Muddybulldog

Lemmy.world is hosted in Finland. 230 is not applicable.

Can’t speak for kbin but Lemmy doesn’t collect or store IP addresses at all.

Are you using a VPS or self-hosting?

What do you want to hear?

Waiting on patches to propagate to the container registries.

Assuming that this isn’t exclusive to the particular builds those instances are running it’s going to be a rodeo for a while. While I can see the desire to target larger instances it’s not going to be long before any instance is a target for the lulz.

Nothing is encrypted except a user’s password. If you have access to the database you can replace that with a known password hash.

Last post received in my instance from them was over an hour ago. I usually see one or two a minute. Comments stopped at the same time and those are usually about every 5 seconds.

Tallies are maintained in the db in real-time. No calculating needed

While the Lemmy UI doesn’t expose the data is available via the API. That’s how clients like Memmy are getting it.

Lack of karma is a fallacy. The default Lemmy UI doesn’t display it but the karma system appears to be fully built.

There’s no backfilling. You’ll only see new content.

ActivityPub is a standard, Lemmy, KBin & Mastodon are open source applications built on the standard. It’s the same relationship as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Apache & IIS.

As a client/server architecture, Lemmy is no more or less vulnerable to malicious actors than a web browser or a web server. You’re at least as likely to have a rogue admin mishandle data as someone build Evil-Lemmy. While I consider myself a good netizen, if you delete this post right now I’m still going to have a copy for at least six months because that’s my current backup retention for this instance.

I’m no GDPR expert but I can’t see how an instance owner who does comply with GDPR can be punished for instances they don’t control not deleting federated data. There are ongoing conversations throughout the Fediverse on this topic.

Using an IP in this way has no impact on privacy. Instances already have your IP info as a result of interacting with them.

One-click would definitely lower the bar to entry but I have to admit the concept makes me uncomfortable. While it could eliminate those problems, it creates the issue of thousands of new server administrators who really don’t understand the platform that they are now responsible for. Infrastructure and security IS hard because it’s not just about getting the right syntax, it’s understanding the concepts so that not only does it work, it works safely and reliably.

I’ve seen quite a bit of bad troubleshooting going on as newcomers have sought to set up their instances. It doesn’t help that the current docker-compose in the Lemmy repository is outdated and doesn’t work out of the box. More than a few “this worked for me” solutions that I’ve seen may have gotten things working, but broke fundamental security principles that may or may not come back to bite the administrators later.

RSS is definitively not dead. I threw $99 for a lifetime Feedly subscription about 15 years ago, rather than roll my own aggregation, and it’s been my primary news source since.

Pshaw… my entire career is one big YOLO.

Funny how he repeatedly uses phrases such as “the extent that they were profiting off of our API” but has never used the phrase “the extent that we rely on freely provided content and freely provided moderation. If it weren’t for the tens of millions of people who are giving us free stuff we wouldn’t even exist.”

I had a conversation with Bing today, asking it for configuration snippets for logging on my Lemmy instance.

It happily spat out a config, which I cut and pasted, that subsequently barfed.

I give Bing the error message and it explained that the parameters that it had previously supplied don’t exist.

Good job, MS!

Apparently they can’t even be bothered to pay their rent so this is not a particular shock.

It’s hard to believe that so many things are going so sideways that we’re starting to root for the likes of Disney and the major record labels.