We go through this every. single. time there’s a batch of new Lemmy signups:

FNG: It’s so empty here (compared to Reddit)! I know! I’ll make a bot/tool that re-posts/syncs Reddit posts. People will love it!

Everyone: Ugh. Again with this??

There’s literally already DEDICATED INSTANCES that do nothing but re-post from Reddit. Just follow one of those instead of adding more secondhand garbage.

Please don’t bring baggage from your ex into your new relationship.

Would be nice so I can set my automod to just look for the labels instead of having to nuke it all by hand.

And what’s the problem with that?

Laws don’t currently make a concession for federated social media. If the law in an instance’s jurisdiction says that users on a platform must be of a certain age, then for practical/enforcement purposes it makes no difference if they’re local or federated.

FWIW, I also ban people under age 18 on my instance (local and federated). Obviously I can’t know everyone’s age, but if someone offers it and I become aware, and it’s below the minimum age set in our policy, then they’re banned until they’re of age - simple as that.

I’m in the US, so 13 is the minimum age by law for most services (COPPA), and there’s various grumblings to increase the age specifically for social media, so I’m playing it safe with 18 which is the age you’re legally considered an adult.

Considering some of the stuff that gets posted here (legitimately and via bad actors), then my legal liabilities are less as I’m going out of my way to only serve adults on the platform. Mind you, I’m running this as a hobby / volunteer and do not have a team of lawyers on hand.

Right? It’s refreshing to see a post here that’s about technology that works for us rather than yet another article about AI being shoved into more places that no one asked for or development progress updates on the Torment Nexus.

More posts like this, please.

Oh, nice! The Xiao seed, unlike the Heltec’s I have, comes with 8 MB of PSRAM which makes it suitable for acting as a store-and-forward node.

May have to pick up at least one of these since that’s one thing I’d like to add to the mesh I’m putting together.

Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day is probably the most accurate portrayal of me ever written.

I flat-out refuse to do business with any that requires I use an app. I won’t even scan a QR code for a restaurant menu; that’s my cue to go eat elsewhere.

All systems nominal for both IPv4 and 6.

Edit: I said that, and then lost power for 12 hours shortly after 😆

I think fry.gs is the main mod’s own instance.

Though best practice, as much as it exists in the Fediverse, would be to host the community assets from the home instance of the community.

Please upload the icon/baner to LW instead of from a 3rd party instance. This is the second recent time these have broken.

There is no information on sportbots about how many accounts they have listed, but I’m guess it’s in the “high hundreds - low thousands” range.

That’s way too many bots for people to block. Yes, I’m aware there’s a setting to block all bots, but that’s too all or nothing.

If you insist on going that route, maybe stand up a dedicated instance like one of the other repost instances (and only post to local communities there) so people can just block that instance.

Maybe Lemmy with federation disabled and use a nice 3rd party UI as the default interface for it. If you want to link up with similar community hubs, you can set federation to allow list mode and only federate with each other.

“What?! You all wanted electric mail trucks, so here they are!”

(Sadly / Probably)

Yeah, it’s sunk cost fallacy all the way down. We’re just being harvested because…fuck us I guess.

Discovered a couple of them through YouTube and landed on their Patreon pages. One has almost the exact same taste in music as I do and grew up on, but he covers them in Spanish insanely well. Worth a couple dollars a month for sure.

A couple of the (music) artists I follow on Patreon give you access to mp3’s. That’s like…exactly where I want the money to go (the artist) and what I want in return (a file I “own”).

Right, and I’m assuming Threads works on the Mastodon-style user follow paradigm, which means, currently, anyway, Lemmy wouldn’t be able to follow them directly.

But the ad-bot could, in theory, tag a Lemmy community and have that show up on Lemmy (at least, that seems to be how Mastodon content arrives here).

My instance preemptively defederated from Threads, but I’m assuming those ads are going to be served to Threads users via API, right, and not federated out?