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- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 1 year ago:
I suppose it could still be done as a read-only display of content …
If the content is hyperlinks / torrent links to copyrighted content, then even a read-only copy is illegal. Lemmy (by virtue of ActivityPub) isn’t designed to access stuff remotely - the closest it could probably come would be to have links to the posts on the remote community, though adding a level of indirection is probably not enough to become legal.
If you want to do illegal stuff on the internet, you need to use services that are hosted where it isn’t illegal. People yelling about freedom doesn’t change the fact that admins aren’t willing to go to jail for your warez.
- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 1 year ago:
Is there a place for something in between de-federated and federated?
That’s what blocking a community is - if the instance does not allow anyone to subscribe to a community, the content from that community will not be mirrored locally.
Is there not some kind of ‘gray-list’ that would allow risky content to stay accessible through home instances but behave more as a direct link
The indirect approach you describe isn’t compatible with the underlying ActivityPub protocol. My understanding is that all communities are effectively local, even when their home is on a different instance. Federation just allows modification of the “local” content by another instance.
(That is not to say that technology@lemmy.world is the same community as technology@lemmy.ml, rather that the two communities are accessed in the same way by the UI)
- Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world 1 year ago:
Defederating cuts off the whole instance. They just blocked those three piracy communities as far as I understand.
- Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world 1 year ago:
Remember that lemmy.world has to keep a copy of whatever content appears in a federated community on their servers, making them legally liable for the content. At least they just blocked the community instead of defederating.
- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 1 year ago:
This is the solution. Communities need to congregate on smaller, like-minded instances. It makes sense to concentrate users on large instances, but communities should be spread out.
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
The Protestant Work Ethic equated Christian values with material success.
- Comment on would would the average skin tone and facial features after 300 years? 1 year ago:
I think having a 300 year life span would tend to select for darker skin and possibly other traits that would better survive 300 years of exposure - enough to distinguish it from any existing ethnicity.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It is fairly common among Catholics. I’ve known some fairly progressive Catholics who are Republicans because abortion. Now, that isn’t to say that a good number haven’t bought into the divisive rhetoric and gone full maga, but that’s not where they started.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It is a wedge issue that has locked a portion of the population who are single issue voters into being Republicans despite literally all their other beliefs. That is basically what all the non-financial planks of the Republican platform have on common.
- Comment on How do I find news without using Social Media? 1 year ago:
People of the United States. Some take exception to calling them Americans when the entire continent is named “North America”
- Comment on Why does “come here” bother me so much? 1 year ago:
This is a pet peeve of mine as well.
Long ago I noticed that on Star Trek, nobody wanted to tell the captain what was going on over the comms, they wanted the captain to stop what they were doing and go to a different part of the ship / station. I always eyerolled at the absurdity of the staff having so little respect for the captain’s time.
Then it started happening to me. I’m not a captain, my time isn’t that important, but have a little respect for what I’m currently engaged in? maybe?
- Comment on What happened to !watchlemmydie@lemmy.world? 1 year ago:
Lemmy died. Nothing to see here.
- Comment on Do you feel this place has gotten more.. reddit-y lately? 1 year ago:
This
- Comment on Problem with pinned posts not unpinning in different instances 1 year ago:
Hm, you are right - looks like it has gotten worse.
The bug I referenced has been confirmed to be a federation issue, so it might be related. It does seem to be intermittent when the mod is native, where it is 100% when the mod is remote.
- Comment on Problem with pinned posts not unpinning in different instances 1 year ago:
This sounds like a known issue: moderators setting a post to featured doesn’t work properly if they are logged in to an instance other than the one the community is hosted on.
- Comment on How do I find news without using Social Media? 1 year ago:
I used to use the chart from AdFontes - I preferred its granularity, but they have gone to a login wall. I don’t need more accounts and tracking.
- Comment on How do I find news without using Social Media? 1 year ago:
I almost listed CBC, but most USians would consider CBC to have a liberal bias. Then again, many USians think math has a liberal bias.
- Comment on How do I find news without using Social Media? 1 year ago:
Do you want information or rage bait?
For information, go to AP and Reuters. Maybe the BBC. That’s what’s leg. Everything else is “entertainment “.
- Comment on How can I unmark NSFW posts on a community I moderate? 1 year ago:
Are you logged in to the instance that hosts the sub? There is a known bug that some stuff doesn’t work for remote mods.
- Comment on Is there such thing as a private community on Lemmy? 1 year ago:
Exactly. The mechanisms needed to implement it are there, but I don’t think the devs are interested in much more than making it more stable and robust right now.
- Comment on Being subscribed to similar communities on multiple instances and seeing duplicates 1 year ago:
Why do people insist that there needs to be (for example) /c/politics on every instance? Really, there are only 3 or 4 with any substantial traffic, and there are good reasons to pick one over the others, and they are the same good reasons for them to be separate.
- Comment on Is Lemmy "just" Usenet plus voting? 1 year ago:
Yes, but google is paying for the newsfeed. You don’t have to pay to access the fediverse.
- Comment on Being subscribed to similar communities on multiple instances and seeing duplicates 1 year ago:
There is a cross post feature, and the resuting post appears to be aware it was cross posted - it would be nice if Lemmy would consolidate those to one post that appears in multiple communities, or at least show you only one of them.
- Comment on Is Lemmy "just" Usenet plus voting? 1 year ago:
My recollection is that access to Usenet requires a paid feed. Anyone can spin up a Lemmy server if they are willing to deal with the administrative hassle.
- Comment on Is Lemmy "just" Usenet plus voting? 1 year ago:
They can and do. Every sub has a unique name.
The complaint is that there isn’t a single entity who gets to decide which sub is the authoritative sub for a topic. Which is a feature, not a bug.
Communities will coalesce around certain subs that work, and they will rise up over the alternatives. We’re just in ego-land-grab mode right now.
- Comment on Does a cat ever wonder why humans feed them? 1 year ago:
I think this is essentially the answer to OP - Cats understand the concept of feeding their family, and eventually figure out that the person is a pretty effective provider.
- Comment on Telly starts shipping its free ad-supported 55-inch TVs 1 year ago:
All I learned I learned from telly
The bigger the telly, the smarter the man
You can tell from my big telly
Just how clever a feller I am!