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  • Pixelfed gets a mainstream media mention

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  • Open letter to Zuckerberg from Pixelfed creator Supernault

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  • Open letter to Zuckerberg from Pixelfed creator Supernault

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  • Open letter to Zuckerberg from Pixelfed creator Supernault

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  • Will it? I doubt CNN, Faux News, WaPo, or any big news org will even know Pixelfed exists, much less that the creator wrote a snarky message to Zucc.

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  • Open letter to Zuckerberg from Pixelfed creator Supernault

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  • Does threads finally support reading responses from the fediverse? Or seeing posts from the fediverse? Because if it does, trying to get pixelfed and other alternatives trending might be a way to get some attention.

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  • Should I go back to next cloud?

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  • Learn to code

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  • Wow Mastodon is under 70% now.

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  • Wow Mastodon is under 70% now.

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  • You make a good point about legal moderation. Modlists could work on top of that.

    "serverless" communities have been suggested multiple times and hopefully they will be implemented someday. It is a good idea.

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  • Wow Mastodon is under 70% now.

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  • Wow Mastodon is under 70% now.

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  • Hopefully in 10 years, the moderation tools will be good enough to deal with a scaling userbase. What the fediverse needs is moderation subscriptions i.e subscribing to or unsubscribing from moderation actions of different groups or people.

    For example, joining a community would subscribe you automatically to the moderation list of that community, but you could also unsub from the list if you don't like the mods there and sub to a group of people you trust more with mod decisions. Imagine if there's an overeager mod in the community you subbed to and you wanted to exclude the modding decisions - mod lists would allow that.

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  • No billionaires at FOSDEM

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  • That website is terrible on mobile. Goddamn. They also immediately go into the history of why they exist. Nobody new will care. I just want to see what's happening, where, and how (online, offline). The why should be I'm the "about us" section or something, not the front-page.

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  • No End-to-End Encrypted Fediverse?

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  • I'm not sure if you're intentionally missing the point or not. We're not talking about encrypted group chats. We're talking about encrypted Facebook. The amount and type of data involved is very different, so is how long the data will be retained.

    But sure, if you want to ignore unsharing things, go ahead. Let's see how that'll work out for you 🤷

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  • Forgejo v10.0 is available

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  • Hmm... mailinglists should have the same problem, shouldn't they? Or are they maybe just so unpopular that they don't?

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  • Forgejo v10.0 is available

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  • Mail based patches really are ancient tech. Only the minority will accept that workflow unless a beautiful UI is put on top of it.

    If I had time and willingness to write Go, I'd participate in Forgejo. @forgejo@floss.social if you have a way to donate directly to federation development, I'd put money to that.

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  • No End-to-End Encrypted Fediverse?

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  • This does make sense, and I do not understand a lot of the technical details, or how this problem would be solved. I just wish it was haha

    :D same. I think the solutions could be applied elsewhere too. They'd be very interesting.

    Can’t say I understand what happens technically when someone is kicked from a matrix room, so what what happen with the encryption keys I dunno.

    That depends on the client. Some clients will exit, some will stay in the room. Encrypted matrix rooms use "perfect forward secrecy", meaning new people can't read the past, and old people removed from the group/chain/chat cannot read new messages. So, being kicked from a room would still allow you to see all the chat history you stored. Or if you sign in with a device that didn't get the "kick" message yet, the server could still send you all the messages up until the point of the kick message.

    I'm not sure how Matrix implements it and server + client implementations can differ.

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  • No End-to-End Encrypted Fediverse?

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  • Sharing != downloading forever. When you browse it, yes, technically it's in your cache, but that's why it's called a cache. Most people won't install a client that puts their browsing into long-term storage (unless Microsoft takes a screenshot for them and promises never to upload it somewhere). Regardless, it is still a security issue (as I just described with releasing the encryption key). You can choose to ignore it, until someone comes along and exploits it. Then you have a bunch of angry people screaming at you because you "didn't close an obvious security hole".

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  • Forgejo v10.0 is available

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  • I remember thinking about this long time ago and even asking some hackers about it to get blank stares back. Basically, there are multiple problems around data access.

    Take the simple scenario of a unfriending. Let's say you have 12 friends, but Susie turned out to be a real bitch and you unfriended her. You don't want Susie to have access to your photos, messages, and basically anything anymore! That means the encryption key has to change -->

    Where is all the data hosted and who is going to reencrypt all the entire history from the point Susie became your friend until you unfriended her? The most secure would be that you have all your data and that you re-encrypt it. Great, you are data-frugal and have maybe 10MB you have to re-encrypt. But Karl, your photography pal paid for gigabytes of storage and now has to rencrypt a good chunk of that if he unfriends somebody.You could of course say "fuck it, the asshole friend probably made a copy and re-encrypting is pointless", but then your ex-friend can just share the private key with the world and TADA, everybody has access to the files you shared with said friend.

    And that's just one problem I can think of right now. When you take more time to think about it, you'll run into more and more stuff.

    I'm not saying it's impossible, but it definitely isn't easy. Add to that that many people don't care and it's less likely. The closest I get to that is Signal.

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