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Kbin has a report function, although I don’t know if reports Federate. They might not.

Lemmy does do reporting, although it’s not clear whether it’s just moderators, or whether the admins will also receive them.

Especially since doing that will let you Federate through compromised comments, and possibly affect other instances using the Federation network, unless they’re updated.

Yes. They got hacked. An admin account got compromised, and the hackers exploited a bug in Lemmy-UI (the web site) that let them do things like redirect users to another site that let them run Javscript. It seems to have let them collect some user tokens from accounts, and access an admin account that way.

Others did get hacked, or are vulnerable to it, but aren’t big enough targets?

Beehaw is closed, so they would have had to have an existing account to exploit the same bug (or go through something like Kbin), and Lemmy.world is the biggest Lemmy instance.

And if they could do that, someone else could use the same trick to do worse things, since they’re just running bare JavaScript.

No. The existing Lemmy-Lite that was advertised on join-Lemmy.org appears to be massively out of date, and no longer actively maintained.

It was a bug with Lemmy-UI, so you might be able to get away using an app or site that isn’t vulnerable. Whether that is Wefwef, one of the apps, like Jerboa, or something that is Federated, but not Lemmy, like Kbin, or Mastodon (things might be a bit clunky if you do, since Lemmy threads aren’t well handled by Mastodon).

I believe it’s a planned feature (for Lemmy, at least), and Mastodon supposedly already has something like that in place.

Being able to just have one account for the entire Lemmyverse could also be nice, but is probably a bit of a far-fetched idea for the time being.

Minecraft. Mods are like magic, and can totally change the game. I’ve lost countless hours just poking around and building fun things, even on vanilla.

It’s not a complete ban, but it does mean that you’ll stop updating with new posts and comments. Users from elsewhere won’t see any new content on their copy of a beehaw post, and you won’t see any new content from a Defederated instance.

There’s usually a context difference that might might be significant. People don’t write the same way way for an email, like they would a letter, text message, or tweet.

They might write more like an LLM for things like essays and reports, but your usual writing is probably still fine. Then classics that inspire people to write are still around, and I doubt that they would be supplanted by an LLM any time soon.

We might start being in trouble if people start republishing books with them, but that’s unlikely to to happen any time soon, considering the current state of copyright around AI works.

No, there’s no aggregator/indexer quite like that just yet. Your best bet is to just hope that the search shows up something useful because you captured the right key words.

If the community wanted it, nothing wrong with the moderators capitulating to the community. Reddit gets the moderation quality they pay for, and they’re paying their moderators negative money, with how things have been going. They can pony up if they want better moderation.

What are they supposed to do, run roughshod all over their users?

Except that it already has been. They’ve already scraped it, and can refer back to either the archives, or just scrape Reddit like they do with other websites if they want to pull more information.

They didn’t pay before, why would they bother paying now? Worst case is that they just exclude Reddit (like they did Twitter), and train from other sites instead. It’s no great loss.

I don’t see why the content they’ve created would have to go along with. You could keep the content on the server, but have the posting user be offsite, like posting to another service/community. If the user has moved off your server, just alter the local profile to point to their “new” location.

It would be less overhead than moving the physical posts themselves, especially if things get bigger later on.