Lemmy maintainer. Interested in politics, video games, and many other things.
Thank you i opened an issue.
It helps a lot to realize that we are not obligated to respond to anyones issue. Wee are providing a software for free, and if sonething cant get it working, thats their problem. They can just not use it, or pay someone for help. Just because I wrote some software doesnt mean I owe anyone an explanation how it works.
In this regard I think it will be helpful if we aggressively close any support requests on Github, and tell people to ask on Lemmy/Matrix, where other people can help them.
The Activitypub standard doesnt mandate any specific properties, not the title and not even the content which Mastodon sends. Thats one problem with Activitypub, you can send almost anything you want and its technically valid (even if no other platform can handle it). However the presence or lack of a title isnt really related to groups.
Direct link to the blog post: https://nolanlawson.com/2023/01/09/retiring-pinafore/
In addition to what @Austin_Skeldon@lemmy.ml says, another problem is that each software prefers to implement things in their own way, and not in the way that would be most compatible with other software. This is partly the fault of Activitypub, because its such a generic protocol that the same information can usually be represented in many different ways.
Another big problem is funding and thus developer time. Only few devs are paid to work on Fediverse software, and its not enough to keep up with all the work. So compromises have to be made, and often a nice user interface or other features are seen as more important than perfect federation.
On this page you donation options. However renting a fast vps is generally very expensive, so selfhosting is much more cost effective. That needs some time and to setup and manage though. As we already host a number of different servers, it would be helpful if someone else could manage this one.
Possible yes, but then we would be relying on a specific company (Microsoft) with no easy way to switch to another provider. And we would have to pay money to them if the free tier isnt enough. With drone.io we initially used their free cloud offering, and then seamlessly switched to a selfhosted instance. Now if we need more resources, any server can be used.
Maybe what youre looking for although it looks quite different: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB
Its exposed to the admins of instances where the involved users are registered. For example if @sally@mastodon.social
sends a dm to @nelly@example.com
, only the admins of mastodon.social and example.com can access it.
We have a selfhosted Gitea instance which is currently hosting mirrors of Lemmy repos. For now thats not ideal because everyone would have to create an account to open issues and contribute, and it could easily fill up with spam. Once Gitea federates it would definitely be a great option.
Das liegt wahrscheinlich am Rate limit, siehe https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2612
All that said, I imagine the area that China is concerned with would be AI generated content passed off as news. You can easily generate deepfake video of a politician for example, and having rules to prevent such a video being passed around as real seems prudent.
The solution to that is verifying sources and cross-referencing to make sure that its actually real. It has been possible for a very long time to edit images and videos in a way that appears real, AI just makes the process faster.
Unfortunately thats a very common problem, lots of people consider Mastodon and Fediverse to be synonyms. Its probably because Mastodon is so much bigger than all the other Fediverse platforms, and its the first one that people hear about. I think over time they will also start getting to know the other projects.
Content on stack exchange is licensed under creative commons, so in a sense they are encouraging others to reuse it.
Likes were previously marked as public in federation messages. This obviously didnt make sense, so now they are marked as private.