It is a pretty big deal. What it essentially means is that you are completely exposed, if you pardon the pun.
And yes, absolutely everyone with basic IT skills has access to this data as it is shared across instances. All it takes is a couple minutes to deploy a docker image and boom, I'm somewhat of an admin myself.
The fact that this data is stored in plain is a major security and privacy issue that makes me rethink this platform.
"Curating" makes it sound like you are some kind of porn connoisseur.
I mean let's be real: Anyone with a fraction of self-respect would walk away from this dumpster fire after being repeatedly called noise by the idiots running the website.
But on the other hand I have to admit that Spez was completely right. This did blow over rather nicely for Reddit, since any publicity is good publicity and it seems like most of it is business as usual minus actually good apps.
So basically, u/Spez was right and people really are addicts. Shame, but not entirely unexpected.
Connect for Lemmy is amazing.
There's also wefwef, which seems to be a clone of Apollo.
Popular Reddit apps like Sync and Boost are currently in the process of making Lemmy ports.
Amazing work as always, Kuro!
It's been a long time since I saw a developer being this responsive and caring about their app.
In no particular order:
Oh, and for fucks sake: Remove that shit stain that is the official app from the universe.
Sure, but why grace the dumpster fire with traffic, when you also can just copy the relevant parts here?
Thank you for your effort in running this instance and also for being so transparent about the whole process.
Nope, what's gone is gone and I made sure to overwrite my comments multiple times, just to make it a bit more tedious to restore the original one.
Build a truly massive nuke, threaten every single country that you will wipe it from the planet if they even think about invading another. Make sure to follow through on that promise on the slightest indication, just so everyone knows you're not joking. Ideally, you would hand this over to an AI that keeps score of each country's behavior and prunes the ones that don't behave without any moral concerns.
Problem with that approach is, that you would probably be out of nukes by noon of day one.
Nope, it's an absolute nightmare. The post basically outlines how you could feasibly exploit data across a majority of the Lemmy network without much effort at all.
With a bit more effort you could also link the Lemmy accounts to the users email, as becoming an admin is as simple as hosting your own instance and getting users to join.
Boom you have a business case of profiling people on Lemmy and selling those profiles to advertisers, stalkers and perverts alike.