Welcome Reddit refugees, glad to have some fresh faces 'round these parts.
Great post, saved for future use. I'd say myself that while Fedora may not be aimed at beginners, it is pretty good for beginners nonetheless. It's what I started on (after dipping my toes in Tails, which also has it's use cases but more importantly here demystified linux for me and made me comfortable with it. Then windows pissed me off one last time and the rest is history.)
The fedora community in my experience has been very helpful, though that was reddit, so we shall see what the future holds.
My masto admin still is free to ban people he doesn't like from his server of course, he just would rather we be able to curate our own feeds, and I'm sure curates his own just the same as we do. He didn't abdicate the throne I suppose by the nature of being the server owner, and our server is private (exclusive to those in a particular club,) I guess he's just a benevolent dictator. Still though, I like his approach.
Yes, just venting my personal grievances with the reacionary culture of the fedi at large. I think the fediverse would be perfect if most of the moderation (regarding cultivating your feed and blocking instances, communities, and users) was placed on the individual, barring outright illegal content like CP, revenge porn, or beastiality which should of course be nuked from orbit and are all actually illegal.
I'd like to see the culture go not from dictator (reddit) to smaller dictators (lemmy), but from dictator (reddit) to anarchism (lemmy, but with more community decision making for themselves as an individual rather than The Council of Beehaw and The Council of Lemmy.world deciding all their peasants are at war with each other.)
Thanks for the heads up, I was worried for a second especially with the recent FedoraFiasco.
This is the way imo. I'd personally like to see the culture of the fedi shift more towards self-moderation by users, let the users decide for themselves what individuals, communities, or servers they want or don't want to see.
Yes, this would mean that you'd be responsible for thinking for yourself, but imo that added slight burden is worth the freedom that is supposedly the reason the fedi exists.
My masto server does this (beyond who defederated us because we don't wholesale block the same people they block) and it works just fine for me, I just banned the Nazi instance (cause duh), the wolf-gender instance (it's all they talk about and I'm just not interested, I'm sure they're fine people), the Loli-art instance (cause duh), and the futa-bot (it's spam, a lot of it, and I'm not into futa), and I'm gtg, just wish the reactionary instances that I'd be fine with weren't so cliquey as to ban my instance for allowing it's users to think for themselves, but c'est la vie.
This works 100%.
XMPP (with omemeo) is the classic (and also what FB messenger uses behind the scenes, without omemo), Matrix is the new kid on the block taking over. Both are decentralized sorta like the fediverse (but separate from said fediverse.)
Used to use Signal, but they're removing SMS support so everyone might as well switch to matrix. Wickr was bought by amazon (and they say they won't ruin it, riiiight), so that's out. Idk enough about briar or session, and telegram isn't as secure as people seem to think.
Flesh Gordon.
No that isn't a typo.
Yes it is exactly what you think.
Yes it is hilariously bad.
I've been seeing stuff about this but I don't quite understand, what does this mean for Fedora? Do I need to switch too?
That's the part that gets me. Like, I'm all for "it's your server do what you want," but I do judge you if your reason for defederating my server is something so stupid as "this other server says they're bad, so I'll trust that."
You fools ain't never had a friend spread a runor about another friend? Never watched a sitcom? People lie lol, if you're going to make overarching decisions that affect your users too, you could maybe stand to do a modicum of your own research into it instead of just letting the one you "trust" bully you into compliance simply because this other masto instance doesn't cater specifically to marxists, and "capitalists are nazis" so they must be banned or else they'll speak!
My masto server is defederated for being anti trans, yet one of our organizations key members has been a trans woman since 1981 and she's one of the most prolific posters on the server (and one of the best, I might add). We're labeled "anti trans" simply because we didn't defederate with a server that is actually anti trans when the "good guys" tried to bully my admin into it, but the admin respects us enough to allow us to make our own decisions regarding what we want to see or not see on our feed, so of course that suggests to these reactionaries that he wants to somehow exterminate the jewish people.
I'd be more open to it frankly if I wasn't a direct example of how that system can be and is being abused to create echo chambers and bully those who don't want to live in them. By all means, your server your right to do so, but my right to think you're a bad person for it if it's for silly unresearched reasons such as this. And you might say "they don't have the time to investigate everything, so they just throw the book at it." Well, they chose to become admins, they chose that job, maybe managing a public server just isn't for them, I know I don't have the time, that's why I don't do it.
Not contributing to the debate necessarily, I'd just like to take a moment to say:
Tbf, if you don't like "Those openly avocating violence and cruelty towards others who are being neither violent or cruel," then you'll want to be on an instance that defederates lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. Before the reddit exodus this place was almost entirely genocide denialiasts who support Cuba, China, Russia (incl. the current invasion and simping for the USSR), and who want to literally murder all small business owners and landlords even if they only rent out their spare room or an old townhouse from before they got married for some extra income to help pay for meds in retirement, but no matter, "bourgeoisie."
The only reason they aren't so prominent today is the flood drowned them out a bit, they're still very much here, and they're no better than the Nazis, and the kicker is they both think they're the good guys lol.
Edit: Hehe downvotes mean nothing here, but I can see I upset a few of those genocide denialists and that makes me happy.
I have no dog in this fight at hand, however this quote got me to thinking:
What a joke. Democracy must feel so unfair, when you're losing.
Yeah, you're right. It highlights the fact that Democracy at the end of the day is just mob rule, where 51% of voters could (in theory) vote to kill, silence, or otherwise deprive the rights of the other 49%.
As for free speech issues, my thoughts are that driving them underground to fester and grow out of sight is good for "out of sight out of mind," but in reality it strengthens their hold over their members through their own persecution complex and allows them a platform where their ideals go unchecked and unchallenged until it's too late, they already believe it with conviction enough to spread it to other sites, which then they get "persecuted" for (in their eyes) and driven right back to the arms of the people who are manipulating them into these positions to begin with who say "see? We told you everyone was against us!"
Kinda like just letting mold grow in a drippy sink, you can wipe off the outside of the faucet and make it look pretty but the mold is still there in the pipes.
Pro-pineremoved (but anti-hawaiian, should be pep, pine, jalaps) here: I'd try it, but only with chicken and Habeneros if I can, jalaps if they have no habs.
The best 3topping in existence, hands down.
My theory on why people don't like pineremoved on pizza is that most of them pair it with sweet ham, so they lose the full effect of the spicy/sweet/salty combo. Pineremoved on pizza is amazing, hawaiian pizza is an abberant form that should be removed off menus everywhere and replaced with the true god-king: The PPJ.
Mmhmm, someone doesn't know Stella Barey's off cam exploits..
No, only American things exist, you see. Ironic.
Used to use Mullvad but since their port forwarding fiasco I need to switch.
(I get that they had people abusing that system, but as a privacy based service they should expect the same pitfalls as every other privacy based service, like Tor, Matrix, etc. All you can really do is keep whacking the mole, or shut it down for everyone incl. the people using it for it's intended purpose too whom you had advertised port forwarding to, who wouldn't have bought your service if it didn't have port forwarding to begin with.)
So now I'm looking at IVPN or Proton. Does anyone have experience with IVPN or know how trustworthy they are? I'm wary on Proton after Protonmail gave that French activist's IP to their Feds, and they have a free tier which usually on a VPN means they sell your data, but afaik they are the only two that'll let me PF and I have a need, a need to seed.
Brave Little Toaster was such a fucking banger.
And fuck the IOT bullshit!