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Clair Obscur: Exposition 33?

There used to be one like that a few years back! From memory I think it was on the German feddit that doesn’t exist anymore.

How about pointing them at Piefed instead?

You could point them to the instance chooser. It’s on every piefed instance but is decentralized so may be different on different instances, here’s piefed.social: https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser

Piefed has all the same content but a different feature set and worse app support, but app support is growing.

How do we know Dr Pepper is a person doctor not a vet?

Or maybe Dr Pepper has a PhD?

I think I agree. If an account is posting automated content from another source, it should be marked as a bot account. I don’t think it matters that it’s also posting human content. And I don’t think we need a halfy/halfy setting

If someone doesn’t want the account to be marked as a bot, they can use a separate account for their human content.

People specifically disable the bot posts if they don’t want to see that content. We shouldn’t allow some loophole to force the content into people’s feed.

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen subtitles synced correctly outside of streaming services. You must have a different setup to me.

Firefox won’t load local IPs and I have no idea why 🙁

There’s quite a learning curve if you’re not familiar with self-hosting. Doing it through a managed service sounds like a good idea.

Have you got experience self hosting other things?

I really think that it’s good to start with something small and personal (say, a wiki or Jellyfin) where you can build some skills around hosting, reverse proxies, security practices, backups, etc.

Hosting a service as part of a wider interconnected network of sites isn’t as difficult as it sounds but there is definitely potential to screw it up beyond repair.

A few phones back I started getting a second hand flagdhip phone every 3-4 years, I think it’s well worth the flagship second hand 1 year old model instead of the mid range phones I used to get for the same price.

Plus the last couple have been pixels for GraphineOS, so it’s nice to not be directly handingb Google money.

I thought the implication was that you may only be able to buy from that registrar if you’re from/in that country?

Summit here too. I changed up some of the display settings so it feels like Relay for Reddit 😀

The things that got me to move from Voyager were that when images didn’t load first time, there was no way to re-try - Summit has that. And I don’t think Voyager handled drafts that well. Summit has drafts but I do wish there was a client that had drafts like Relay did, where if you come back to the same comment/post and hit reply it has your draft from where you left off on that comment/reply.

Can’t you just put the stuff in the trolley unbagged then bag them when you get to the car?

So recording a conversation on your camera between two other parties still breaks the law in a one party consent state, because no party in the conversation has consented to the conversation being recorded.

I guess not directly relevant, but the point is still there. The article basically came down to the fact that the guy was recording his neighbors’ conversations without consent.

If I lived in the US I’d be checking laws before recording audio.

I don’t live in the US or the EU and still disable audio in my cameras because of this.

So if your toast isn’t taller than those sides, can you open it sideways or something? Remember those bars are scorching hot.

My favourite is when a toaster with the lift function raises to a high point that’s lower than the high point on one without the lift.

Or that time I went through every display toaster in the store to get the one that lifted the highest, then when I bought one and took it home the one in the box only lifted to a high point an inch lower than the display model.

He does do captions a lot, but it looks like he tends to drop his credits in that case. E.g.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/club-2
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/seized
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/secret

Going back through recent comics there are quite a few without credits on them. In addition to the above, there’s:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dilemma-5 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/philosophy-6

It seems a good 1/4 don’t identify themselves as SMBC 🤷

For 1, there’s no central authentication. Accounts prove themselves to other instances with a private/public key pair. I guess you could have some system where the old and new instance connect then transfer that private key so the new instance could prove it’s really you nkt someone impersonating you.

For 2, we don’t even backfill communities when they sync to an instance for the first time because of the volume. For a while, Lemmy instances would freeze (for everyone) when a user with a lot of content deleted their account, but if you wanted to achieve this I’m sure you could do some slow, async, progressive loading of the content that might happen over days, so volume alone wouldn’t make this impossible. It would also have the potential for large storage requirements or a mismatch between what is allowed on different instances, e.g. you could create an instance, load it up with spam posts, then import it to a major instance to get thousands of views before they could ban you. So here you’d need some protection. Admin review from the new instance? Only allow import from trusted instances? What if someone faked dates or other metadata in their posts before the transfer?

3. On Lemmy, a community owns the content. So an upvote or comment will get sent to the community’s instance then that instance will federate it to other instances. If one instance transfers a user, there needs to be a way for the owners of the user’s content to federate that update. For something like Mastodon people directly follow a user so their instance is the owner, but for Lemmy with communities you need the user to tell the community about the change then that community would need to trigger the update to it’s own content. You’d have hundreds of communities each triggering updates to hundreds of instances. I see a big risk here of a user being in two states, e.g. one community federated updates ok but another didn’t, and now some instance has two records of the same user. I’m sure smarter people could work out some redundancy here.

I honestly do think this sounds achievable but like others have said, it’s a lot of work with a lot of edge cases to cater for. So it’s likely not a high priority.

Can you explain some more? I don’t get how this separation helps unless you keep a small number of community instances.