UnanimousStargazer

joined 2 years ago
[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago

What will Apple do if they if the EU continues their plans with regard to client side scanning? That's not one country, but many.

Apple previously planned on introducing client side scanning, but backed out after they received a high amount of critique.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I agree this unwanted behavior of Lemmy. It's a variation on 'security by obscurity'. It's 'social security' by obscurity. Except that it isn't obscure at all.

I didn't know Kbin users could see the upvotes, but I've just discovered that kbin users only see favorites. Just like on Mastodon.

Check out the Kbin page @banaflip@kbin.social shared in another comment. You can see who upvoted your comment under 'activity'. If you upvote my comment, my comment favorite count increases with one. And you can see you are one of the 'upvoters' under favorites.

If however you downvote my comment, one of the favorites appears to get removed. By you. Even if you didn't upvote before. At least, that's what I think happened when I tried this on another comment.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Well, that's about it. But isn't this strange?

  • Upvotes/downvotes are actually favorites on Kbin
  • If a Lemmy user downvotes a Kbin comment, one favorite gets removed

At least, that's what appears to be happening. You can check for yourself with the link provided to the Kbin instance above.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Interesting. But that's more like the Mastodon favorite I guess. And considering the heavy Mastodon/Kbin similarities, that's not surprising of course.

There's also a downvote and upvote section, but those are all empty.

I'll deliberately try to downvote your comment to see what happens.

Edit: indeed, there's no downvote. Just one less upvote. How does this work?

Edit2: I've undone my downvote and now two favorites show again. But what's weird is that my downvote simply removed the upvote of the (first?) upvoter of your comment. Is this really what Kbin does? You cannot start removing upvotes of random other users can you?

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Isn't that weird?

Kbin users can see it, admins can see it, but Lemmy users cannot.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apparently, Kbin users can also see what Lemmy users upvote them. Is that correct?

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

No, what I mean is that any user can randomly start sending DMs to another user and I don't want any DMs.

Blocking is an action when the DM was already received.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

if not most mobile apps don't even support DMs at all, so you can use those.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not a suitable work around for me.

I use Voyager and consider it by far the best client, but I'm not going to switch apps because Lemmy doesn't allow DMs to be blocked.

It's also not just about hiding, but the sender should be aware the DM cannot be send.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You cannot block a user that already send you a message.

You also cannot delete a DM unless the administrator helps you. If you receive abusive material you're more or less stuck with it.

I don't want DMs, but I must accept them now.

[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago

You don't need to allow other people on your server.

 

Much like Meta has decided to join the fediverse, Reddit could also decide to setup it's own instance(s) and federate with the existing Lemmy instances.

What is your opinion about that? Should your instance block a Reddit instance? Or would you welcome it?

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