Rule of thirds, framing, and leading lines are the ones taught to me when I first took interest in photography. It’s been really helpful to me, but it’s really the rule of thirds really that stuck to me.

I guess cameras having those rule of thirds (or fifths) guide lines helped a lot too.

Made my first Lemmy account on Lemmy.world on the first weekend of June, but the outages of late June/early July pushed me (with some encouragement from others who’ve already made the jump earlier) to make a lemm.ee account. It was only supposed to be an alt, to be used when Lemmy.world is unusable, but the Meta fiasco then made me decide to make lemm.ee my main.

What I’d love to see is news companies spinning up their own instances, for example, a CBC-owned Mastodon instance, with accounts such as journalistname@cbcnews. It’d work exactly like a company-assigned e-mail address, and would function as such. That each and every post on such an account would be seen as the journalist working under the company, and not their own personal views.

And if a journalist wants his own personal account, well, they can either spin up their own instance, or perhaps a union of journalists would spin up an instance, with journalists setting up their accounts that are not tied to any news agency or company.

Am I being too naive and optimistic here? Maybe. But do I want this to happen regardless, yes!

Upon reading the article more closely, this is what the BBC is doing. My bad!

Yeah, I get that.

I’m just pointing out that there are ways to do that without sacrificing privacy (by using one’s real name for example). The way I’ve personally settled on is through the use of persistent pseudonyms. And that a person might use more than one of those.

Dismissing such behavior (using more than one username to access a site/platform) as “hiding from accountability,” just seems unfair to me.

If there is abuse, impersonation, or whatever wrongdoing committed then let it be dealt with by the mods and admins with the powers they have.

Furthermore, you are free to branch out Lemmy source code, implement the features you think are needed (say, restricting one IP to one username and vice versa), and fire up your own instance using that fork. And if there are many others who share your view on things, then not only you could find others to code the features, you also could find people willing to share admin and other front-facing work with you.

Pseudonymity has been a thing on the internet for a long time. And while it can be used to “hide from accountability,” as you put it, it can also be used for a lot of other things.

For example, I can use the platform formerly known as Twitter under one account name to follow and interact with nerdy interests, while I‌ can use it with a different username to follow and interact with more mainstream interests. A huge benefit to this is that I can prevent the algorithm from muddying things up (too much, and at least on my end), but also, I get to separate my circles in such a way that it’s a lot easier to navigate. It can be argued, however that it’s at the expense of having to juggle multiple usernames which makes it way harder, but that’s the price I’d gladly pay.

Thanks!

Fighting the urge to clear my cookies and cache right now, lol!

Thanks for the explanation.

I’ve already made the decision earlier to change my passwords (on all my accounts on different instances) after this has been resolved.

it sounds like the issue is spreading through comments and involves the markdown parser.

What do you mean? Is there something that us normal users can do to mitigate this? Or do we just hope that the devs and admins resolve this?