One thing about the pre-Internet times I don’t hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn’t get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.

In summary, I don’t thing that what has been termed “the great awokening”, nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.

The tweet wasn’t easily available on nitter (it wasn’t being highlighted).

It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn’t being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.

Exactly. The good kind of failure.

Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.

One idea to prevent tags being spammed would be to have them be moderated as well. Thoughts?

As I’m saying, I don’t think you need to: manually subscribing to each trusted instance via ActivityPub should suffice. The pass/fail determination can be done when querying for known images.

How about a federated system for sharing “known safe” image attestations? That way, the trust list is something managed locally by each participating instance.

Edit: thinking about it some more, a federated image classification system would allow some instances to be more strict than others.

Yes: it prevents things like death threats mods have been known to receive on the centralised Lemmy precursor.

With instances already disappearing (eg. vlemmy), content is being lost. Are you considering a lemmy archive?

In my opinion this runs counter to the idea of federation

The rest of the internet runs counter to the idea of federation, yet Lemmy must work with it.

You mean like lmmy.to?

Like lmmy.to?

They’ve set a separate display name that’s show instead of the name that also appears in the URL.

The pregnancy test merely provided the case. Looked cool though.

However, these relative links unfortunately don’t work on non-lemmy activitypub sites like mastodon and kbin.

And that’s exactly the reason why I created lmmy.to.

Yeah, it needs some styling. Which is not my thing really. Anyone want to help?

I got error 500 after entering my hostname.

Huh, now it’s doing the same for me too. Yet it worked when I tried it before.

Edit: fixed now. I seem to have accidentally re-introduced a bug somewhere in the process of launching the site.

Yes, because not every link is on Lemmy itself.

Sure. TBH most end users are not going to care about federation and just want to see what a community is all about.

That’s (probably, doesn’t work on my 0.17.4 instance) true, but it doesn’t work when creating links elsewhere (say you want to link to Lemmy from a certain site starting with an ‘r’).