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@ julian @activitypub.space

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Co-Founder (NodeBB) | Husband 🤷‍♂️ and Dad 🙉 to three | Rock Climber 🧗‍♂️ | Foodie 🥙 | Conductor 🎵 | Saxophonist 🎷

✅ Small teams craft better code.🇨🇦 Made in Canada🗨️ Federating NodeBB with funding from NLNet ♥️🇪🇺

  • Anti-AI fedi pact?

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  • It's tough to know where to stand when it comes to AI. I don't think anybody here is hoping that the fediverse be overrun with LLMs and bring about the dead internet theory.

    A large part of why people join the fediverse (and the threadiverse, too) is to get away from corporatization, and AI is definitely part of that too.

    I just don't think we need to go to extremes to ban AI-generated content, but more importantly, this is not a decision that can be made globally. It must be done (and enforced, however we do that) instance by instance.

  • NSFW

    Has anyone ever considered attempting a potential federated alternative to the major Porn Sites?

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  • well there's an NSFW Lemmy and Piefed instance now :smirk:

  • A more private way to distribute votes

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  • @bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de I think with public groups this is less of a concern. They're public after all, votes included

    In NodeBB votes (of the up variety) are de facto public, only downvotes are hidden.

  • A more private way to distribute votes

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  • > @bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de said in A more private way to distribute votes: > > So my proposal would be: votes are only sent to the author of a post. The author then sends an Update activity to their followers and the magazine the post belongs to.

    My concern is that this goes against the implicit assumption that the group actor (the community/magazine/category) is the source of truth.

    The group actor is the clearinghouse of data in 1b12 style federation, and it would be a departure to change votes to only be sent to the target.

    Fwiw when someone upvotes on NodeBB, it gets blasted everywhere too!

    I would recommend that votes continue to be sent to group actors, who then decide whether to announce it (old behaviour) or keep quiet and wait for the update before announcing (new behaviour).

    It would mean vote synchronization would be less reliable however.

    Also this goes directly against @rimu@piefed.social's vote batching proposal.

  • Introducing Threadirator - A Threadiverse Community Federator

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  • Introducing Threadirator - A Threadiverse Community Federator

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  • Oh you definitely can!!, I'm able to browse and subscribe to Piefed and Lemmy communities as though they were categories 😁

  • Introducing Threadirator - A Threadiverse Community Federator

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  • Catodon joining the Threadiverse

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  • Catodon joining the Threadiverse

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  • @panos@community.nodebb.org Was not able to resolve the post, but I don't think it's your fault, lemmy.world turned on CF bot protection and it's blocking me :(

  • Anyone with experience using anubis on their lemmy server, have a good config?

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  • Sure. I have found that the default botPolicy works fine for blocking the AI bots, but blocks federation.

    At the reverse proxy level:

     
        
if ($request_method = POST) {
    proxy_pass http://nodebb/; 
}

    Because Anubis can't filter by HTTP method, unless I am mistaken. This just broadly allows all incoming activities. If you want to get specific, limit it to your shared inbox or individual user inboxes via regular expression or something. I didn't find that it was necessary.

    As for botPolicies.yaml

     
        
  # Allow /inbox
  - name: allow-ap-headers
    headers_regex:
      Accept: application/ld\+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"
      Accept: application/activity\+json
    action: ALLOW

  - name: allow-assets
    path_regex: /assets
    action: ALLOW

    The former allows those specific AP headers (it is naive, some AP impls. send slight variations of those two headers.

    The latter allows our uploads.

  • Removed Locked

    Trump tells Iran ‘open the F—in’ Strait, you crazy b——ds,’ — as he warns of new strikes and says ‘praise Allah’

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  • Pretty sure if Obama, Clinton, Biden, or Harris said "praise be to Allah" in a tweet the media would crucify them no matter the context.

    But when Trump does it, crickets.

  • New Forum Community.

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  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

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  • @rabiezaater@piefed.social not all instances enable them. I think Piefed can restrict them in some manners (local users only, or something), and in NodeBB you can disable them completely.

    It's not an all-or-nothing proposition, if you think downvotes are not good, run a software (or join an instance) that doesn't have them enabled.

  • Catodon joining the Threadiverse

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  • To my knowledge, Catodon was started by @panos@catodon.rocks, who for the longest time was a Firefish advocate, but was disappointed by the bait and switch pulled by those devs.

    With the advent of AI, Panos is taking it upon himself to fork Firefish and build the social media experience he wanted all long.

    Can't really argue with that :smile:

  • IEEE talking about fediverse

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  • I disagree. I think that you can have both.

    I think big tech has proven that it cannot be trusted. Their priorities are simply not in alignment with our own. Legislation seems to be the only lever that can hope to rein them in (market forces are no longer strong enough).

    At the same time, smaller networks do not have the resources to comply with government regulations to a T, and so they should be given a longer leash. Governments also do not have the resources to chase down every Tom, Dick, and Harry running a Lemmy server (well, they do, but they shouldn't.)

    Whether reality will play out this way is uncertain.

  • Question about adding a platform to the Fediverse (ActivityPub help)

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  • For a fediverse based technical support hub, have them post to @technical-discussion

    More than happy to help. Fedify is good, but they might not be using js 🙂

  • Pluralistic: The online community trilemma

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  • Isn't that basically a Piefed topic?

  • better Mastodon feeds

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  • I'm talking to you from it right now 🤨

  • better Mastodon feeds

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  • better Mastodon feeds

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  • Different software can do this in a less privacy invasive way.

    NodeBB has "popular" filters that show you what is generating discussion (per day, week, month, etc.)

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    Average familiarity

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    Every Sunday evening... (you threadiverse people are spared this, actually)

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    In celebration over the fact NodeBB submissions here actually have an image preview now, I submit...

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    Sometimes the absence of an algorithm still delivers...

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Community mention spam from Microblogs

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Threadiverse... on ATProto?!