I mean I could, but I ran out of tapes to keep recording stuff in.

I am amazed at how helpless some people…

It’s what TikTok did to a generation. It’s incredible.

Back in my day, I could even program the time on the VCR!

A new user will know because they sign in and they get access to more features of the instance, such as ability to follow, star, block, etc.

A mere visitor, can simply be pointed to the /all button. It just does not need to be the default.

Porn like stuff

Which one, exactly? A woman showing a nipple? Artistic renditions of men in classic statues? A furry? A LGBTQ person existing?

That’s how it begins. We’ve already seen how it ends.

There is a fair point to make that it’s instances that should default to /local instead of /all - at least for uncredentialed guests. Since if you want to see more, you can just get to the next instance, and the next, and the next…, and that way we avoid reloading basically the same content and stuff on every instance you visit.

And it helps instances better moderate how they present themselves to potential sign-ups.

Nobody is advocating for a ban, nor can or will this be used as a first step towards one.

History has proven you wrong since as early as the Dark Ages and as recently as two weeks ago in the UK.

[…] and I don’t want it in /all.

Skill issue. That’s literally what /all is for.

Block what you don’t want, or set your starting page to subscribed and curate from there. That’s half the point of this entire place.

The other half you already did the work: notified the comms they have to set to NFW, etc.

My usual concern with force redirecting people to “where the stuff is popular” is that it promotes centralization, which is the literal opposite of why we’re here. Besides, as I’ve commented some other times, the feasibility of user participation is not transitive across instances. !soccer@sports.xyz might have a completely different rules, mood or culture than !soccer@euro.pe , or the redirect might lead to !soccer@ya.ml which is blocked in my country or otherwise made unavailable. (I am using examples here ofc but I guess this could very well hit people in and around feddit.uk, for one).

There is literally no punishment for keeping a community open so it can sometime either grow organically or die organically. Locking them however, fully prevents either option.

…It’s literally a public communication network? The point is that what you post is seen.

If you want private there’s Signal, Jabber, etc. Wholly different purposes.

If they are locked, the people who come here and see them locked will go elsewhere instead of contributing, because they literally can’t.

Some people came here to creat communities (eg.: in the wake of Reddit stuff) with the hope that it would catch on. But we can’t expect them to do all the work.

Requires Github (/Microsoft). Not good.

Wouldn’t a zero-knowledge hosting solution (you provide hosting, but you can’t see what’s into it past a stream of binary) help with that?

If you mean citizenship as being associated to the city whose hosting services you are using, yhe power or water bill pointed at your name and residence should be able to do that. Now, if you want that plus anonimity, the only practical option I can think of for a city-wide physical campaign is some sort of GPG Signature Meetup (“signature party”).

Zero-knowledge hosting solutions should help with that, but I’m unsure how the tech and UX has been going for that on FOSS as of yet.

It was inevitable. What did you all expect from the country that hoarded all that nazi gold?

Maybe, really.

It locks you to postgres. You don’t necessarily have full control over postgres unless you are using your own instance / service, but oftentimes you might need to connect to an external one. SQLite gives you a local option.

Also what do you even mean with “does it store passwords?” A password is just a TEXT or a BLOB if you are feeling charitable and SQLite does support those since forever. If you can store “hello world” you can store a password (just… don’t do it in plaintext, but storage is different from encryption).

blorp

The Fediverse. Poob has it for you.

The purchaser of that domain will be able to send and receive email from your addresses.

Wait wait wait, DKIM doesn’t solve this???

What do you mean, how?

Cute anime catgirl, a staple of the internet, without having to be showy or anything. And there are hooks to change it.

(Was actually half-surprised they didn’t go with “anime!stereotypical egyptian priestess” given the context of the software, but I feel that would have ended up too thematically overloaded in the end)