its a þ in my side tbh

Unless an instance chooses to defederate from another, everything is federated by default

This is not always true, as Hexbear shows. Whether an instance defaults to federation or defederation is an admin setting.

However it was involved in some controversies where the dev team showed themselves biased

This is meaningless without specifying what bias.

All three of those were banned a month or two ago on lemmy.ml.

Relatedly, the imperial shill accounts are still active.

Locking post. I wish someone had reported this rage-bait^[1] post sooner.

They were and are, in spite of the US’ efforts to wreak havoc via Salafi Jihad terrorists.

We know all the same stuff that you know—because we used to be you—and a bunch of other stuff that you don’t know.

Yet somehow it is we who’re ignorant.

This propaganda supports their preconceptions, which came from a lifetime of similar propaganda. They’re not interested in investigating their unexamined priors.

Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”

(AP) Associated Propaganda 🙄

I mistakenly thought it was more restrictive, thanks.

It seems you’re right. I may be confusing it with another license.

It is intended for software designed to be run over a network, adding a provision requiring that the corresponding source code of modified versions of the software be prominently offered to all users who interact with the software over a network.

Note that Zed has an Affero GPL, which limits others from competing with Zed Industries in the service space.

Loops is specifically for short-form, mostly vertical videos, like TikTok, whereas PeerTube is like YouTube.

I don’t know if you haven’t realized this, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear have been defederated by pretty much every other instance except for Lemmy.ml, and they’re still kicking.

I’m very aware. It hardly matters that fascists will run their own Nazi bar instances, because even if we could prevent it, they’d just use some other online social platform. It’s not a problem that can or need be solved.

Oh. Hosting videos is very expensive, so if anything needs a solution, it’s PeerTube.

If the proposal is to avoid MAGA, do note ActivityPub is an open protocol, so anyone can join the network.

Anyone can be booted off the network as well, either by banning them individually or by instance.

Yeah there are many of them. Patreon is big, but I’ve heard nothing but bad things about it from donees.

Sure would be neat, but it always comes down to funding.

Some publishers do it for free or rely solely on donations. It’s hard for me to imagine a payment system—never mind a paywall system—being built into a fediverse platform. Donations would probably have to be out-of-band, through existing platforms like Ko-fi & Liberapay.

Interesting.

 
You can’t follow users on Lemmy, only communities (ActivityPub “groups”), so this wouldn’t work well in the threadiverse without tweaks on Lemmy’s side and/or Ghost’s side. I don’t see a ticket for groups support for Ghost, though there is a “low priority” one for Mastodon.

Edit to add: WordPress is another possibility through their ActivityPub plugin, but AFAIK it doesn’t support communities/groups, either.

Edit again to add: 404’s premium/paywalled articles don’t seem to get published to their @feed@404media.co user account, but they do to their @404mediaco@mastodon.social user account. Not the entire article mind you, just a summary and an external link.