Pamasich

I’m still on Reddit for some stuff, but I’ve joined the fediverse during the blackout protests. I saw people pitching kbin.social and decided to give it a try, and stuck around. Reddit has always gone downhill in my opinion, though it has yet to reach the point where the burden of using it outweights what I gain out of it. So I still use it to fill in what the fediverse can’t give me yet.

That’s just an email TO Epstein.

So I tried looking through jmail for “kotick”, “call of duty”, and “microtransaction” and couldn’t find it. Neither in the official library (haven’t checked call of duty there though, too many results). Do we know that this is actually real? Maybe the articles got removed because it turned out to be fake?

Mbin (another Reddit based fediverse project) has that exact chart in the magazine (community) panel.

The big problem with improving how this stuff works on the fediverse is that you want to stay compatible with other software and instances running older versions of your software. In general, ActivityPub projects expect the id of an actor to be dereferenceable. They expect it to point to a valid JSON-LD document describing the actor which they can request. If you break this expected contract by using a local file as your identity, or even just a non-https URI like did:, you’re going to lose intercompatibility with other instances that don’t handle that.

Also, regarding your description of the three parts, I think you’re misunderstanding something that I see people misunderstand often.

The identity provider basically only makes a proof that “you are you” : you give it your login credentials and it gives you a kind of token that authenticates (proves your identity) to other services. like, i’m on discuss.tchncs.de, but i can post to lemmy.world. this is because the discuss.tchncs.de server says to lemmy.world that i indeed have this account on this server. so they prove my identity in a way.

So, I might be wrong here, but I interpret you as saying basically that you’re authoring posts on lemmy.world with your account provided by discuss.tchncs.de. That’s not really how this works. Your data hoster is the instance you have your account on, not the one the community is on. Your instance just shares the posts you make on it with the community, but all it receives is a copy. The canonical version is on your instance, discuss.tchncs.de.

Again, data hoster and identity provider are currently the same thing. The fediverse is just a bunch of interconnected silos, you do things within your own instance and then other instances receive a copy of the thing you did. You never author things directly on another instance than your own.

The token stuff there sounds like SSO (single sign on), but it doesn’t look like either of those instances support that. So not sure what you were referring to there. The public key to verify the signature maybe? That’s more meant to ensure that the object is actually authored by you iirc though.

How often do y’all convert your measurements?

It’s second nature in metric. All the time.

Judging by your post, it sounds like that’s not the case in imperial. But you need to understand that especially converting between mm, cm, m, and km, for example, is not just extremely common, it’s just normal. If you add up 10 times a 1000 meters, you don’t call that 10000 meters, that would be awkward. You say it’s 10 km.

We convert all the time, so that’s why we assume the same must be the case in imperial and thus the easy conversions must be focused on because clearly they would get you to understand why metric is superior.

I understand the need for features when it comes to StackExchange (though Piefed has that functionality now), but what did Quora do that existing fediverse services like Lemmy can’t replicate?

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They are either much higher or much lower than what the servers themselves report.

Do you have examples? FediDB takes its data (like total users, active users, and total posts) from the NodeInfo endpoint of the instance, so it should be accurate unless the instance reports wrong numbers there.

Oh yeah, this does not sound okay.

If user@delta creates a post on community@alpha, their post lives on delta, not alpha. Community@alpha should not be able to unilaterally decide that the post should instead live on beta. Delta needs to be the one to decide that.

Sorry for the political analogy, but this sounds to me like Russia and the US deciding on Ukraine’s future without involving the latter.

Is Piefed implementing this in some weird way?

Iirc previous work on this in the fediverse involved a very clear way of doing it that makes sure to address the issue you’re bringing up there.

The idea is that you send activities to announce the move and mark the original actor as having moved to the new actor (and the new actor as being the new home of the original actor). Instances then verify this by whether that actor relationship is specified correctly on both sides (does going new actor -> origin actor -> new actor lead back to where we started from?).

Is that not also Piefed’s implementation? Because if it is, I don’t see your scenario being viable. Since the move needs to be acknowledged by both sides, it cannot just be faked.

This is the post I remembered.

This is what I meant with it failed because their halfhearted approach didn’t work out:

• Maintaining a list of trusted instances is a pain in the ass.

They could have just used private voting with every instance, but they just had to segregate them by trust because the good (according to authoritative selection) instances should still be able to see what you voted for, and that was too much work to keep up, so they just scrapped the entire system instead of implementing blanket private voting…

To be fair OP isn’t the only one that finds it concerning. Kbin/Mbin had tons of complaints about its public voting until the Mbin devs decided to cave and hide downvotes. Piefed also tried to implement private voting before, but gave up because of their halfhearted approach not working out.

I personally like public votes. It’s great to see who upvoted me, especially if it’s someone I recognize. While I miss being able to see downvotes, because sometimes I do feel like asking for feedback from downvoters on where I could do better.

That said, there’s an issue of consent there imo. So I do understand the complaints. While a receiving instance is technically free to do with the federated vote what they want, the user never really consented to that. It’s like if an instance made private messages public. Theoretically it’s allowed to, but that doesn’t mean people would be happy about it.

To allow other instances to know about your vote, Lemmy federates it. This involves the post you downvoted and your account. Neither is really optional here, as the receiving instance needs your account to verify the vote.

When another instance receives your vote, it’s up to them how they handle it. Mbin used to display both of them to users, but due to backlash from Lemmy users they made downvotes private eventually. Upvotes are still visible on Mbin though. Other fediverse platforms might also display your votes to users like Mbin and Lemvotes do. And of course anyone can make a minimal ActivityPub implementation and subscribe to a Lemmy community and get all the votes made within.

Piefed iirc has question answer support like Stackoverflow. Where you can choose an accepted answer. So you could replicate stackoverflow with a piefed community, and something like that might already exist. I’m not aware of it if it does though.

I don’t have a license, because I live in a country with great public transport and never really saw the need to driving, especially in regards to outweighting the damage it does and the danger it poses.

but the biggest issue is that it’s hard to know the exact word you need to use.

This is one of those few cases where I’ve actually found AI to be genuinely useful. If I don’t know how something is called, I describe it to AI and have it figure it out for me, then I go look the thing up myself once I have a word for it.

But i tried to post something and their systeem kept deleting my post. I didnt said anything wrong.

This place is a strong anti-Reddit echo chamber, it’s not really the best place to ask about this.

Do you know if the post was removed by a moderator or Reddit themselves?

Iirc a post can look removed if automoderator marked it for a manual moderator review. This can happen for reasons like your account being too new, you not having enough karma, or you using certain keywords they want to manually review. It’s usually meant to prevent spam, not anything nefarious.
I’ve seen someone before complain on Lemmy about this exact issue, and it turned out the post in question was clearly there on their profile because the mods approved it between them complaining here and me checking their Reddit profile.

It’s also possible that your understanding of what’s wrong to say might be wrong. This is especially the case if Reddit themselves removed your post. They don’t just do that for no reason. Even when a post gets removed for mentioning Lemmy, that’s overzealous mods doing the removal, not the admins.
It’s also possible that your post might look innocuous to you, but not to another person. For example, there are certain numbers that when used can get you labeled a neo nazi. Expressions might get misunderstood. English being a second language for either side might lead to misleading language or misinterpretations. Basically just listing potential reasons here I can come up with for why an innocuous looking post might get removed without ill intent, not saying any of this is justified imo.

If the post was removed by a moderator, the answer to your final question is simple: people post to a different subreddit that mod isn’t in control of.

This isn’t about health complications you might face in the future.

Your priority is your studies, right? They WILL suffer from you not getting enough sleep. If you want to prioritize your studies, you need sufficient sleep.

A well rested mind performs better, and sleep is actually pretty important on its own for the learning process.

I’d agree with this in theory, but the government can’t be trusted with defining those criterias.

Also this won’t ever happen while the world is thirsting for more children than are being born to feed the economy bubble’s demand for infinite growth in an era of population decline and gentrification across the developed world.