lemmyvore

https://misskey-hub.net/en/

It’s not a cost issue. It’s about taking responsibility for maintaining a reliable, highly-available service.

I’m pretty sure a solution will be found eventually. EU institutions need IT infrastructure to work and communicate like everybody else and all EU countries have highly available infrastructure like emergency services, secure channels etc. It’s just a matter of putting this task in the right context.

It’s a very good thing that they’ve stumbled across this snag because solving it can also open the way for running more internet public services in the EU in an open, transparent manner, and may open the way to weaning ourselves off commercial platforms.

Having a distributed, federated, secure, privacy-friendly and open EU-run messaging platform for example would be a huge boon for its citizens and have wide implications for other regions as well.

Their company is attempting to hijack TLS connections to eavesdrop on their browsing.

It only works with websites that also offer a non-TLS version (which the hijacker uses to fetch content and then re-encrypts with their own certificate after they’ve snooped). But it doesn’t work if the website doesn’t have a non-TLS version and/or specifies it should only be used with TLS.

Another way for it to work is for the company to get their own certificates on the machine, which is very easy if it’s a work-issued machine. But I’m guessing OP is not using a work machine.

And the crux of the matter:

Less emotionally, I think it’s unwise to assume that an organization that has…

• demonstrably and continuously made antisocial and sometimes deadly choices on behalf of billions of human beings and
• allowed its products to be weaponized by covert state-level operations behind multiple genocides and hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of smaller persecutions, all while
• ducking meaningful oversight,
• lying about what they do and know, and
• treating their core extraction machines as fait-accompli inevitabilities that mustn’t be governed except in patently ineffective ways…

…will be a good citizen after adopting a new, interoperable technical structure.

It’s also interesting that nobody’s asking “how is Threads federating with Mastodon/Lemmy?” All the focus is on the underdog but shouldn’t we pull our heads out of the bubble and give some attention to what the big dog is doing?

Can anyone help me understand what any Mastodon instance can possibly stand to gain by federating with Threads? The size disparity is absolutely massive. Anything going to Threads will be lost like a drop in the ocean and anything coming from Threads will be a deluge that drowns anything on Mastodon. You can limit your instance to only one of these but it’s still bad.

Following Threads posters from a Mastodon client sounds ok at first, your users can get lots of Threads content, they get accustomed to it, and one day Meta changes the protocol and now you have to decide if you’re a Mastodon or a Threads client. Or your users start wondering why they’re using a subpar Threads client when most of their content is on there.

There should be a reputation score or something for instances. We all like freedom but there’s also gotta be boundaries and consequences.

We’re talking about doxxing, which is private information posted against the person’s will, not necessarily by the person themselves. You can get doxxed even if you do everything right.

And to Wendy’s in Netherlands, which is why there’s no Wendy’s in the EU.

Is Sync not good for you? I stopped app-hopping after Sync came out.

We need a solution for the problem described in the article. It’s annoying everybody and making everything less efficient. Multiple postings of the same topic for several days are just one example.

I don’t think it’s the same with Discord because you already know which server you want to join, even if there are hurdles.

With federated instances you are told they all do the same thing and that it doesn’t matter, but in the same breath you’re told there’s still criteria to consider (number of users, location, some have a main theme etc.)

I’m really surprised it’s not been done already. It should be trivial to do federated authentication with your original instance on any other, and then your account data can be synced just like content is.

More importantly, are you still able to do your mod work? From the volume you described it sounds so.

But unfortunately there are subs where that is not an option either without 3rd-party tools. All the large subs will collapse one way or another unless Reddit comes up with built-in mod tools very fast. (I know they’ve said they’re “working on it”.)