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Ada

@ ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone

  • Fedi-service: "global hashtags booster"

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  • It's useful for smaller servers. Basically, the only remote content that a fediverse instance sees is content produced by a remote account that a local account is subscribed too. So the more users subscribing to remote content, the more content that everyone sees. But in small servers, without a huge amount of incoming content, it can be hard to get a broader view of the fediverse.

    This is a way for people on smaller fediverse instances to pull in broader content, because anything that tags.pub sees with the hashtag, gets pushed to your local server.

  • FYI, blahaj.zone is down for the next few hours

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  • Our piefed instance (which hosts our remaining communities) should be back up soon!

  • FYI, blahaj.zone is down for the next few hours

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  • Don't worry, we're back again :)

  • FYI, blahaj.zone is down for the next few hours

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  • For what it's worth, I absolutely want to see duplicate communities across multiple instances. Even if it's a backup community, folks shouldn't be left without a space if an instance goes offline, or if an admin goes rogue. I want to see more communities for vulnerable folk across more instances.

    I wish there were more queer first instances too, and hopefully, this incident pushes someone in to spinning one up!

  • Mod changes and an intro

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  • Unrelated to the larger topic, but how do you find Endurain? I want to dump Strava, but last time I looked at self hosted Strava alternatives (maybe a year ago?), none of them really came close to parity in features.

  • Finding wholesome communities

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  • That instance is closing down in July, so many communities are likely moving (or the members are)

  • Paris Marathon bans single-use water cups and bottles

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  • I've yet to see someone smoking a cigarette whilst running a marathon...

  • had this convo just yesterday 🤦‍♀️

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  • You're more likely to alienate people who could have been allies than achieve anything of merit

    Someone who thinks giving up Rowling is too big an ask was never an ally in any way that actually means anything..

  • Just call me Kevin

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  • Basically no. At least not at the time you wrote your comment. Community ownership changed a couple of hours after your post though!

  • We Found a Ticking Time Bomb in macOS TCP Networking - It Detonates After Exactly 49 Days - Photon Blog

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  • Headline: Exactly 49 days

    First sentence of article: 49 days, 17 hours and change

  • Should we potentially create a Harry Potter Instance?

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  • To be clear, the blahaj one is for people to talk about the awful shit she's doing and the impact it's having on her victims. It's not a community for people who support her or just want to have polite conversation about her that ignores the harm she is doing

  • Should we potentially create a Harry Potter Instance?

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  • What's interesting about this, is you post it as if it's a question, and despite getting an almost universal "Fuck no" as the answer to the question, you're just arguing that we should do it.

    If you want to do it, do it. But stop looking for validation for it. You're asking for approval to celebrate and recognise someone who actively targets and harms trans people. You're not going to get that approval. So either take that as the answer, or stop pretending it was ever a question.

  • Should we potentially create a Harry Potter Instance?

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  • Plus, it would help to bring in a ton of new users, to the Fediverse.

    Yay, more folks who are happy to fund the erasure of trans people. Can't wait! /s

  • I am in the fediverse now!

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  • Welcome!

  • Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support

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  • I do. We're on it already. The whole system is slipping towards an age gated internet, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. That's the slope. There's nothing I can do to stop it, whether I'm I stay on or get off.

    I don't believe that dropping my whole OS over a database field will change anything. It won't stop the devs who are concerned about their legal liability from being doing what they need to do to protect themselves. Some devs will comply, some will walk away from OSS, and some won't comply. But the bigger the project, the more corporate sponorship it relies on, the more certain it is going to be in the "comply" category, and the truth of that won't change because users push back.

    Which is to say, I don't believe standing up and rejecting a DB field as a matter of principle will change anything, except to make my life harder.

    My line in in the sand isn't about changing the course of the path we're on, it's about my own personal interactions with the system. And being forced to provide my age to interact with the internet is the bit I won't do. So I will stay with the inevitable creep towards that state until the last possible moment, in the hopes that somehow, I'm wrong, and we avoid this privacy nightmare we're heading towards. If and when it becomes impossible to interact without providing that data, then that's where I step off, even if it costs me half the internet.

  • Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support

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  • They're not the same though. Your method will enable the system to interact meaningfully with an age gated internet. Blank will not. And I won't be interacting with an age gated internet...

  • Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support

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  • That's still forcing a DOB, which is the line I won't cross.

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  • But for me it's a slippery slope I don't think we should even get on.

    I agree. But the start of the slope isn't my exit point. My exit point is just before the slope gets too steep to get off.

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  • My line in the sand is when a distro/app starts enforcing entry of birth date data. Having a database field to store it, or even an optional prompt for it isn't the point where I bin it.