walden

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[–] walden@wetshav.ing 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm on my computer now, so I'll type out some more detail if you're interested. To reiterate, I'm just going off memory and it was two weeks ago so I could very well be making stuff up...

The pre-filled input box asked for each blocked instance to go on a new line, so:

lemmy.world  
lemmy.ml  
lemmygrad.ml  
hexbear.net  
lemmy.zip  
piefed.social  
etc...  

I deleted all of the defaults and that was it. I'll put a screenshot of the settings page that's available to admins below:

Federation options

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If I remember correctly, I was presented with a text box pre-populated with the list of bad guys. I just selected them all with Ctrl-A and hit delete.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of folks think their decentralized internet forum of choice should be a free for all, but that's not realistic.

Moderation and censorship are easy to get confused. Moderation includes reviewing content and sources for quality and safety, while censorship aims to control or manipulate a narrative. (general words taken from this page)

A PieFed instance defederating from a historically nasty fediverse server or 12 is just a form of moderation, and is up to whoever runs the server. The reason for blocking hexbear/lemmy.ml/lemmygrad could just be to cut down on the amount of manual moderation that's required by having their stuff federate to your server -- not trying to control a narrative or suppress any opinions -- just historically lots of wrong, inaccurate, inflammatory stuff that adds to a moderator's workload. Easier to avoid it.

Lemmy.ml removing comments and banning people for having opinions that differ from theirs is censorship, because 1) they are very consistent about it and 2) it drives their narrative.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I might propose instead a step in setup, or on demand, to select major instances to allow/deny federation from

This is exactly how it works. I started a PieFed instance and made the decision (during setup) to trim the defederation list down to none. Users can block on the account level.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That's not at all what the above comment says.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 2 points 1 week ago

It has to do with taking up screen space. "Advertising and headers take up ....". The title bar is sort of a header, so I posted how to remove it.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Right click up on the toolbar and select "Customize Toolbar". Uncheck "Title Bar" to get ride of the text at the top of the screen.

Edit: apparently this stuck a nerve. This is a way to increase screen space, just like how someone recommended using verticle tabs.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 4 points 1 week ago

If it's just for charging, a USB-C port is just a different part. The charge controller and everything can stay "dumb" if it's a low power device.

The USB-C spec is complicated and to take full advantage of it is expensive like you said, but I think just using a modern form factor isn't expensive.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that stinks.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 10 points 1 week ago

Images in comments is planned for a future release (probably 1.3). It's on version 1.1 right now.

Considering how young the project is I think it's really good already. Room for improvement of course, but very good.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, pretty close. There were a bunch of picnic tables at this nature show and we were in the last row but still with a decent view.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 1 points 2 weeks ago

Finding the Center of Gravitas.

 

After seeing pictures of it and voting for it on multiple occasions on the contests held here, I got to see a Eurasian eagle-owl in person today. I was a little far away so the picture isn't that great, but I was very impressed.

I also got to see a Barn Owl, and it was beautiful!

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