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cyrus

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I like cats and tech :3

:spinny_fox_trans:​ / :spinny_fox_nb:

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cyrus , to random
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You need to take action against NOW.

If things go as "expert groups" in the EU have planned, ChatControl might pass on the 19th of June.

Contact your representatives and tell them to vote a clear NO; to count abstentions as formal disagreements.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-greenlight-chat-control-take-action-now

dansup , to random
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I’m not an expert when it comes to encryption by any means, but from my work on Sup and my knowledge of the Signal protocol, I’m confident that the lies Elon and Telegram are spreading are unfounded.

You can review the Signal protocol to see for yourself, like they (Elon and them) would be pointing to smoking gun vulnerable code if they had any real dirt, but I’ve yet to see any 😉

cyrus ,
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@dansup the Signal Protocol is the Gold-Standard for a reason, they (or at least telegram) is trying to twist that as a bad thing

Though, I've not seen what Elon said yet, mind linking it?

cyrus , to random
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reminder that "AI Art" is not art but just a statistical model regurgitating stolen content to you whilst drawing the approximate power and water of a small city

(so that all of YOU out there see this too. Yes I am mad.)

cyrus OP ,
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muted the post in advance, feeling good

dansup , to random
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I'm a bit frustrated with Android at the moment, I've spent hours tonight trying to upgrade the Pixelfed app to the latest RN version (and the tons of deps we use)

I'm nearly there, I can feel it... 😅

cyrus ,
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@dansup ah, the Android Developer Experience...

cyrus ,
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@solrize

The fact that you're not even noticing the federation shows how effective it is ;)

You're probably browsing communities that aren't on Lemmy.world often without realising, I'm here replying to you from wetdry.world (a mastodon instance), and the OP also doesn't come from Lemmy.world

The cool thing about this is that no single server, company, or entity in general gets to decide over the wider fediverse, because everything is spread out and shared between thousands of independent servers. This is completely opposite to what traditional social media services have built.

cyrus ,
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@solrize

There's no gatekeeper to satisfy because even when one server defederates from you, you are still able to curate and protect your own community.

Personally, who cares if there's some Nazis and trolls less in my feed? 🥴

cyrus ,
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@solrize

Well, let me go by example: The strength of E-Mail lies in the fact that its a robust standard that, instead of siloing users into their platforms, brings people together into one single userbase.

Similarly with federation in social media, this makes userbases not compete but collaborate. If I created an ActivityPub-Powered project right now, I'd have to convince nobody to use it and still be part of a community.

One difference however is that social media is public. As the person that runs the server, you do have to put in some measures to make sure that your users are actually feeling safe. The most extreme of these measures is defederation, where you just completely cut off another server, but there's also other ways to limit other servers, like for example, hiding their accounts by default in say the "federated" feed in Mastodon and co.

cyrus ,
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@big_slap

Fun fact:
The entirety of bluesky was supposed to be an activity pub extension at some point.

https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2535398

18+ croissant , to random
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• burnout
• harassment
• admin defended JK Rowling not realizing how many trans people they were surrounded by
• burnout
• indifference
• harassment but then decided not to shut down
• burnout
• ran out of money
• database corruption so bad the entire instance just vanished
• burnout

and, finally:

• domain seized by the Taliban

cyrus ,
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@xyhhx we need more unique reasons fedi instances shut down

bingo board titled "reasons fediverse instances closed" with the same content in each cell as follows (left to right, top to bottom): - burnout - harassment - admin defended JK-Rowling not realising how many trans people they were surrounded by - indifference - harassment but then decided not to shut down - ran out of money - database corruption so bad the entire instance just vanished - domain seized by the taliban
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