Nerd02

Spero che il tuo capo sia stato l'ultimo a ridere, al momento della fattura. Magari anche con qualche extra o straordinario per aver saltato la pausa pranzo.

I don't think the language barrier is that big of a deal. And more importantly I think the cultural value it provides us vastly outweights the economic benefit of a shared tongue.

I think one of the more urgent reforms that could help the EU prosper would be a common fiscal policy. We have the same tarifs on goods coming from abroad and most of us share the same currency, but countries are still offering varying tax rates. I think having an EU wide tax policy would help spreading the European branches of foreign companies more evenly. Though I reckon not everyone would like this (wink wink, Ireland).

EDIT: oh and also. I agree with your overall point, but using Lemmy as an example for "great innovation coming from the EU"...

I'm sorry could you please elaborate on why the rest of the Fediverse would be enraged, or how this could be used for harassment? I don't think I follow. I'll admit, I only interact with the Fediverse through Lemmy so maybe there's some dynamics of the Masto-sphere I'm not picking up.

My understanding is that Mastodon admins can choose to hide their /domain_blocks endpoint to either outside users or even to all non admins. (source), and as a matter of fact almost a thousand of the 1700 Mastodon instances I'm querying already do so, so really I can only get the federation status of the few hundred that remain.

I think the admins that prefer not to show their defeds, in fear of harassment, are already hiding them, so it should be ok for me to query the remaining ones.

Yeah sure. Assuming you are only targeting Lemmy instances (other softwares make this a bit more complicated), A "can interact" with B if:

• A hasn't blocked B
• B hasn't blocked A
• Neither A nor B are on allowlist. If either is on allowlist, it must have explicitly added the other one to its allow list (this is very uncommon, the only big instance using allow lists is hexbear.net)

So, to verify this, you could query the Defed Investigator with the instances you care about, one at a time. Only select the softwares you care about (likely only Lemmy) to make the query faster. Say you wanted to verify the compatibility between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (just making an example). Go to https://defed.xyz/check?name=sh.itjust.works&software=lemmy

• ✔ lemmy.world doesn't appear in the "Instances defederated from sh.itjust.works" (this means .world hasn't blocked SJW)
• ✔ lemmy.world doesn't appear in the "Instances defederated by sh.itjust.works" (this means SJW hasn't blocked .world)
• ✔ lemmy.world doesn't appear among the "Instances not allowing sh.itjust.works" (this means .world isn't on allowlist or, if it is, it has explicitly allowed SJW. Again, this is very uncommon)

Also make sure the instance you are looking for isn't among the "Instances that returned errors", of course.

Like @[email protected] said, can't query from the backend if there is no backend :)

It's all serverless, so this is as good as it gets.

I'm not too familiar with the drama but any time I visit kbin.social there's some error or outage going on. Also the documentation is pretty lackluster, developing 3rd party tools for kbin is pretty much impossible.

Mbin looks way more promising, if anything because of the better docs, new features and community-driven direction it's taking. I hope most kbin users jump ship.

This is why the world needs ChadGPT, the only based AI.

Context: ChadGPT was an AI trained on r/PCM comments, created by us (the Based Count team) around a year ago. After little over 12 hours it got shadowbanned by Reddit. Throughout its period of activity it ended up spewing nonsense all across the compass, from hardcore libertarianism up to concerining nazi-adjacent points, with occasional left wing and right wing tangents.

All in all it was a good lesson on what happens when you train an AI on memes and don't filter its output. Godwin's law at its finest.

Damn us zoomers really are an outlier on this one. I'd be curious to see some more numbers about the younger generations.

Also, the male-female break on the "agree" point isn't that surprising to me, as we all know girls on the internet don't exist. Still very interesting data, the next few years, when zoomers gradually replace the more elderly voters, will likely be very... interesting.

Yeah I know they are the head admins, but I remember reading somewhere that they've delegated most of the admin work to other admins on that site. Don't know if it's true, tho. I'm pretty sure the person I spoke to wasn't a dev, for instance.

Could be worse, Goat. The lemmy.ml admins (don't think it was the devs though, afaik they don't handle admin work) have defederated my instance because our users while using our instance didn't respect their rules lmao.

https://defed.xyz/check/lemmy.ml (see "Instances defederated by lemmy.ml")

We are quite literally the only defederated instance for political reasons. Everyone else is either porn or straight up CSAM.

I don't think the problem with Hexbear is political. Some of their points are questionable, but that's of course up for debate.

What tends to annoy me about their users is how obnoxious they can be. Between the flooding of comments and replies, the weird emojis and the numerous attempts at provocating people from outside of their little cicle (which happens both in their domestic communities as well as the federated ones), it all makes you wonder if they even care about the health of the fediverse

Based. Secluding yourself in the woods so that lawyers have to travel through over 2 km of wilderness just to serve you with a suit removing you from said proprety truly is as monke as it gets.