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  • What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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  • I do like this, but it does require responsibility from the user to maintain their keys. I think having it as an option is great, alongside the identity providers I speak about.

  • What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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  • That's precisely why I call it necessary, you're right!

  • What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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  • Thank you for listening to my idea, and I'm glad you like it :)

  • What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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  • The first issue you bring up would be resolved with the idea of separating identity and authentication as separate providers from instance providers. In fact, it's much better than just relying on a small difficulty, as that is more likely to discourage a well meaning non-technical person than a malicious actor.

    Wktn separate identity providers, your instance can trust the identity providers that have good reputation. And if I want to be seen by your instance, then I have to have one of those identity providers approve me.

    Different identity providers will have different standards and requirements.

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  • The downside is that if you're new to the fediverse, you have no way of knowing whose lists you should follow.

    Isn't the whole idea that you choose a trans-friendly instance and you naturally adopt the instance wide blocklist? Same thing here, except you choose the block list similar to choosing an instance in the old flow.

    And if you disagree, this could still easily be mediated. For example, the instance could have a default block list. As long as one can opt out, that would respect user choice.

    Or choosing the blocklists can be part of the account creation flow.

    There's others ways to go about it.

    Beyond that though, on an instance like blahaj, it would be largely irrelevant, because there is no scenario where I let transphobes federate to the instance

    What I suggest isn't meant to take away the instance owner ability to defederate or moderate. But this makes it such that you don't have to modify your moderation strategy when your users can adopt different moderation in addition to what you have. (example: maybe a large group of your users want to block US-centric content, or political content, etc.) and people not on your instance could possibly adopt your moderation as well!

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  • An easy middle ground is the ability to sync your block list with someone else. This gives the same capability you desire, but allows users freedom to do it on their own. Everyone's happy! What do you think?

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  • I agree with this. I think instance owners retaining ability to block other instances is still unfortunately necessary, if at least for administrative and legal reasons. But putting the onus on granular blocking controls on the user is a big achievement, as I prefer the user to retain that control.

  • What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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  • What exactly would be controlled differently under this direct democracy?

  • Gentoo’s 2025 Report: Financial Health and the Push Away From GitHub

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  • None of their expenses mention developer pay or salaries. Is the entire thing voluntary?

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    Is North Korea, Cuba, and Iran next for regime change?

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  • Side question: are there any lemmy communities for political discussions (rather than just news links)?

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    Is North Korea, Cuba, and Iran next for regime change?

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  • North Korea, very unlikely. They've mastered guarding exactly against this thing.

    Cuba is unfortunately more susceptible due to being an isolated island right off the coast of the US. Cuba is economically worse off, yet culturally still influenced by the US.

    Iran has already lost the cultural war, and many people fell for the outside propaganda. Moreover, Iran is suffering its worst economic state. The country is barely standing at the moment. So this one is likely as well.

    P.S. this is all, speculation, no one can predict for sure.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • I am yet to hear a justification for opposing illegal immigration that doesn't tie back into racism or racial prejudice, let alone a justification that actually makes sense if you take it apart.

    Someone prove me wrong, and I'll change my mind.

  • What are subscriptions that are worth it and subscriptions that are not?

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  • Nothing wrong with paying for biased journalism, as long as it's high quality.

    New York times and walk street journal both publish a bunch of propaganda, but also have high quality stuff and I find it worth subscribing.

  • RSS co-creator launches RSL protocol for AI data licensing

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  • Is this a robot.txt alternative?

  • A theory I have

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  • The reason is because company decisions are largely driven by investors, and investors want their big investments in AI to return something.

    Investors want constant growth, even if it must be shoehorned.

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  • First of all, I would ask them if they're familiar with the boycott and the reasons why it is happening. If they are, ask them them if they have a reason not to participate. Based on that, and how serious the cause behind the boycott is, I would judge.

  • Arch Linux limitations?

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  • Arch is not the most widely supported distro (as in supported by the creators of programs). You will see it supported most by some of the more indie open source programs, but beyond that, Debian and Ubuntu are more likely to be explicitly supported.

    Arch definitely requires you to read. It's a distro for those who want to assume greater amount of choice and freedom in their system. If you prefer an out of the box experience, try another distro.

  • Arch Linux limitations?

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  • Arch's limitation is that you kinda have to stick with the latest version of things. This is usually a good limitation, and imo better than the limitation of having to stick with an old frozen version.

    Depending on the package, trying an older version may not work or even break the system if dependencies or reverse dependencies are expecting it to be a certain version, which is often the case.

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  • I love open platforms, open standards, open source, and interoperability! I like that I can choose lemmy as my preferred way of posting to social media, but someone can read my content in their preferred format as lemmy supports federating to other platforms as well as distributing content via RSS.

    I also love the lemmy culture. Anytime I ask questions here, I get some very thoughtful, educated and unique answers that I cannot seem to get anywhere else. The content I see on lemmy is the exact type I wish for. I only wish there was more of it.

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    What is OOP, really? Why so many different definitions?