Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

[stevo887@lemmings.world]

I saw someone suggest Yandex as a Google substitute in de-Google thread recently...lol

[jollyrogue@lemmy.ml]

Matrix servers keep a copy of any remote room an account on the server has joined, and it’s possible to recreate a room from the copies held on different servers. There are more details I don’t remember, but at a high level that’s how it’s distributed.

Storing messages of remote rooms in addition to local rooms is why people complain about the storage requirements of Matrix servers. They don’t realize it’s distributed.

[doctorbllk@programming.dev]

It's also a pretty rough experience tbh. It took about 2 days for me to gain access after signing up. Only usable via the Android sdk or iOS beta app. The infrastructure just isn't there yet.

[kalcifer@sh.itjust.works]

I wish Boost understood the collapsible spoilers.

On my client, it’s all expanded and I see all the formatting characters.

Ah dang, that's good to know (though I'm not sure what to do as an alternative) — I was unaware that the collapsible spoilers weren't supported on Boost. I guess that means that Lemmy's markdown formatting hasn't entirely been standardized across the service. I personally have encountered some inconsistency on the Tesseract UI with CommonMark Autolink ^[2]^ formatting where the autolinks don't even render ^[1]^.

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1. "Kalcifer" @[email protected]. To: ["Happy #GlobalSwitchDay". @[email protected]. "Fediverse" [email protected]. Tesseract. sh.itjust.works. Published: 2025-02-01T07:08:40Z. Accessed: 2025-02-02T04:40Z. https://tesh.itjust.works/post/sh.itjust.works/32046509.]. Published: 2025-02-01T09:20:14Z. Accessed: 2025-02-02T04:42Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/32046509/16425699.
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     Signal isn't federated ^[1][2][3.1]^; it's decentralized ^[1][2][3.2]^. Though, for all practical purposes, I would generally argue that it's centralized. 
     
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     1. Signal-Server. signalapp. Github. Published: 2025-01-31T15:34:14.000Z. Accessed: 2025-02-01T09:24Z. <https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server>.
        - This is the source code for the server that Signal uses.
     2. "Signal (software)". Wikipedia. Published: 2025-01-06T09:34Z. Accessed: 2025-02-1T09:30Z. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)>.
        - ¶"Architecture". ¶"Servers".
          > Signal relies on centralized servers that are maintained by Signal Messenger. In addition to routing Signal's messages, the servers also facilitate the discovery of contacts who are also registered Signal users and the automatic exchange of users' public keys. […]
     3. "Reflections: The ecosystem is moving". moxie0. Signal Blog. Published: 2016-05-10. Accessed: 2025-02-01T09:40Z.  <https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/>.
        1. ¶5. to ¶"Stuck in time". ¶3-6
           > One of the controversial things we did with Signal early on was to build it as an unfederated service. Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all. […] [interoperable protocols] [have] taken us pretty far, but it’s undeniable that once you federate your protocol, it becomes very difficult to make changes. And right now, at the application level, things that stand still don’t fare very well in a world where the ecosystem is moving. […] Early on, I thought we’d federate Signal once its velocity had subsided. Now I realize that things will probably never slow down, and if anything the velocity of the entire landscape seems to be steadily increasing.
        2. ¶"Stuck in time". "Federation and control". ¶6.
           > An open source infrastructure for a centralized network now provides almost the same level of control as federated protocols, without giving up the ability to adapt. If a centralized provider with an open source infrastructure ever makes horrible changes, those that disagree have the software they need to run their own alternative instead. It may not be as beautiful as federation, but at this point it seems that it will have to do.
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     • In the rendered text there are no links; however, there should be links at the end, as is shown by the CommonMark autolinks in the raw text.
2. "CommonMark Spec". John MacFarlane. CommonMark. Version: 0.31.2. Published: 2024-01-28. Accessed: 2025-02-02T04:51Z. https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#uri-autolink.
   • §6.5 "Autolinks". ¶2.

     A URI autolink consists of <, followed by an absolute URI followed by >. It is parsed as a link to the URI, with the URI as the link’s label.
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[kalcifer@sh.itjust.works]

Dang . See my comment for a related response.

I recommend reporting the bug to the Sync devs to fix their Markdown formatting to improve feature compatibility between them and the Lemmy UI.

[mitexleo@buddyverse.one]

At this moment, yes! I'll operate an instance as soon as the code is public.

[mitexleo@buddyverse.one]

Revolt is the way.

[kalcifer@sh.itjust.works]

I take the issue of misinformation seriously.

[kalcifer@sh.itjust.works]

Interesting — I hadn't considered it that way.

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

Folks should also check out neodb.social . it's good reads, letterboxd, and steam reviews all in one.

[opinionhaver@feddit.uk]

Help with what?

[persnickitypenguin@lemm.ee]

Are any of these actually good?

I mean, aside from Lemmy. I tried Mastadon and no one was actually on it, seems like everyone is jumping to Bluesky.

[dharmacurious@slrpnk.net]

Only ones I use are YouTube and fb marketplace because Craigslist is totally dead here, but it's from an alt account I've never used for anything at all.

[nighth4wk@discuss.tchncs.de]

Yes, it isn't federated, but you can host your own server for your community. That way you are independent of any central organization.

[winterfrost@lemm.ee]

Fediverse is awesome!!

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

People only move to Bluesky because they don't want to change their thinking (picking instances is hard!) and keep using "Twitter".

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

Bookface replicates the Facebook UI in Friendica

[chrislowles@lemm.ee]

Multi-protocol would be awesome, hopefully down the line it'll come back around to adding some basic AP integration.

[dqw4w9wgxcq@lemm.ee]

I can vouch for Signal. I got my whole family out of facebook messenger to make a new place for family chat. Even my parents in their mid 60s had no problem changing.

[dqw4w9wgxcq@lemm.ee]

I can understand it. I was banned without reason from 3 of the top mastodon instances before even posting anything. Creating new accounts is a hassle, and it's easy to lose faith in the system when bans happen without reason and none of the instances cared to respond to my appeals. In heinsight, I'm sure the ban was due to my username looking like a hash, but I still find it crazy that the appeals were ignored.