Ever since reading about the challenge of deleting an image from your profile, a GUI for that. It should not only be an API call, not should you have to contact your instance admin to do it. It should be completely self-service from your profile page.

Easiest block of my life.

The author pretty freely admits he shares some blame, having PII on the same phone he uses Lemmy, using Lemmy while not paying attention/being half asleep. I’m sure he does know better and agrees with your statement. And yet, when mistakes happen and people prove to be fallible, Lemmy proves it is not capable of handling the problem.

I also can’t believe the Lemmy developers would be so indignant about being presented with such an oversight. GDPR or no GDPR, federated to other servers or not, the idea of PII being hard/impossible to delete from a social media platform is an embarrassment to the developers.

@mapache I don’t recognize the orange square…

When a company uses Embrace Extend Extinguish, they are relying on network effects to drive people to their side. So let’s say Threads comes out, starts federating, has a big established userbase, and then they come out with some new, proprietary killer feature. It could be great moderation tools - something kbin and the fediverse need, no doubt about it - but whatever the feature is, it draws users away from the existing fediverse infrastructure and into Threads. Threads then makes massive changes to the ActivityPub spec, building the walled garden back up again. Only this time, they’ve actually siphoned off some of the users you originally had in the community. The result isn’t the status quo, Meta peeled away users who otherwise would have stayed.

By the way, while a “small community of tech nerds” is perfectly fine in its own right, I would argue the fediverse has already grown beyond that community. They’re a large contingent no doubt, but there’s also law enthusiasts, news outlets, game developers, users from Germany, Japan, France, Finland, and I follow them all. To see them leave for Threads would be a shame.

To put my own skin in the game, I quite like the microblogging side of kbin. I like that I can swap between the thread and blog sides, I like that I can combine them into one view if I choose, and I like that I don’t need a separate account to use either service. Using kbin’s microblog was the first time I ever blogged, period. I’d hate to see that stream be overwhelmed by Threads users.

If Threads puts out so much more content as to effectively make other federated entities irrelevant, the character of the Fediverse changes such that it is no longer what it is today.

A fun time to bring up the concept of Eternal September.

Reposting this discussion for posterity

Big takeaways, emphasis preserved from the original:

Threads is entering a space in the fediverse which is dominated by Mastodon, so it’s Mastodon and other fediverse microblogging services (including, to some extent, /kbin) which will most heavily feel the impact of Threads.

Defederating another server means your instance will stop requesting content from that server. … Defederation is about what data comes in, not what goes out. … Defederation doesn’t make you invisible, it doesn’t block anybody else from seeing you, it doesn’t protect your content, it only means you never have to see their content.

Firstly, the fediverse is a drop in the ocean compared to Threads (104 million registered users). Obviously, Meta wants everybody, but their specific goals in terms of user-poaching are far more likely to center around the ~350 million active Twitter users than the ~12 million fediverse users (~3.5 million active). The threadiverse [Lemmy, Kbin, et al] is smaller again, at something like 100,000 active users.

“Threads will overwhelm the fediverse with their inferior content and culture.” Like the EEE fears, this one is legitimate but once again something that will primarily be felt by microblogging providers (/kbin included). Toxic users, advertisers, etc. can push garbage into feeds all day, but they will largely not be targeting the threadiverse because there’s some 100 million sets of eyes to put that crap in front of on the microblogging side and it will be difficult-to-impossible for them to push that content into Lemmy/kbin threads from their interface that was never made to interact with the threadiverse.

Is there any chance Meta has good intentions? No. But it might have intentions that are both self-serving and fediverse-neutral. The absolute best intention I can possibly ascribe to Meta is that joining the fediverse is a CYA (cover your ass) mechanism to head off regulations, especially in the EU, [e.g.] the newly-applicable Digital Markets Act …

The key advantage of fediverse is that you can never be banned from a group and have it stick.

That characteristic is a double edged sword. It’s a disadvantage if you want to keep trolls out.

Aren’t searchability and discoverability two different things? I understood hashtags as a way to make your post discoverable, or more accurately, to comment on a topic that there’s a consensus term for and so everyone can see your opinion. If I was looking for a specific opinion, some piece of news that I remembered a short sentence from, then I would search for the phrase I remember.

Self-hosting, just for development purposes.

Both instances are single-local-user, both are able to find remote accounts on the fediverse including my own, but despite being on the same Docker network, they are not able to find each other’s accounts.

Bonus points if those instances are Mastodon and/or kbin.

Hashtags map to Magazines (magazines are kbin’s “communities”) but it’s a little wonky since it’s still in development. Kbin doesn’t seem to support hashtags with special characters in it: #gaming-on-linux may just take you to #gaming, #news+politics may just take you to #news.

“written entirely by AI”

Neuraltimes uses ChatGPT to synthesize an article using 6 sources: 2 left, 2 center, 2 right, as they stated. It’s like a beefed up version of Reddit’s AutoTLDR bot, but it’s contaminated by sources that may not be trustworthy (regardless of their political bias). And if the AI makes a mistake, says something wrong, you can bet that it’s developer probably won’t proofread it or correct it. It’s a machine with zero accountability. I wouldn’t trust it to tell me the sky is blue.

Why did Calckey need to change their name at all? I mean we just saw Twitter change its name for literally no reason and I can already predict how that’s going to go.

Check out Sufjan’s Christmas album. I play it every year now, right next to Trans Siberian Orchestra.

“And I hope you learned to sanitize your database inputs.” (Man this one is old.)

Right, not every country has the same age restriction.

Hopefully I find more time to contribute to the kbin source code. I think it has promise, I like how it works so far, but like any big project there’s plenty of room to improve.

There’s a supportive community of server owners in the Mastodon Discord (access to the Discord is a perk for Patreon donors)

I don’t have a comment on this, I just thought the irony was funny.