I mean web scraping also exists and scraper based Reddit frontends have been and still are a thing. Also using accounts API isn’t ideal since they can figure out that an account is being used to look at stuff like that and either suspend it or worse just make shadowbans visible and not apparent to that account.
Can’t so easily fuck with a web scraper or tool just looking at the raw web page data.
I don’t really get why this solution isn’t used much or even suggested. I mean fetching the data without an account is a foolproof way to detect shadowbanning and silent removals. Frankly I’m surprised no one has simply made an extension or tool to do it automatically.
This is amazing, it’s nice to have a scoring system to be able to rate how decentralized and also how active the different services are.
lemmy.blahaj.zone has a decent amount of women and both their admins are women, it’s not a “women’s space” as one would describe since everyone is welcome there but it’s probably the closest thing one would describe as an instance “by women for women”. I am obligated to mention that it is a queer instance and that many of the women there are either trans themselves or strongly supportive of trans people, and do not tolerate transphobia or anti-LGBT sentiment (including refusal to support LGBTQ people) at all.
I guess it’s not really surprising given that back when zip domains were introduced there was a lot of concern about them being used for phishing.
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I’m not really sure about lemmy.zip. I’ve browsed it a little bit in the past and it seems like an okay instance. It does have a pretty short block list which, also could pose issues for new users should they stumble into hexbear or grad folks.
However the biggest problem I’ve faced is that since it’s a .zip domain and my ISP seems to be doing something funny with them, I can’t actually connect with the server unless I’m on cellular, a VPN, or Tor.
I’ve tried changing DNS settings and even setting up DoH but it doesn’t really seem to be helping. It only connects to the site when I’m not on my home network, or on a VPN or Tor. It’s possible that my scenario might be an edge case, and other isps may not actually be blocking zip domains. Though if it is happening with others, that could be a really frustrating problem for somebody facing it since the solution isn’t obvious (it just looks like there’s no connection).
There may be other problems with the instance that I haven’t considered, like Federation issues or culture. The biggest and most glaring problem though is the connectivity issue, which probably isn’t universal, but has severely limited me from checking them out.
Sorry if I caused confusion, when I said “freeze peach trolls” I didn’t necessarily mean that lemm.ee was a free speech instance or that I thought it was. I was more so talking about the people who complain about defederation in comment sections on Lemmy and on Reddit, and how most of them are bellyaching and upset that objectionable content and servers are censored.
I’m glad to hear that there is a strict moderation policy over on lemm.ee, even if you don’t use defederation as part of moderation.
No he needs a good run through the sandblaster.
I don’t think it’s anywhere near as big of an issue as people try and make it out to be. Most of the widely defenerated instances are spam and trolls. There are a couple of legit ones from feudes, but for the most part going for a low-defederation or no-defederation instance is probably more trouble than it is a benefit.
Since it’ll expose those new users to things that might very well scare them away.
I actually personally wouldn’t recommend it for new users specifically because of the third one.
I know that lots of ‘freeze peach’ trolls love to complain about defederation. The thing is though the majority of the defederations are actually beneficial to new users who may be scared or unnerved by some of the shit that comes out of those blocked instances.
I think that it’s important for us to recognize that the stigma against defederation, is largely because of trolls who have to resort to sign ups on our servers to spread their messages here. There really aren’t a lot of arbitrary defederations, it’s mostly hate speech in spam. The stigma doesn’t really have the merit that it might seem.
Additionally I would also not really recommend lemm.ee, for brand new users, on the count of their very loose moderation policy instance wide. Since that can create some scary and unpleasant situations that may be unnerving to normies.
Another reason is that the image upload size is, unreasonably tiny on lemm.ee, and they limit your ability to do uploads for a long time. Something that will likely be very annoying to people who sign up there since they won’t be able to set up their account with a picture, and even when they can it will be ridiculously tiny. It can be really annoying, especially to new users when things don’t just work.
Probably why, among other reasons, the idea of naming an instance shit just works, was even a thing. And even though you don’t like it because of the name I would still recommend it because they have insanely good and insanely effective moderation. Despite being one of the few instances that doesn’t ask people to beg or play 20 questions on signup.
OP is a huge troll, they created their own community to hate on linux and ban anyone who doesn’t agree with them even slightly. They’re also deliberately using the auto remove on ban function to obscure the content of the removed comments from appearing in the modlog.
Yeah and since Online bank accounts can also almost always be reset if you lose the 2FA/MFA key by calling customer support, or going to your bank and speaking with themt in person, there’s almost no risk of losing access completely. It’s a service you have access to because you’re you. Something that isn’t the case with Reddit, Github, Lemmy accounts, or Masotodon. I’m not able to regain access after losing those 2FA solutions by virtue of being myself, they treat you just like the attacker in those cases. Really not worth it there, both since what is being protected isn’t worth it, and the risk far outweighs it.
That’s a great way to lose access if your device gets lost, stolen, or destroyed. Which is why I’m against and will continue to be against forcing 2FA and MFA solutions onto people. I don’t want this, services don’t care if we’re locked out which is why they’re happy to force this shit onto people.
Maybe it’s a problem with the crawler.
I have a feeling it was caused by something like that, likely a failure of some kind. The drop is way too steep and abruptly for it to be natural.
Unsurprising since Proton is optimized by Valve specifically for playing games. Crossover, Wine, and Whiskey are more general purpose. They will work fine and can be optimized and tweaked, but Proton will work better out of the box.
I think now it’ll just run it through proton if a native linux release isn’t found. At some point they seem to just have enabled Proton support by default for games that support it. It’s only for games that have a non-functional linux Release that you have to mess with them.
I think this user has an irrational disdain or hatred of linux that causes them to believe things that aren’t true, or haven’t ever been true. I mean he literally created !linuxsucks@lemmy.world just to post memes complaining.
Are you sure? I know it was like that when it first came out but I think now they have it enabled by default, just install and run the games under it automatically.
We shall see I guess, though unless they opt to only allow access to logged in users it’ll still be technically possible to do, especially locally in your own browser. Though people do lose interest over time, especially as platforms lose relevance.