flamingos-cant
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Provide the ability for users to migrate their account and all associated data (posts, comments, moderation actions, saved posts, etc.) from one Lemmy instance to another.
To implement this feature you’d either have to:
- Edit the DB entries of every instance to match the new profile;
- Create copies of the old content on the new instance and federate that out, thus duplicating all the data. You could have it delete the old content, but you’d still need to recreate all the posts and comments.
Either of these would be very susceptible to abuse. Giving bad actors a button to force instances to run hundreds, potentially thousands, of operations probably isn’t the best of ideas.
flamingos-cant@ukfli.ukto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed”English
3·2 years agoIt’s hard to give a direct source because he’s deleted quite a bit but this thread has a screenshot.
flamingos-cant@ukfli.ukto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed”English
302·2 years agoThe person who runs it doesn’t recommend Lemmy because of the political opinions of its main developers.
Kinda funny now given that Eugene of Mastodon has signed an NDA with Facebook.
Writing shit on public toilets is one of humanity’s great pastimes.
Yeah, but pair it with the exact wording of how Stallman walked back the paedophilia comment:
Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.
Through personal conversations in recent years, I’ve learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically.
It’s importan to remember that Stallmen only considers people up to the age of 13 children.
No state that includes Quebec can be considered great.
Also why is Utah highlighted.
flamingos-cant@ukfli.ukto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•thanks for the transition, EmacsEnglish
29·2 years agoSure, but software that targets a moving platform like Emacs can often break. I’m commenting on how stable Emacs is, even past major releases (25->29 in this case).
flamingos-cant@ukfli.ukto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•thanks for the transition, EmacsEnglish
63·2 years ago> Look up package
> hasn’t been updated in 7 years
> install it and it still worksGod, I love emacs
The idea we don’t hate on Musk is genuinely insane. His hate subreddit even got brought over (!enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world).
You could’ve chosen literally any other billionaire and you would’ve had a point.
flamingos-cant@ukfli.ukto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend?English
3·2 years agoI use Tilix, mostly because I’m used to it. I should probably upgrade to the plethora of new GTK4 terminal emulators, but I just can’t be bothered. Plus none of them support tiling.
What kind of monster writes lisp with the closing bracket on its own line.
flamingos-cant@ukfli.ukto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why.English
3·2 years agoTrue. That would be true of any platform which allows tips, you’d have to connect to some source of money whether it be paypal or crypto. Paypal’s fees would be prohibitively expensive but it would be theoretically doable. Either way, it’s a <5 minute setup process if they care to do it.
But people already have Paypal and understand how to use it. Most people don’t understand cryptocurrency, and don’t want anything to do with it because of its association with scams.
Interesting I didn’t know AP supported E2E. I guess it’s Mastodon that doesn’t support that element of the AP protocol then?
Here’s the issue.
Also, I looked in to Nostr a bit for this and do you seriously think profile links like this will catch on with people?
https://primal.net/p/460c25e682fda7832b52d1f22d3d22b3176d972f60dcdc3212ed8c92ef85065c
Say what you want about AP, but usernames like <(at) makeasnek (at) lemmy.ml> are at least memorable. How am I suppose to tell someone IRL about my Nostr profile, say of a 64 bit string out loud?
flamingos-cant@ukfli.ukto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why.English
3·2 years agoThis assumes platforms win based on technical details, which they don’t. Mastodon will probably ‘win’ (whatever that means) because of network effects and general culture.
Nostr has an optional built-in tipping functionality where you can leave tips for users whose content you like. You can tip a fraction of a penny or $100. And users can tip you. This has a few effects. For one, it incentivizes people to use nostr. Non-profit orgs, for example, can use it to fundraise.
But user have to be technically minded enough, and willing, to set up a crypto wallet to do this.
In mastodon, admins can read your DMs. If you DM somebody on another instance, that’s two instances that can read your DMs, and so can anybody who breaks into their server. In nostr, all DMs are encrypted by default and can only be read by the intended recipient.
E2E encryption is possible with AP. Besides, if what you’re talking about needs to be unreadable to third parties, you should probably use something like Matrix or Signal, especially considering how bad Mastodon’s DMs actually are.





According to this it’s just a coincidence.