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I think I have to read up on the exact definition of “group”.

Here you go.

Represents a formal or informal collective of Actors.

has there ever been discussions regarding SSO?

Don’t know about Lemmy specifically, but there has been discussion on SSO in the fediverse in general. There is an FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal) which lists some implementers. I have also heard the client-to-server API part of ActivityPub could be used for this, but I don’t think projects usually implement that (it’s optional). It should be theoretically possible to provide SSO for any fediverse project which has an API with authentication. I think. So sign in with Lemmy should be possible, but it’s up to those other projects to implement it.

Like others have said, you can follow accounts from those servers. If they present themselves as group actors, as Lemmy (unlike Mbin for example) doesn’t allow following non-group actors.

You can’t however just go to their website and log in with your Lemmy account. ActivityPub doesn’t have a built-in mechanism for this, but some platforms like Mastodon iirc have a solution and there have been efforts made to standardize something. But there’s nothing supported by the Lemmy side of the fediverse yet afaik.

If you want to subscribe to a group actor from Lemmy but can’t find them, try searching for the full URL from its home instance. That should tell it to go and fetch the actor. If you want a Lemmy-like experinece but also the ability to follow non-group actors, switch to Mbin. Same applies there, if you can’t find an actor on your instance, search for their full URL on the search page and it should fetch them from their home server.

Just donate to them if you want to, why make it this complicated. If you don’t want your money to go towards running the instance, then donate directly to those devs not involved with running the instance.

Why? “Threadiverse” has been used before Threads became a thing, and “thread” is a generic term that has existed for ages and doesn’t belong to Meta.

I’m a bit confused by comments on this topic. Do sovereign countries not have the right anymore to decide their own laws and issue punishment when they’re not followed?

Like, they obviously can’t enforce these fines. This article says as much. The fines can’t be enforced, but if 4chan ignores them, that opens the door for other measures like delisting the site from search engines or blocking access to it from the UK (these two examples are taken from the article). Which are fair measures imo.

Like, to the people saying UK can’t do laws which apply to services which are merely accessible in the UK and have no physical presence there, do you also apply this logic to the GDPR, which works the same way? The US has these laws too, like COPPA iirc. It’s not really something the UK came up with, it’s a bit of a standard with laws like this as far as I know.

I hope a country like switzerland or something lets companies host servers there for europe without enforcing dumb laws from uk/european union.

Not going to happen with Switzerland and EU laws. Being completely surrounded by the EU, we’re really bad with leverage and are already struggling to not have worse and worse deals forced on us. Plus, we have our own Chat Control type law coming up (which is why Proton is leaving). There’s no way we’ll take a stance against EU law.

This already exists, I have seen it used before, don’t know any exact repositories though. The reason it’s not really used is because it’s pointless. What are you trying to achieve with it? Your community won’t look more active if it has more posts with zero upvotes and zero comments all made by the same user.

Hiding posts from bots will also hide posts from this bot.

Keep in mind that not everyone here uses Lemmy, so a Lemmy feature isn’t a good defense in a federated world like this.

Like I said, I love Windows 11. I actually prefer its features in general to what I’ve seen of Linux, I prefer its design a lot, and there’s some stuff, like WSA and autohotkey, which simply doesn’t exist on Linux with the same simplicity as far as I know. Can’t use classic shell on linux either, and the start menus I have seen either looked ugly or were more launchers than start menus.

I love Windows 11 (the non-copilot+ version) and am positive on AI, but if they pull through with this vision, I WILL switch to Linux once Win11 support ends.

the brits really need to learn from the french how to protest.

You mean like how the french aren’t protesting their country’s support of Chat Control? At least I can’t find any information on them doing so.

Donating costs me money. Donating to every single website I like or rely on requires far more money than I have available or am willing to spend. I don’t know your situation, but I’m not rich. I don’t have that kind of disposable income to just throw around.

That said, thanks for mentioning that. I did donate to kbin when it was still around, but I’ve forgotten to set up donations for mbin and kbin.earth since switching over. I’ll have to get on with that.

YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus

They’ve been A/B testing anti-adblock attempts for months or even years now, idk exactly with my sense of time. Sometimes adblocker A doesn’t work, sometimes adblocker B doesn’t work. Sometimes switching browser makes the same adblocker work, sometimes clearing cookies helps, sometimes its dependent on your account. Different users at the same time report different experiences with different adblockers. Sometimes watching a single non-blocked ad restores adblocker functionality magically for a few days.

What I’m trying to say is, this didn’t “just” happen, and it’s specifically the author’s current experience. I myself use Adblock Plus on Edge and Youtube works perfectly fine currently. This has been happening for a long time, and I’m sure there’s uBlock Origin users currently who have the same experience while Adblock Plus works for them. Since that’s how it’s been the last times I’ve seen people talk about this, everyone talking about different experiences.

I’m using Adblock Plus, because of their Acceptable Ads system. Imo it’s far more ethical to regulate ads than to ban them entirely. Websites have to make money to sustain themselves, and ads are the least intrusive way this can be done besides donations (and let’s be honest, most websites can’t support themselves on donations alone). I’d rather have an ad or two at the end of an article than a paywall.

I would love to switch to a different adblocker, ABP has quite enshittified over the years imo. But it would have to be one with Acceptable Ads support.

Acceptable Ads is the very reason I’m still using Adblock Plus. What’s the problem with it? It’s an optional feature, just turn it off and you don’t have to deal with it at all.

Time for community git to somehow be federated like lemmy.

Already being worked on for a while. It’s called ForgeFed and being developed by Forgejo (the software powering codeberg). It’s an extension to the ActivityPub protocol, which is also powering the fediverse.

I have never (and will never) use Threads.

Your instance is federating with threads though, and you seem to have image posts. Maybe Meta managed to figure out that your Facebook and Lemmy accounts are both you and is referring to a Lemmy post of yours federated to Threads?

Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines. The company says this was a short-lived experiment that ultimately “introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.”

Interesting, because the checkbox is still there for me. Don’t see things having changed at all, maybe they made the fine print more white? But nothing else.

In general, this reminds me of the incognito drama. Iirc people were unhappy that incognito mode didn’t prevent Google websites from fingerprinting you. Which… the mode never claimed to do, it explicitly told you it didn’t do that.

For chats to be discoverable through search engines, you not only have to explicitly and manually share them, you also have to then opt in to having them appear on search machines via a checkbox.

The main criticism I’ve seen is that the checkbox’s main label only says it makes the chat “discoverable”, while the search engines clarification is in the fine print. But I don’t really understand how that is unclear. Like, even if they made them discoverable through ChatGPT’s website only (so no third party data sharing), Google would still get their hands on them via their crawler. This is just them skipping the middleman, the end result is the same. We’d still hear news about them appearing on Google.

This just seems to me like people clicking a checkbox based on vibes rather than critical thought of what consequences it could have and whether they want them. I don’t see what can really be done against people like that.

I don’t think OpenAI can be blamed for doing the data sharing, as it’s opt-in, nor for the chats ending up on Google at all. If the latter was a valid complaint, it would also be valid to complain to the Lemmy devs about Lemmy posts appearing on Google. And again, I don’t think the label complaint has much weight to it either, because if it’s discoverable, it gets to Google one way or another.

Plus, you explicitly have to opt into this, for each chat you share individually.

I get that it says “discoverable” at first and the search engines are in the fine print, but search engine crawlers get it anyway if it’s discoverable on ChatGPT’s website instead. That term is plenty clear imo.

ChatGPT chats are only public when turned into a shareable chat (which is a manually created snapshot of the chat with a link). And they only show up on search machines if you, after sharing, select the opt-in checkbox for having it show up there.

I don’t know how duck.ai works, but I assume it doesn’t do this.

That’s not correct, it does have an app (Interstellar).

Not official, but neither are all the Lemmy apps.