SavvyWolf

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Lemmy Servers and different registrations in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From a technical standpoint, there is no real difference, it comes down to how the instance owner feels it's best to run the server.

Ultimately, instances (or at least the ones most people want to join) want to keep rulebreakers, trolls and spam out. There are two main ways of doing this:

  • Proactively: By attempting to prevent bad actors from signing up in the first place.
  • Reactively: Allow everyone to sign up, and ban bad actors when they misbehave.

Of course, there is a lot of debate as to which of these methods are better (beehaw, for example, fundamentally doesn't think a reactive approach can work at all), which causes tension between some instances.

This tension can rise to a point where one instance "defederates" from another, meaning they stop talking to each other and you can't interact with one if you have an account with the other.

Do we have a "Find a Community" community in the Fediverse? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

https://sub.rehab/ Is also useful, if you want to look up by subreddit.

Copyleft is the only way. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will say, as I've grown older and more jaded, I've been finding the GPL more and more appealing...

Edit: Oh wow, why did a year old post show up at the top of "Hot", sorry about bumping.

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[Vote] Use the Fediverse Overseer to pre-emptively defederate from suspected botted instances (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

See the tool here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/95652

And some discussion of the issue here: https://lemm.ee/post/177673

This tool produces a list of instances which have a very high number of users compared to the number of comments and posts. These instances are assumed to have high number of bot accounts on them.

Some other instances have started blocking them, should sh.itjust.works follow suit?

Of course, this need not be permanent, and will be reversed when those instances resolve the issue.

For reference, this is a list of instances suspected of being botted by the tool's default settings: https://overseer.dbzer0.com/api/v1/instances?activity_suspicion=20&domains=true

Ayes and nays please!

What will happen to Brave browser after the manifest change? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Out of interest, since Chromium is open source, is there anything stopping Opera, Edge, Brave, etc. just mantaining support for the old manifest? Like, I'm not sure why this is such a big deal for anything other than Chrome and Chromium.

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Super Mario Bros. Wonder (www.youtube.com)
 

New Mario game!

The art style is certainly... Distinct. Probably not my cup of tea, but it's interesting nonetheless.

I need 1 more thing an evil necromancer dictator would have in his garden in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A flower garden.

Not like, evil or anything. Guy just really likes gardening.

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[Vote] Require a valid non-temporary email on signup (sh.itjust.works)
 

Registrations should require a valid email address and temporary/disposable (e.g. temp-mail.org ) email services should be rejected.

Note this should not be implemented as a whitelist; "obscure" email services such as Protonmail, Tutanota and personal email servers should be allowed.

Pros:

  • Cuts down on the number of trolls attempting to register, reducing load on mods and admins.
  • Improves our standing with other instances.
  • Ensures users have the ability to reset their password.

Cons:

  • Has privacy concerns - people may not want to associate their email address with everything.
  • Users may not (and perhaps should not have to) trust the admins of this instance with their email.
  • May not be supported well by Lemmy, and/or require a blacklist that needs updating.

Aye and nay in the comments, please.

You can always rely on grandma in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: If you google those codes you find out that they are "real" codes, but they don't actually activate Windows. I think they are something that are used as placeholders in the upgrade from Windows 8 to 10 or something, but don't know the specifics.

ChatGPT actually can't create new "words", just regurgitate words that it's seen somewhere before!

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Know any interesting obscure games? (sh.itjust.works)
 

So I posted this when I first created the community, but I think it got lost somewhere and never ended up here. Early days for Lemmy I guess.

Anyway, just wanted to ask if anyone knows any obscure interesting platformers. I don't necessarily mean good per say, but interesting.

For example, were they trying something new, but missed the mark? Maybe there was an interesting story about its development or release? Or even just did everything right but didn't get the attention they deserved. That sort of thing.