Long shot: Any current way to edit Google Docs on Vim?
Seen a few ways but all seem to be with deprecated/abandoned methods or tools
OK, been looking at this thread and one thing jumps at me: are we reinventing commercial social media algorithms from first principles here?
Correct, it's worse, you can very much argue that Google had good faith intentions, you cannot even pretend that Facebook does while keeping a straight face
I wasn't talking about our users, i was talking about theirs, a direct mirror of what the author described with XMPP
Fuck, that's how it's gonna go, and i hate it
At this point it wouldn't matter, all they need to do is to mess with the protocol and it'd achieve the same thing, Meta and everything in it's sphere would "work well", but connecting with true ActivityPub servers would work just glitchy enough to annoy their users and point the fingers towards our side, just like it happened with XMPP
This is not just people going "Meta bad! Blocked!" as you seem to be arguing, this is the only possible reaction if we want to keep what has been build alive and not be razed to the ground, many of us saw this with our own eyes, me included, either we stop Meta at the door or the Fediverse is going to die, they have zero intentions or incentive to play the good guests here.
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
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This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance
So, to shred or not to shred the Reddit account?
After many days i finally received my GDPR data request, which i supplemented further with reddit-user-to-sqlite, so i have a nice full local copy of my account. Now I'm torn on whether to fully shred the data of the account or just delete it:
- On one side, i highly dislike the idea of willingly contributing to a Wisdom of the Ancients scenario, although it might be a moot point anyway since it looks like Spez wants to wall off Reddit after all
- On the other, fuck Spez and i don't wanna contribute a single cent to their profits
- And as an additional point, it's rather unsettling the amount of info you can gather of somebody from their Reddit posts, just from a privacy point of view
What are your opinions on this?
Edit: Just deleted my RemindMeBot reminders, somehow that felt like it had almost the same finality as deleting my account somehow...
Meta made a secret meeting with signed NDAs with the admins of multiple Matodon instances in preparation for their upcoming Twitter alternative. This of course wasn't taken lightly by people and has caused divisions. This is what i think the best summary of some of the inter-instance drama that happened, maybe the best summary of events in general ever made on the history of the Fediverse
After all the drama revealed on Mastodon by this weekend's shitstorms this feels so damn real now...
Here's the video version for future shitposting
Did a quick check and the admin of your instance maintains privacyguides.org, so it stands to reason to sign
We old-timers are not warning because "it might happen", we're doing it because it has already happened multiple times before
The core of the strategy was delineated by Microsoft when they tried to kill Linux and failed because the strategy was discovered, it's known as Embrace, Extend, Extinguish . And it only failed because of active pushback for years by Linux users.
Have you tried to run your own email server these days? Many have tried for a long time, and end up throwing the towel, because email is now dominated by a few corporations who can decide to reject your small server at a whim, as a sysadmin i've seen this a lot. And email too is an open federated standard, supposedly resistant to failures.
Or XMPP, which was to be the future of chat clients. It was enthusiastically embraced by everyone including Google and Facebook, then once everybody was dependent on their clients they quietly killed support from it.
Let's envision a future where Meta has the biggest share of the Fediverse, the most convenient clients, the most features, like they used to be. That's when enshittification step 2 starts, and they start slowly cutting off anything not under their direct control. Just like they did with XMPP, just like it was done with email. And like WhatsApp and various other things, you don't want to stop using it because you now rely on it for your communication, and when you try to tell people to follow you to the free part they look at you like you're an alien. They won.
This is not flights of fancy, this all has happened before. Yeah, Charlie Brown, Lucy is not going to take away the ball this time. And we continue to warn it because it's bonkers to us that you cannot see it.
Apparently he has a history of behavior that led to mastodon.art defederating from Universeodon, seems to be a true techbro (P92 is the Meta thing, he seems to have dollar signs in his eyes at the mention of it)
Essentially at some point in the past few days (we don't know when for reasons that will be clear), it was revealed that Meta had a meeting with unnamed admins of big Mastodon instances, presumably about facilitating their entrance on Fediverse, making them sign an NDA.
Seems like Eugen Rochko, admin of the biggest Mastodon instance (mastodon.social) and maintainer of the protocol was in it, and we suspect that the maintainer of mstdn.social and of Universeodon were in too. We don't yet know who else. I made a post about it with some evidence and more info.
Of course people in the Fediverse are about the least Meta-friendly people you'll find, so that petition sprouted as a reaction, looks like people will outright wall-off any instance connected with Meta.
Since this shitstorm is barely a day or two old there hasn't been that many developments but i imagine that there will be consequences, maybe premature defederation of these instances, forking of the Mastodon code, we don't know yet, we'll see.
Supernaut set up a page to follow which instances have signed the Anti-Meta Fedipact
That and his previous statements say that he's not in it, good!
Seems like it, the fact that Rochko deleted the message AND purged it from Internet Archive is concerning, saved here.
Rumors of a secret meeting under NDA between big Fediverse instance admins and Meta
Apparently there was a secret meeting between admins of big Fedi instances and Meta, closed under an NDA, and of course they're not saying anything.
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110548174843564104 (Now deleted even from Internet Archive)
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/110548129223290575
https://universeodon.com/@supernovae/110521648872299829
Somebody already made a pact to publicly commit admins to block Meta
Now we see why concentrating users on big instances is a liability
Update: Supernaut directly stated that he hasn't been contacted or attended a meeting, and went further to set up a page to visualize instances entering the Anti-Meta Fedipact
Those of you that had decade-old+ Reddit accounts that overwrote them, how long did it took?
I mean, those of you who used to have 10+ years old accounts that then went and overwrote them using something like Shreddit or Power Delete, how long did it took for it to go through all that?
It's frankly a bullshit excuse, the devs of a handful of apps don't make any sort of megabucks. The prices given were Fuck Off prices, the ones you give knowing they're exaggerated and unreasonable to someone you want to go away. They wanted to just kill them off. The fact that this happened after Reddit out and out neglected mobile access for years until 3rd party apps existed, then bought out one, stripped it for parts and threw it out to make their monstrosity is specially jarring.
I think you mean Digg
And that too is an achievement unlocked! 😄
Been there, done that, got some premature white hairs :P
Lemmy is in serious need of more devs
After the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier i checked the Lemmy repo to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon's that people mentioned Lemmy doesn't yet have. Not only i didn't find it, i also saw that there's about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it's maintained mostly by the two main devs, the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast. This is normal and in other circumstances it'd grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don't have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I'm a sysadmin, haven't coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven't ever touched Rust, so can't help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that's PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.
Somebody gave me this link earlier as to why they don't like the Fediverse, from the perspective of an user
something that sort of confuses me about the fediverse, conceptually, is the idea that these disparate apps are cross-compatible in some way. like obvs there's mastodon-compatible platforms (pleroma, akkoma, etc) but in general other fediverse (pixelfed, kbin) are either only partially compatible1 o...
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The core phrase of the blog post: "no one has done an especially good job explaining why the fediverse is better than centralized solutions".
Feels to me that it's all growing pains, we WOULD benefit for a federated auth system instead of an account on every service, and we need lots of bug fixing, i just wish all these social media shitstorms had happened a couple years later and not at this point...
What's up with many Fediverse services not having a public timeline?
Now that i'm getting used to being in Fedi long term i've started looking beyond Mastodon and Lemmy to the other services. And now i've started to see that some of the services, like Pixelfed, Friendica and others don't seem to have a public timeline. Seems specially absurd for Pixelfed since you WANT your photos to be visible to everybody but haven't found any instance yet that does it (maybe i'm unlucky, dunno). Is there a reason why this happens? Seems counterproductive for people who might or might not want to join the given server, you want to know what you're getting into.
For those of you that did the GDPR data request to Reddit, how did you get the info?
Was it through a PM? To your email? How?
Lemmy, privacy and potential GDPR violations
Been just linked to this post, that claims that on Lenny:
- Messages are never deleted, only hidden, a GDPR violation
- Deleted usernames are also not deleted, only hidden, same thing
- Stuff remains on federated servers even if you delete it
- There's no way to delete yourself from the network if you choose to do so
Gut feeling says none of this is true or is only half truths, but want to be sure before i invest myself heavily on this platform.
Missing federated comments on post
Earlier accidentally opened a post i had answered to, not located on Beehaw, on the original instance. To my surprise it has a lot of comments on the original instance that don't show up here.
Is it that i'm doing something wrong, or is this some kind of actual bug or tech issue?
SNORT has a rule against .ml domains
Was looking for something else and noticed that SNORT has an explicit rule against .ml domains, automatically flags any DNS query for a .ml domain as "suspicious malware activity". I know that Meraki by default takes these kinds of rules as "Block this", and likely other corporate appliances, so there might be people unable to reach lemmy.ml through them. I imagine there's not many but hey :) The site mentions "No reported false positives" for the rule, might be a good idea to register at least one :)