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was at my local post office on that day. postal worker was watching it on her lunch break. ended up in a really good convo about the current admin, probable doge action against USPS and civil resistance in general.

it was a social connection between two people that reinforced personal conviction. to me (and perhaps her as well), that was priceless.

dammit! where can I send you my “spat coffee on keyboard” cleaning bill, huh?!

democracy now! is legit a core news reporting source for many unreported and underreported stories. thumbs up for DN!

edit: add link

Also, this post is gonna get removed since there’s a ban on US politics on this community

understandable, but unfortunate. there are some genuinely interesting responses.

(Or VPN and a secure DNS)

properly setup Tor covers both of those. with proper opsec (admittedly quite hard to do), disconnecting the account from an IP or locality is a legitimate part of the protection puzzle.

some instances do block Tor exit nodes, so if your current home instance blocks you will have issues. federation ftw; use an instance that accepts Tor exit nodes.

does anyone know of an instance offering .onion addresses?

overwrite needs to be put out of its misery.

that was waaay too enjoyable a watch. thanks!

trying to do my part; always on the lookout for non {dot}world communities to comment in.

not disagreeing with your overall premise, but do clearly labeled bot news aggregator communities need much interaction right now?

I read many of the articles on bot feeds and will sometimes comment on ones that I think should get a few more eyeballs. others do the same and I appreciate their prodding as well. for my usecase lemmy in its current state has been absolutely wonderful, and I am enjoying watching it evolve.

Sean Caroll - intonation and cadence. [subject matter awesome. must. stay. awake]

But the signature can’t really guarantee the truthfulness of the content. I could make a signed post that claiming that the Earth is flat.

important point, but in a federated or distributed system, this signed posts/comments may actually be highly beneficial for when tying content directly to an account for interaction purposes. I have already seen well-ish known accounts seemingly spoofed on similar looking instance domains.

distribution of trusted public keys would be an interesting problem to address but the ability to confirm the association of a specific account to specific content (even if the account is “anonymous” and signing is optional) may lend a layer to of veracity to interactions even if the content quality itself is questionable.

edit: clarity (and potential case in point - words matter, edits matter).

and thats ok. some great work has been done making the impractical practical. the article was a good think piece. it did its job.

kudos on poking at the app privacy statement. the real interest in this is going to be running it locally on your own server backend.

so, yeah - as usual, apps bad, bad, bad. but the backend is what really matters.

just tell them “yes!”. they will figure it out :-)

i try to balance my personal distaste for general bans with the much desired trait that every instance can be an island in a larger ocean if it wishes. so, as long as i have the ability to choose home instances based on my favored criteria, its ok with me. making sure that new users fully understand they have choice and can get vastly different experiences based on instance can be a challenge, however.

consolidation around large instances is more of a worry, but over the last 6 months or so I feel (100% subjective) that there has been much more activity on smaller, topic-centric instances. I try to respectfully engage with them as much as possible - sometimes even successfully.

I am pretty happy with lemmy and the lemmy trendlines. its the only social watering hole I visit now.

in reading through the comments I feel a sense of “lemmy pride” that instances have genuine, recognized flavors and that federation works as well as it does for the overwhelming majority of people. this really is the way, methinks. 👍

nah. I have found .ml to be pretty opinionated but diverse since signing up. aside from some minor inter/intra instance strife, its been good.

I think most people eventually get over themselves and recognize the social and technical usefulness of .ml - having a bleeding edge, well federated instance where you find the beehaws, worlds, hexbears and others is… interesting. the flavor of each instance really comes through and you can still curate your own feed as needed.

110% legit. its just that simple.

or, if you are really lucky, you can poke the right locations and release the magic blue smoke from the chips. super fun and all the cool kids are doing it.