SavvyWolf

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Lemmy Servers and different registrations in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From a technical standpoint, there is no real difference, it comes down to how the instance owner feels it's best to run the server.

Ultimately, instances (or at least the ones most people want to join) want to keep rulebreakers, trolls and spam out. There are two main ways of doing this:

  • Proactively: By attempting to prevent bad actors from signing up in the first place.
  • Reactively: Allow everyone to sign up, and ban bad actors when they misbehave.

Of course, there is a lot of debate as to which of these methods are better (beehaw, for example, fundamentally doesn't think a reactive approach can work at all), which causes tension between some instances.

This tension can rise to a point where one instance "defederates" from another, meaning they stop talking to each other and you can't interact with one if you have an account with the other.

Do we have a "Find a Community" community in the Fediverse? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

https://sub.rehab/ Is also useful, if you want to look up by subreddit.

Copyleft is the only way. in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I will say, as I've grown older and more jaded, I've been finding the GPL more and more appealing...

Edit: Oh wow, why did a year old post show up at the top of "Hot", sorry about bumping.

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[Vote] Use the Fediverse Overseer to pre-emptively defederate from suspected botted instances (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.works to c/agora@sh.itjust.works
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See the tool here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/95652

And some discussion of the issue here: https://lemm.ee/post/177673

This tool produces a list of instances which have a very high number of users compared to the number of comments and posts. These instances are assumed to have high number of bot accounts on them.

Some other instances have started blocking them, should sh.itjust.works follow suit?

Of course, this need not be permanent, and will be reversed when those instances resolve the issue.

For reference, this is a list of instances suspected of being botted by the tool's default settings: https://overseer.dbzer0.com/api/v1/instances?activity_suspicion=20&domains=true

Ayes and nays please!

What will happen to Brave browser after the manifest change? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Out of interest, since Chromium is open source, is there anything stopping Opera, Edge, Brave, etc. just mantaining support for the old manifest? Like, I'm not sure why this is such a big deal for anything other than Chrome and Chromium.

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[Vote] Require a valid non-temporary email on signup (sh.itjust.works)
 

Registrations should require a valid email address and temporary/disposable (e.g. temp-mail.org ) email services should be rejected.

Note this should not be implemented as a whitelist; "obscure" email services such as Protonmail, Tutanota and personal email servers should be allowed.

Pros:

  • Cuts down on the number of trolls attempting to register, reducing load on mods and admins.
  • Improves our standing with other instances.
  • Ensures users have the ability to reset their password.

Cons:

  • Has privacy concerns - people may not want to associate their email address with everything.
  • Users may not (and perhaps should not have to) trust the admins of this instance with their email.
  • May not be supported well by Lemmy, and/or require a blacklist that needs updating.

Aye and nay in the comments, please.

You can always rely on grandma in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Fun fact: If you google those codes you find out that they are "real" codes, but they don't actually activate Windows. I think they are something that are used as placeholders in the upgrade from Windows 8 to 10 or something, but don't know the specifics.

ChatGPT actually can't create new "words", just regurgitate words that it's seen somewhere before!

Beehaw defederating update - sh.itjust.works in c/main@sh.itjust.works
[–] SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a quick idea I had, and this may have been suggested before and maybe be untenable. But... Could communities be made invite/approval only as well as instances?

For example, on beehaw they want to ensure that everyone posting to their communities have been vetted in some way. So could have all the communities not allow posts by who haven't agreed to beehaw's "content policy"? Either by naturally having an account on beehaw, or by submitting a request to a moderator of the community.

Would allow people on other instances to see and follow those posts (but not post themselves, unless they go through beehaw's approval process), and beehaw people to go and interact with other communities on other instances.

Why did you choose your instance? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I joined Beehaw early on when things where a lot quieter because I liked what they were trying to do (and back then there were only like two instances, and I didn't want to put more load on lemmy.ml).

Joined sh.itjust.works to make a community after the sysadmin just casually walked up with a huge server, which is a level of swagger I can get behind. I've since moved to this as my "main" account since Beehaw defederated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (which sucks, but is understandable).

May move again to pawb.social at some point, although that means people will know something about me. :P

Edit: And now pawb.social has defederated with sh.itjust.works... I'm getting more and more tempted to just roll my own personal instance just for me...