’s so much misinformation and hyperbole in this thread alone.

In general I support the idea of device-level age verification. The narrative around it uses old school methods only (this one goes with just inputting your date of birth, which I’ve already done for years for stuff like Steam), rather than the ID or face scan by random third parties methods used in age verification discussions and requirements elsewhere. In my opinion software being able to use an API provided by the OS itself is much better, and with the right OS (linux) much more trustworthy than any web-based solution.

My only real problem is the lack of user choice. This comes in two forms:

1. Giving your birth date should be optional. I’m fine with them requiring that no birth date given means you default to being underage, but actually giving the birthdate should be up to the user.
2. The birthdate should not be given out to random software asking for it. Either the user should be asked for permission, or only a boolean of whether they are underage or not should be provided. This bill doesn’t require either of those, nor leaves it to later clarification.

Asking AI to help with formulating is an easy way to come across like an AI. And Lemmy is the wrong audience for that.

Can confirm that I see “©” on Mbin.

Edit: To explain, I think that’s because Mbin uses the source field of the federated post, which contains the comment as you’ve written it, not as Lemmy renders it. Mbin then parses and transforms it to HTML by its own rules, not Lemmy’s. So the © doesn’t get transformed, because Mbin doesn’t do that.

I assume it’s the same logic for Piefed.

I see you’re on aggregatet.org, which I never heard about. FediDB says it has 10 monthly active users.

If you were to create a community on your instance, only people on your instance could see it. No one on other instances will be aware of it. And any posts made to it would not leave your instance.

For your community and posts therein to federate to other instances, the community needs to be subscribed to from them. You would have to constantly advertise it everywhere to make people aware that it exists, because the likelihood that someone visits your instance and stumbles on it is way too small. It won’t show up on their instance if they search.

With Lemmy Federate, you can give it your community, and it will attempt to subscribe to it from all the instances that have signed up with Lemmy Federate. That way your community appears on those instances when people search for it, and posts you make to the community will federate there.

I’m really bad at selling people on stuff, to the point where I usually turn them away from it instead. Usually I don’t even know what to write, I’m bad at putting my opinions into words, but even when I do know, I usually end up not writing anything because of that first point.

Well, the quote I replied to said they don’t seem to keep the releases up to date. Which means there are changes to the site not reflected in the released code. At least that’s how I interpret that, because how else would it be “not up to date”?

Although they of course half-arse it and don’t seem to really keep the releases up to date

Then they’re not technically fulfilling the licence.

I don’t think that’s how the license works. You’re thinking of the general GNU licenses, not the Affero one which Mastodon uses.

To quote the license (from Mastodon’s repo):

The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.

The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server.

That sounds to me like at least Truthsocial users need to be able to access its source code.

Also, from the actual terms:

6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.

You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License

FediDB says there’s 966885 active users on the fediverse in general, with 47.8K being Lemmy users.

Though this is usually measured as monthly active users iirc, so not exactly accurate to the daily you requested.

You can also get the value of any given instance’s monthly active users by checking their nodeinfo endpoint. Here’s the one for your instance. But again, that’s monthly, not daily.

On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though.

Slight correction, on Mbin they’re “magazines”, not “communities”.

In which language, English? Though why would renaming them in English require the approval of everyone in the world?

I’d say you don’t even need the approval of everyone living in an English-speaking country. It’s not like the US and UK use all the same words, for example. I think it’s fine for one English country to unilaterally rename them, no need for wider approval.

Mbin doesn’t directly merge threads together, in the Piefed sense where the comments from all threads appear on the same page. It does however group duplicate posts together. For example, I’m looking at this, I don’t see the comments on the other threads here, but I DO see there’s four other threads linked.

Tried attaching an image showing how it looks, not sure if that’ll show up in Interstellar/Piefed/Lemmy though.