Kind of a strange blog post. Clearly it requires a lot of technical knowledge, yet it explains basic TypeScript syntax and variables and how to use an editor. While simultaneously showing SQL code. There doesn’t seem to be a clear target audience to this.
Any third instance that is less generic and more catered to your interests or physical location would be better.
Also keep in mind that lemm.ee does not defederate from a lot of instances - this is bad if you care about a well-moderated space.
Almost every community in the fediverse is full of this crap. Things aren’t removed because they’re harmful, they’re removed because some mod disagrees.
You should start your own instance it sounds like :P
Tbh I think even such a thing is not that great for children. Certainly not traumatic or close to it, but just not very effective I would guess.
“Tech” journalists spend way too much time in the headlines of other outlets, getting a much too shallow idea of the actual tech that they’re supposed to cover. It’s quite sad that this is the state of so-called tech journalism.
Like a 15 minute time out is ok.
Locked in a room or locked out of the house? That is not okay, regardless of how long it is.
I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking
I’m curious, what is it about IP leaking that concerns you? I’ve been thinking about it lately but I have a hard time seeing why it’s a problem.
Why is this posted in the fediverse community? I get that you think this is important, but this is an international community and many here have no way to influence American politics. It’s also just off topic.
[PieFed] seems to be strongly opinionated about how people should behave and it kinda gives me an icky feeling about its culture
Yea, I get this same feeling. It’s not that I mind that culture or being mindful of how people behave and such - I just don’t think that is the domain of the software to decide. Individual instances can decide that for themselves, but the software shouldn’t influence that kind of thing, I feel.
Well, that might be the cause. Kinda scary you get recommendations like that just due to no history.
Wow your YouTube recommendations are very different from mine.
It’s not meant to be a messenger, it’s not meant for privacy. Everything being public and transparent is part of the core design of the Fediverse. The idea of private groups/posts on the Fediverse seems counterintuitive to me.
Just want to counter this: Privacy is in fact a part of ActivityPub. Stuff is only meant to be public if it is sent to the Public collection, otherwise it should only be delivered to the intended recipients, much like email. This is part of the core protocol, not any extension.
If you are hosting a Lemmy instance, I suggest requiring new accounts to provide an email address and pass a captcha.
The captchas are ridiculously ineffective and anyone can get dummy emails. Registration applications is the only way to go.
Sometimes t’s difficult on an individual post level unless there are telltale signs. Typically have to look for patterns in different posts by the same account and account for writing styles.
The problem is that this is only going to get harder. First of all, AI is going to get better and be able to produce more natural sounding stuff.
But also, people will inevitably get affected by AI as well and people will drift towards sounding more like AI too. So both AI and humans will converge on each other and they’ll likely be impossible to tell apart in general in not too many years.
I’m not sure how we solve this tbh.
I wouldn’t consider it rude in the Danish communities we have in Feddit.dk, but that’s also cause basically all danes are fluent in English, so it shouldn’t be an issue.
Thanks anyway. Personally I haven’t been impressed either by the stability and performance of Lemmy. It is what it is I guess.
Since email is no less secure than snail mail
I would disagree with that. The attack surface on snail mail is much, much smaller (only whoever can get in physical contact with my mail) and any attack scales incredibly badly. It is also often hard to read snail mail without making it obvious that it has been tampered with (i.e. opening the envelope).
Meanwhile the attack surface of email is huge (basically the entire internet), any attack can scale wildly and it is impossible to tell if anyone else read an email.
By and large, physical stuff is much more secure than digital stuff, just less convenient.
It rather abruptly stops at a few thousand users and after that it becomes much harder and more expensive to scale further.
As a fellow Lemmy admin of a smaller instance, do you have any advice? Any resources that might be worth checking out?
I think every government should be providing email service the same way they provide physical mail service
The problem with that is that email is not really secure enough for sensitive stuff like your bank account statements or your health/medicine journals from your doctor.
That is why in Denmark we don’t have the government provide actual email, but there is rather a digital mailing system where you authenticate with your digital ID and can receive secured mail from banks, municipalities, health authorities, tax authorities and others.
It’s a political necessity really. If you keep denying the losing party any influence, they’ll grow bigger.
The Danish political system has very successfully stopped the far right parties by acknowledging their concerns and bringing some but not all of their policies into the centrist parties. Honestly this is probably much better than the alternative of the far right parties getting more and more influence.
EDIT: If you’re not Danish and not familiar with our (very successful, I might add) democratic political system, you might not understand, but it has worked quite effectively here. Keep in mind the Danish political leaning is quite leftist already, so even some of our “right-wing” parties are still quite left wing all things considered.