zenithseeker

joined 1 year ago
 

Lemmy is definitely different from how mailing lists work in practice - much faster to get updates on, more ergonomic, etc., but in theory - could SMTP, IMAP, and a bit of ingenuity be used to turn a mailing list into a Lemmy-like interface for comments, links, etc?

I just had the idea of making a mailing list-based ActivityPub host lol, but it would probably be much slower than Lemmy in just about every way because of protocol overhead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Certainly, but when you make a comment or post it gets transferred to all federated servers without your express consent and you currently can't permanently delete anything.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

By that logic though all of Fediverse is illegal and should be shut down. There is significant work to be done there, not just by Facebook but by the Fediverse community on the whole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Brilliant, very much look forward to it. I don't have much experience with mobile app development but could contribute some translations if you end up needing them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The originating instance definitely cannot be held responsible for failing to force a separate instance in another country to delete its cached copy of user data imo. I think what is more likely is that EU courts could force European Jimmy instances to only federate with GDPR-compliant instances. (so federation by whitelist rather than blacklist)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As did I. Was sort of okay with third party apps being blocked, but the whole mod replacement thing is unfortunate and has caused my favourite subreddits to go down pretty much indefinitely.