git merge --no-ff

- Hey ChatGPT, is it normal for my A4 to be burning this much oil? …

- Yes.

Agreed.

This person internets. 👏

Without a common authentication scheme that every instance checks against… Probably anyone can do it. I don’t know how you’d even approach this. Signed messages via GPG with a common pubkey host? Some blockchain scheme for authentication that obviates the need for a central host? I’ve no idea.

Can’t someone talk ActivityPub directly and do this? If the instance is responsible to authenticate the users, the instance can just directly talk ActivityPub to the rest of the network and tell it users and votes on the fly, without even Lemmy running there.

More like a side effect of sending data to third parties. Whether it’s email or messages, you can’t control what happens with that data on the other end unless you control both ends. But then you’re talking to yourself.

Maybe they meant they need to setup their own instance in order to figure out who’s downvoting beans.

Err, up/down voting is just a quick way to agree or disagree. If one is voting because they feel they can’t stand behind their opinion if they expanded it in text… I don’t know what to tell ya.

How many cans-of-beans.jpg can you store?

Feels like this will benefit from some sort of fuzzy deduplication in the pictrs storage. I bet there are a lot of similar pics in there. E.g. if one pic or a gif is very similar to another, say just different quality or size, or compression, it should keep only one copy. It might already do this for the same files uploaded by different people as those can be compared trivially via hashing, but I doubt it does similarity based deduplication.

Which turns the users into the workers in this equation since those services need to be maintained and contributed to.

As well as ensuring those profits will keep flowing through their retirement, and you get the long term planning incentive.

My network is all on Signal and Signal has been good to us. Matrix may become the way of the future but for now Signal is a good place to be for this lot.

This is fairly misinformed. The original CEO - Moxie stepped down in Jan 2022. Stickers and crypto functions were developed strictly under his watch. Stories came after. Nevertheless Moxie presided throughout the vast majority of Signal’s history. Moxie has been at the helm since Signal was Whisper Systems.

This only ever worked on Android so while helpful, it wasn’t a panacea by any means as it didn’t actually reach most people. Last time I had some numbers, the downloads across the App Store and Play Store were very similar so it probably ever reached about half the users. That’s if we assume everyone on Android used it, which wasn’t the case. 🤷

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Ouch. 🫢🤣

You may find that we really like safe spaces on Lemmy.

@SteelBeard@lemmy.world , you should add a link to the announcement which explains why Beehaw defederated since this looks to be the top question many are asking.