Nah it should not. It would hurt decentralization and small instances. We already have a tool for curbing spam, it's called the Fediseer. You may or may not have heard about it, but most admins have.
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Huh. Different instances, I guess. I generally don't browse by all, but on my feed most news were non-US (mostly Europe although quite a few about Asia as well). But then again my instance is pretty tiny and definitely isn't federated with most large communities, so my perspective might be skewed.
To get a better view of the general content on Lemmy maybe we should look at the all feeds of lemm.ee or lemmy.world which, now that I look at them, are indeed quite US centric. So I guess it was just my perspective.
Matured? Really? I guess you haven't had a taste of the defederation drama. Users are great, but discussion between admins feel like the constant bickering of small children. And I say this as an admin myself, who at times does take part in those discussions. I think we still have a long way to go, when it comes to being matured.
I got the opposite idea. I think this place is much less US-centric than Reddit. And actually, if you look at the servers' location, there's way more in Europe than in America. So it would be fair to assume that many users would pick a server near their location and thus be from Europe rather than America.
Exciting stuff! In particual I really like how neatly organized the project roadmap is, with a quick glance at the project GitHub page I can tell what you guys are working on and how development is proceding.
Also, props for using a widely established language like Java. I know Rust has lots of advantages and is all in all an awesome language, but having to learn a new language just to be able to contribute and submit PRs to your favourite open source project kinda kills the hype (and takes away a bunch of time).
Seeing as I am already Italian I suppose I will pick Chinese.
Also I guess I'm going to be that guy. "La vida es bella" is not Italian, it's Spanish lol.
I think it'd be a pretty dick DM move. I'd hate it. Gear comes and goes, but when I was a player I'd spend entire weeks planning how I would minmax my builds over the next levels. Getting sent back to square one on that would feel terrible. I get that you've only just started your campaign, so maybe your players aren't that attached to their characters, but my players would probably still scream at me if I tried to pull something similar on them.
I didn't, up until yesterday night when you mentioned it. Had a quick Google search and read the wikipedia page, holy fuck there's some sick people out there. But I still fail to see how defed.xyz could help them doxx or otherwise harass people.
I don't want to be the author of software used for harassment, obviously, but I don't think you could use my tool for that, even if you wanted to.
Well of course I can't guarantee that I would be convinced, even after hearing that but explanation aside
Just because data is publicly scrape-able doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to do so.
Isn't it? If, an instance admin, has the possibility of hiding some data to the public and refuses to do so, it's either:
- Because they are fine with the public accessing it
- Because they are ignorant and unaware of such a feature, which I honestly don't think is an acceptable excuse (after all users have entrusted this person with their data, ffs)
At the end of the day what I am doing is nothing more than what any user could do by checking the "Moderated servers" section of the about page of any Mastodon instance.
I'm sorry but I'm really am not seeing the logic behind your point.
I'm sorry could you please elaborate on why the rest of the Fediverse would be enraged, or how this could be used for harassment? I don't think I follow. I'll admit, I only interact with the Fediverse through Lemmy so maybe there's some dynamics of the Masto-sphere I'm not picking up.
My understanding is that Mastodon admins can choose to hide their /domain_blocks
endpoint to either outside users or even to all non admins. (source), and as a matter of fact almost a thousand of the 1700 Mastodon instances I'm querying already do so, so really I can only get the federation status of the few hundred that remain.
I think the admins that prefer not to show their defeds, in fear of harassment, are already hiding them, so it should be ok for me to query the remaining ones.
Nice! Glad you were able to find and fix an issue with your instance.
Thanks for sharing. The default launcher on my phone is terrible and I hate having to move to different layouts every time I switch phones (which only happens every 5+ years, but is still annoying) so I have been using Nova for many years.
Just turned off its internet access on both data and wifi, let's see if it complains about it.
As a note: I can see that it only transfered a few hundred kilobytes in the past month, which isn't a lot, but it's still more than zero.