Shitty foodporn.

I’m saying you should do your own research

This is the calling card slogan of someone who’s bought into reality rejection…

The educated world is built on a web of trust whereupon subject matter experts must necessarily yield to others when something is outside of their realm of expertise. I am a planetary scientist and geophysicist and spent nearly a decade studying. I am constantly learning things in my own field, and by no means do I have a full grasp on every detail. But I can call out BS when someone talks about orbital mechanics or earthquakes or whatever. I do not, however, know anything about the digestive tract of my cat and yield to the veterinarian who has spent their whole life becoming an expert on these sorts of things. I don’t argue with the vet that I’ve done my own research (watched a few youtube videos) and thus am qualified to disagree with them. Because objectively I know less than them on that subject and no cursory review will solve my ignorance.

When rating the bias of news organizations, what qualifications do you have so that you can do your own research? Do you have fundamental knowledge of the journalistic process? Is the media source covering a topic you are a subject matter expert in? Or are you just lashing out because it doesn’t vibe with your worldview?

The thing about the fediverse is: it doesn’t have to be uniform in how the admins and moderators behave, because federation is an elective process. Don’t like an admin or mod, go somewhere else. Just don’t be surprised when that somewhere else gets defederated.

So, federated network advantages here: you can always modify your instance’s hosting code to patch this out, at least for the users on your instance.

What you cannot do is prevent other federated instances from publishing the votes submitted to content on their instance. But if you’re accessing that content through your local instance, they can modify the upvote button to pop up a dialog saying something like: “The instance that hosts this content has elected to make usernames visible for upvote/downvote. Would you still like to vote?”

Personally: In many ways I don’t mind. I’m on the internet with my real name. I don’t mind being accountable for my behaviour online. I might be a little more cautious about upvoting something controversial or NSFW, but largely it wouldn’t change my behaviour.

So no way to pull Mastadon hosted content into Lemmy.

Okay, but how.

Wait, you can follow Mastadon from Lemmy already? How?

Fair enough. I’m also lazy and don’t want to have to migrate :)

Lots of nice integration allowing Mastadon users to access Lemmy content, but I’m waiting for the other direction to work – I want to access Mastadon from Lemmy! :)

Fourth panel. AI trained on all the above, floods it all with generated content rendering the signal-to-noise ratio too terrible to tolerate, even for corporations.

Seriously, it feels like 1999 internet. And I’m loving it!

I think “/pictrs/” is in the path for the image hosting. That might be rule-friendly.

If you’re using a web browser, just add the image host domains to your Adblock or ublock origin Blacklist.

Check if your instance is running 0.19 (scroll to bottom)

Thanks!

Tl;dw?

Excellent work folks. Bug fixing is not sexy (even more so in open source projects), but greatly appreciated 👍

Do they also control email? As in all email servers that are “federated” with one another? Conspiracy thinking is dangerous. Maybe I work for “the feds”? Maybe you do and you’ve already been subverted against your own conscious wishes and this is a honeypot you’re posting?

At some point you have to trust something or someone or you end up in the trust-equivalent of solipsism.

I recommend this old paper from the early days of compsci – Ken Thompson: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/reflections-on-trusting-trust

The moral is obvious. You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.)

Take this and abstract. Eventually you’ll either need to be a wholly offline hermit, or accept that there is risk of subversion at every level and that risk must be tolerated in order to use the tech.

Yeah, good luck with that. Controlled given instances might be achievable, but the protocol will eventually route around the damage.

Difference in the way active users is counted on v0.19 versus earlier versions. On earlier versions, you’re only counted as an active user if you made a post or a comment, but as of v0.19, it also counts people who upvote as active. lemmy.world hasn’t updated to v0.19 yet, so you don’t see the bump on their graph (yet).