Naked pics, that’s disgusting! What nude photos, though, there’s so many of them! Which one, so I know to avoid it?

Hey, that’s a fun feature! Now I’m looking forward to add my first flair for “Iowa = Mediocre Corn”.

Also, appreciate the Bug Eaters reference. I wish I knew your flair’s lore enough to say something similarly clever, but alas, I do not.

This is more relevant for Lemmy than client apps, but the problem with relying on ads is that you then become beholden to the ad-buyers.

I think that can be mitigated by operating as a non-profit that is not seeking to launch a multi-billion IPO at some point in the future, however. Decentralization is the answer to the “growth problem” that the last decade of failed tech investments has constantly run into.

Thanks for putting this together!

As far as I know, this is fundamentally the same thing that Reddit flair did, but eventually that got automated. Same thing can be done here, although I don’t think Lemmy (or Kbin, my preferred Federated instance) support community-specific themes yet so people will need a client-side solution for awhile.

Edit: forgot to say that my flair would be Nebraska (NU, preferably, until some pesky Northwestern fan shows up). Go Big Red!

So, yes, the blockchain doesn’t make files smaller, but it could work to verify their authenticity, and that they have not been tampered with.

As with every other suggested use of blockchain, there are already better ways to verify contents. It’s called hashing, it’s been around for decades, and we do it all the time.

So instead of videos being hosted on 1 server, videos could be downloaded and made available by anyone to anyone at any time.

This is going to run into all kinds of bottlenecks. Individual users may have a fast enough Internet connection to stream HD video, but uploading is often much slower. Even if not, one user could only co-host maybe 1-2 other users. Also, ISPs sure aren’t going to like all the increased bandwidth!

People always vastly underestimate the bandwidth requirements for smooth, streaming video.

Are you referring to the concept of capitalism?

You clearly have an agenda in asking the question. There’s no problem with that, but pretending you don’t is… weird.

FWIW, Wefwef is a progressive web app, not a native app.

Workaround: create a Lemmy account and subscribe to your favorite Kbin magazines.

The only app that I’ve seen so far that claims it will (eventually) support Kbin is Artemis, which is not released at all yet.

I would greatly appreciate any kind of feature to handle read posts, even if it’s entirely manual (for now).

That said, I don’t have any strong opinions on how this should be implemented. I just wanted to say that the very fact we can have this kind of conversation out in the open is so exciting. Maybe in the very early days of Reddit or Twitter that kind of user feedback was appreciated, but the last decade of monolithic tech giants has been so depressing.

The last week or two has honestly been my most refreshing and invigorating time on the web that I can remember since I got my first Gmail account back when it first went open beta.

If you want to see or interact with Kbin using Jerboa, you should be able to do that via your lemmy.world account as long as you have the same subscriptions set up in both instances.

I believe that instances can independently choose whether to accept incoming or allow outgoing data, so there are multiple possible combinations.

Yeah, but small correction: Beehaw only defederated from two specific instances of Lemmy, not the entire system. If you were engaging with a Beehaw community from lemmy.one or other instances that Beehaw is still federated with, everyone sees everything on both sides.

Also, if the Beehaw user really wanted to engage with the lemmy.world or other defederated instances, nothing is stopping them form creating an account on that instance (or any other instance federated with the desired community) and commenting or posting from there.

Federation is a two-way connection. Beehaw shut off the incoming stream, essentially, so anyone commenting or posting on spaces from that instance will not be seen by users logged into Beehaw. However, the outgoing stream is still active so anything posted there that you subscribe to or visit from another instance can still be seen. Users on other instances can even comment in those threads, but users on Beehaw would not see those comments.

For me it helps to think of the instance you are logged into as the place you trust the most. Content from other sources can always come in, but you can choose to simply not see things you don’t want. This is a fundamental part of how the Fediverse works, for better or worse.

Beehaw can pull in content from other instances, but users from those instances cannot comment or post back to Beehaw. If you were interacting with content coming from Beehaw on a different instance, in practice it would feel like you’re shadow-banned as nobody on Beehaw would be able to see or reply to you.

I still don’t see how this is not in line with the ideals and values of the Fediverse. If other instances don’t want to take on the extra moderation you are referring to, they can simplify defederate from Beehaw, too.

Every instance can do whatever it wants, and if other instances don’t like that then they can both go their own ways.

Users on Beehaw would not see anything from Lemmy.world. If it’s still federated with Kbin, then they would see that content.

Likewise, anyone on Lemmy.world would not see content or be able to access communities from Beehaw.

Federation is enabled on Kbin now.

Pro tip: saying things like “this site” without context means nothing, since your comment can be seen by people on other instances. If you hover on someone’s username, the full context including what instance they are coming from will be revealed. The comment you replied to is actually coming from lemmy.fmhy.ml and the other reply to that came from lemmy.world.

The whole idea of a protest being pointless is pointless!

Protests often do not accomplish their stated goal in the moment. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t an effect, it may just take awhile (or more protests) to be noticed. Even if it doesn’t ever have a measurable effect, the idea that people should just shut up and not express themselves is completely contrary to all of the ideals of democracy.