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Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32467220

By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST
"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.

Peter Link

2025-06-30 00:49:14

Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST
"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.

Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC
Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grav…
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Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32467220

By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST
"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.

Peter Link

2025-06-30 00:49:14

Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST
"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.

Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC
Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grav…
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Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32467220

By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST
"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.

Peter Link

2025-06-30 00:49:14

Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST
"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.

Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC
Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grav…
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Recommendations for an Offline Music Player That Supports Synced Lyrics

Hi folks,

Recently, I started to listen to music locally instead of using streaming services because I have had enough of all the annoying parts of it. I gathered a lot of Opus and FLAC files that have lyrics embedded in them. I am searching for some music players that can display them. The one I am using right now is Elisa. It is awesome, but I would still like to know if there are more alternatives, just in case. Thanks!

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Artopal

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Sayonara is the one I'm using.

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Drunk & Root

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i use Tauon Music Box opensource offline supports lyric scraping when online and syncs it

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Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32465391

Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m
"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."

Peter Link

2025-06-29 23:47:13

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m
"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.
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Peter Link
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Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32465391

Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m
"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."

Peter Link

2025-06-29 23:47:13

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m
"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.
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atmorous via Linux

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atmorous
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Has anyone had success putting ProtonVPN or any other VPN aside from MullvadVPN on Bazzite?

Testing different ones out and wanted to see what your success rates were

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Mubelotix

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Using FastVPN for 3 years now. It's so great, I probably cost them much more than I pay and they have port forwarding...

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Arkhive (they/she)

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Yup, using openVPN profiles. Proton VPN has quite clear instruction on how to do this on their website. Just do a search for “proton vpn openVPN profile Linux”

n7gifmdn via Memes

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n7gifmdn
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What kind of man you want?

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iii

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I prefer someone with neither napoleon nor jesus complex.

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belated_frog_pants

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So making fun of his body instead of his awful actions?

Holeheadou92984 via Privacy

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Holeheadou92984
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log into multiple google account in thunderbird

What information I might leak to google server if I issue log into multiple google account in thunderbird? ip of course but what else might be collected? It would be really great if someone could clarify whether the information below will be send to google when using their email service even through Thunderbird
- device name
- device model
- ...

My main concern is that google will be able to know that I have logged into the same device with different accounts.

In addition, I plan to use VPN when using one google account but not the others. This can be achieved through profiling, but is there an option that I can simply manage all the accounts in one app but without my ip address being collected by several specific email service provider corresponding to several specific email?

thanks a lot!

#privacy

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upstroke4448

in reply to Holeheadou92984 • 2 mesi fa • •

The big issue is its very easy to leak information that ties all three of your accounts together effectively doxxing yourself to google.

For example one way is to hash your phones non hardware identifiers and then correlate any accounts that have this same hash.

GrapheneOS Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to frequently asked questions about GrapheneOS.

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Holeheadou92984

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thanks a lot

though I'm having trouble understanding what exact information will thunderbird leak to email service provider.

Does this mean thunderbird will send (Examples of the global OS configuration available to apps are time zone, network country code and other similar global settings.) to any email service provider that is logged in on thunderbird?

GrapheneOS Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to frequently asked questions about GrapheneOS.

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davel via World News

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Israel Suffered Extensive Damage [ex-CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson]

Despite the arduous efforts of Israeli censors to hide the devastation Iran inflicted on Israel with its barrage of ballistic missiles during the 12-Day War, information is emerging that destroys the myth that Israel had an impregnable air defense. The map at the head of this article reveals the sites targeted by Iran. Based on the videos of strikes in Haifa and Tel Aviv, I think this map accurately portrays the massive scale of the Iranian attack. For the first time in its history, Israel took a major beating.

https://sonar21.com/israel-suffered-extensive-damage/

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Xulai

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Not enough. Israel needs to be demolished for their war crimes and mass murdering. A sick and cruel people who have disowned their own heritage in exchange for power and evil.

zjti8eit via Memes

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zjti8eit
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#StraightPride

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Gustephan

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Minor disagreement. I'm a straight dude who celebrates gay pride, and that usually comes off as a green flag to women considering sleeping with me

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n7gifmdn

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It may, but that's actually a sign of violence against women.

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Gustephan

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Sure, if you're a TERF and believe that validating trans people is violence against women. Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you probably don't recognize that as a TERF talking point, I'd advise you to be more careful about where you source your facts lest you end up accidentally spewing hate. If you are a TERF, I'd advise you that trans rights are human rights and you should stop being a bigot.

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n7gifmdn

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Actually being progressive to get women's attention and tell them about how lucky they are that he's not like these other closed minded men can certainly be used to control a woman. I highly recommend reading "Why does he do that? Inside the mind of angry and controlling men" by Lundy Bancroft.

I had to admit that I had been controlling of my wife for years and didn't even realize I was doing it. Sometimes I try to cling to my old ideas and dismiss this stuff but I really can't.

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Gustephan

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There's a huge difference between being progressive to attract women and being progressive and noticing that some women find that attractive. I'm glad you were able to work out/are working on your demons. I don't appreciate being accused of the same based on a comment that only relates to your situation if you make significant assumptions.

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HiddenLayer555

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"Straight pride" isn't a thing. It's purely a reactionary response to gay pride.

The point of gay pride is for gay people to show that they're not afraid to be who they are in the face of systematic discrimination. It is specifically countering the culture of gay shame that had been the norm in the past. Straight people are already the overwhelming majority and have never been oppressed for their sexual orientation. There's was never any shame associated with it so it makes no sense to proclaim that you're "proud" to be straight.

It's like someone who finished a marathon expressing their pride for their accomplishment, and some loser who has to make everything about themselves says "well I sat on my ass all day and I deserve to be proud of that too!"

The issue is not that it's not okay to be proud of being straight, you're welcome to feel pride all you want. The issue is when you but into someone else's moment and make it about yourself.

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ferret

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Congratulations, you have uncovered part of the context of the meme. Can you figure out how the given assertion is making fun of “straight pride” fans, without making fun of gay pride enjoyers?

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HiddenLayer555

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Reading it back I can see how I might have come off as arguing with the OP. I had just intended to add some context in general around why "straight pride" isn't a generally accepted thing but gay pride is, because whenever this comes up you usually get at least one person asking "what, so we're supposed to be ashamed of being straight now? That's just discrimination in reverse!”

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n7gifmdn

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Found the memes@lemmy.ml manspainer

geneva_convenience via World News

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Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts

At a panel hosted by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) in London on Saturday, experts accused mainstream Western media of contributing to the denial and distortion of atrocities unfolding in Gaza.

Omar al-Ghazzi, Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, called the trend “a war on history.” He warned that the use of media narratives as future historical sources could shape how upcoming generations understand the events in Gaza.

The panel also pointed to specific language patterns in coverage. Hanif noted that the term “massacre” appeared 18 times more often when referring to Hamas attacks than to Israeli attacks on Palestinians. He said this imbalance reflected a wider rhetorical bias and an uncritical acceptance of Israeli government claims—particularly those targeting local journalists in Gaza.

British-Israeli journalist Rachel Shabi said Israel has consistently framed its ban on international reporters entering Gaza as a safety measure, while accusing Palestinian journalists of links to Hamas. She criticised international media outlets for accepting these narratives without challenge. Historian Avi Shlaim described Israel’s media strategy as an aggressive propaganda campaign designed to suppress criticism by labelling opponents as antisemitic.

Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts

As Israel’s war on Gaza intensifies and expands across the Middle East, media analysts and human rights advocates are raising concerns over the lack of international accountability and the role of western news outlets in shaping public perception of …

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WanderingThoughts

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Like how Hamas always had hostages and the IDF only had prisoners but they were functionally the same and treatment of IDF prisoners included torture and rape.

The article says it's because of aggressive propaganda campaign from Israel. Some also say because of western islamophobia. Maybe financial interests?

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geneva_convenience

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The IDF tortured and rapes Palestinian hostages including children. No evidence of Hamas doing this kind of stuff.

Let's not compare Hamas to the literaI IDF.

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geneva_convenience via World News

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Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts

As Israel’s war on Gaza intensifies and expands across the Middle East, media analysts and human rights advocates are raising concerns over the lack of international accountability and the role of western news outlets in shaping public perception of …

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Maeve

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So, same as it's always been.

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Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"

This article is a response to Tim Chambers' recent writeup, titled The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix). It's a pretty great read, and I'm writing this not as a rebuttal, but to analyze and expand on the points made.

This is a musing on 7 problems that have been pointed out, with some ideas on what progress has been made to fix them.

Sean Tilley

2025-06-26 01:30:22

Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"

Quick Note: This article is a response to Tim Chambers' recent writeup, titled The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix). It's a pretty great read, and I'm writing this not as a rebuttal, but to analyze and expand on the points made.
Preface

I sometimes say this too much, and maybe it's a bad habit, but: I've been on the Fediverse in some meaningful capacity since 2008. That's 17 years. A lot has changed and evolved over time, and it's amazing to see the network carrying about 12.5 million accounts (of the ones that could be accounted for). It often feels as though we're just on the cusp of mass adoption, if we could just fix enough usability problems.
Some of these issues can be fixed through iterative design. However, I think some problems go much deeper than what they appear to be on the surface. I want to go through some of Tim's observations, and adjust the context to account for root causes and possible solutions. To be clear: I think some of Tim's criticisms are actually more specific to Mastodon itself, but I think we can extrapolate some larger patterns from what's being said.
Sin #1: The First-Move Problem

The Sin of Overwhelming Complexity: Instance Selection Paralysis
Imagine the moment you decide to join the Fediverse. You’re feeling a tad noble. Brave. Ready to reclaim your digital life from Big Tech’s clutches. Then… boom. You’re confronted with a cryptic list of servers, each with a name that sounds like a cross between a startup pitch and a medieval tavern.

I made this a while back, and love finding excuses to post it.
This is one of the biggest problems with the Fediverse today. While I wholeheartedly believe that having a diverse network of different servers and platforms to choose from is a good thing, the process of picking one server and finding your friends is incredibly rocky. You basically have to learn how to navigate several key parts of the Fediverse before ever connecting with friends on another server.
To make matters worse, there's a lot of unknown elements regarding any server you might potentially join:
Some communities outright block one another.
Some servers are poorly moderated, or not moderated at all.
A lot of servers struggle to make enough user donations every month to cover operational costs.
Often, server discovery requires you to first go to a given platform's website, then read a directory, then pick your options based on what's available.
This can create a lot of friction, even in the best of circumstances.
My Proposal

This is something that I don't think can be solved by one simple UX fix. However, I think it could be supported with better infrastructure across instances. In fact, it's possible that we're approaching onboarding and migrating at the wrong level.
First: Identity, Content, Connections

What if, instead of simply making a person choose a server, we first focused on setting up an identity and porting over content and connections from other networks? I find myself regularly thinking about Bounce by A New Social, which already kind of sets some groundwork to make this possible.
What if we built a utility that could import your profile and posts into your new Fediverse profile automatically, before you even bothered to sign up on a Fediverse server?
Don't get too excited, this isn't a real product. (Yet)
Basically, this utility would almost act as a "pre-identity", acting as a conduit where all of your social data could be hooked in prior to creating your Fediverse account. From here, you could pick and choose what to pull over. Do you want everything you've ever posted on Facebook? Great. Would you rather filter it down to stuff that has the most replies and interactions? No problem.
The importer could be customized for each platform, which could also help recommend what Fediverse platform a user might choose.
From here, we could do some interesting things with providing recommendations. Maybe we could include a survey portion, or even parse a bunch of likes from the import to make a recommendation on what kind of community they should join.
I'm not totally happy with this design, but this is the general idea. Service picks for the user, while allowing them to manually override it.
Second: Joining with Friends, Discovery, and Sync

I have a couple of ideas about this, but don't currently have the energy to make full mockups. Firstly, I believe we could really ramp up the momentum of user migrations if people could join together at the same time. There are a myriad of considerations to make, but here's how I think it could work.
Joining With Friends: Through their social connections in the app, users could easily invite their friends to join them. The invite wouldn't put those friends on the Fediverse yet, but they could all get accounts on the SocialImport app to get set up. Maybe a threshold would be set where the actual migration action only happens after a threshold has been set? One careful consideration to make: check server blocks, and do some logic to make sure they all end up on servers that don't block each other.
Discovery: It might be possible to do friend discovery in the background, by containing some kind of reference to other connected accounts. Oh, you have a Facebook integration, and 12 of your friends also used it with this tool? Cool, here's their details, which are only available to mutuals. You'll automatically connect when you do the final move action.
Sync: Maybe you're the first-mover, and your friends haven't moved over yet. No problem! Keep the connection with the SocialImport tool alive, and your friends will automatically find you over time. A sync utility could also help with the import of very large data archives, by gradually pulling bits and pieces in over time instead of importing everything all at once.

Sin #2: Navigation Inconsistency

The Sin of Inconsistent Navigation: Timeline Turmoil
You’re finally ready to explore your new digital neighborhood. And then—bam. Three timelines. Not one. Not two. Three. Home, Local, Federated—each more enigmatic than the last. The Fediverse’s multiple timelines are a beautiful idea in theory, but in practice?

Yeah, that's...one way to use the Social Web, I guess.
To be fair, this one is more of a Mastodon criticism specifically, and it's kind of a vestige of some of the platform's earlier design decisions. The Federated timeline was actually kind of useful in the days where the network was a lot smaller, and Local is great on small servers, but the relevance of each is questionable at best these days.
The main problem here is that most people are really interested in their Home timeline. It's nice to leave the Local timeline available to people as an option, but Federated is next to useless these days.
My Proposal

Rethink the Home timeline to give people powerful ways to sort and filter their feeds. Yeah, 90% of the time I'm mostly just using a reverse-chronological feed to scroll through statuses made by my friends, but being able to do everything from one timeline interface is really ideal.
The "Open Social Web" custom timeline in Bluesky
Bluesky is already innovating in this area a lot with custom feeds and search, but more can be done. Some of this is being experimented with on the Fediverse right now, with projects like Channel.org and FediAlgo exploring different ways to make this work. My point is that we don't necessarily need more timelines, we need better ones.
Sin #3: Remote Interaction Hell

The Sin of Remote Interaction Purgatory: Federation Gymnastics
One of the Fediverse’s great promises is universal interaction—no matter which server someone calls home, you can still follow them, reply, boost, interact. In theory? Utopian. In practice—for web users—it’s an absolute effing mystery.

Look, this is a blind spot for a lot of long-time Fediverse users, myself included. If you've been on the network for more than a few years, you've gotten used to the mechanism of throwing a URL into the Search form to pull in remote statuses and profiles to interact with them.
This is so much better than what Mastodon used to provide for us. It used to just tell you to copy and paste text.
It's not a bad workaround for pulling in stuff your server doesn't know about, but it's not always reliable. Worse, it's become the main way a lot of us deal with remote interaction. The solution Mastodon uses now, depicted above, is miles better than what we used to have. However, it's notable that Mastodon's own improved solution typically only works with Mastodon.
My Proposal

The biggest shortcoming here is a lack of standardization. We really need to come up with some standard mechanisms. There's a few efforts worth mentioning, because I believe they are partial solutions: MagicAuth, and Activity Intents.
How MagicAuth Works

MagicAuth is one of the standout features of the Hubzilla project, and it's basically been around forever. In a nutshell, it's a novel approach where credentials are handled in a browser cookie to determine access.
I'm visiting a friend's page on a different server. The page checks my home server from a cookie, signs me in from my remote credentials, and I can interact with the page as if we were on the same site.
When you visit a page on a remote server, Hubzilla has a way to use MagicAuth to determine who you are, and provide access accordingly. It works seamlessly, and lets you see and interact with elements on the page as though you're actually logged in. MagicAuth is an incredible concept, and could potentially solve a lot of problems.
How Activity Intents Work

Activity Intents are a concept spearheaded by the Emissary project, and it works in a slightly different way. Instead of handling stuff through cookies in a browser session, Activity Intents allow you to connect an account to a given page through an OAuth connection, and almost use it as a very-limited client for sending activities back to your server.

When I click "Like" on a Bandwagon track, the above interface pops up to ask me which account I want to use for this interaction. I can use the Bandwagon account I already have, or I can use my main social account to do that instead.
You can almost think of Activity Intents to be a Web equivalent to the Share interface on iOS or Android, except that you can plug your own social platform and services into it instead.
Sin #4: Private Mentions Aren't Really DM's

The Sin of DM Disasters Waiting to Happen
And yet here we are - as on most Fediverse platforms, “Direct Messages” live right alongside public posts in the same composer, the same timeline view, sometimes even with mostly the same visual styling. You can toggle visibility to “Direct”… but will you notice you didn’t? Will you check? Will the UI save you? Spoiler: It will not.

It's no secret that Private Mentions on Mastodon kind of suck. The main problem is that they're a half-measure solution that combines Direct Messages with private posts, and certain unexpected behaviors are inherited.
A private mention in Akkoma, which works the exact same way that Mastodon does.
In a Twitter-style Direct Message, mentions only act as a shorthand for linking to a person's profile. If you're talking to Alice and mention @[url=https://diaspodon.fr/users/bob]bob[/url] in a DM, Bob isn't going to receive any kind of notification that he was mentioned.
In Mastodon-style Private Mentions, Bob would get included into the conversation the moment he got mentioned. This mix of expectations on how a feature should work is pretty horrible.
My Proposal

Stop calling them Private Mentions, and instead call them what they are: private statuses. Build in real support for private Direct Messages where message-addressing is done outside of the post body, and just replace any Private Mention part of the interface with matching DM functionality.
Sin #5: The Phantom Social Graph

The Sin of Ghost Conversations and Phantom Follower Counts
Federation is the Fediverse’s secret sauce—and as implemented, its spectral curse. What should be lively, multi-user conversations often arrive with limbs missing. Replies that clearly should be there are gone. Half the participants never materialize. You’re reading a thread and suddenly think: Wait… who is this person even talking to?

This is a tough one. Part of the way conversations on the Fediverse works is that your own server fills in only the parts it knows about to the conversation tree. It's possible to change your server's behavior on how deep in the conversation it ought to pull statuses, but it's an inefficient approach at best.
My Proposal

Mastodon has been working on an improvement where it's possible to fetch all replies in a conversation tree. It's disabled by default, presumably because of the side effects of trying to pull in dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of replies from a public conversation.
I actually have mixed feelings on this. I'm all for improved methods for filling out missing bits of the social graph. My fear is that this might effectively DDOS many instances, as people attempt to fill out extremely large conversation trees from thousands of different places. Yeah, your beefy server might be able to handle this, but what about every server that's getting these requests over and over?
I think a partial solution for this may be to leverage some kind of distributed cache, where multiple servers can pitch in to help fill out the details for whoever is doing the fetching. That being said, that could be a huge can of worms.
Sin #6: The Discovery Problem

The Sin of Invisible Discovery: The Content Mirage
So what you get instead is discovery by divine accident: No algorithmic curation. No fediverse-wide trending topics. No “here’s what’s buzzing. Just you and The Void. So new users end up wandering along, stumbling across interesting people and conversations only by sheer luck. It’s charming - but only in a 19th-century explorer way.

I've written about this problem before, and yeah, it's rough. I think it's relatively easy to discover interesting posts from people across the network, but the more complex the media is, the more muddled discovery efforts become. Building small, intentional communities helps work around the signal-to-noise problem somewhat, but it's not a real solution for discovery itself.
My Proposal

Mastodon has been doing some interesting work with Fediverse Discovery Providers, but there aren't a lot of useful public details that describe how they're supposed to work, or what they even do in a practical sense.
I think there's two components needed to solve this problem: federated relays for boosting content, and custom feeds that can be used to filter these relay streams enough to make sense of them. I think relays can be extremely useful for projecting one part of a network across a wider portion of the rest of the network. If we could make the process of subscribing to a relay easier for instances across different platforms, this might help.
Sin #7:

The Sin of User Discovery Hell
Search is one thing. But finding people to follow—especially if you’re new—is where the UX - beyond just search - really starts to melt down. User discovery in the Fediverse is so decentralized, it’s basically unusable. No global directory. No “you might like.” No obvious trails to follow. Just vibes. And maybe a dusty wiki from 2022.

I'm of the mindset that sins #6 and #7 are one and the same, just in different capacities. What's interesting is that the Friendica family tree of platforms has had a shared universal directory concept for ages now. Separate instances can opt-in to bridging their directories with one another, which actually helps improve user discovery between those that choose to share.
My Proposal

I think a combination of discovery providers, user directories, custom feeds, and a configurable timeline could go a long way towards solving this problem. If we include the SocialImport idea, we might actually have a lot of good methods to help people find their friends and stuff they're interested in.
In Conclusion

💡
It actually took me so long to write this that I missed Tim's follow-up, where he also proposes a path to redemption for most of these problems. It should be interesting to see how our lines of thinking match up!
This ended up being a really long blog post that took me nearly a month to write, due to real-life obligations and much-needed time to think about things. I wrote this response, not because I want to invoke gloom and doom, but because I think a lot of this stuff is actually solvable. It's just that producing viable solutions requires a lot of cross-project collaboration, and also getting buy-in from the largest projects in the space, such as Mastodon.
With the Fediverse, nothing is ever perfect. However, we should never settle for less-than-good. If we can work together to overcome our biggest obstacles, it makes our network that much more viable as an alternative for millions of people in the future.

PeerTube's Content Wasteland
In 2018, a platform was launched to build an open, decentralized web for videos. In 2021, the network is still struggling to grow.
^{Sean Tilley (deadsuperhero)}

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Alloi

in reply to Sean Tilley • 2 mesi fa • •

this was evidently written by AI. every part of it.

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Sean Tilley

in reply to Alloi • 2 mesi fa • •

I do all of my writing by hand, the old-fashioned way.

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CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests

CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull - Consumer Rights Wiki

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Amazon delivery van erupts in flames in Arlington

An Amazon delivery vehicle was fully engulfed in flames on Sunday in Arlington, Virginia.

^{Jessica James (WJLA)}

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The Millionaire Exodus Myth

About 11,000 news pieces were published around the world in 2024 by some of the most read and most watched news outlets claiming that droves of millionaires were fleeing countries in record numbers. This was a huge exodus, we were told, with economic consequences, and the root of it all was supposedly taxes on the super-rich. But here’s what all this media reporting left out, these record numbers of millionaires leaving represented just 0.2% of all millionaires. In other words, almost 100% of millionaires did not move to another country, yet somehow this was spun a full 180 into an exodus. So where does this story come from? Well, it’s based on a report published by a firm called Henley and Partners, which helps sell golden passports to the super rich. Golden passports were just ruled to be unlawful by the European Court of Justice, thanks to a challenge by the European Commission, which said golden passports impose a serious risk of corruption, money laundering, tax evasion. Our review of the Henley and Partners report shows that there were several issues with the report’s methodology, its sample and its reporting. But what the media reported and what governments listened to was a fiction, based on questionable data published by a firm that helps the super-rich buy their way out of rules that apply to everybody else. Scare stories like these are used to block the positive change people want.

The Millionaire Exodus Myth | naked capitalism

Millionaires are not fleeing countries to escape taxes.

^{Conor Gallagher (naked capitalism)}

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Maeve

in reply to kurikai • 2 mesi fa • •

Give them no place to flee. Tax them out of existence, everywhere. It will be a long and arduous journey. Every victory in our lifetime is a huge win, but only a momentary resting place. We can not rest long, because that's when the ultrawealthy will be quietly the busiest.

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Moonguide

in reply to Maeve • 2 mesi fa • •

No, don't tax them. Take away everything they own, deny them basic comforts, see how they like it.

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lemm.ee has shut down for good

lemm.ee has shut down at 00:14 UTC.

unfortunately I realized too late that I have had hundreds of saved links to posts and comments from there, so I did not have enough time to save them, but anyways it is interesting that maybe a third of the post links I could try were dead. I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.

#fediverse

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WhyJiffie

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

speaking of that, there was a userscript that is able to find the same post on other instances. I should look it up, in case it can also work with posts of offline instances

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14th_cylon

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

it should, as long as the post was synchronized in the past...

lemmy.zip/c/meta@lemm.ee

seekms your username was different on lemm.ee:

lemmy.zip/u/WhyJiffie@lemm.ee

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WhyJiffie

in reply to 14th_cylon • 2 mesi fa • •

~~hmm that's interesting because I did not have a lemm.ee account! 😁~~ just 3 tons of links to it.

edit: I misunderstood it, no I didn't have an account there

also in the meantime I did some research. it turns out I was probably remembering the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher userscript: greasyfork.org/en/scripts/4692…

it can look up posts by their activitypub id, which is the de-facto ID of a post, that is same across all instances. this ID is the url of the content on the original instance. so, the following could be an activitypub id, if the post was actually created on lemm.ee: lemm.ee/post/64477597

to look up a post by this, the userscript uses the /api/v3/resolve_object API endpoint.
it searches your local instance, and if you are authenticated it also queries the host in the url, lemm.ee in this example. but of course this remote query does not work anymore.

now here comes the twist. I know I always read lemmy through sh.itjust.works, so whatever I saved should be known by this server. and the link that I save, often does not point to the origin instance, because clients work that way.
so it seems 2 lemm.ee links that I tried to look up were not actually posted there, because bmy server does not know a post that has this ap id, I just somehow got a link that points to the lemm.ee version of that post or comment........

Fortunately the messaging app I misuse for link collection always loads the title and image of the webpage, so by some manual work I should be able to find the actual links to each of them.

Lemmy Universal Link Switcher

Ensures that all URLs to Lemmy instances always point to your main/home instance.

^{greasyfork.org}

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2025-05-20 13:26:25

Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data

Regeneron is to pay $256 million in cash to acquire "substantially all" of 23andMe's assets, including its massive biobank of around 15 million customer genetic samples and data.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/23andme-sold-dna-data

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davel

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

$ curl -sw'\n' \
     https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsh.itjust.works%2Fcomment%2F19488525 \
     | jq -r '.comment.comment.content' | head -n 1
~~hmm that's interesting because I did not have a lemm.ee account! :D~~ just 3 tons of links to it.
$

Edit to add: Lemmy seems to URL-encode ':' and '/' sometimes :/

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ramble81

in reply to 14th_cylon • 2 mesi fa • •

Awesome. Zip managed to cache my ee account so I can at least refer back to any place I posted or commented off of ee. Wonder how long it’ll keep it for

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Dave

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

Deleting your account deletes your content, unlike deleting your Reddit account. Hence the linkrot.

I learnt pretty early on that saving posts using the save button was not a good way to save the information 😮‍💨

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MangoPenguin

in reply to Dave • 2 mesi fa • •

Yeah bookmarks are a lot better than using specific save systems

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Dave

in reply to MangoPenguin • 2 mesi fa • •

Bookmarks won't help if the content gets removed. You've got to copy the important information elsewhere.

I tend to use either a note app (Joplin) or a self-hosted wiki for that.

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MangoPenguin

in reply to Dave • 2 mesi fa • •

Yeah fair, most of my bookmarks aren't really things that are important to save, just funny things I want to share later or something.

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ramble81

in reply to Dave • 2 mesi fa • •

Not quite. If your comments federated out to an instance that either a) doesn’t get the delete request or b) ignores the delete request, your comments will very much stay out there in the fedeverse with not much you can do. Yes posts on the original instance may be gone, but anything that get pushed out via ActivityPub is a crap shoot.

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Dave

in reply to ramble81 • 2 mesi fa • •

Yes with ActivityPub there's always failed federation. But Lemmy will send the delete request out when you delete your account. Other software or instances might not honour it, but the intent is there.

As opposed to reddit who do not remove comments when an account is deleted, only mark it as a comment from a deleted account.

I'm not against Lemmy's implementation, but it does require you to collect information you need at the time not assume it will always be there.

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ramble81

in reply to Dave • 2 mesi fa • •

Ah, I get where you’re going with that and understand your view. My point was more for users who think that deleting an account will really get rid of it everywhere and I didn’t want them getting their hopes up.

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Loki

in reply to Dave • 2 mesi fa • •

That's weird. I moved over from lemm.ee and transferred data. The saved posts transferred too.

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Dave

in reply to Loki • 2 mesi fa • •

No that's expected, as part of your profile info. But if the original authors delete the comments, then they will also be deleted in your saved items.

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Loki

in reply to Dave • 2 mesi fa • •

Ah got it!

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davel

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

$ curl -sI https://lemm.ee/ | grep '^location:'
location: https://join-lemmy.org/

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inlandempire

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

Goodbye ee

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iso

in reply to inlandempire • 2 mesi fa • •

You were waiting for this one for a month, aren't you? 😀

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Aku

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

I was literally filling out an application for another server when it went down. Sad day.

Unfortunately I waited too long and now I can’t see my subs that I wanted to migrate.

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14th_cylon

in reply to Aku • 2 mesi fa • •

this you? lemmy.zip/u/Aku@lemm.ee

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Aku

in reply to 14th_cylon • 2 mesi fa • •

Yep thats me!

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bruce_babbler

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

🫡

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James R Kirk

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.

Are you sure? Are lemm.ee posts showing as deleted for you? It looks like the copies of anything posted to lemm.ee still exist on the instances that it was federated with. Try this link !animation@lemm.ee, I am pretty sure it should still work on your instance.

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WhyJiffie

in reply to James R Kirk • 2 mesi fa • •

It's not all the lemm.ee posts, just a significant amount of them.

also in the meantime I realized my hundreds of lemm.ee links are not actually links to lemm.ee hosted posts, but just links to the lemm.ee view of them. I was just very often copying the wrong link that still worked, but wasn't the definitive one

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Boomer Humor Doomergod

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fakir

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

Hello world, lemmee refugee here, & first post on piefed! I had exported my settings before the ship went down, figured we could import it in another instance to save my comments and communities, but I don't see any option to import here. Does piefed speak with Lemmy yet it's not part of Lemmy?

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Skavau

in reply to fakir • 2 mesi fa • •

Piefed speaks to Lemmy instances, yes.

You can import data here: piefed.social/user/settings/im…

Login

This is the flagship instance of PieFed, an open source project for the fediverse. Also try another server.

^{piefed.social}

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mesa

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

Thanks for your support! It was great having you for the time we had you.

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ryannathans

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

The linkrot is real but not unexpected when anyone can spin up and shut down instances. Nothing is forever

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WhyJiffie

in reply to ryannathans • 2 mesi fa • •

It's mostly not because of instance shutdown though. especially on lemmy, because lots of posts are readable elsewhere after shutdown.

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ABetterTomorrow

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

It was my first home. I thank them for bringing me in.

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k0mprssd

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

🫡 you were good to us .ee, may you forever rest in peace.

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HiddenLayer555

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

Out of the loop, why did they shut down?

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nocturne

in reply to HiddenLayer555 • 2 mesi fa • •

Not enough admins, and those there were burnt out.

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golden_zealot

in reply to nocturne • 2 mesi fa • •

Furthermore, I thought that they were supposed to be a temporary instance for the reddit influx as well.

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OddMinus1

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm sure I was sufficiently notified, but I am not big on reading updates on ny instace, so this came as a surpise just now.

Thanks for the server! Onwards to the next!

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nocturne

in reply to OddMinus1 • 2 mesi fa • •

The original shut down thread was posted over 3 weeks ago.

sopuli.xyz/post/28167574

lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month - Sopuli

Lemmy

^sopuli.xyz

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Flickerby

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

RIP home server, you will be missed

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Majestic

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

It'll be greatly missed. It was nice to have an instance with a reasonable defederation policy where I could interact with anyone basically.

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db0

in reply to Majestic • 2 mesi fa • •

Nice for you, bad for the mods. Only way to do that without outsourcing mental strain to other people is to self host

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Zealousideal_Fox_900

in reply to db0 • 2 mesi fa • •

Yeah I remember I few people saying modding .ee was hell because of infinite streams of users from the same instances and their refusal to defederate

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kratoz29

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

Damn, since I saw the warning thread I was hurrying my slow ass to back up my stuff, which I gladly did (some days ago), lemmy.zip is my new home now.

I feel sorry for the users that didn't get the chance to backup their stuff... An auto backup feature for Lemmy backend might be worth checking out perhaps?

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TheObviousSolution

in reply to kratoz29 • 2 mesi fa • •

At the very least, social networks like this really need a two server type system: the authenticator who identifies that you are really who you say you are and handles personal settings, communication, and access to the fediverse, and the content provider that hosts the communities.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to TheObviousSolution • 2 mesi fa • •

How do you ban users in this scenario?

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TheObviousSolution

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

What do you mean? The authenticator instance could ban users, the moderators and the content provider instances could ban users, content provider instances could defederate from authenticator instances and viceversa.

Not sure I'm seeing the issue you are seeing, it's just basically forcing lemmy instances to instead of being both to just be one or the other. The benefit is that the actions on one is free from the drama on the other. One would be dedicated to hosting users, the other would be dedicated to hosting communities, less burnout overall.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to TheObviousSolution • 2 mesi fa • •

Complete bans (at the home instance level) would require synchronization between the content provider instance and the authenticator instance.

Mod actions are caused by users comments on content, so the two aspects are closely intertwined, you can't dissociate the content from the users.

At the moment, admins synchronize in a group to deal with toxic users, usually leading to the ban of those users on their home instance. Having a split between two types of admins adds an additional layer that could actually increase the admins workload.

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Ferk

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

Since he said that the authenticator is the one that handles the communication & access, I expect banning the person from the authenticator would already automatically prevent anyone using that authenticator (or any other authenticator federating with it) from seeing the content.

As I understand it, the only thing the content provider would do is hosting the data. But access to that data would be determined by the service doing the access control, in the same way current instances are doing it.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to Ferk • 2 mesi fa • •

the only thing the content provider would do is hosting

Hosting involves removal of content, which is triggered by actions performed by users.

At the moment, if a Lemmy.world user spams CSAM content everywhere, other admins can reach out to the LW admins, they ban the users and purge the content.

In a users/content model, with Lemmy.users and Lemmy.world still being the content, other admins have to reach out to the Lemmy.users instance, get them banned, then to the Lemmy.world admins to trigger the purge of the content on the communities.

On top of that, it is currently recommended to mod from local accounts, as report federation will be fixed in Lemmy 1.0, not released yet: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu…

The main part of the "admin burnout" comes from the management of users. There isn't really that much to manage on the content part that isn't linked to users.

Moderator from other instances not receiving reports

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Ferk

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

Hosting involves removal of content

Exactly. That means instances would not longer have that responsibility. That would be on the hosting service, meaning less pressure for the instance. Once they ban the user, the content would not be shown, it would be purged from the federating network of that instance, regardless of whether the hosting service actually deletes it or not (but I expect it would be better if the protocol makes it so banning a user sends a notification to the hosting service).

At the moment, if a Lemmy.world user spams CSAM content everywhere, other admins can reach out to the LW admins, they ban the users and purge the content.

It's more complex than that, at the moment, because the purge also involves mirrored content in other federating instances. The interesting part is that after it's triggered, then the process is pretty much automatic. When purging, Lemmy.world admins don't have to manually go around asking to all the other instances to delete the content. The purge request is currently being notified automatically to instances federating with it. Why would it be any different for a content hosting service?

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to Ferk • 2 mesi fa • •

Exactly. That means instances would not longer have that responsibility. It would be responsibility of the hoster, meaning less pressure for the instance. Once they ban the user, the content would not be shown.

At that point, the content instances would be merely storage. This model is already possible now, but the vast majority of instances host both users and content, because it is more interesting to have users to build a local community than just being a storage server.

If some admins were interested in only being storage servers, you would see more instances not allowing user registrations, but all the 35th most active instances allow them: lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

The interesting part is that after it’s triggered, then the process is pretty much automatic.

There have been cases where federation deletion was not processed correctly, so it would add an additional layer of potential issue
- lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38123874

Why would it be any different for a content hosting server?

As I stated above, it is currently recommended to mod from local accounts, as report federation will be fixed in Lemmy 1.0, not released yet:
- github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu…
- lemmy.world/post/30022166/1719…

What that means is that on top of your Lemmy.user account, you would need a Lemmy.content account that would be able to fully moderate the community as a local account. Users don't like to juggle between different accounts to moderate and participate.

Moderator from other instances not receiving reports

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Ferk

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

it is more interesting to have users to build a local community than just being a storage server.

Imho, it comes down to how much you care about the content of the community you are building. The reason I'm in lemmy.ml and not some smaller instance is because of problems like the ones showcased here.

If I could self-host my own content I would not mind being somewhere else. In fact, I'm considering setting up something through brid.gy. The fact that there isn't a separation of the hosting means that if I want to secure my content I need to have my own 1-person instance which is not something the protocol is very well suited for. Plus it's likely most lemmy instances would not federate with it anyway since, understandably, they may prefer an allowlist approach rather than blocklist. The only sane way would be to have the instances have full control of the access as they are now, with storage being in a separate service that can be managed separately, the hosting service.

it is currently recommended to mod from local accounts

Would this change at all if there was a hosting service?

I expect you would still be recommended to mod from local accounts (the "authenticator"), even if the content hosting was a separate service. The local account would continue being the primary source of access to the content.. note that having a separate hosting service doesn't mean that the hosting service must be the one managing access to the content from the fediverse.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to Ferk • 2 mesi fa • •

The reason I’m in lemmy.ml and not some smaller instance is because of problems like the ones showcased here.

Quite a few instances are managed by non-profits which are much less prone to service disruptions, like fedecan.ca/en/ for lemmy.ca.

The local account would continue being the primary source of access to the content…

Isn't that contradictory with the users - content separation?

note that having a separate hosting service doesn’t mean that the hosting service must be the one managing access to the content.

That seems contradictory with the previous point. My understanding was that
- users would use Lemmy.user accounts to browse content (this is the recommended way to avoid user management for the content instance admins)
- mods would use Lemmy.content accounts to moderate communities (users would have to switch to those type of accounts from the first type if they want to start / mod a community)

Is this correct, or am I missing something?

Welcome | Fedecan

Discover a new way to connect online. As a Canadian not-for-profit, we can help you join a growing network of federated social media that prioritizes community over profit.

^fedecan.ca

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Ferk

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

Then I think we had a different understanding. My understanding was something akin to what bluesky does with the PDS, the data service just hosts data and hands it over to the other service which is the one actually doing the indexing of that data and aggregating it into communities. The data of the community might be hosted in the hosting services, but it's accessed, indexed and aggregated through the authentication service.

The access management, the accounts, the distribution of data, etc. that's still in the server managing the federation. That's the way I understood it, at least (I'm not the person that originally started this train, that was @TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca ).

This allows the content to potentially not be completely lost if an instance dies because it would be easier to carry your data to another instance without losing it. It's the same principle as in bluesky but applied to the fediverse.

Self-hosting - AT Protocol

Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider ATProto network.

^{AT Protocol}

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to Ferk • 2 mesi fa • •

Ah, I see. So something like activitypods.org/ ?

That would be an improvement indeed, but probably not something we will see any time soon.

ActivityPods - Personal data spaces powered with ActivityPub

Brings together ActivityPub and Solid Pods and empowers developers to create truly decentralized applications.

^ActivityPods

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TheObviousSolution

in reply to Ferk • 2 mesi fa • •

There's several solutions, I was just stating the "at least" solution because everything needed for it is already present. You just need to remove functionality depending on the type of service you want to host.

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TheObviousSolution

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

Complete bans (at the home instance level) would require synchronization between the content provider instance and the authenticator instance.

What are you referring to as a ban? Complete bans already require synchronization between different federated instances. Sometimes the home instance of a user is unable to entirely delete the content of a user because of it.

Mod actions are caused by users comments on content, so the two aspects are closely intertwined, you can’t dissociate the content from the users.

Not really. Mod actions are over a community, not user history. They are perfectly able to remove user comments within their community, and since they are the authoritative source that controls whom it is spread to that has greater influence. That never stops the same content by the same user from appearing elsewhere.

At the moment, admins synchronize in a group to deal with toxic users, usually leading to the ban of those users on their home instance.

They would still do the same, but the "usually leading to the ban of those users" perhaps does more to reveal what your actual problem is than anything else. You and me will have to disagree, because admins should not be authoritarian figures, but should only have control within their domain.

If they want to administrate over a group of users, they can have control over which users are and aren't allowed over that particular group. They can issue their own warnings to users.
If they want to administrate over communities, they can have control over which communities are allowed and how users are allowed to interact with those. They can remove users from those communities entirely.

The small but loud minority of toxic users can just have their authentication instances defederated if those instances refuse to do anything with them. If it is an authentication instance doing the defederation, then it will affect all of their users. If it is a content provider instance, it will affect all of their communities. In the current system, it does both because both are coupled into the same instance, so it's even compatible with it.

It stops bad faith actors from trying to pollute communities to slur entire instances, like lemm.ee or blahaj, because of their problems with their userbase, by simply stopping it from being an issue. Administrators don't have to worry about policing communities or users if they don't want to, they would be able to better choose whom they are catering to without bad faith backlash elsewhere.

Almost nothing of the current structure changes, except that dedicated instances have the functionality they don't need disabled. Both can still block each other to their heart's content, and if your problem is having more "splits" - that is literally what federated instances are, there can always be more ... Maybe your problem is with the fediverse and its distributed nature? You are making it out to be as if there is only ever a big bad group of toxic users and that all administrators always completely agree on all bans to make your argument work. At that point, just create your own reddit clone.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to TheObviousSolution • 2 mesi fa • •

I addressed a few of your points in the parallel thread with @Ferk@lemmy.ml (actually, it seems like you read it as you commented below)

As I stated in one of the comments

At that point, the content instances would be merely storage. This model is already possible now, but the vast majority of instances host both users and content, because it is more interesting to have users to build a local community than just being a storage server.
If some admins were interested in only being storage servers, you would see more instances not allowing user registrations, but all the 35th most active instances allow them: lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

I had a second look, and instances not allowing sign up are either going to shutdown (lemmy.one) are false positives (bookwormstory.social/signup) or are single-person instances:

Your vision is possible now, but it seems like almost no one wants to implement it.

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TheObviousSolution

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

Why would people want to implement something they don't know the benefits of? That's what my comment and increasing awareness is all about, in a thread about an outcome that could have been prevented by the idea.

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Blaze (he/him)

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If admins goes missing like the feddit.de ones did, the same problem would still impact that instance, be it a user or a content instance

If admins just want to shutdown without willing to transfer the instance / domain like the lemm.ee ones did, the same problem would still impact that instance, be it a user or a content instance

Using instances with non profit like fedecan.ca/en/ (lemmy.ca and piefed.ca) seems a better way to mitigate that risk.

Welcome | Fedecan

Discover a new way to connect online. As a Canadian not-for-profit, we can help you join a growing network of federated social media that prioritizes community over profit.

^fedecan.ca

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TheObviousSolution

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

I think you are misunderstanding the problem being solved. Expecting all instances to become non-profits and manage even more responsibility exacerbates the problem and inhibits the fediverse growth. Non-profits also have their share of pitfalls and is an entirely different beast.

lemm.ee told you the reason they were shutting down - not enough people to keep the place running and burnout. I can't force you to see how minimizing and distributing responsibility helps those issues if you don't want to. Less responsibility, easier for people not to ditch projects or end them.

That has nothing to do about what they decided to do afterwards. I thank them for not transferring the instance domain to a completely different party without user consent, and people would have disagreed with that so it's best everyone found their own solution. It would even have put their account information at risk.

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Blaze (he/him)

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lemm.ee told you the reason they were shutting down - not enough people to keep the place running and burnout. I can’t force you to see how minimizing and distributing responsibility helps those issues if you don’t want to. Less responsibility, easier for people not to ditch projects or end them.

Lemm.ee had the option to close their registration at any time. But registrations are only one source of user management.

In a scenario where Lemm.ee would have become a content instance, but kept their federation policy, they would still have received all the reports about posts on the communities they hosted, wherever the reported user comes from.

Lemm.ee was the instance with the most active communities after LW, there's no way to avoid a certain level of responsibility.

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TheObviousSolution

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

Like I said, I can't force you to see it.

In a scenario where Lemm.ee would have become a content instance, but kept their federation policy, they would still have received all the reports about posts on the communities they hosted, wherever the reported user comes from.

Being a dedicated content instance provider would also inherently imply dedicating that instance to a certain, more controlled type of content. An authentication instance might want to cater to a geography, which will probably decide to interact with the rest of the world and to provide adequate verification and certification mechanisms. A content instance might want to cater to a geography or a subject, resulting in specialized participation, with certification and verification based on the content, not the user.

You keep seeing monolithic instances that congregate the most communities as a plus. That's a negative in my perspective on the fediverse. It shouldn't be competing reddit clones with the one having the most communities winning out.

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Blaze (he/him)

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Being a dedicated content instance provider would also inherently imply dedicating that instance to a certain, more controlled type of content. An authentication instance might want to cater to a geography, which will probably decide to interact with the rest of the world and to provide adequate verification and certification mechanisms. A content instance might want to cater to a geography or a subject, resulting in specialized participation, with certification and verification based on the content, not the user.

Those control mechanisms were available to lemm.ee. There's a reason most active instances mostly defederate from certain instances.

You keep seeing monolithic instances that congregate the most communities as a plus. That’s a negative in my perspective on the fediverse. It shouldn’t be competing reddit clones with the one having the most communities winning out.

I don't, I'm the one regularly pushing for more decentralization of communities (reddthat.com/post/20197120 , e.g. !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com vs !privacy@lemmy.ml)

But I would rather have instances use the tools they currently have (and hopefully more will come with Piefed development catching up) rather than trying to re-engineer the whole platform when some instances don't use the existing moderation tools.

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TheObviousSolution

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

Like I said, I can’t force you to see it. The fact that you think it would mean re-engineering the whole platform means you aren't getting it. It's almost literally the suggestion of least effort, it's largely an organizational change that encourages instances not to cope with more responsibility than they can deal with by encouraging decoupling the current structure into two more specialized ones.

If you want re-engineering the whole platform, then I would suggest having all instances be authentication instances and rather than "host" communities to allow users to broadcast to community labels. Have any number of moderation groups be able to be created in an organized on that label or a personalized way by allowing users to select their own curators, perhaps even extrapolating it from the downvotes of trusted users and prioritizing the ranking of those they value. Work on providing a ground.news of discussions instead of biased takes and prunings from those in charge. Allow fast tracking of moderation across these adhoc groups for specially toxic content. That would solve the problem of nobody really going from a 10000 user community that has 100 daily posts to a 10 user community with 2-3 posts a week, because they would all operate within the same community but every user would be able to customize their perspective. The risk then is to balance the bubble they've created with transparency of all the other bubbles people are creating to interact with the community. Each particular instance would be able to be as biased as it wants to particular users or groups of users, but their content would truly be broadcast and federated.

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Blaze (he/him)

in reply to TheObviousSolution • 2 mesi fa • •

Like I said, I can’t force you to see it. The fact that you think it would mean re-engineering the whole platform means you aren’t getting it. It’s almost literally the suggestion of least effort, it’s largely an organizational change that encourages instances not to cope with more responsibility than they can deal with by encouraging decoupling the current structure into two more specialized ones.

You make this about me, but nobody else sees it. As you said, content instance are possible today (admins just have to disable their registrations), but nobody does that.

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TheObviousSolution

in reply to Blaze (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

Cool, I'll come to you to check on the feelings of literally entirely everyone else when I need to. I'm glad everyone went out and got themselves a spokesman. Meanwhile, I'll point you to an earlier mention in my comments about raising awareness.

You shift into completely diametrically opposed claims whenever it seems to suit you and portray a lack of awareness and possibility as consensus in this regard. Is it "trying to re-engineer the whole platform" or is it already "possible today"? There is no use like this because without willingness, people will just set up the instances like they've been told they have and perform slight variations on them. That is no proof or argument against the idea at all from people just following the cookie cutter.

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Blaze (he/him)

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Let's just agree to disagree

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golden_zealot

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

youtu.be/ZOVkYAxHvkk?t=51

- YouTube

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

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uxellodunum

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

A solution to this is Nostr.
One identity across the entire network.

Twitter-like Platform/client dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.

Reddit-like platform/client dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.

PC dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.

Data is sync'd across multiple relays, you can run your own, and clients are interoperable.

It's my go-to now, for everything.
A person's posts, their followers/audience, chats, etc never needs to be migrated.

Media is stored using the Blossom protocol which was created for Nostr.

V4V(Value 4 Value) is also a thing, so instead of just Likes/Reactions you can tip/Zap Sats (Bitcoin over Lightning) but that's optional.

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Ada

in reply to uxellodunum • 2 mesi fa • •

Centralised identity is something that Nostr does right. But it's got a nazi bar problem

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uxellodunum

in reply to uxellodunum • 2 mesi fa • •

It's not centralised though.
It's quite decentralised actually.

As for your "nazi bar problem", I'd suggest you review the relays you connect to. That's the beauty of free speech, and power of choice.

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0x0

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You just lost all the anticryptobros with that last sentence.

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Sibshops

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I think this is the only thing Nostr fixes. It has a lot of other issues, I feel which makes it difficult to scale. Like you can't block anyone, just mute. It's only the text that is distributed, media is still centralized, etc.. You cant stop someone from following you. Metadata about you gets leaked to the network like who you are muting. It doesn't work well if you use two different clients, like desktop and android.

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MentalEdge

in reply to WhyJiffie • 2 mesi fa • •

The content isn't gone.

It's still retained by the various instances that lemm.ee federated with, and entering the url of a lemm.ee post on those instances should still let you find their local copies if they have it.

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WhyJiffie

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yeah but it turns out a lot of my lemm.ee links are not actually to content that's originating from there, but lemm.ee-view links for which if I search, there's no result.

Fortunately I also have the title and image permanently loaded for these links, so I can find them with some manual work

Pro via Technology

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How a Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to streaming success: Pretended to represent The Velvet Sundown as a 'social engineering' experiment

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Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews | TechCrunch

A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according

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#technology

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Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

This is a bit dated, but the case it not yet resolved. If you search it its still pending and in mediation. Life360 is looking to limit who it sells the info to in order to resolve the case. There is no debate that they were selling the info.

classaction.org/news/life360-s…

Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

A class action alleges family tracking app Life360 secretly sells data about users’ locations and movements to third parties.

^{Kelly Mehorter (ClassAction.org)}

#privacy

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mvirts

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As a life360 user, I really don't know how any reasonable person in the last 10 years could sign up and not know they're selling location data. It's a free service primarily designed to track your location. I didn't read the terms, I just assumed it to be true.

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relic4322

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FWIW, traccar seems to be a great alternative. Set it up today. Docker and app on the phone with tailscale. Works well. Can share docker compose file if there is interest.

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[Promoting] Homebox v0.20.0 Released

Homebox v0.20.0 released!

Homebox is proud to announce the release of version v0.20.0!

But first, what is Homebox?

Homebox is the inventory and organization system built for the Home User! With a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Homebox is the perfect solution for your home inventory, organization, and management needs.

About the update

We have officially released v0.20.0 and at the same time are making progress towards v1 (stable). This release covers a range of new features and bug fixes, including:

Fix untranslated strings
Printable label improvements
Move passwords to use Argon2ID
UI improvements
Add page title for label and location pages
Thumbnails
Fixes for our VS Devcontainer
... And much more!

You can see a full list of changes here: Changelog

What about V1..?

Great news! We're making some solid progress towards a v1 release, and have documented our roadmap update here: Homebox v1 Roadmap: Update

Important Note

If you have a custom data path specified for attachments please read the updated documentation to ensure that attachments still work.

Follow the Homebox journey

Translate Homebox: translate.sysadminsmedia.com/

Homebox v1 Roadmap: Update

This is a blog post to outline some changes we're making to the v1 Roadmap, as well as highlighting some of the things from the original we've already completed.

^{Matthew Kilgore (SysAdmins Journal)}

#selfhost

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jlow (he / him)

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Ohhh, I was just thinking the other day that it would be nice to have something like this!

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5PACEBAR

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Oh that's great I was looking for something like this to move away from Notion. Thanks!

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a spectre is haunting NYC

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rizzothesmall

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Socialism != Communism

Socialism advocates for collective or government ownership of key industries to reduce inequality, while communism seeks a classless, stateless society with communal ownership of all property.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to rizzothesmall • 2 mesi fa • •

Kinda? Socialism is a transitional status towards communism. Socialism is largely categorized as a system where public property is the principle aspect, ie large firms and key industries, rather than private. Communism is when socialism has developed to the point where all production has become centralized, and collectively owned, thereby eliminating class and the modern conception of a state.

They are disinct in that they have functional differences, but are the same in that they are largely the same concept but at different historical stages.

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KumaSudosa

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

I think this is way too narrow. Following Marx? For sure, you're right.. but if you look at "Liberalism" - which can span anything from "taxes and government are literal hell" to "we support LGBT rights" - and "Conservatism" - which can span anything from Angela Merkel to Trump to follow-my-millenia-old-book-by-the-letter-or-I-will-murder-you - the word "Socialism" in the modern age can definitely contain nuances as well. For instance the main centre-left party in Denmark is called the "Social Democrats" then right to the left of it you have the "Socialist People's Party" - which is far less revolutionary than it sounds - and then you have a few other parties, including one identifying as "Communist" but which doesn't even really fight for any kind of revolution or the total elimination of class but recognises the requirement for collaboration and compromising when in power.

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zqps

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Political parties can rarely afford to proclaim themselves to be revolutionary, or they'll quickly get banned.

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Saymaz

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"There's a spectre of Communism haunting New York."- Mohammed Kalam Maqsood.

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Trump tells Israel to stop proscecution of Netanyahu, dangles billions in aid

#USA

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Sandouq_Dyatha

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"creating a new holocaust is fine, but we draw the line at corruption"

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geneva_convenience

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This works in Israel because they don't see Palestinians as human. But their own (American paid) tax dollars are a big no-no.

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New VPN Service Can't Log Users by Design - TorrentFreak

New VPN Service Can't Log Users by Design * TorrentFreak

VP.net promises 'cryptographically verifiable privacy' by using Intel SGX enclaves, so even the provider can't track what its users do.

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

#privacy

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ryannathans

in reply to exu • 2 mesi fa • •

Cryptography where users have to trust the server is a bit funky

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𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

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You misspelled "sketchy."

ISOmorph via Linux

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How to undo Firefox changes to the titlebar controls buttons?

Firefox seemingly very recently shipped their own titlebar controls buttons, which worsens even further the lackluster OS integration. In the screenshot you see my regular control buttons on the window to the left (default KDE Plasma theme) and the new custom buttons Firefox is serving now.

Would anyone know how to undo that change in about:config or anywhere else?

#linux

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Frellwit

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bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

1967099 - firefox nightly using custom titlebar buttons irrespective of widget.gtk.non-native-titlebar-buttons.enabled value

RESOLVED (nobody) in Core - Widget: Gtk. Last updated 2025-06-25.

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ISOmorph

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Resolution: --- → WONTFIX

ouch...

Peter Link via United States | News & Politics

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Leaked Chats Show Pro-Israel Extremist Group Betar Organizing Street Confrontations

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32450606

Murtaza Hussain and talia jane
Jun 29, 2025
"Far-right activists, including members of Betar—a pro-Israel extremist group known for racist violence—have been running a constellation of WhatsApp group chats to plan counterprotests against pro-Palestine demonstrations and commit potential hate crimes against Muslims in New York City.
The chat logs show its members, including individuals publicly affiliated with Betar US, discussing a range of plans and ideas...
Betar US also appears to have had some coordination with local government, with one member stating that they were forwarding information to a local state assemblyman."

Peter Link

2025-06-29 17:09:27

Leaked Chats Show Pro-Israel Extremist Group Betar Organizing Street Confrontations

Murtaza Hussain and talia jane
Jun 29, 2025
"Far-right activists, including members of Betar—a pro-Israel extremist group known for racist violence—have been running a constellation of WhatsApp group chats to plan counterprotests against pro-Palestine demonstrations and commit potential hate crimes against Muslims in New York City.
The chat logs show its members, including individuals publicly affiliated with Betar US, discussing a range of plans and ideas...
Betar US also appears to have had some coordination with local government, with one member stating that they were forwarding information to a local state assemblyman."

Leaked Chats Show Pro-Israel Extremist Group Betar Organizing Street Confrontations
The secret chat logs include plans to burn Qurans and attack pro-Palestine protesters with pepper spray.
^{Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)}

#USA

relic4322 via Privacy

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Online Fingerprinting Techniques, lets list them out.

So there are lots of ways to figure out who people are, and I am sure I dont know all of them, but I bet I know some you dont.

Lets put together a list of known ones. Ill start.

(If we dont get a big list, which we may not, for bonus points add techniques to ease drop/intercept information)

fingerprinting techniques
- browser (duh)
- encrypted network traffic analysis, see mullvad link here mullvad.net/en/vpn/daita
- stylometry, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylomet…

study of writing style

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

#privacy

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bacon_pdp

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The CPUID which is hardcoded in to cpu itself

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Em Adespoton

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Remember that fingerprinting can be your friend… because it’s much easier to fake an online fingerprint than a real one.

You can generate a unique fingerprint with each online interaction; this means that you will always have a unique identity.

Or, you can ensure you always have the same fingerprint as a large number of other people.

Think of it as the difference between using a different valid loyalty card each time you shop vs using one of the famous numbers that millions of other people are also using.

Of course, in both circumstances, you do give up the benefits of being uniquely identifiable.

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‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32448865

Miranda Bryant in Thisted
Sun 29 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT

Peter Link

2025-06-29 16:34:17

‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children

Miranda Bryant in Thisted
Sun 29 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT

‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
Two hours after Keira Alexandra Kronvold gave birth, her daughter was taken from her – the third child to be removed from her care following a now-banned assessment that disproportionately targets Inuit women in Denmark.
^{Miranda Bryant (The Guardian)}

#World

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‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children

Miranda Bryant in Thisted
Sun 29 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT

‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children

Two hours after Keira Alexandra Kronvold gave birth, her daughter was taken from her – the third child to be removed from her care following a now-banned assessment that disproportionately targets Inuit women in Denmark.

^{Miranda Bryant (The Guardian)}

#Worldnews

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Samsuma

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why is stealing babies such a common pastime amongst the kolonial konquest klub jfc

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ParadoxSeahorse

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Oh look another genocide of indigenous people

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Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews | TechCrunch

A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according

^{Anthony Ha (TechCrunch)}

#technology

ColdWater via Linux

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ColdWater
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I wasted 2h trying to figure out why GTA V only run at 35fps and use 25w of power, turn out my dumb ass set power profiles daemon to powersaving mode and forgot about it.

I just got this laptop (Asus TUF A15 2021) today and it surprised me that everything works just fine out of the box on Vanilla Arch, except NVIDIA gpu I had to install it manually on battery power that's why I enable powersaving mode. As for games performance it's basically the same as windows no more no less.

#linux

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MonkderVierte

in reply to ColdWater • 2 mesi fa • •

35 fps 25W of power

Sounds like a win to me. Or was it slugish?

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ColdWater

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it's pretty playable considering it's on ultra 1080p, far better than what I used to play.

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Rodneyck via Memes

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Rodneyck
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Slay Him

#memes

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falidorn

in reply to Rodneyck • 2 mesi fa • •

Great book. I’m afraid he learned the wrong lesson though.

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Luouth

in reply to falidorn • 2 mesi fa • •

I can't quite make it out. What is he 'reading'?

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falidorn

in reply to Luouth • 2 mesi fa • •

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

The original cyberpunk story.

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Luouth

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CannonGoBoom via Linux Gaming

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GE-Proton10-5 Released

Nothing too major here, mostly just an update to upstream's code since it's been about 30 days.
- Wine-wayland patches have been updated/rebased, should fix some nvidia crashes, and no longer need this mesa patch: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/me…
- patches added to help with Wuthering Waves.
- protonfixes updated
- protonfix added for Artificial Academy 2
- protonfix added for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
- protonfix added for Anno 1800 from Ubisoft Store
- protonfix added for Anno 1800

vulkan/wsi/wayland: Move drm syncobj to swapchain (!34918) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa · GitLab

Winewayland recreates the swapchain on the same surface, this leads to initialization of the drm syncobj happening twice on one surface, which isn't allowed and then leads to...

^GitLab

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Germany seeks Israeli partnership on cyber defence

Germany is aiming to establish a joint German-Israeli cyber research centre and deepen collaboration between the two countries' intelligence and security agencies, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has said.

According to Bild, Dobrindt outlined a five-point plan aimed at establishing what he called a "Cyber Dome", as part of Germany's cyber defence strategy.

Earlier on Sunday, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder called for the acquisition of 2,000 interceptor missiles to equip Germany with an "Iron Dome" system similar to Israel's short-range missile defence technology.

Germany seeks Israeli partnership on cyber defence

^{Middle East Eye}

#World

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EndlessNightmare

in reply to geneva_convenience • 2 mesi fa • •

Seems like an extreme security risk and an effective way to get stabbed in the back.

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geneva_convenience

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That's the point. Make the country as dependant on Israel as possible so it cannot afford to let Israel fall.

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Germany seeks Israeli partnership on cyber defence

According to Bild, Dobrindt outlined a five-point plan aimed at establishing what he called a "Cyber Dome", as part of Germany's cyber defence strategy.

Germany seeks Israeli partnership on cyber defence

^{Middle East Eye}

#europe

FilthyShrooms via Memes

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And I love them too

#memes

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EldenLord

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Clover lawns are so cool, nice to lie on and good for the bees. Still some dimwits decide to use herbicides on them.

Well, not on my lawn!

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via World News

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Putin Says Russia to Seek Defense Cuts; How Much Depends on War

This is a strong indication that Russians expect the war will be over this year.

archive.ph/53NK0

Putin Says Russia to Seek Defense Cuts; How Much Depends on War

President Vladimir Putin said Russia plans to cut defense spending, acknowledging growing strains on the budget even as he insisted that reductions would depend on winning his war in Ukraine.

^Bloomberg

#Worldnews

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via United States | News & Politics

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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A proposed U.S. sanctions bill against Russia would effectively start a trade war with nearly the entire world

archive.ph/enn9e

#USA

geneva_convenience via UK Politics

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British MPs invite deposed shah's son to promote Iran regime change in parliament

According to an invitation to the event seen by MEE, Pahlavi is set to brief MPs and peers on "the ongoing situation in Iran and his plan for the collapse of the current regime and for a stable transition to a secular democracy".

Akehurst told MEE: "It is for the Iranian people to decide what type of government they want, but clearly MPs are going to be interested in hearing what different opposition voices have got to say about the future of such an important country."

As a staunch defender of a US-backed monarchy that he hopes to bring back to Iran, he has made several visits to Israel, taken photographs with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and cast himself as the only viable leader of a modern Iran if the Islamic Republic collapses.

British MPs invite deposed shah's son to promote Iran regime change in parliament

The son of Iran's ousted shah is set to address British MPs in the UK parliament on Monday, numerous sources within parliament and the Labour Party have told Middle East Eye.

^{Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)}

#uk_politics

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Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

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Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

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Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

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Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

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Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

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