Wait, I thought those were called spaces. Have I been calling them wrong all the time?

Not same thing. I’m not talking about a postgres competitor. The other two replies already phrased it pretty good IMHO. I don’t think that, when building a fedi app, impending AP is the core of your app.

I’m not sure about that. Sometimes it’s more about properly applying libraries. Thinking of database handling or cryptography

Obligated? It depends on the users a bit (since you say migrating, I guess I already know them?).

But generally a reminder won’t hurt. Not everyone gets educated on digital spaces and also we tend to forget which consequences our posts might have.

You mentioned young people as an example who should be able to fuck up without it being held against them too long and I agree. I think public social media might not be the best place for that in general, and certainly not with names that can easily be mapped to their offline id.

but usually when using social media we can operate under the assumption that the delete button works.

Not at public sites. There’s several websites that mirror whole reddit where you’ll find plenty of deleted posts and comments. There’s Twitter archives as well that keep copies of all kinds of accounts and posts.

You may have better chances in semi-public social media like Facebook where you have to be logged in to see anything. But you really can’t operate under that assumption as long as you’re on public social media.

Communicating with each other does not mean you can withdraw your post from everywhere.

Every public post in the never can and will be copied elsewhere, be it the Internet archive, a reddit mirror, a screenshot on Tumblr, Google search index or some scraping AI. You have zero say in this and you are not able to withdraw it - even if there’s some law that says you can, in many cases you don’t even know about the copy. And if you send a letter and ask them to delete it, they can say yes but you can’t know for sure.

There’s no way to guarantee someone will delete something you sent them. They’ll always be able to take a copy.

The fediverse can’t do that either. Nobody can. But the fediverse has a specified way to tell “this post isn’t here anymore, would be cool if you would delete it as well” and for the biggest part, other instances will respect that.

What makes a flat fatal for you? It’s fatal for the idea of sovereignity over where your posts end up. But that’s mostly a given for any kind of public online posts - everyone can just make a copy. I don’t think that should be used as an excuse not to try gaining as much sovereignity as possible, but it’s certainly not something preventing “wide scale adoption”.

I don’t think Fedi forum was her job, but maybe it is?

I strongly disagree with it generally being dumb to (unanonymously) raise your voice on a topic that might cause you problems in the future. It’s a consideration of priorities and going “this is my name and I stand up for xy” (maybe by a coworker even) is usually more impactful than some anon accounts or persona. Of course it might impact your career or whatever, but for some people it’s worth the potential consequences.

I too use (semi) anonymous accounts for different things, but I don’t go “neutral” at work or anywhere really. Most political organizations won’t work with only anons (Anonymous is an exception). Saying using your real name for “controversial” politics stuff is dumb? Hard no.

Also, which topics are controversial and which aren’t is always subject to change. Maybe she lives somewhere where transphobic positions will help her? She’s rightfully gone from this position and I wish transphobia would be a unacceptable everywhere but it isn’t and she might find other people/orgs/position where it’s a benefit even.

Good to know, thanks!

Sorry, English is not my first language, bit I thought the post is somewhat clear?

I didn’t forget a word, maybe a comma - in the given context, the meaning is “Would you keep your opinion for yourself if it’s something you care about?” as the post I replied to suggested exactly that.

Would you if it’s something you care about and want to be vocal about? I’d rather know that she’s full of shit and now out of the whole thing than supporting someone who spews against trans people on a secret identity.

Interesting writeup, thanks! I thought maybe dropping connections with those user agents would be the best but idk. My sites have not been targeted yet fortunately.

To expose your stuff to the outside internet, you need to actively set port forward in your internet router, you won’t do that by accident.

Ouch!

Did autotune touch the interfaces?

Nice! Hosting your own Fedi stuff feels great.

I’m using the Hetzner nameservers, it’s not exactly DynDNS but they have a DNS API and I just have a cronjob set up that checks every five minutes if the IP is still correct and updates otherwise.

Using this in the cronjob: https://github.com/FarrowStrange/hetzner-api-dyndns

If an instance decides to not federate with another one they don’t see each other anymore. You can’t subscribe to their communities and vice versa, you don’t see their users posts in third instance communities. From your perspective it stops existing.

It’s sometimes necessary e.g. if an instance doesn’t do moderation by itself and hoards of trolls are coming from one instance spamming in many communities so you don’t have to ban each of their trolls. It can also be a tool if moderation goals differ too strongly from each other, and some instances have decided to defederate from lemmy.ml and more vocal tankie instances like lemmygrad and hexbear.

Because they made this thing and Fediverse is per se open. If you question whether they belong, I wonder why you are posting on .ml?

You didn’t post which community you posted that into so it’s a but hard to evaluate how legitimate the removal is.

Don’t worry, I didn’t :)