Wow, that’s bad. I would hate working with this so much.

of numbers instead of human-readable names

TBF, they have introduced a ‘verified’ system that lets you use human readable names.

Yeah, people are tribal and decentralisation lets people express that in ways centralised platforms don’t. Something, something, tech won’t save us.

Clicking though to community to post and selecting a community from the create post page are same problem rearranged. A user who subbed to [email protected] isn’t going to know the difference between [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].

Solution 2 in the post, multicommunities. I’m not sure it actually solves the problem though, as you still have to go to the actual community to post and I imagine multicomms add an extra layer of confusion to that.

Can’t wait for the follow up post decrying PeerTube for only allowing videos, or Bookwrym for only allowing book reviews. Just because it’s ActivityPub doesn’t mean it has to be a Twitter timeline.

Once a major actor in a decentralised network starts to mess with the protocol, there are only two possible output: either that actor lose steam or that actor becomes dominant enough to impose its own vision of the protocol. In fact, there’s a third option: the whole protocol becomes irrelevant because nobody trust it anymore.

You mean like Mastodon? Where’s the angry diatribe about Mastodon not allowing posts to have more than 4 pictures despite other platforms allowing more (Pixelfed allows up to 20 for example)?

They mention SWICG’s data portability spec, I assume they’re referring to LOLA: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola

Just lemmy.org.uk for me.

Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world

Hexbear runs an allowlist, they only federate with instances they select.

The secure chat option is something called Matrix, which is a separate service that doesn’t integrate like Reddit’s chat. Lemmy just supports being able to set a Matrix account as the place to reach a user.

Obviously it’d only be a subset of HTML. No website that uses user-submitted HTML (Tumblr, AO3, Royal Road, etc) actually allows the full suite of tags.

Cool!

Image markdown style formatting to allow more advanced control of how images are rendered. e.g. 

You might as just let users write the <img> tags directly at this point, at least then you won’t add noise to third party apps’ accessibility stacks.

(I honestly wouldn’t be opposed to letting users write HTML directly, it was one of Tumblr’s best features imo)

Not really, Chrome has an overwhelming dominance on desktop despite not being preinstalled on any desktop operating system.

ABI stability?

You can pry wget from my cold, dead hands.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve tapped the tiny button with three vertical lines right next to the tiny button with three horizontal lines, which can be a problem, because one of them pauses your game and and opens in-game menus, while the other kicks you out to your game library to launch a new game without pausing your game at all. If you press the library button a second time, it doesn’t take you back to your game, so you probably have to long-press the Xbox button to get back to your game, but not the Library button or the Control Center button because those will summon AI assistants instead, and if you understood everything I just wrote and found it reasonable then boy do I have the operating system for you.

Lol, Lmao. Peak Microsoft.

They’re a low effort content mill, they’ll post whatever drives traffic to their website.

Interestingly, the person who added these to Bluesky say they’re a bad idea: https://blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/?author=hailey.at&post=3m2mldbsmys2t

Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.

What, you can absolutely ban people on a decentralised network. You may not be able to expunge someone from a part of the network they control themselves, but you can expunge them from the part you control. Bluesky has this power and has used it in the past.

Masto interprets a Note set as as:sensitive without a summary to mean ‘blur any media attached, but don’t collapse the text content’. I believe the same is true for non-Notes, but obviously without the summary = CW logic.