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  • I think this is very hard at this point. Manny Fediverse communities are quite small and fear that their community will be flooded with content from any external platform. We even saw this when a lot of Reddit users came over to Lemmy. So in those cases there will be a lot of distrust.

    Smaller companies could easily use a more strictly controlled* Lemmy instance to provide a space for their community. That would allow people to interact with that community without having to setup a new account. *Tightly moderated and limited to admin created communities.

    But anything large will just be distrusted as long as the platform is much larger than large Fediverse instances. Maybe EU law could help to protect the Fediverse from EEE. But EU law also moves slow, and we don’t want laws slowing down the growth of the Fediverse either.



  • Isn’t this just what many people predicted what would happen when everybody would use adblock? Now most people use some kind of blocker and some browsers even ship with a content blocker. Now pages need to make money in another way, so that’s either subscriptions, donations. or just force people to watch the ads anyway. I doubt people would want to donate any money to YouTube so then you get this.

    It is not nice for users, but without income they would have to shut the site down. The same will happen when Lemmy gets popular, people will really have to donate to instance owners or they will also be forced to get money in another way.


  • Wat ik begreep zijn er inderdaad al NSFW communities die pornografische inhoud met getekende minderjarigen toestaan, wat in Nederland gewoon illegaal is. Piracy moet je ook mee oppassen natuurlijk, je wil niet dat de instance neergehaald wordt omdat een klein gedeelte van de gebruikers bijvoorbeeld licentiesleutels gaat delen. Je kan denk ik wel pas actie ondernemen op het moment dat er klachten komen.

    Maar op het moment dat je hier cheats voor games gaat promoten en verkopen kan je het wel vergeten dat je hier interactie met game developers krijgt en kan je eerder verwachten dat game developers gaan proberen om je instance neer te halen en zal het ook verboden worden in andere communities om naar Lemmy te linken.


  • MLem (the iOS Lemmy app) was also showing the user karma (but I think it was only showing karma gained on the local instance). So I guess this is nice for people that like to know their karma.

    I also agree with @nlm@beehaw.org that we should leave this as a thing for yourself. The Lemmy API should not bother with reporting user karma as It would be way too easy to cheat for people with singe person instances. (and of course the toxicity that comes with karma)





  • Dit klopt ja, op het moment dat je een zoekopdracht uitvoert geef je Lemmy de opdracht om ook op andere instances te kijken. de c/community links kijken alleen in de cache omdat er van de server verwacht wordt dat hij meteen reageert.

    Het ophalen van communities en posts gebeurt met “workers” dus dit kan soms even duren als de Lemmy server geen “workers” beschikbaar heeft omdat het aan het nog bezig is om andere posts en communities bij te werken. Hierdoor zou het nooit kunnen garanderen dat het binnen de tijd van een normaal web request de community op kan halen, dus daarom kijkt zo’n c/community link alleen in de cache.


  • Dit is meer een probleem van de app, er zijn op dit moment goede redenen om nog op 0.17.4 te blijven en veel van de grote Lemmy servers (bijv lemmy.world) zitten dus ook nog op die versie. In versie 0.18.0 werkt Captcha niet meer en het plan is om die in versie 0.18.1 weer toe te voegen.

    We hebben net een storm van gehad van bots die duizenden accounts aanvroegen bij Lemmy servers (instances) waar je geen captcha nodig hebt. Op het moment dat er geen mail verificatie is, heb je dan duizenden accounts die zomaar in spam bots omgezet kunnen worden. En voor servers die wel mail verificatie hebben zorgt dit ervoor dat ze tegen hun limieten aanlopen om mails te sturen, waardoor normale gebruikers geen account meer kunnen aanmaken. Dus voor nu is het gewoon het beste idee voor veel servers om te wachten op Lemmy 0.18.1




  • Pekka@feddit.nltoLemmy@lemmy.mlenough with the circle jerk
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    2 years ago

    I agree that we need to focus on actual content. I’m trying to regularly post and engage in communities about things other then Lemmy and Reddit, but it isjust rough to get this started especially for topics that are less popular. You don’t just want to post without response.

    I do keep my sorting by subscriptions and just subscribed to a whole bunch of communities. I noticed that for me more than half of all posts seem to come from Beehaw even though they are smaller than Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world. It is a good idea to look outside the bounds of your instance.


  • For me it was a nice improvement. I liked the new window snapping feature that allows to you quickly snap an application to half or a quarter of your screen. But honestly there aren’t that many differences compared to my work laptop on Windows 10, I never regretted updating though.

    I also used Linux for gaming, most of the time you will be able to get things to work. But sometimes you will have small issues in games and way worse support from the developers.


  • but outside of your own server pretty much nobody will care. Lemmy is federated over multiple jurisdictions, so even with full deletion implemented there’ll almost certainly be instances which will ignore the deletion request - and it will be completely legal for them to do so

    Lemmy also seems to federate your matrix_user_id, that is clear personal data. It does not matter how the data gets to the federated server, this is still user data within the scope of the GDPR. It does not matter that that server does not have an agreement with the user, the instance that would ignore a GPDR related deletion request would be in direct violation of the GDPR. Maybe it can do that without consequences, though.

    I completely understand that making Lemmy fully GPDR compliant will probably be impossible, however I don’t like the approach of “we will not succeed, so we don’t make any attempt”. Instances should actually delete data when that is requested, or instance hosts can get fined. For now, Lemmy has bigger issues to solve, but eventually they should do at least a best effort attempt to respect user data.