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[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh thanks for that. Looking at the plugin's wordpress page I ended up on a wordpress SVN page and thought I had to browse that. My allergy is already much better, I might have a look after all.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 2 years ago

You are right. I don't mind the upvotes being public, I do mind the deletion thing (although it's an inherent flaw of federation, hard to get around it) but both are points against it having good privacy.

I guess what I meant is that the platform makes no attempt at linking your online persona to anything else. It doesn't even collect IP adresses and has very poor logging - btw this is actually a liability with the ongoing CSAM issue.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Looking at the Mastodon and Lemmy documentations, yes it should work.

  • Lemmy accepts posts with the: Page, Article, Note, Video and Event activities.
  • Mastodon accepts toots with the Page, Article, Note, Video, Event, Image, Audio and Question activities.

As you can see there's a large overlap between the two, so I say it's likely that it will work. I could bring this even further by having a look at the plugin's code but unfortunately I'm alergic to both PHP and SVN and wordpress uses both.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sounds more like a simple filter to your feed. I'm not familiar with the backend side of Lemmy but I would guess it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Just save an array of instance domains a user doesn't want to see in their preferences and filter them out of the post list that gets served to them.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That got me very confused as I never had that happening on my Reddit feed. I had to go back to Reddit to notice that I actually had that setting disabled.

Anyway, I don't think something like that would really work on Lemmy. Reddit has his algorithm that devours your privacy, chews on your data and spits out results that may or may not interests you. Lemmy is much more simple than that. IIRC it's "algorithm" is little more than a logarithmic curve and the (very based) devs are committed to user privacy, so your data will never get analyzed, not even to sugar coat your feed. For me it's a feature, though I get that not everyone might feel that way.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 10 points 2 years ago

Adding support for Kbin is definitely a priority. When I built that tool Kbin didn't have public defederation lists (yet?) though a pull request to implement that was in the works. Idk what's the status on that is, but as soon as it's merged I'll also add Kbin.

For any other software it's a little trickier. Unless there some way to check for this through ActivityPub of which I'm not aware, I have to go through software specific steps to scan those instances. This means that for Lemmy I go through an API that only exists on Lemmy, when I'll add Kbin I'll have to write some new code that will only write for Kbin and so on. This isn't really sustainable for EVERY fedi platform out there, I won't do that.

Moreover, as you saw there was a progress bar. That's your computer querying each one of those 300 instances looking for their defed lists. The more software I add, the more instances you as a user have to query, the longer it takes to run a search. All in all I don't think I'll add support for any other software aside from Kbin and possibly Mastodon.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 13 points 2 years ago

No, usually I remember that Georgia is a state in the USA because of comments like this

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 43 points 2 years ago (6 children)
[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I only know about because somebody happens to tell me

I agree on that point, I have built a site to check for that https://defed.xyz but you still have to query each instance manually. It's just the way Lemmy works, some research is required when creating your account. I could write you a whole spielt on what criteria you should look at but the short answer is that if you want something big that "just works" lemm.ee might be the place for you.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

lemmy.world has been defederated and has defederated some pretty large instances. On the othe hand lemm.ee is probably the instance with one of the most open fed lists

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you have a decent list from Reddit you can use https://sub.rehab to map Reddit to Lemmy / Kbin

If you just want to look for communities you can use https://browse.feddit.de

Takes some time to get everything set up but I honestly prefer having only stuff that interests me in my feed + no porn randomly popping up

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