I don't think your drawback example is something inherent to open source at all - people absolutely do demand things from closed source programs as well.
matt
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It's just the app, profiles and history is definitely a thing on Lemmy UI (the web interface), plus definitely implemented into Jerboa.
Open the sidebar, tap settings, tap user settings, and it's part of that screen.
If you don't see it, you'll need to update.
Social media is being decentralised the same way Lemmy is. Platforms such as Friendica, Pixelfed, Mastodon, etc are all platforms for decentralised social media.
Depends how long the federation takes between instances, but generally immediately, providing the other instances are still federated.
That being said, if defederated, the deletion is not federated to the other instances and will stay cached on other instances. This is a bit of an edge case though.
This is definitely not a good look, I agree, especially since the instance rules say no transphobia.
Of course, people may argue that it's "just debate", but they seem to not realise that there is no debate to be had on the existence of gender non-conformity. There are many things to discuss related to gender, but the things being posted are more arguing the existence of transgender people or why "trans is bad", which is a complete non-starter.
One of the most common posters there shares articles of Breitbart, for god's sake, who are not exactly known for being inclusive and arguing in good faith.
It's like arguing about vaccines: All you're doing is giving a platform to pseudoscience that people should really not be taking on board. People aren't rational, they believe whatever sounds the most convincing, not necessarily what is actually right.
No, kbin.social is not the only kbin instance, and the code for everything is FOSS, meaning anyone can make instances and continue the codebase.
This is why FOSS platforms on the fediverse is good, as it becomes resilient to bad actors and situations.
Federation is direct communication between websites, so yes, you understand correctly. Sites must learn about each other before posts federate.
Yes, this is correct.
It's possible to fetch older posts by requesting them directly but there's no automated way to grab old posts on demand.
I can only answer a couple.
- This is by design, due to how federation works. Federation is literally just:
- Instance A requests information from Instance B
- Instance B responds to the request and sends it back
- Instance A follows Instance B
- Instance B now federates all future posts to Instance A
There's nothing more complicated to it, but it does mean that instances cannot know about other instances without being told, as there is no central location that instances connect to in order to find out about all other instances.
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Only posts after subscribing are federated to an instance, it doesn't backfill. An option for admins of an instance to request a backfill would not be a bad option though, but as time goes on, backfilling an entire community could take too much data on instances.
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Issue with Lemmy.ml, although when you see Subscribe Pending, you tend to still see things in your feed.
This is how most protests or strikes go in real life too.
When a protest negatively affects someone, it is the fault of the one(s) who directly caused the effect, rather than those that caused people to protest in the first place.
If you think broad enough, you can see the parallels to things like public transport strikes or other forms of protest.
Roofer was meant to turn up at 9AM to sort out an issue I'm having when it rains (seems like part of the gutter is blocked and it causes water to fall out).
They didn't turn up.