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I'm personally in favor of [email protected]

  • fits the theme of the instance
  • is not on .ml
  • is not on .world
  • 3 different active mods
  • no power tripping noted so far
  • 2nd most active community after [email protected]

[email protected] admin has been quiet for a while, the instance seems to be running on auto-pilot, https://lemmy.one/c/meta has no communication from the admins since a long time

Programming.dev is still running Lemmy 0.19.5, and they had a quite severe issue of database corruption for 3 months. Thankfully, it's solved since (https://programming.dev/post/20515601)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • is not on .ml
  • is not on .world

Not on the .ml Tankie instance and not on the giant centralized hub of .world, The only 2 reasons needed LMAO

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think I'll never get why you are still using an account on .world, while you are always quite critical towards the LW centralization ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've got plans to move, just waiting till I launch my own instance...when I get to it on my long to-do project list lmao

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You should maybe consider switching to another instance "in the meantime"

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or piefed! ;)

Theres a lot of good servers both on lemmy and piefed, but the mod tools are really good on piefed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Switching is a pain tbh

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Usually takes me a few minutes to export/import the settings to a new alt, not sure how it is on Mbin

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Before seeing the arguments I saw the ml community and thought "privacy advocates that also are pro state sponsored backdoors?"

Glad I'm not the only one

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hi, ~sorry_for_making_this_comment_so_late~

if they ( @nutomic... , @dessalines... ) are really state sponsored and anti- security ... then it's very bad news because they wrote the Lemmy code !
... if so do we know something about it ? or do we have more reasons to suspect ?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow, there's too much to cover here.

I know the authors are tankies. It's widely known. But:

  1. Lemmy is open source, code can be audited for backdoors.
  2. The instances can an often do apply patches server side, do even if the original source is clean, the instance can be tampered with. This also apply to ml.
  3. Even without backdoors, Lemmy has no encryption whatsoever. Any instance admin can see everything you do and your "private messages". You can create your instance, federate and watch. It's actually very possible that LLMs are training with Lemmy because of this.
  4. The fact that a tankie designed a social network without encryption is a very telling thing.

In the end, I don't do PMs and I assume everything I do is never private here or in reddit, so I'll mitigate what I can.

BTW, I didn't say they are state sponsored, only that they are pro state sponsored backdoors, meaning backdoors for the government.