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Pamasich

@ Pamasich @kbin.earth

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  • When exactly does something count as part of the Fediverse?

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  • I think you can look at this in a gatekeeping way and a functional way. I'm personally anti-gatekeeping, so there's that.

    What I mean with functional is: why do you care about whether something is part of the fediverse? Obviously because you want to talk to it. You want to be able to reach it from places like Mastodon.

    I see no benefit in worrying whether something is based on ActivityPub or merely supports it as one of several protocols. It remains reachable either way, unless your own platform restricts you like in Lemmy's case.

    That said, I do see your point regarding optionality. I think instances that choose not to use the fediverse plugin of their software aren't part of the fediverse. But that's no reason to call the software itself not a part of it. Just means users need to put extra effort into choosing an instance.

  • cssDOOM

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  • Besides the missing floors here and there, this runs really good on Edge for me.

  • [PlayStation] [DRM] Licenses now requires an online check-in every 30 days.

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  • I can tell someone is salty about Stop Killing Games making progress with the EU.

  • Why do a majority of nation's flags use the rectangular shape except Nepal?

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  • Worth noting that while the rest of the world uses rectangles, it's not always the same dimensions.

    The Swiss flag, for example, is explicitly square. If it's not square, it's actually the maritime version specifically.

  • Commands/formatting for posting to Lemmy from Mastodon

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  • @Fu@hostux.social Sadly Mastodon isn't really ideal for posting to Lemmy.

    In the federated ActivityPub document, the URL of a Lemmy link post is just a link attachment. So if Mastodon allows you to add arbitrary attachments not limited to images, then maybe there is a way. But otherwise you're probably out of luck there.

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • This bill requires the OS to ask you for your birth date, explicitly the birth date. That's all the age verification it requires. So I'm not sure how that's "not going to qualify as age verification". Why would the very method specified in the bill not count? There's no requirement to use other methods to verify the age you're given. The user just selects their birth date freely and the OS accepts it and that's it if they're not underage.

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • I'm personally against this kind of thing, but I hate how much of a fantasy echo chamber this stuff is here. There's so much misinformation and hyperbole in this thread alone.

    In general I support the idea of device-level age verification. The narrative around it uses old school methods only (this one goes with just inputting your date of birth, which I've already done for years for stuff like Steam), rather than the ID or face scan by random third parties methods used in age verification discussions and requirements elsewhere. In my opinion software being able to use an API provided by the OS itself is much better, and with the right OS (linux) much more trustworthy than any web-based solution.

    My only real problem is the lack of user choice. This comes in two forms:

    1. Giving your birth date should be optional. I'm fine with them requiring that no birth date given means you default to being underage, but actually giving the birthdate should be up to the user.
    2. The birthdate should not be given out to random software asking for it. Either the user should be asked for permission, or only a boolean of whether they are underage or not should be provided. This bill doesn't require either of those, nor leaves it to later clarification.

  • When you block someone on Lemmy, does it stop them from seeing your posts?

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  • Also to add to this, Reddit blocks used to work like they do on Lemmy now, and the decision to change it there got a lot of negative feedback.

  • Do you ask AI for help in formulating questions to post to Ask Lemmy?

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  • Asking AI to help with formulating is an easy way to come across like an AI. And Lemmy is the wrong audience for that.

  • What do you like about Lemmy? What could be improved?

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  • Can confirm that I see "(c)" on Mbin.

    Edit: To explain, I think that's because Mbin uses the source field of the federated post, which contains the comment as you've written it, not as Lemmy renders it. Mbin then parses and transforms it to HTML by its own rules, not Lemmy's. So the (c) doesn't get transformed, because Mbin doesn't do that.

    I assume it's the same logic for Piefed.

  • Looks like Lemmy-Federate is down, has been down for over a day.

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  • I see you're on aggregatet.org, which I never heard about. FediDB says it has 10 monthly active users.

    If you were to create a community on your instance, only people on your instance could see it. No one on other instances will be aware of it. And any posts made to it would not leave your instance.

    For your community and posts therein to federate to other instances, the community needs to be subscribed to from them. You would have to constantly advertise it everywhere to make people aware that it exists, because the likelihood that someone visits your instance and stumbles on it is way too small. It won't show up on their instance if they search.

    With Lemmy Federate, you can give it your community, and it will attempt to subscribe to it from all the instances that have signed up with Lemmy Federate. That way your community appears on those instances when people search for it, and posts you make to the community will federate there.

  • Do you post reviews for products or places? Why or why not?

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  • I'm really bad at selling people on stuff, to the point where I usually turn them away from it instead. Usually I don't even know what to write, I'm bad at putting my opinions into words, but even when I do know, I usually end up not writing anything because of that first point.

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    Is there some place on the fediverse I can follow the ramblings of @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com without actually giving any traffic to his turd of a social site?

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  • Well, the quote I replied to said they don't seem to keep the releases up to date. Which means there are changes to the site not reflected in the released code. At least that's how I interpret that, because how else would it be "not up to date"?

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    Is there some place on the fediverse I can follow the ramblings of @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com without actually giving any traffic to his turd of a social site?

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  • Although they of course half-arse it and don't seem to really keep the releases up to date

    Then they're not technically fulfilling the licence.

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    Is there some place on the fediverse I can follow the ramblings of @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com without actually giving any traffic to his turd of a social site?

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  • I don't think that's how the license works. You're thinking of the general GNU licenses, not the Affero one which Mastodon uses.

    To quote the license (from Mastodon's repo):

    The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.

    The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server.

    That sounds to me like at least Truthsocial users need to be able to access its source code.

    Also, from the actual terms:

    1. Conveying Non-Source Forms.

    You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License

  • Do you ever get the feeling of zooming out of your phone into your head and actually realizing everything, instead of just mindlessly watching videos?

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  • I just tried a Lemmy instance and there's clearly a "Next" button to press after x posts to load new ones. I assume you have that toggled to an infinite feed through some setting, so just reverse that.

    If you want proper paging, you can switch to Mbin. No need to abandon the idea and community of Lemmy to get away from infinite feeds. Edit: alternative Lemmy frontends might help as well.

  • Samsung is shutting down SMS/RCS — is the a good alternative to Google's messenger?

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  • I would, if my carrier didn't drop support for it. For some reason Google Messages RCS doesn't work with some people for me (even though they have it enabled), so I literally can't send them images anymore.

  • How would you rate your country's constitution?

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  • Switzerland here.

    Constitutional amendments are very common and easy here, but they need to go through the people and require a double majority (majority of the people + majority of the states). So the government can't just abolish democracy, to use the example from your comment, without convincing regular people to agree to it.

    As for the danger of the head of government ignoring the constitution like what Trump is doing in the US, that would be a lot harder here due to our "head of state/government" being a collective of seven people from four parties. So if any of them wants to ignore the constitution, they have to get the others to agree.

  • How many Lemmy users post regularly (let's say daily)?

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  • FediDB says there's 966885 active users on the fediverse in general, with 47.8K being Lemmy users.

    Though this is usually measured as monthly active users iirc, so not exactly accurate to the daily you requested.

    You can also get the value of any given instance's monthly active users by checking their nodeinfo endpoint. Here's the one for your instance. But again, that's monthly, not daily.

  • Beyond Skyrim @kbin.earth
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    What version of Skyrim do you play? (Reddit Poll by the Beyond Skyrim devs)

    sh.reddit.com /r/beyondskyrim/comments/1r28mh7/what_version_of_skyrim_do_you_play/
  • test @sh.itjust.works
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    Testing something, please ignore

  • Honkai Star Rail @ani.social
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    Golden Epic PV: "The First Dawn of Destiny"

  • Vintage Story @lemmy.ca
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    Vintage Story v1.20.4 Release

    www.vintagestory.at /forums/topic/14374-v1204-lore-update-the-journey/
  • Honkai Star Rail @ani.social
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    Amphoreus' Saga of Heroes | Anaxa

  • test @lemmy.ml
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    Test SomeLink

  • Minecraft @lemmy.world
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    Does anyone know of any interesting and unique #Minecraft "clones", like #VintageStory or even #Terraria (which is a bit far removed from Minecraft, but I'd count it for this question)? I do know of

  • Beyond Skyrim @kbin.earth
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    Welcome!

  • Beyond Skyrim @kbin.earth
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    Latest Map Overview (December 2024)

    georgetr1.github.io /Beyond-Skyrim-Map/