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Jerry on PieFed

@ Jerry @feddit.online

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Just a techie guy running feddit.online to allow people to communicate, make friends and acquaintances. Odd coming from a happy introvert, right? (https://jerry.hear-me.blog/about)

I also own these publicly available applications:Mastodon: https://hear-me.social/Alternative Mastodon UI: https://phanpy.hear-me.social/Peertube: https://my-sunshine.video/Friendica: https://my-place.social/Matrix: https://element.secure-channel.net/XMPP/Jabber: https://between-us.online/Bluesky PDS: https://blue-ocean.social/ (jerry.blue-ocean.social) Mobilizon (Facebook Events Alt): https://my-group.events/and more...

  • My Mastodon instance refuses to federate with a specific instance, and nobody seems to know why.

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  • A relay, as in the Mastodon relay feature? As in Administration->Relays? If so, does mastodonapp.uk have an active relay? It can't be used to connect to just any Mastodon server. It has to connect to a special relay server.

    Not sure whether this is helpful.

  • In a town where 76% backed Trump, locals are outraged as his new bill shuts down their only hospital

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  • TIL the Guillotine was named after a man who neither invented it nor believed in the death penalty

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  • Thanks! I've tried editing it.

  • Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?

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  • Depends on the application for me. For Mastodon, I want to allow 12K character posts, more than 4 poll question choices, and custom themes. Can't do it with Docker containers. For Peertube, Mobilizon, and Peertube, I use Docker containers.

  • Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

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  • Yes, well stated. This is why I usually skip reading people's comments. The vast majority see everything through their own agendas and just echo words they hear.

  • Short video that show what Friendica can do

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  • Wow! Well done!!

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • Doesn't work that way. States agree to enforce each other's civil orders

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • On feddit.online I block both the UK and France in addition to Mississippi. However, I believe in a future upgrade, PieFed can be configured to block people from specific countries from accessing NSFW and NSFL communities (feddit.online doesn't allow NSFL communities). When that upgrade happens, I will open it again to the UK and France but keep it closed for Mississippi.

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • Why is this post NSFW???

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • I'm exhausted with all this. And it's not my fight. The fight belongs to the people of Mississippi. They elected their "leaders."

    Until I know for sure that I am not on the hook to pay a $10K penalty for each person on my servers, I've blocked all Mississippi IP addresses from logging in and registering on my Mastodon, Piefed, and Friendica servers.

    Wyoming will probably be next.

  • Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?

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  • They can notify the hosting company that the server is violating UK law, the registrars, and payment services. This is the fear for sites not hosted in the UK. There are inter-country agreements to support civil actions.

  • Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance?

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  • Just mentioning that Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad, and with their Firefox extension you can exclude individual websites from VPN protection or set preferred server locations for specific sites. So you can stay on a UK server for UK banking sites but switch to a different country server for a social site.

    Only works on Windows for now. But maybe useful given this situation.

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • Yes, the U.S. and the U.K. have cooperation agreements for Civil actions.

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • A public enforcement action by Ofcom could make it difficult because payment processors can refuse to work with the site owner, domain registrars could be pressured to suspend the domain, and hosting providers might refuse to provide services.

    Who needs this drama?

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • Piefed.social isn't as affected because they restrict the NSFW communities. Feddit.online doesn't have the restriction, so it's more exposed.

    The fear is a complaint being made to Digital Ocean that a server they host is violating UK law. It would be much easier for DO to remove the server than to take any other action.

  • Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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  • The Mozilla VPN with their Firefox extension (not yet on Linux), for example, lets you change the VPN server's country based on the domain you connect to and even bypass the VPN for certain domains. So, I believe it can be configured to select a U.S. VPN server, for example, when visiting a U.S. social site, but stay on the native connection when accessing BBC services. It uses Mullvad as the provider, actually, which is high quality. They can't be the only one.

    The Internet always seems to find ways to bypass blocks.

  • PieFed.World is now open

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  • Likely, then, that lemmy.world has the same restriction.

  • PieFed.World is now open

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  • I think it depends on the Piefed instance; it's up to the Admin.

    It should work on, for example, feddit.online. If not, something is broken.

  • PieFed.World is now open

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  • My understanding is that your one PR broke logins, and it took maybe 5 days for someone else to fix the code? Maybe your changes that were kicked away just weren't so good after all, or trusted?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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