Yeah, every other paragraph is beckpedaling from the one before: “We have no evidence.”, " Okay, we indeed have a video, but that’s not credible.", “If it is, it’s Ukraine’s fault.”

I’ve stopped reading after that and flagged this. And how is it souvereign right to invade some contries? Can I do that, too? Can I now murder people, and it’s my right? Or does that require some naturalization because it only applies to those 2 countries?

I have questions, OP. First of all, why do you post something like this? Your profile doesn’t look that much off…

it is the sovereign right of Russia and North Korea to enter into a military alliance and defend their interests […]

Oh boy.

Plus, both happens. I had content being georestricted and my access being blocked due to companies not bothering with European cookie popups. Similar to how porn sites now block southern US states. And sometimes companies just go with the stricter law and implement things so it caters for different audiences, disregarding if they could be more lax with one country.

Sure, they’re being regulated in other countries. I guess in the EU for example, it’s the Digital Services Act and other legislation which mandate moderation, cutting down on hate and disinformation. They’d need to be sanctioned if they don’t comply. Or leave the market if they don’t like the law…

No. I don’t know why woelkchen said there are X other mods in the community. TragicNotCute didn’t respond (yet) but it’s only been 23h and they don’t seem very active with moderation anyways, their last mod action is from 3 months ago. I guess they should have seen my DM by now.

Do you have any specific course of action in mind? I’d say lets wait another day and give them some time. But I’m not holding my breath.

For transparency reasons: I’ve DMed @tragicnotcute@lemmy.world (As suggested in the earlier conversation… To have another mod look at it.)

I think the other mods in !fediverse@lemmy.world are more nominal members. I can’t see any activity from them. It’s mainly @woelkchen@lemmy.world doing all the work there. Ruud is the instance admin and probably the last person we want to bother with small drama, and the other two don’t have any activity federated to me for months.

(And maybe you want to contact the inactive mods in your community and see if you want to replace them.)

Well, there isn’t really a way around automated filtering. Spammers and malicious actors also send their stuff in bulk. And those big tech companies already have human content moderators. Usually in some poorer countries and it’s a horrible job. I suppose there just arent enough humans to also deal with the flood of spam, manually.

These systems are far from perfect. And I’m not really an expert. I don’t use Meta’s platforms. I can’t tell much from that screenshot. It’s missing the URL and it hints at some rule that might be shown below.

And I didn’t want to say “trust Meta”. Quite the opposite. I just think this one specific claim could be true. Not everything is a conspiracy theory. We know they have automated spamfilters. And we know these make a lot of mistakes. Very similar with what other spamfilters do with short URLs. I’d say the simplest explanation is: their spamfilter sucks. Not that they somehow conspired, wrote additional software to deliberately target Pixelfed instances, but just when it’s a short post… No. I think in this instance it’s the simple explanation. But yeah, gwnerally: Don’t trust and of the big tech companies. They don’t act in your interest at all.

Idk. I’ve also used company email or storage to do one-off private stuff. If allowed. It gets yet more complicated once you’re a freelancer. Or do social media stuff or programming and it’s both your hobby and your job. I can somehow relate to that. We don’t know that person’s exact situation and reasoning. All we can do here is speculate and either give them the benefit of the doubt, or not.

And ultimately I think companies have a right to exist, too. I like that they write articles for me to read. I invite journalists over to have a look at the nice projects I’m doing. I don’t see a big issue with that. Of course they’re very different from me. All their professional life revolves around reach, publicity and attention. That’s probably some big category in their thinking and less so in mine.

Yeah, the post wasn’t particularly great quality. More an experiment. I mean the atmosphere in the comments was good. I’ve seen worse.

Idk. Let’s stop talking about this. It’s getting late here and I think we could go on forever about some details. Things happen and I think not everything is worth writing a novel about. And ultimately none of that is my call. I wish you the best.

We just should take care not to spread misinformation. We need to stick with the truth. And It’s not like the article says. And what they’re infering is wrong, too. And seems that Meta didn’t respond, isn’t up to date anymore, either. (Given Meta tells the truth, but I don’t see any reason to doubt this. This is exactly what happens with spamfilters all the time. And why would they reverse it immediately, if there’s more to the story?)

Other than that, I agree. If somebody chooses to use a platform like that, they get entangled in some soulless machinery. And that machinery isn’t there to help the user, but mainly to uphold whatever a big tech company likes or needs. Mainly profit and control. Terms and conditions apply.

Well I don’t know that guy. But seems to me he is a tech journalist. And as such probably dabbling with all kinds of things and curious. And heise frequently reports on Free and Open Source Software and the Fediverse. So naturally, they’re taking part in it. Or they’d be bad journalists. I also read your interaction. He wasn’t demaning you consult him. He was super snarky.

Yeah, I think you’re wrong. There wasn’t any advertising or links in that post. Just what Mastodon adds to a post and a picture. And naturally those link to a user’s home instance. It’s the same with your profile. That’s also on a certain instance and has that domain name everywhere. Still that’s not an ad for lemmy.world.

I think it’s bad publicity for us. We have too much drama here, and it shows. I suppose Mastodon isn’t perfect either… I don’t really know, I do not use it.

I’d have left that post stay up. It’s nice to celebrate the Fediverse. And despite possible shortcomings of that post, I do not see any ill intent. And linking to heise isn’t unheard of… In fact we link to their articles every other day in the German speaking part of the Lemmyverse…

But I’m not a moderator. It’s your decision what to make of this, not mine. I mainly wanted to make sure we agree on the facts. And seems we mostly do.

Edit: And I think this call to upvote the post is a misunderstanding. Boosts, Upvotes and likes work differently on Mastodon and Lemmy, as far as I know. I think that wasn’t meant as a call to do the Lemmy upvote thing. But to press that button on Mastodon that makes that post spread to your friends. I believe this is a misunderstanding between you and that person, due to the terminology.

I also think that post looked off, especially with all the hashtags. But honestly, most Mastodon posts look off to me. And they also speak in a different tone over there. At least that’s my experience.

Has already been refuted in the other post: https://lemm.ee/post/52524220

I believe it was an honest mistake by the spamfilter.

Nevermind, I pulled out the numbers:

Upvotes:

• lemmy.world: 93
• shit.just.works: 23
• lemm.ee: 22
• feddit.org: 18
• lemmy.dbzer0.com: 16
• discuss.tchncs.de: 13
• lemmy.blajah.zone: 13
• lemmy.ml: 11
• lemmy.ca: 9
• sopuli.xyz: 7
• programming.dev: 7
• midwest.social: 6
• feddit.nl: 6
• lemmy.zip: 6
• jlai.lu: 6
• infosec.pub: 4
• slrpnk.net: 4
• aussie.zone: 3
• lemmynsfw.com: 3
• lemmy.sdf.org: 3
• feddit.it: 3
• feddit.nu: 3
• feddit.uk: 3
• ani.social: 2
• other lemmy: 18

I also have 4 votes from other software in my database. And 21 Lemmy downvotes plus one from mbin.

Now tell me, how doesn’t that add up to exactly 302 upvotes from Lemmy? And that’s just the ones that made it to my instance… Do you believe me now? Or is there something I’m not aware of?

Would you like the numbers, or just make some numbers up and/or just stay with your opinion? Because what you said just isn’t true. I can look it up if you like. At least the votes that got federated to my instance. If you look at my username, I’m not from LW. And hence I wasn’t speaking about the aggregate numbers of LW.

Agreed. Note however, that it’s not only open software that is a niche. There are many closed services as well that don’t get any traction. For example the several email providers that don’t read your private mails. They’re a niche, too and people keep using GMail. Or other shops than Amazon. People often just use the dominating service. That doesn’t really have to do anything with open software or anything. I think it’s a bit of convenience and mainly people use what they’re familiar with.

Unfortunately I don’t know much about Friendica. I heard it has privacy, friend circles/groups, different post types, a feed and interconnects with other platforms. But I’ve never used it myself, because I don’t really do social media except this platform here (Lemmy). I think Mastodon is very popular, but it’s not alike Facebook at all. Other than that I can recommend writing a blog or having a website… But you can’t really share family photos there. Or one of the Linktree clones, so people can at least find you and get your contact details if they want.

And yes, I also don’t think these platforms are immutable. It’s just impossibly hard to overcome. But all the current services have started somewhere. And this isn’t the early internet anymore. It’s a different story for Google Search, they’ve been here a long time. But all the Facebooks etc had to outcompete someone and overcome the network effect. And they did so successfully.

Hmmh, the network effect is the opposite side. It’s the effect that binds people to platforms. Platforms are just as useful as the network of people they connect you to. We need to overcome the network effect here.

And that’s really, really hard. I mean look at how Bluesky does it. They invest a lot of money to make it possible. They waited for the right moment and sort of caught their competition with their pants down. Furthermore, they did some marketing stunts like the invite-only period to hype their own product. And have journalists and influencers talk about it.

The product needs to be excellent. And even that’s not enough. If you’re as good as the competition, or just slightly better… There isn’t really an incentive for people to switch. Companies like Google fail at inventing a product that competes with Facebook.

Ultimately, I don’t see a good way of competing with social media platforms. People just don’t care about their privacy, so that’s not something you can win them over with. And even if their platform is operated by a bad person like Elon Musk, and has a really toxic atmosphere for better part of the last decade… The majority still doesn’t really care. It took him (Musk) to deliberately run X into a brick wall to get things going. Something like Reddit taking away user freedom, clamping down on all kinds of things, selling user data etc doesn’t do much in that context.

I’m a bit disheartened as you can tell. I’m always advocating for Free Software, more ethical alternatives and for people to care about their freedom. But in my experience that’s a niche thing. I don’t really get through to regular people. I kind of make the best of it. I have a profile on the Fediverse. If people want to talk to me, they can come here and talk to me. But yeah, that does away with my high school friends.

Edit: And by the way, are you sure Friendica posts go to the whole Fediverse all the times? They have groups and privacy features. If these features are implemented well, they shoud stop your posts from propagating to arbitrary places.

On the other hand I’ve seen a few people delete their profile regardless. Some of them very recently after the latest announcements.

Plus there is an exodus from X/Twitter currently taking place. Bluesky can do it, so it’s possible. And it has happened before. I still remember the times before Facebook and other platforms. They’re all big and inevitable. Until they’re not…

But with that said. Sure. This kind of lock-in and high switching costs are a big problem for (new) platforms. It’s called the “network effect”.

That’s kind of what happens when somebody re-uses already assigned namespaces for a different purpose. Same with other domains, or if you mess with IP addresses or MAC addresses. The internet is filled with RFCs and old standards that need to be factored in. And I don’t really see Google at fault here. Seems they’ve implemented this to specification. So technically they’re “right”. Question is: Is the RFC any good? Or do we have any other RFCs contradicting it? Usually these things are well-written. If everything is okay, it’s the network administrators fault for configuring something wrong… I’m not saying that’s bad… It’s just that computers and the internet are very complicated. And sometimes you’re not aware of all the consequences of the technical debt… And we have a lot of technical debt. Still, I don’t see any way around implementing a technology and an RFC to specification. We’d run into far worse issues if everyone were to do random things because they think they know something better. It has to be predictable and a specification has to be followed to the letter. Or the specification has to go altogether.

Issue here is that second “may” clause. That should be prohibited from the beginning, because it just causes issues like this. That’s kind of what Google is doing now, though. If you ask me, they probably wrote that paragraph because it’s default behaviour anyways (to look up previously unknown TLDs via DNS). And they can’t really prevent that. But that’s what ultimately causes issues. So they wrote that warning. Only proper solution is to be strict and break it intentionally, so no-one gets the idea to re-use .local… But judging from your post, that hasn’t happened until now.

Linux, MacOS etc are also technically “right” if they choose to adopt that “may” clause. It just leads to the consequences lined out in the sentence. They’re going to confuse users.

Any DNS query for a name ending with “.local.” MUST be sent to the
mDNS IPv4 link-local multicast […]
Implementers MAY choose to look up such names concurrently via other
mechanisms (e.g., Unicast DNS) and coalesce the results in some
fashion. Implementers choosing to do this should be aware of the
potential for user confusion when a given name can produce different
results depending on external network conditions […]

The RFC warns about these exact issues. You MAY do something else, but then the blame is on you…

So how are we going to find you? And what do you want to tell me? Or is this just intended to waste my time at this point?

I’d say do a teaser once you have a rough schedule ready. And maybe something to show off. And stick to the truth. If you say people can find you, that has to be correct.

no links, no hashtags
if you want to find us
you will

I don’t think so. Neither of the terms turns up anything useful on Google.