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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I mean this is the unnicest way possible, but this is the worst possible government we could have for the moment. A violent, racist mob descended on the capital and this is the line the govt is pushing.

People at this protest were literally calling for Starmer to be assassinated.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or for the new crosspost display to be collpased by default.

That's what Photon and Thunder do and imo, it works pretty well. Especially for posts with like a 10 crossposts, example.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fact nunchucks don't involve either throwing or nuns has always felt like a cop out to me.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Oh, I thought blacksky.comnunity used Blacksky's relay. If it uses Bluesky's then yeah, disregard what I said.

That's not a perfect analogy though because Blacksky makes different moderation decisions than Bluesky.

I'd hope so given how abysmal Bluesky's moderation is. The discovery feed is filled with transphobia, but you can't say Charlie Kirk should rest in piss.

Again though it's not a perfect analogy because the AT Protocol architecture lets you migrate all your data between PDSs seamlessly, and so far only a few niche ActivityPub implementations support that (Hubzilla et al with nomadic identity, ActivityPods using Solid Pods).

I don't believe Hubzilla's nomatic identity works with APub though, irrc it uses something called Zot.

I've been thinking about how to add nomatic identity to Lemmy quite a bit and it's something I'd like to work on after 1.0 is out, but it's hard a problem for sure.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (7 children)

A better analogy would probably saying it's like Bing/Google. They're independent of each other but broadly what's on one is on the other.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If an author of a post has enabled quoting, you’ll see an option to quote their post under a new menu accessed from the Boost button.

Oh no, I hate this kind of interface. If I a click a button, it should do something, not open a menu.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

independent but still connected (think about Lemmy instances)

It's not really connected in the same sense two Lemmy instances are connected. They're able to pull in the same data as Bluesky as it's all public and PDSs don't really have the ability to block a relay from crawling them.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago

The idea that you using a VPN makes a child less safe is just plainly absurd and yes this is the line the government is pushing (video is Peter Kyle, former technology minister now the business minister after the reshuffle).

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

Piefed's implementation is based off how Lemmy does it. Though, how Lemmy does it has changed.

Looking at the Lemmy implementation, I see it added a custom display_name field instead of the preferredUsername/name dynamic you'd normally use for Objects, ugh.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

The discourse around decentralisation has elevated a form of network architecture that facilitates and contributes to a healthier social internet into a goal into itself.

Big agree with this.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That doesn’t feel like how search should work. It should be ranking results that fit the search query better higher than ones that fit it less.

But the existing filters already prescribe an order outside of how closely the search term matches, you brought up top month and I don't see how you'd want that to work other than a binary filter sorted by votes.

What you're describing would be a new sort order, analogous to Reddit's 'Relevance' sort. It's certainly doable with postgres' builtin distancing operators, though it be slower.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, you can see it in action here: https://feddit.uk/post/32410792

 
 

Over the past few months in particular, the Social Web Community Group has seen an increase in heated discussions online that have been arguing protocol superiority and creating conflict between ActivityPub and AT Protocol, or trying to promote one over the other. These discussions have generally not been productive, created contention within the community that stands in the way of collaboration, and been a hotbed for conflict, disagreements, and misinformation. There has often been significant biases exhibited within these conversations.

ActivtyPub in its current usage does make different design decisions to AT Protocol, but ActivityPub is not necessarily that different from AT Protocol: both are open social web protocols.

There is an entire section of the ActivityPub specification that isn't as well known or widely adopted but which, at a high level, provides fairly similar ideas to those emphasized within the AT Protocol community for separation between data, identity and applications. Recently, a taskforce within the Social Web Community Group has been established to advance what is now known as the ActivityPub API.

Whilst we may have our differences at present, over time those gaps will narrow, as we share a lot more in common than we have differences.

There does not have to be a “winning” protocol. We do not build a better open social web for everyone by fighting and arguing about protocol superiority. That is not how we achieve a better open social web. Instead, we must work together, cross-pollinate and share ideas, and participate within each other's communities with respect and mutual understanding. Arguing between us only emboldens those that seek to derail and destroy efforts to build an open social web.

The practice of collaboration outside of our own groups has a long history within the standards community, whether that is with competing companies working together on standards or protocols, or collaboration between different standards bodies like the W3C and IETF.

There has already been cross-pollination of ideas between the people working on ActivityPub and AT Protocol. For example, AT Protocol adopted an internet draft that was originally written to support the ActivityPub ecosystem, and projects within ActivityPub have adopted some ideas on content labeling and starter packs from the AT Protocol ecosystem.

Both ActivityPub and AT Protocol can and do co-exist. This co-existence is perhaps best emphasized by the outstanding work of Bridgy Fed project, which connects ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and other protocols together allowing for interoperability and community that crosses between protocols. If you wanted to summarise this letter on a t-shirt, it would be “People > Protocols > Platforms”.

This statement is a call for cooling the temperature of discussions and a reminder to be respectful of each other and the huge amount of work everyone is putting in to build a better open social web. We do not win by tearing each other down, which only emboldens and empowers those who do not want either protocol to succeed.

This statement was written following an initial discussion at this month's Social Web Community Group meeting, and has been reviewed by several members of the CG.

 

Mark Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy lawyer from Indiana, has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta.

 
 
 
 
 

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and his so-called ‘DOGE’ (Department of Government Efficiency) leader Zia Yusuf hailed the work of Reform’s dozen councils in a press conference on Monday.

However, their praise excluded the many Reform councillors who have already had to stand down, or who face investigations for alleged misconduct, since May’s local elections.

At least 15 Reform councillors have been suspended, expelled, or have quit since being elected earlier this year, with at least four facing criminal investigations, Byline Times can report.

Some quit within days of being elected, whilst others were caught sharing Hitler memes, spouting racist conspiracy theories, or are now the subject of police probes or prosecutions.

 

I can't find the original artist unfortunately :(

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