_ohcoco_, 7 months ago to world in Belgium wants sanctions against Israel for Gaza bombings - deputy PM

@pleasemakesense Technical question about this post: Can someone please explain how a link from #LemmyWorld works when posted to #Mastodon?

When I click on the link, it shows this same post plus all of the same comments. I'm trying to understand how it works. thx

coffeeClean, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to reddit in Reddit sent me invitations to their IPO to my "deleted" accounts! That's a GDPR violation!

You are on a privacy-offending Cloudflare site (#LemmyWorld), so Tor users are blocked from seeing your Cloudflare-jailed image. If you care about privacy you will bounce from that instance.

Without seeing the image, I have to ask how an anonymous user gets #GDPR rights. Or has #Reddit started supporting an identification mechanism of some kind? When I start the reg process, it asks for an email address, username, and pw, not a first + lastname (but my test stopped when a Google reCAPTCHA push was attempted). I have zero sympathy for Reddit – they are rotten to the core scumbags, but I do not see how the GDPR can be applied to anonymous accounts.

(edit) I gather from other comments you must have posted an email. Would be great if you could copy the text of the email into the body of your post so everyone can see it and so people using screen readers can hear it. Thanks!

ciferecaNinjo, 8 months ago to fedia in Cannot reply… Snubbed by the machine. (Cloudflare problem?)

I’ve retried several times, even with a long delay. I also tried re-entering the thread (which is often the fix for kbin-specific failures) and that did not work either.

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Note that to send this reply to you here in this pure kbin mag I had to submit twice. But in that #LemmyWorld even many retries makes no difference. I would love to have a text-based client about now.

ciferecaNinjo, 8 months ago to fedia in Cannot reply… Snubbed by the machine. (Cloudflare problem?)

Is this a Cloudflare problem?

I guess not. Today I was able to post there.

Though there’s another odd behavior: my profile shows all my own posts except the posts in that #lemmyWorld thread. But I do get notifcations if someone replies to me in that thread.

Every other Kbin user seems to be posting comments just fine.

I don’t see how you could know that. If someone is blocked, there’s no metric AFAIK.

diyrebel, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to fightforprivacy in [discussion] Tactic needed to counter all communities living on lemmy.world

Centralized:

Cloudflare Inc is a single US corporation. A tech giant like Google. All CF proxied websites go to Cloudflare’s assets who has centralized visibility on all that traffic. Don’t be fooled by the padlock in your browser. When you login to #lemmyWorld, the tunnel stops not at lemmy world’s host but at Cloudflare’s, where it is decrypted. Cloudflare sees your username and password and everything you do on lemmy world, DMs, etc. When you login to your bank, if it is Cloudflared, CF also sees everything you do on your bank account. If your government’s voter registration office is on Cloudflare, CF sees everything you do there, such as upload your driver’s license. Everything you do on any CF site is seen centrally by CF.

If you visit lemmy*world, lemm*ee, lemmy*ca, lemmy*one, & sh*itjust*works, these are separate Lemmy nodes but they are all Cloudflared so your connection & traffic all goes to the same place and CF sees everything you do on all those sites. All 5 of those sites are configured using the defaults, so you are either blocked on all or a permitted to access all those sites together without variation.

Exclusive:

The individual admins have some blunt controls over who gets access, but lemmy world just uses the defaults so lemmy world simply accepts CF’s decision on who to block, as do most CF sites. I’ve confirmed that lemmy world excludes tor users. And considering it just uses the defaults, it likely blocks people whose ISPs use CGNAT, libraries, and various other shared IPs.

godfree2, 4 months ago to fediverse in The 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!

@squaresinger @LinkOpensChest_wav yes and don't let people fall for quasi legal privacy policies that lemmy.world & ilk provide #Lemmyworld #accountability #fediverserated

activistPnk, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to solarpunktravel in Other travel communities for the sidebar

I guess you don’t consider !bicycle_touring fit for the sidebar then.

Bicycle touring is relevant but indeed lemmy.world is antithetical to fedi philosophy and purpose so I wouldn’t want to promote it on the sidebar. #LemmyWorld has a group for everything and needs no promotion. They replicate communities in the free world, effectively poaching from better places.

Would you be opposed if some content from over there would also be crossposted to here?

No; feel free to crosspost either way.

My personal approach is to post initially in the most relevant free world decentralized community first, creating a new community if necessary. If the post contains a question that’s starving for answers after some time, then I might cross post to centralized places¹ in part to promote the better venue to those in places of oppression… to try to steer people toward a more ethical workflow.

Some instances only show the parent of a cross post, while other instances show both parents and children in a cross posting scenario. This is why I favor the digital rights respecting community for the initial post.

① e.g. lemmy world, sh.itjust·works, lemm·ee, lemmy·ca, programming·dev, and lemmy.ml.

activistPnk, 1 month ago to solarpunktravel in Other travel communities for the sidebar

I ended up on world because they accepted people when many instances didn’t

That’s the problem with #LemmyWorld. They do not exercise self-control and grew far beyond that of a healthy balance of power. Part of their excessive growth is attributed to their use of an oppressive US tech giant, Cloudflare, which is a centralized gatekeeper who dictates which people get access to what. They’ve betrayed their users and sold out the digital rights of the commons in trade for gratis “security” (though I hesitate to call it security when availability is ruined to the demographics of people CF oppresses).

and i didn’t want to sign up to an instance that may be run on somebody’s raspberrypi and would be turned off in a week or something.

That’s a real risk with the small instances but it’s a risk that we accept in the free world. It’s even more infuriating when a small instance opts to suddenly join Cloudflare without announcement, as opposed to going down. Then users get pawned to an oppressor without their knowledge or consent – while some users suddenly get shut out of the walled garden with their data trapped inside. This happened with waveform.social, lemmy.ca, and programming.dev. My content is now held hostage in those places unless I pawn myself to Cloudflare.

The way forward is better tools. There are various archival clients which grab your content as regularly as you want and save a searchable local copy. When a raspberrypi running in some kid’s mom’s basement gets spontaneously unplugged, you have your archives.

For the case at hand, I suggest creating a community either here or on the travel-specific instance lemmy.globe.pub. Let me know if you do so I can add it to the sidebar.

freedomPusher, 13 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to aita in AITA for having this community open while there is already another community with much more activity?

#LemmyWorld is in Cloudflare’s access-restricted walled garden. It’s an asshole instance that not only excludes some people from access but it hoards people who are in the included group, creating a perversely centralized power imbalance that rewards elitists. To non-assholes, Lemmy World communities are parasitic because they rob the fedi of the decentralized balance it needs. To participate in Lemmy World communities is to either be uninformed/out of touch OR to be an informed asshole.

That said, lemmy.ml is not a great place either. At least it’s not excluding people on the basis of IP address, but it’s still disproportionately large and has a history of political baggage by admins who are very trigger-happy with the censor button. You could have chosen a better instance, like Sopuli, but then your sidebar acknowledges the apparent past existence of a Sopuli AITA community.

NTA for giving refuge from a destructive instance. If it were reversed, and you were to create a community on Lemmy World that already exists in the free world, it would be a YTA case. Poaching users from a bad instance is a good semaritan move.

How to fix this

Promote the most digital rights respecting venue in the sidebar, which is !amitheasshole. Encourage cross-posts to and from discuss.tchncs.de. Make no mention of Lemmy World and other centralized nodes.

I would not normally post in lemmy.ml but thought this thread was worthy of an exception.

ciferecaNinjo, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to showerthoughts in It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna.

Not exactly. !showerthoughts@lemmy.world was a poor choice, as is:

• !showerthoughts@zerobytes.monster ← Cloudflare
• !showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works ← Cloudflare
• !showerthoughts@lemmy.ca ← Cloudflare
• !showerthoughts@lemm.ee ← Cloudflare
• !hotshowerthoughts@x69.org ← Cloudflare, and possibly irrelevant
• !showerthoughts@lemmy.ml ← not CF, but copious political baggage, abusive moderation & centralized by disproportionate size

They’re all shit & the OP’s own account is limited to creating a new community on #lemmyWorld. !showerthoughts@lemmy.ml would be the lesser of evils but the best move would be create an acct on a digital rights-respecting instance that allows community creations and then create showerthoughts community there.

(EDIT) !showerThoughts@fedia.io should address these issues.