Everyone on Masto/Fedi has been memeing about this since the start: Whatever platform Dorsey’s on becomes Twitter, lol.

Good luck to OOP on their experiment 🫡

Cross post to !crows@lemmy.ml please! Great photo and rare bird!

Well, a quick reminder that Lemmy.world is not all of Lemmy. Nintendo, the RIAA, the MPA(A), and other lawsuit-blasting organizations would have to tackle every single Lemmy instance.

Sure, one threatening letter is all that’s needed to scare most server operators, but since there are a large variety of hosts located in jurisdictions around the world, it’s not as simple as taking out the big player like it might be for Reddit.

I think we are all overdue for a shot of positivity so thank you for this write up. Yes, we have a long way to go on the community side, the moderation and the technical sides but I’m happy for what we have and the progress since June and before.

I’ve done minor contributions (to the Jerboa app), some translations, posted stuff in 4 languages and donated some change where I can… we can always do better and although some are motivated by spite, I think also that a lot of people would enjoy it more if we can cultivate an atmosphere that’s less miserable and full of unnecessary drama.

I try to do the same, and also leave a comment praising people for reconsidering a position, and other forms of showing empathy regardless of how much I may have disagreed with any argument made.

This is the inevitable consequence of being the largest instance, you get the most scrutiny from copyright trolls.

From lemmy.world’s inception (and before), I along with many other Lemmy users have sang the chorus of: if you don’t like an instance’s policies, you can leave and join a separate instance!

That’s the whole point of a federated, de-centralized model.

OK good to know that the server itself is unlikely to be compromised. I’ll be changing passwords to all my accounts once this blows over.

Jerboa tries to log in with session info passed to the server, if the server doesn’t respond properly then it just calls you Anonymous, because it can’t acquire your username and info. That’s probably what’s happening.

Almost every social media site (FB, Reddit, YT, Twitter) and online newspaper comment section has a good share of spam and harassment anyway, it’s up to “an algorithm”, moderator, or verification system to remove as much as feasible.

I’m more thinking of servers unexpectedly down or purged, people hijacking or spoofing others’ profiles, etc. which the way the Fediverse network is setup should make it a little more resilient overall.

Absolutely. I’d be very happy to see this community grow bigger, but there will be chances of increased spam and bot attacks the larger it gets.

The key to avoiding malicious exploits from screwing everyone over is to keep the codebase open-source (and resources spread out), so that any vulnerability can be identified quickly and patched.

To my knowledge that’s how Linux has been able to stay relatively virus free in the user sphere. Obviously there are shell scripts that can instantly crash or wipe your computer if you run them, and privilege escalation bugs that have been found and fixed, but generally Linux has been much better than Windows in that regard which still has some DOS-era quirks.