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  • Or at least OP could try posting where anyone who sees it wouldn’t already be participating?

    why, can’t we spread the word to our friends? not like this is something only the OP should be doing

    oh the so many negativity in this whole thread…

    I’d be surprised if 0.1% of active users in here still use other mainstream social media.

    I would be surprised if that’s the correct ratio, or anywhere near it. a while ago people were self professing they are also using other platforms. and how would people read about local news? Certainly not from Lemmy, as things stand today.

    Most people are here due to privacy concerns, even just to avoid monetization by billionaires

    I doubt that. me, yes, but lots were coming who just had enough of reddit’s general shitness. I have conversed with plenty people here who visibly did not care much about privacy.

    Having any of the apps defeats the purpose, even if you don’t use them. That’s what OP should be pushing, for people to ensure the apps are deleted fully.

    and cut themselves off of the other friends who did not move. sounds a convincing strategy!









  • last year when Serinus changed the moderation policy that the “narrative” that trans people are not real or are mentally ill or whatever to not be considered hate speech and thus not to be removed automatically, following the similar change at Facebook.

    wow, that’s wild. they do have quite a few highly questionable decisions, to put it gently. maybe we should treat them like we do .ml, and encourage people to move to other instances, while generally not participating in their communities



  • this shit stirrer ex-googler really does not understand the signals people are giving… apparently the community response is “hilarious”, the moderators removing their toots at both instances are “overzealous” for acting upon multiple reports and giving a proper hilarious removal reason.

    “everyone is dumb but me!” lol… (not a quote)

    this person is really butthurt that people are telling them they have acted very irresponsibly.


  • It is a commercial entity, and they will never evolve the matrix standards to include an Activity Pub interface.

    my point is I don’t think it’s reasonably possible

    Sadly, since they are the ones approving the additions do matrix standards, they also have the power not toke that to be.

    I don’t understand this. you can certainly try implementing some kind of compatibility bridge, they can’t prevent you from doing that



  • Yes Matrix is not compatible with AP. Just a fact, not a judgment.

    of course, I don’t debate that. but you brought that up as a conclusion of matrix not being open. and it does not make sense. matrix not being compatible with AP is not because “matrix is closed” (whatever that means), but because the own protocol of matrix works vastly differently. its an entirely different thing. both are competing protocols for communication services. surely bridges could be developed, but these just cannot be “compatible”






  • or didn’t have a defense against a 0 day.

    firewalls are not for defending against 0 days. it is about access control, and reducing, sometimes even minimizing access to potentially vulnerable services. firewalls are not an infallible security tool, but there is no such thing either. the reason to use it is to restrict access such that fewer attackers can take advantage of a potential vulnerability.

    there are intrusion detection/prevention systems that could do more, but it’s unlikely they will protect against 0 days, because 0 days are undiscovered and unknown issues.

    So the vlan doesn’t do anything either way.

    it does. its useful to force traffic through a firewall. its for limiting what has access to what. if you wouldn’t use vlans, hosts on the network would not care about your firewall because they can just go straight to the destination.

    I’m not sure I understand your argument, but I think what you say is, firewalls are not infallible so they are useless