These services are mainly relevant for PC/browser users. Apps should be able to resolve the original links to open them natively (at least Boost does that). And with Lemmy 1.0 coming up this will be in the codebase of Lemmy itself.

Imported US culture (movies, TV etc) has successfully planted the idea in a lot of people that teenagers under 18 are “essentially the same as little children”. So no one cares about technicalities.

The issue here is that most countries define the age of consent differently. I think we can agree that when a 16 year old agrees to sexual contact with another 16 year old, the dynamic is different than if they agree to it with a 40 year old. Absolutely. But that does not mean that the 16 year old doesnt understand what they are doing.

I can assure you that the judiciary system in my country does work. It’s just that these people either a. just want to beat someone up and need an excuse, or b. don’t agree with our laws and think it should be prison time for a 18 year old who wants to date a 16 year old, or a 21 year old who wants to date a 17 year old.

They lump far more people into the same group. They attack anyone whom they think they can, even if they know that their accusations are BS.

Just happened here in Austria. Police took 20 people into custody (13 have since been formally arrested) for luring people to fake dates where they beat them up.

The suspects said they hunted pedophiles, but at least in some of the cases they targeted young adults who expected to come to a date with 16-18 year olds.

Especially the part about his wife. Sounds very much like espionage to me.

Ah yes, “Überbangen”, the perfectly fine and normal translation for “Big Bang”. Silly me thought it was “Großer Knall”.

There are now Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEP) that are being published by Fedi developers with the goal to improve interoperability and well-being of diverse services, applications and communities that form the Fediverse.

From the RFC that is linked above:

“Plugins will make Lemmy more flexible, and allow implementing features which are too niche for merging into Lemmy core. It will allow Lemmy to focus on core features, while allowing outside developers to contribute new features without using Rust.”

Everyone I ever talked to told me “well yes we have to implement our own version of ActivityPub because AP is under-defined”. In most cases it is defined what AP does, but not how. Therefore individual programers go in and figure out on their own how a certain thing they are building for their platform should be structured in AP.

Now, every project could simply go “I will copy the way Pixelfed implements it”. But why should PF have that priviledge?

That is still not the point the commenter and the original blog author were making.

What we can take away from this episode is that Pixelfed implemented the fix in a way that suggests they would not handle a 0 day exploit with a “reql” vulnerability well. And having followed dansup’s projects for a while that doesnt surprise me, because he clearly prefers to work “chaoticly” than in a structured, regulated way.

The “taking the heat” is something completely seprrate and boils down to stupid people on the internet needing to be angry at someone.

I belive vernissage.photos allows that (but not sure)

Imo it demonstrates that for certain threat models the fediverse simply doesn’t have the 100% secure answers.

Not only an African thing. Historically cultural leaders exist in lots of places around the world. For example in Europe certain places still hand bishops some local traditional roles. Germany still has titular princes and dukes that hold no political role. Etc.

Turkish government in early 2025: let’s start peace talks with PKK

Turkish government in March 2025: let’s arrest our main competition for bogus terrorism charges related to the PKK

It’s probably users not setting their posts’ language properly.

Nah man, “do XY” is not a respectful way of communicating. That’s a command.

“Pixelfed itself has also grown, and there are now reportedly 8 people joining the team.”

• Fediverse report

Karma is not a good system.

I do agree however that additional features to encourage posting and engagement would be good for Lemmy.