It is. The user just won’t see any content from the server they blocked.

That’s entirely different. As an individual, I have the choice to send emails to, or block emails from, Gmail.com.

But on Lemmy, if I am on an instance that federates with Threads, and I don’t want Threads.net to get a copy of my content or posts (or have my content or posts show up on Threads.net in the future), then tough shit for me, my only option is to either go silent or move to an instance that has defederated from Threads.

People keep making the email argument, but it is not the same thing at all. I don’t think it’s fair for a large percentage of lemmy.world’s users to not have a voice in a decision that will absolutely impact them, nor is it fair to have a stance of “then leave then.”

Ah, I misunderstood what you were saying at first. You’re right, it’s not everything on the instance that gets sent, only those things that federated instances need.

But as a user, unless I run my own instance, I don’t get to decide when my posts or edits get sent out to any federated servers. That’s what I was referring to. All of that stuff gets sent out “like a firehose.”

And over time, as more people on Threads interact with certain ActivityPub instances, the range of communities Threads will be sent updates for might as well be the entire instance. If I block them, that’s just a visual block. My stuff will still be sent to them, and depending on how they set up their federation, my content might be available on “threads.net” as well.

ActivityPub doesn’t just push everything on a server to every federated instance like a fire hose.

I’m pretty sure Lemmy does? I run my own instance and that’s how it works.

Is Mastodon different?

This doesn’t solve the problem of sending Threads a copy of absolutely every bit of activity that happens on the instance. If I’m on an instance that federates with Threads, even if I put them out of sight/out of mind, they still get a copy of everything I do. A lot of people are on the fediverse for privacy reasons, yet here we are with people begging to hand Facebook this data on a silver platter.

“But why hide information that’s public? They could just scrape it.”

Yes, they could. But a real-time feed of activity is more complete, easier to manage, and doesn’t require them to go and build a scraping tool just for this.

If I don’t want Threads to have any of my data sent to them, I should be able to choose without needing to leave an instance I’ve been on for potentially years.

Not only did I add threads.net to my blocked instances list, I also went scorched Earth and outright blocked Facebook’s entire IP range through my firewall. Don’t want them “accidentally” reading any data from my server ;)

For reference, their IP range is 157.240.0.0/16:

Edit: Actually, I might have more IPs to block:

https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/THEFA-3/nets

CrossCode! Incredible game, probably my favorite game of all time.

It’s so much more than it looks. The music is awesome, and in some powerful scenes, the story is driven forward with musical motifs that make the scenes hit that much harder.

The story is just… really good. I teared up a few times.

The characters are beautifully written and extremely memorable. By the end of the game, you really feel like you’ve been living with them.

People say they don’t like the puzzles, but the game comes with difficulty sliders and you can turn down things you don’t like.

You can get it on consoles, or, on Steam, and even GOG!

There is a DLC to this game. If you enjoy the game, DON’T SKIP THE DLC!!! It is THE ending to the game! Some might scoff at “oh wow they locked the story behind the DLC,” but no, trust me, it is well worth it. It adds a TON of content and is an extremely well put together finale to the epic story told in the game.

You can’t use ReVanced on desktop. I was mostly being sarcastic and saying everyone would just start watching on their phones. But I do most of my YouTube viewing on mobile anyway, so if I started getting hit with this, this is literally what I would do.

Alternate headline: Users test using only YouTube ReVanced to bypass this new system

It’s a different style, but Ghost Trick is being re released in HD very soon. I definitely recommend you give it a try!

Good. I really hope this causes a snowball effect. I’d say there is enough momentum to get a good half of the participating subs on board with an indefinite blackout, if not way more. And with more moderators checking their inboxes and feeds tomorrow, “after the blackout,” I anticipate seeing a second wave starting tomorrow and throughout the next week, as these mods return to reddit temporarily to coordinate.

KEEP IT GOING!!!

Right, and I would prefer to not accidentally make my home DNS server vulnerable to zone transfer attacks, and have all that traffic leave my home unencrypted regardless. This can be done, but the risks and overhead outweigh the benefits.

For my threat model (and probably most everyone’s), using Cloudflare’s encrypted DNS is good enough for me.

Ah, that proxy. I thought their 1.1.1.1 app was just a VPN. I guess you could call it a proxy.

Still, I don’t see any issues with using it.

You linked their DNS server, which is not their proxy, but yes I use both.

Cloudflare often comes under fire for privacy concerns, but that’s literally true of every public DNS server out there. No one can feasibly run their own DNS server at home. Those requests ultimately have to go somewhere.

I don’t use Google’s DNS server, because their business model relies on their ability to spy on you. Cloudflare’s business model relies on providing reliable network services, and maintaining public trust. In addition, the scale of surveillance they would have to do with the volume of requests they get per second is entirely unfeasible. They simply have too much data flowing through their servers for it to be reasonable.

Could they be spying on me? Yes, but so could anyone, and among the options, they are the least motivated to do so.

I was a pretty simple user. I used Boost for Reddit, and I liked the different post views you could save for different Reddit’s or multireddits. Probably a few other things I’m not thinking of that I took for granted, too.

I’d like to see Jeroba improved more. Hopefully the “fancy” features from the reddit apps that are shutting down make their way into Jeroba in one form of another.

The blackout is making Lemmy boom now, but I think the real moment of truth will be the end of the month when the API actually closes. That’ll be the wake up call for a lot of the power users, some of which are developers, that yes, the apps are gone and they’re not coming back. They’ll have to find something else to spend their time on. Hopefully they choose Lemmy.

There are a couple of open source Reddit clients that have developers who will, very soon, suddenly have a lot more free time than they had before. We’re getting decent Lemmy engagement now, but I think Lemmy usage and Lemmy development are going to skyrocket at the end of the month.

This was provoking to read and I’m not even a major subreddit moderator.

I hope this response enrages the moderators enough that they extend their blackouts indefinitely. Prove him wrong.

I’m pretty sure this has been around for at least a little while. I’m not visiting reddit today, but you can bypass this with old.reddit right?

We can still clown on reddit for them saying “Wait, you have to verify your age by signing in! …but we can let it slide if you get the app, pretty please?” 🤡🤡🤡

That’s irrelevant to this discussion. I was talking about OpenBSD’s lack of kernel features and driver support.

As for the Linux vs OpenBSD terminal comment, I feel like you’re grasping. What does OpenBSD’s terminal to better? We have had augmentations on top of the Linux terminal for years, adding things like auto complete and syntax suggestions that the 80’s could never have dreamed of.

I wonder why the world outside a limited subset of the Linux ecosystem is - at most - an afterthought for Fediverse developers.

I hate to break this to you, but OpenBSD is an antiquated OS masquerading as a modern one, and the OpenBSD’s lack of willingness to support modern standards results in the difficulty you’re having.

OpenBSD feels like it’s been duct taped together for decades. Anything “new” seems to just be, “sorry, not possible.” The OpenBSD kernel doesn’t support WiFi 5GHz. The OpenBSD kernel doesn’t support even the minimum subset of isolation features in order for Docker to function properly. Why? Because OpenBSD refuses to add these features to their kernel. There are very likely other syscalls and basic features any given open source projects needs, even if it’s not being run in Docker, that simply could not run under OpenBSD due to the very limited kernel it provides.

You’re upset because open source projects don’t support a platform that is old and developer-hostile. Turn your frustrations on OpenBSD - these projects would gladly support OpenBSD if they could.

I keep hearing similar things, but not a single person has linked to a comment or anything the devs have actually said.

Where can I read about this? I want to see what they said.