Most social media are commercial, privately owned, proprietary, centralised, and hence prone to enshittification. If a company will start to make anti-consumer moves to increase profit, most people will be too locked-in and invested to care to switch. Fediverse is a collection of independent instances in one decentralised network, constantly competing with each other with no full monopoly possible, and working under an open and forkable protocol.
As $RANDOM returns 0 to 32767, chance of the command running is not 1 to 5, but 1 to 5.00018311665.
Not required on BusyBox-based systems, a.k.a. Alpine.
Who the hell uses WhatsApp for comms in IT?
Mirahaze doesn’t have ads
I have a hammer hanging above the hard drive on a string, and every time I want to access it, I have to convince an AI it’s really me. If doubt level rises above 20%, the hammer drops.
Can you encode them as base64 URL?
Encryption
Troublesome; can’t be automated.
Well, the internet runs on encryption. If the algorithm behind HTTPS is cracked, no conventional data storage service is safe. Overall I’m quite confident modern post-quantum encryption is quite secure for the task.
As for the legal staff, well, PeerTube works the same by sending arbitrary content through your device and no one got in trouble.
That was one way I was thinking to handle this. As I don’t have friends, I had to think of some other ones.
One way to confirm participation is to require participants to regularly calculate and send to other hosts hashes of stored chunks + random strings that were generated by the chunk owner in advance and were unknown to the peer before a given point in time. They would confirm to the network they still have the file daily, if they won’t verify it for 14 days other peers would be liberated from an obligation to store files they uploaded.
Jan 1 1984 was actually sunday, for December 2026 it’s tuesday.
I don’t know what you’re referring to. Copy-pasting content instead of linking directly to the source is frowned on for numerous reasons.
Pasting a link is even easier than pasting text.
Sure, that’s a secondary and perfectly valid use. The OP of this thread posted an image promoting memes. That is what I criticized.
So, no more memes on /c/memes@lemmy.world?
Calling articles “lazy content” is extremely unintelligent. I’m disgusted that you should say that.
Reposts, not articles themselves. Reposting someone else’s writings from the web as a link is objectively low-effort work that could be handled by a dozen-line script.
Reddit and Lemmy are link/news aggregators.
Maybe they started as such, but now it’s a small part of their scope. I don’t perceive them as such, rather as a general-purpose forum. I go to Lemmy/Reddit to ask a question (e.g. how to repair a thing), voice an opinion, start a debate, talk about stuff, read comics, etc. I don’t recall following a single community that is about link aggregation.
That’s concentrated on .ml instances
So you hate original content lemmyers put effort into (discussion posts, memes, photos) and praise the laziest form of content (reposting articles someone on another platform made)? Do you want lemmy to become a parasitic platform depending on content from elsewhere to sustain itself?
What country and why?
No punchline, just found such hardline requirements potentially entertaining.