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John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • R [email protected]

    You make laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. You then attach a multi-million dollar fine to anyone who doesn't adhere to the bonkers unenforceable stipulations in the text.

    All of a sudden, no one but a corporation with a legal department can safely run an instance without putting their money and eventually freedom on the line.

    They might not be able to just stop it, but you can force us into a pirate scenario where we have to do it in the dark.

    We are likely starting to slowly head into 1984 territory. IF Fascim continues to rise, eventually, non-state-run media will be deemed unlawful and they'll do what they can to make it go away.

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    This is why fedi needs to support federation over tor

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    • M [email protected]

      You streamed together a sequence of misunderstandings, fallacies and self-victimization into an incoherent pile of garbage that fails at actually responding to anything. Got it, got it, you're god's bravest warrior, resisting the authoritarianism of people who think others shouldn't be forced to tolerate your immaturity whenever you act like a cunt. I'll stop giving you attention now, so sorry.

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      #281

      Victimization is all on those like you threatened by naughty words & images who claim we need some great moderator hero to defend us against their toxicity, which apparently includes work-related disagreements.

      people who think others shouldn’t be forced to tolerate your immaturity whenever you act like a cunt

      And they'll be objective about it, or is anything someone disagrees with instance of immaturity & someone acting like a cunt?
      Do we need the noble internet police to swoop in and protect us against your words & images?

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      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.eeM [email protected]

        This is why fedi needs to support federation over tor

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        When they get serious about encryption they will make tor illegal as well.

        Tor will not hide you from the feds once they decide they really want to go after encryption. They can either own enough endpoints to find you directly or simply go and shut down all the endpoints. Or, If they have other IP leaks that are unpublished...

        On the upside they are firing most of the competent people in government so there's a chance the CIA can't do that anymore

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        • Q [email protected]

          Here's the same video on PeerTube

          https://tilvids.com/w/rq6WfwnQTiHfpoWhURLNBS

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          • L [email protected]

            Victimization is all on those like you threatened by naughty words & images who claim we need some great moderator hero to defend us against their toxicity, which apparently includes work-related disagreements.

            people who think others shouldn’t be forced to tolerate your immaturity whenever you act like a cunt

            And they'll be objective about it, or is anything someone disagrees with instance of immaturity & someone acting like a cunt?
            Do we need the noble internet police to swoop in and protect us against your words & images?

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            #284

            didn't read, easy block, shoulda done this sooner.

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            • sunshine@lemmy.caS [email protected]

              He has the most posts and comments on the Lemmy activity scoreboard.

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              Mother of God, I did not realize that he's pushing 70k comments.

              Btw are you just joking or isn't there actually a tool that checks Lemmy profiles and gives a neat little scorecard with some stats? I remember reading a thread where someone linked it but that was a while ago.

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              • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksI [email protected]

                Mother of God, I did not realize that he's pushing 70k comments.

                Btw are you just joking or isn't there actually a tool that checks Lemmy profiles and gives a neat little scorecard with some stats? I remember reading a thread where someone linked it but that was a while ago.

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                The ios app Mlem shows a scoreboard of users in the search tab. Also Thunder has a monthly contribution stats on user profiles.

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                • R [email protected]

                  When they get serious about encryption they will make tor illegal as well.

                  Tor will not hide you from the feds once they decide they really want to go after encryption. They can either own enough endpoints to find you directly or simply go and shut down all the endpoints. Or, If they have other IP leaks that are unpublished...

                  On the upside they are firing most of the competent people in government so there's a chance the CIA can't do that anymore

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                  If china has failed to stop tor I doubt the us can do much better

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                  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.eeM [email protected]

                    If china has failed to stop tor I doubt the us can do much better

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                    Blocking tor at the firewall level isn't difficult. Anything with packet capture can do it.

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                    • sunshine@lemmy.caS [email protected]

                      The ios app Mlem shows a scoreboard of users in the search tab. Also Thunder has a monthly contribution stats on user profiles.

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                      Ok cool. Tfw there are so many great apps for Lemmy but you can only use one at a time πŸ˜”

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                      • Q [email protected]

                        Here's the same video on PeerTube

                        https://tilvids.com/w/rq6WfwnQTiHfpoWhURLNBS

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                        We should have a bot link federated alts for links... πŸ€”

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                        • M [email protected]

                          didn't read, easy block, shoulda done this sooner.

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                          Well done: thanks for ignoring & confirming my point. πŸ˜„

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                          • L [email protected]

                            We should have a bot link federated alts for links... πŸ€”

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                            There is a Firefox extension that does automatically (although it seems to be a bit unreliable). Maybe someone can extract that part into a library and make a not with it.

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                              There is a Firefox extension that does automatically (although it seems to be a bit unreliable). Maybe someone can extract that part into a library and make a not with it.

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                              #293

                              That works for desktop but not the voyager app 🫀

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                              • R [email protected]

                                Blocking tor at the firewall level isn't difficult. Anything with packet capture can do it.

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                                They can inspect the target ip but then u can just bridge it. I wrote a tor implementation from raw websockects.

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                                • Z [email protected]

                                  IMO bridgy is not well designed. The fact that it requires both the follower and the followee to specifically opt in basically makes it DOA. Both Mastodon and BlueSky are completely open and public in terms of post visibility, so bridgy should have been designed to require explicit opt outs from anyone who didn't want their content bridged.

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                                  The fediverse hoa had a bit of a problem with it, ignoring the fact that federation is opt out by default.

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                                  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.eeM [email protected]

                                    This is why fedi needs to support federation over tor

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                                    since most federation happens over the backend, you could access an instance based outside the usa through tor.

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                                    • D [email protected]

                                      I think he plays the awkward card to actual cringe levels at times but I'll also watch Cody's Showdy so that can't be it entirely.

                                      Can't say I love him, but I do appreciate the work he does.

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                                      Did you know Dan O'Brien writes for LWT?

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                                      • A [email protected]

                                        Ecosia is building a custom search engine index, ETA summer 2025

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                                        That sounds amazing!

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                                        • C [email protected]

                                          Wait, the Mozilla guy who got pressured to resign over opposition to gay marriage is the Brave guy?? Fuck him lol.

                                          Unsurprising he’s also a dipshit about COVID.

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                                          "b-b-but he made javascript!!1!"

                                          r/browsers on reddit is as dumb as rocks.

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