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Apps no longer connect to lemmy.ca API
  • I had to re-login on voyager, my account had mysteriously disappeared from the app this morning.

    I do wish there was a way for admins to send a notification to people when they revoke login tokens to avoid confusion. This will almost certainly happen again at some point.

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    How does Lemmy/Mastodon/Fediverse store videos and images?
  • I think this could be a ticking DOS time bomb.

    Someone manages to spam upload massive files to the largest Lemmy instances could wipe out a ton of smaller ones.

    Not to mention scalability wise this seems like a nightmare… eventually the largest Lemmy instances will have petabytes of media data with 100s of gbs coming in per day, giving other instances no chance to sync with them.

    I think the system architecture needs a significant review. This won’t scale.

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    Does lemmy have porn?
  • Porn is literally what drives technology innovation.

    Porn on Reddit was probably a good 10-20% of all it’s traffic.

    As history has shown, a lot of the features that come to Lemmy will be added because porn. Embedded videos for example.

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    Meta joins the Fediverse
  • Yea but the difference is most instances have ethical reasons for banning certain content.

    Meta could randomly decide anti-meta content doesn’t belong on their platform. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is already the case.

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    Are we defederating from Threads?
  • This article has been circulating around the fediverse and I think it greatly illustrates why it's so important to defederate from large corporations before they can get a foothold. It's about so much more than just them getting our data.

    https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

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    How does an app like Threads get access to financial, political, health, religious or browsing info through your phone's OS. What is the actual source of that data?
  • Let say you comment somewhere that you make minimum wage, their algorithm picks up on it and now they have you as a low wage earner in their database.

    This is a massive over simplification but illustrates the point.

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    YouTube Shorts - for those of us who don't want TikTok
  • I hate shorts and I’ve unsubscribed from any channels that make shorts.

    I don’t subscribe to you for a 30 second adhd friendly clickbait video. Major respect lost for some channels.

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