To be clear, this post is satire. Bad satire, but satire nontheless. https://feddit.uk/post/35692308

The space after ‘Dear’ is really annoying me.

Bring back? It’s still a thing in her state.

Right now blacksky.community is an app that uses Bluesky’s AppView, which in turn uses Bluesky’s Relay. They’re working on their own AppView (which will have the equivalent of local-only posts) and that will use their Relay.

Interesting, from what I understand of ATProto, this would be hard to do on protocol, it’ll be fascinating to see how they do it. Maybe something off protocol like the recent bookmark feature Bluesky got.

I didn’t mean to undercut your point though, they often talk about PDSs as analogous to web pages, so your “different search engines” analogy is very accurate, it’s just not quite there yet.

I’d love to take credit for this, but the ATProto docs themselves make this comparison which is where I’m getting this from.

if I recall correctly either in (((streams))) or Forte (or maybe both) MIke implemented the nomadic identity over ActivityPub as well

This sent me down a bit a of a rabbit hole. It seems (streams) used an updated version of Zot, Zot/11 but was renamed to just Nomad. I can’t find anything about this, the (streams) repo only contains the spec for Zot/6, so I’m not sure about it’s APub compatibility. Apparently, Nomad had been discontinued in Forte in favour of pure APub, anyway.

If you’re thinking about this kind of stuff for Lemmy, it’s also worth looking at https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-ef61-portable-objects/3738

Oh, I know about Silverpill’s work, it’s really interesting! I even mentioned it recently. I’m glad we have someone smart like them working on this stuff.

I do think some kind of separation of user data from servers, like what AT Proto does, is actually quite desirable. I just don’t like that PDSes can have their data harvested by whoever, I think data sharing with a server should be opt-in.

It’s from !conservative2@lemmy.today (which seems to have been deleted or removed?). I don’t get why the move to a new comm when they already control !conservative@lemmy.today.

I mean this is the unnicest way possible, but this is the worst possible government we could have for the moment. A violent, racist mob descended on the capital and this is the line the govt is pushing.

People at this protest were literally calling for Starmer to be assassinated.

Or for the new crosspost display to be collpased by default.

That’s what Photon and Thunder do and imo, it works pretty well. Especially for posts with like a 10 crossposts, example.

The fact nunchucks don’t involve either throwing or nuns has always felt like a cop out to me.

Oh, I thought blacksky.comnunity used Blacksky’s relay. If it uses Bluesky’s then yeah, disregard what I said.

That’s not a perfect analogy though because Blacksky makes different moderation decisions than Bluesky.

I’d hope so given how abysmal Bluesky’s moderation is. The discovery feed is filled with transphobia, but you can’t say Charlie Kirk should rest in piss.

Again though it’s not a perfect analogy because the AT Protocol architecture lets you migrate all your data between PDSs seamlessly, and so far only a few niche ActivityPub implementations support that (Hubzilla et al with nomadic identity, ActivityPods using Solid Pods).

I don’t believe Hubzilla’s nomatic identity works with APub though, irrc it uses something called Zot.

I’ve been thinking about how to add nomatic identity to Lemmy quite a bit and it’s something I’d like to work on after 1.0 is out, but it’s hard a problem for sure.

A better analogy would probably saying it’s like Bing/Google. They’re independent of each other but broadly what’s on one is on the other.

independent but still connected (think about Lemmy instances)

It’s not really connected in the same sense two Lemmy instances are connected. They’re able to pull in the same data as Bluesky as it’s all public and PDSs don’t really have the ability to block a relay from crawling them.

The idea that you using a VPN makes a child less safe is just plainly absurd and yes this is the line the government is pushing (video is Peter Kyle, former technology minister now the business minister after the reshuffle).

The discourse around decentralisation has elevated a form of network architecture that facilitates and contributes to a healthier social internet into a goal into itself.

Big agree with this.

That doesn’t feel like how search should work. It should be ranking results that fit the search query better higher than ones that fit it less.

But the existing filters already prescribe an order outside of how closely the search term matches, you brought up top month and I don’t see how you’d want that to work other than a binary filter sorted by votes.

What you’re describing would be a new sort order, analogous to Reddit’s ‘Relevance’ sort. It’s certainly doable with postgres’ builtin distancing operators, though it be slower.

It’s probably playing off the toppling of the govt in Bangladesh that I’ve seen called the ‘Gen-Z Revolution’.

Reminds me of this story about a Luddite who, while captured and injured, signalled for a priest to come over and asked ‘Can you keep a secret?’ After hearing the priest confirm they could, he responded with ‘So can I’ and proceeded to die.

I can’t believe it’s called Mainstream. So lame. Anyway, website’s here if you want more info:

Hey, at least they were able to come up with a name before having a row over transphobia. That’s apparently an accomplishment for the British left: https://www.thecanary.co/editorial/2025/09/07/your-party-transphobia/

Under the new rules, tech firms will be legally required to hunt down and remove self-harm material using “cutting-edge technology” to see out self-harm content before it can reach users. This shift is designed to change moderation from a reactive approach to a proactive one, compelling companies to prevent harm, not just respond to it. The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said that these new requirements are “not an option, but the law.”

I am not a tech firm, I do this shit for free and have a full-time job ffs.

Open Right Group are working on an amendment to exempt small sites who genuinely believe they pose little risk, they have a survey looking for input here: https://cloud.openrightsgroup.org/nextcloud/apps/forms/s/dQB6GSRQ4jHzGjxiYG5tAnDB

I wonder what objections there could to the statement other than procedural. It’s a nice ‘let’s work on making stuff better rather than fighting with each other’ message.