Lemmy 0.18.x supports custom emojis, so we better be doing emojis on Lemmy
EDIT: Ok apparently it does not work the way I expect it to.
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Lemmy 0.18.x supports custom emojis, so we better be doing emojis on Lemmy
EDIT: Ok apparently it does not work the way I expect it to.
I still remember doing one of those award speech edits after my first comment reached 1k all those years ago.
My current/last account got to 57k comment karma without me really trying or giving a shit and is barely two years old.
Even in the most safe space-y parts of Mastodon (which has way more experience with trolls & assholes than Lemmy just by existing for longer), single user instances don’t get defederated without reason. So I’d be more in favor of reflecting inwards and wondering if there is a specific reason why they defed’d me.
It ultimately doesn’t matter where I am from. I’m just trying to highlight the fact that not all the world is the US.
https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists. Feel free to pick a tier depending on the community you’re building. Tier0 is basically “the bare minimum” but you may want the others depending on the community you’re building up.
Note that this does not seem to include any Lemmy instances yet.
IIRC Lemmy doesn’t have a way of importing blocklists directly, so you’ll either have to whip up a quick script to do so or manually add things by hand, which is tedious and you will give up.
Lemmy 0.18 supports custom emojis now. Maybe you’ll be able to convince your instance admin to add one.
Most of Beehaw’s blocks are “generic ActivityPub assholes”, which, before the Reddit migration, was really just the worst of the worst of Mastodon, Pleroma, Soapbox, and Miss/Calc/???Key instances, with the occasional PeerTube thrown in.
They likely just imported one of the common blocklists and moved on with their lives, which really should be “how to secure your community 101” but most Lemmy admins haven’t seem to have gotten the memo yet.
I’m patiently waiting for the day those assholes realize most of Lemmy is open ground for them to shit in, boy that’s gonna be a fun few days.
The main issue you’re gonna encouter is CORS. There is no real upstream decision on loosening the existing CORS permissions. The alternative is to proxy every request from everyone which will not only get you rate limited but also you will have to deal with storing people’s authentication tokens which requires not only complete trust in every step of the way but also not accidentally messing things up and exposing them somewhere.
Honestly I’m not sure if we need file sharing to be federated. Just put up a link somewhere and let people download.
Or use torrents (with web seeds should no other seeders be around) if the files are gigantic enough
32GB of RAM is less than $50
Cool, now how much is it outside “the US and maybe select parts of Europe where it’s close enough”? Because not all the world uses dollars, and certainly not US dollars.
Communities are not exclusive to people from their own instances. Otherwise single-user instances like the one I’m replying from would be impossible.
The health of the fediverse depends on smaller instances existing. The fact that larger “untouchable” instances exist at all is harming the fediverse as we speak. Mastodon folk are already familiar with this problem regarding dot social & dot online.
That’s admins of other instances you’re federating with banning people from their own instances.
Feel free to go do that then
Please make sure that you’re only indexing Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines (i.e. not microblogs)
In the wider fediverse, there is an actual expectation of privacy beyond “well it’s technically possible to scrape everything so we may as well give up”. Several people (with reasons of innocent naivete & explicit and blatant malice alike) have tried making fediverse search engines, but all of them are either dead or blocked.
Lemmy/Kbin is in a unique position where global search does make some sense to have, due to it being a public forum focused on topics (and not people), but there is a very real chance that assholes could use an “unbounded” fediverse search engine to find vulnerable people (quite a few of them specifically fleeing to the fediverse to avoid that kind of problem) and harass them.
all the major lemmy instances
Read: just two instances who got really big, alongside literal tankies (but not dot-ml) and some fash
Just in case you’re confused, most of their blocked instances are not even Lemmy instances but the general ActivityPub background radiation nobody really wants to see.
Also, if just two instances get big enough to be “all the major lemmy instances” than isn’t that a problem of federation to begin with? Some admins need to learn to just shut registrations down jfc.
see also: gamersriseup
So was 0.18.0. In fact I think the next few releases will all be like this.
(just cheekily testing to make sure federation didn’t break between updates)