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Why are people saying this was Reddit’s april fools? It clearly says it’s made by /r/gamesonreddit, not the admins.

Sounds like a torrent

Because it is torrenting. I clicked on the “More information” link in the popup and:

PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users by default to help lower the load on the server. The main threat to your privacy induced by BitTorrent lies in your IP address being stored in the instance’s BitTorrent tracker as long as you download or watch the video.

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No idea about copyright though, but I also don’t quite understand the issue there that doesn’t apply to ActivityPub itself too.

Well, it’s different meanings of “posting to your profile”. I get it you’re using the technical/backend/AP meaning of the post being posted to the user’s account and then the community just announces it iirc. At least that’s how it works on Lemmy, never looked into how Mbin does this exactly, iirc there’s differences to how Lemmy and Mbin communities look from Mastodon.

But in this thread’s context, it means that you make a post, and it’s only visible on your profile, nowhere else. Not in any magazine. New Reddit has this feature, where you can choose to make a post to /u/username instead of any specific subreddit, and then the post is only visible on your user page.

It’s unclear what exact meaning the person I replied to meant, but it’s definitely not the technical one, considering their wording. So with “Mbin doesn’t actually support posting things to your profile yet” I meant it in the context established by OP.

Mbin doesn’t actually support posting things to your profile yet. Microblog posts still need to be posted to a particular community. They do plan to stop with that eventually and allow you to post outside of communities (recently mentioned on their Matrix), but that’s not a thing yet.

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It’s a lot better nowadays than Google, so I do, yeah.

The website doesn’t work for me, the request times out.

Another interesting discovery: Compare the two links for each of the accounts marked with (*). You will notice that the posts on moist.catsweat.com link to YouTube, but when viewing the posts from lemmy.world those same posts link to the blogspot. Why is that?

Yeah, I think this is the real problem. It’s Youtube on the home instance, it’s not marked as edited (and even if it was, url changes are federated to Lemmy), and it federates as Youtube only (checked the AP response).
Where is Lemmy getting the blogspot from in the first place?

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Oh, I wasn’t aware it got updated to support Mbin. Last time I checked it still only showed Kbin’s zero instances (and wasn’t it instances rather than magazines?)

Still, it’s a shame they’re hidden in a menu. Imo ideal would be if all the communities were in the same feed, regardless of which software they run on. It’s about discovery after all.

For context for the people downvoting this: Lemmy doesn’t have karma, but Mbin does and it shows karma for Lemmy accounts too.

They can, but they might have trouble discovering it. Other instances won’t become aware of your magazine until one of their users searches for it explicitly, and even then posts won’t be federated until someone subscribes. So you’ve got some advertisement to do.

This is a general problem though which Lemmy suffers from too. Lemmy has this problem less because there’s third-party websites which list all Lemmy communities and you can browse them there. But those don’t support Mbin magazines from what I’ve seen. (edit: seems like Mbin support was added since I last checked)

One way to overcome this problem that I know of is Lemmy Federate. As I understand it, it tries to subscribe to your magazine from various instances (including big ones) using its own account, so it starts getting federated there.

Fellow Mbin user here.

When I go and press edit on a text-only thread of mine, I get the following fields in order:

1. URL (empty)
2. Title
3. (unlabaled) the post body, the main text of the post
4. (unlabeled and grayed out) the magazine it’s posted to
5. Tags

Your links show up in the post body, but the mod wants you to paste the original article URL into the URL field instead. If you’re using another language than English, it might be named differently.

Alternatively, when making a post, you can decide between creating a “link”, a “thread”, a “photo” or a “post” (exact wording might differ between languages and instances). This is currently a thread, but they want you to pick the link option instead. But like I said, editing should include the ability to fill in a link without having to recreate the post as a link post.

An instance being blocked by all other instances?

No, defederating is just a single instance blocking another instance, not the entire fediverse doing so.

I’ve read that too, but I still have the ability to add a custom list. It says initially, so I assumed they got around that issue by now, considering it isn’t the case for me.

I technically use Edge which afaik still allows MV2, so in case the extension somehow implements both and defaults to mv2 if available, I’ve decided to install Chrome and get ABP there to test. Even in Chrome, the ability to add a custom list is still there. As are all the other features, like manual updating. With custom list I mean both the ability to add a list per URL, and the ability to add custom arbitrary rules directly.

I don’t really see why element blocking wouldn’t be possible or allowed under Manifest v3. Like, it’s entirely client-side. Manifest never comes into play there.

What I can imagine is that custom lists might work that same way too, removing the ads from the page after they’ve already loaded rather than blocking the web request directly which is afaik how adblocking works in mv2. I can’t tell you if that’s the case or not.

Probably because of the Adblock Plus mention. It’s mired in controversy because of its acceptable ads toggle and requiring ad giants to pay for it. So I can imagine people downvoting comments that put it in a positive light compared to other adblockers.

Thanks! Does Lemmy display something when people have their cake day so it’s easily visible? Mbin (which I use) doesn’t, so I wasn’t actually aware until I saw your comment.

They mentioned the flaws of both platforms.

In our case, it’s no established support for moving accounts.

Thanks for that edit.

Does it get stored there, or does it get forwarded to lemmy.world and stored there? If sh.itjust.works shuts down, does this comment disappear with it?

Your own content gets stored on your own instances and every instance it’s federated with. It’s not sh.itjust.works or lemmy.world, it’s both of them.