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gabe , 3 months ago

The abuse potential this has feels quite concerning. You've just given kiwifarms a decentralized tool to host its stalking profiles on people.

gabe , 3 months ago

Really good. Crocheting quite a bit and working on my blanket. Planning on reading a bit today. I’m also getting some solid progress done on learning Java and am planning on continuing the course I’ve been following for it.

gabe Mod , 3 months ago

Haven't gotten much reading done, been extremely busy with Sublinks stuff and playing baldurs gate 3. I did make a blog post about my issues with lemmy and why I am focusing on sublinks and the lemmy devs unfortunately dismissed all the criticism I had and then proceeded to tell off the Beehaw admins and told them to leave lemmy. It's unfortunate. I am proud of my blog post though.

I am still here, paying for the server. Just doing stuff in the background as I can. My DMs are always open too, even if I seem away I promise I'm not. I'm currently working on accessibility auditing the Sublinks frontend, planning on starting a test environment later tonight for that. 😅

gabe , 3 months ago

Upload somewhere else (theres a bunch of images hosts) then make your post point to that image host. Federated instances just have to host the link, so it’s good for them too.

Those images are still cached as well as the thumbnails.

gabe , 3 months ago

I will be migrating as soon as I can on here, and am making plans to start the "first" full sublinks instance when it reaches somewhat stability for production (sublinks.art). For transparency though, I am contributing to the project within the capacity that I am able to so I'm probably biased.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

The front end is a work in progress but making significant headway. The lemmy frontend it has on the demo instance is just a placeholder, but the work has been progressing rapidly. I've thankfully been able to be there for it and provide input as I can.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

You aren't, it's a weird issue with the activitypub plugin I am having. I'm contemplating removing the plugin itself due to this.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

It is unfortunate that this is what you have decided to take away from the blog post instead of reflecting on the criticism I have provided. Instead of reflecting on my list of legitimate criticism you have decided to call me entitled and hone in on small aspects of the blog post in attempt to dismiss it completely. Per usual, it is everyone else that seems to be the problem but you. I outlined my own issues with lemmy after a LOT of patience and goodwill. That's lost, and this comment solidifies further why I will switch away from lemmy as soon as I get the chance. Whether you decide to accept the points I have made is on you but ultimately your refusal to recognize the issues I have outlined will cause this project to fade away completely. And that's really sad. I love lemmy as a project and an idea.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

I removed the plugin causing the issue and cleared the cache.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

That's not the case at all. I have had disagreements with jgrim and will continue in the future. The difference in that differing opinions are open for discussion and are not immediately met with hostility or completely shutdown.

The lemmy devs are blatantly lying under this post, and I'm not engaging for the reason that I have better things to do than to argue with them and convince them to accept criticism they are clearly never going to be willing to hear. There's more that goes beyond discussing and making github requests on this project, and a portion of this is based on interactions on the backend within matrix admin channels as well as watching interaction within the github repository itself as well. I have engaged heavily in the matrix chats amongst large lemmy instances on this stuff numerous times. My frustration is shared.

My issue isn't that they aren't doing what I want, it's that they have such opinionated development that they seem truly incapable of taking criticism or feedback from others. Everyone is wrong or the problem except for them. All of the criticism I have laid out has been dismissed under this post as "false criticism" which exemplifies the frustration held. I recognize that this is a large project that requires a lot of energy and time that is difficult for hobbyists to engage in, but they actively push away other hobbyists who try to work on the project with them. I am one of them. All passion and desire to engage in this project is gone.

I am truly despondent about lemmy as a platform and simply login and engage when I feel the random spurt of energy to do so. Outside of that, I just monitor and moderate in the background. This blog post simply explains why. Take with it what you will. 🤷

gabe OP , 3 months ago

I agree quite a bit with your second point, as someone who used to run a Minecraft server long long long ass it was quite bad.

And yeah, I think there will be solid reasons to get users to migrate. But for the most part it wont really be needed as instances themselves will be able to convert lemmy instances to sublinks instances eventually. It wont require much effort from users unless they want to switch instances entirely.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

It can be a source of harassment to not be able to anonymize actions.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

Do you run an instance or have you ever ran a fediverse instance before?

gabe OP , 3 months ago

The only thing I really have to add is on the topic of toxicity. Like you, I’m an instance admin and have a bird’s eye view of a lot of behavior patterns. I’ve recently started wondering how many people are here because they’re too toxic for regular social media rather than because they want to be here. I won’t guess an actual number, but I would say it’s not insignificant.

That's unfortunately a big issue with alternative social media platforms and without tools to combat them it goes bad really bad. I agree completely.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

Honestly coming here and starting my own instance and providing help for other instances and stuff has reignited my long lost love of computers and open source stuff. The passion for it is thankfully coming back.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

It might be an issue with the activitypub plugin, https://jewy.blog/b/1T try this shortlink version instead

gabe OP , 3 months ago

I will migrate it to sublinks as soon as I can.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

I couldn't find their pronouns listed anywhere, but it was my bad to assume regardless. Fixed it, my apologies.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

It can become a source of targeted harassment, as it has on the rest of the fediverse before.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

Interesting. I might have to remove the activitypub plugin regardless then.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

I deleted the activitypub plugin because of how wonky it is, try again and let me know if you have any issue now

gabe OP , 3 months ago

The thing is, sublinks lead developer tried to work with development team of lemmy. It was like pulling teeth constantly and his experience was overall negative.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

It especially leads to harassment of vulnerable people. There's many aspects of moderation that is done here that if implemented in other fediverse software would become a vector for Kiwifarms level harassment.

gabe OP , 3 months ago

As well, I should highlight the project jgrim was desiring to do was an external mod tooling system for lemmy. Not something within lemmy itself.

gabe OP , 2 months ago

I migrated over to writefreely, here's the new link. https://my.jewy.blog/my-love-hate-relationship-with-lemmy

gabe , 3 months ago

Welcome to the hell of being a lemmy admin. There's a reason why lemmy admins are fed up with the developers.

gabe , 3 months ago

For context, there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes when it comes to lemmy admin stuff especially in the matrix channels. There is a significant frustration and lack of confidence in the lemmy developers at this point. Even those who try to contribute to the project get eventually feeling pushed out.

gabe Mod , 4 months ago

Haven't gotten around to reading that much, been busy unfortunately.

gabe , 4 months ago

Just a bunch of Japanese script kiddies targetting the fediverse and its network for some reason. There's active measures being taken and thankfully many instances are monitoring it pretty well.

gabe , 4 months ago

Finally!

gabe OP Mod , 4 months ago

A big aspect of it is likely nostalgia and the influence it had on many people who were learning to solidify their literacy. I think that's also why it is so hard for people to break from it as well today.

gabe , 5 months ago

Will there eventually be a means of converting lemmy instances over to sublinks? I know that inter instance software migration is a nightmare though.

gabe , 5 months ago

Oh my God. This is really, really, REALLY bad. I know this looks like a useful tool but extending this to software that isn't lemmy is going to make the rest of the fediverse enraged. Tools like these are used as active harassment vectors. Theres a reason why the other fediverse instances that make these tools are affiliated with kiwifarms. Seriously please consider disabling non-lemmy software interaction immediately!

gabe , 5 months ago

There are aspects of the wider fediverse culture that is ignored on lemmy, and thankfully its lack of interoperability has helped it avoid trouble (for now). I'm really not sure how to explain to you how it could be used for harassment as it requires a bit of detailed background to how the wider fediverse functions and its history and I don't really know if it would convince you if I did explain it in enough detail. Just because data is publicly scrape-able doesn't mean it's acceptable to do so.

gabe , 5 months ago

Do you know what kiwifarms is? Just curious.

gabe Mod , 5 months ago

Listening to Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the otherlands! It's so good so far.

Also, we may need to scale up the instance soon. Oof.

gabe , 4 months ago

Yeah, unfortunately took a rapid shift away and my optimism is gone. A hard fork is being made from scratch in a new programming language, that I am actively involved in whatever way I can be.