Voyager is now available as a native app in the app/play store

Voyager is extremely impressive for what it is - webapp

It’s not only a webapp anymore, but also available as native app now

What will Apple do if they if the EU continues their plans with regard to client side scanning? That’s not one country, but many.

Apple previously planned on introducing client side scanning, but backed out after they received a high amount of critique.

Yeah, I agree this unwanted behavior of Lemmy. It’s a variation on ‘security by obscurity’. It’s ‘social security’ by obscurity. Except that it isn’t obscure at all.

I didn’t know Kbin users could see the upvotes, but I’ve just discovered that kbin users only see favorites. Just like on Mastodon.

Check out the Kbin page @banaflip@kbin.social shared in another comment. You can see who upvoted your comment under ‘activity’. If you upvote my comment, my comment favorite count increases with one. And you can see you are one of the ‘upvoters’ under favorites.

If however you downvote my comment, one of the favorites appears to get removed. By you. Even if you didn’t upvote before. At least, that’s what I think happened when I tried this on another comment.

Well, that’s about it. But isn’t this strange?

• Upvotes/downvotes are actually favorites on Kbin
• If a Lemmy user downvotes a Kbin comment, one favorite gets removed

At least, that’s what appears to be happening. You can check for yourself with the link provided to the Kbin instance above.

Interesting. But that’s more like the Mastodon favorite I guess. And considering the heavy Mastodon/Kbin similarities, that’s not surprising of course.

There’s also a downvote and upvote section, but those are all empty.

I’ll deliberately try to downvote your comment to see what happens.

Edit: indeed, there’s no downvote. Just one less upvote. How does this work?

Edit2: I’ve undone my downvote and now two favorites show again. But what’s weird is that my downvote simply removed the upvote of the (first?) upvoter of your comment. Is this really what Kbin does? You cannot start removing upvotes of random other users can you?

Isn’t that weird?

Kbin users can see it, admins can see it, but Lemmy users cannot.

No, what I mean is that any user can randomly start sending DMs to another user and I don’t want any DMs.

Blocking is an action when the DM was already received.

No, I see all.

if not most mobile apps don’t even support DMs at all, so you can use those.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that’s not a suitable work around for me.

I use Voyager and consider it by far the best client, but I’m not going to switch apps because Lemmy doesn’t allow DMs to be blocked.

It’s also not just about hiding, but the sender should be aware the DM cannot be send.

You cannot block a user that already send you a message.

You also cannot delete a DM unless the administrator helps you. If you receive abusive material you’re more or less stuck with it.

I don’t want DMs, but I must accept them now.

Thanks!

If you start your own server, you moderate yourself.

Whether others want to federate with your server is up to them.

What platform? Windows? Unix? Linux?

The Court of Justice if the EU will very likely disallow the use of this authority in the future, but it often takes time to litigate in court up to a point where an organization can proceed to the EU Court.

It’s a terrible way of politicians trying to circumvent fundamental rights, even though their goal always is to prevent crime. The simply pass the bill, wait until it becomes law, start doing their business, claim victory and then complain the EU Court disallows it.

Sigh.

A close cousin of Lemmy is Mastodon. If you consider Lemmy a federated version of Reddit, then Mastodon is a federated version of Twitter.

The largest Mastodon server is probably Truth Social, on which former president Trump posts his messages after being banned from Twitter.

Truth Social uses the same protocol as Mastodon of Lemmy: ActivityPub. The difference: the Truth Social administrators blocked the Truth Social server from sending out messages to or receiving messages from other servers. So it’s a private Mastodon.

Bottom line: if you run your own Lemmy server you can block whatever server you want or none at all. And others can block your server if they want. If you create ab account at somebody else’s Lemmy server, the administrator can decide to block other Lemmy servers.

If you use a Mastodon account, it’s very easy to migrate to another server including your followers. Lemmy accounts do not appear to offer that functionality (yet?), but I expect a migration tool will be created in the future. So if an administrator decides to block another Lemmy server, but you don’t like that, you might easily move to another server. As of yet, you can’t however and need to create an account on another Lemmy server.

The beauty of federating servers is that everybody can setup their own server, provided they own a domain name.

In theory I could start a server registered to unanimousstargazer.social and create an account called @unanimousstargazer@unanimousstargazer.social and participate in the fediverse. If I choose to block Meta, then that’s my choice.

I agree people are unnecessarily making a fuzz about this, as it’s their own choice to join a server or not. The fediverse is open, so why can’t Meta join. That’s up to them. And if I want to block them, that’s up to me.

Which, by the way, is also a great way to verify certain people. If a Lemmy account is registered on a server with a domain that is owned by a large broadcast company for example, it’s easy to check whether the user of that account is who that person claims to be.

The municipality of Amsterdam set up their own Mastodon server registered to amsterdam.nl, so it’s clear their Mastodon posts are genuinely from the municipality without any external verification schedule. If the mayor would want to post herself, she could simply get an account on that server and everybody knows it’s genuinely her.

From a functionality perspective there is no difference. I’m registered to a Dutch server with this account and can comment on all OPs that are visible to me.

The administrator of a server (domain or instance) can block other servers (domains or instances) however. So if Meta not only starts it’s own Twitter-like platform, but also it’s own Reddit-like platform, it could be that administrators block access to the Meta server.

The best example for Mastodon (which uses the same federation protocol as Lemmy) is the Truth Social platform on which former president Trump publishes his posts. The administrators of Truth Social blocked access to all other servers on the fediverse, so Truth Social doesn’t federate at all. And I presume administrators of many other servers block access to Truth Social.

So from that aspect, you might think through on what server you register. Might the administrator block access to certain servers? Do you want that or not? etc.

But you can also take location into consideration with regard to legal questions. I personally do not want to register on a server in certain countries if for example the GDPR is not enforceable.

I mean that Lemmy feels like Reddit on a slow content week

Check. That’s true.