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memes

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those ppl...

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I cant say they won all around. As a tech guy, now when i look up tech info and click on a reddit link 90% of the top answers are deleted(including all mine from the last 12 years).

Before the exidus, Reddit was already a painful hassle to use, unable to view many normal subreddits now, 80% of my screen taken up by login and cookie warnings, forcing logins, asking if you want the app multiple times. Slow, clunky, broken UI.

IF i want to give info to the Reddit people, i only post links to topics over on Lemmy.

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Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins.

"In analyzing the availability of the immunity offered by Section 230, courts generally apply a three-prong test. A defendant must satisfy each of the three prongs to gain the benefit of the immunity:

  1. The defendant must be a "provider or user" of an "interactive computer service".
  2. The cause of action asserted by the plaintiff must treat the defendant as the "publisher or speaker" of the harmful information at issue.

3. The information must be "provided by another information content provider", i.e., the defendant must not be the "information content provider" of the harmful information at issue."

If Reddit the company is now picking and choosing who approves or blocks harmful information, are they an information content provider now? Are they liable if their chosen mods allow harmful content?

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the API changes occur tomorrow, gentlemen, it's been an honor (inb4 Lemmy completely crashes)

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Lemmy.world is just 1 instance/server. Each instance/server is controlled by different people. Each instance/server can choose to(or not) group with other instances/servers for shared content all around, thats what people refer to as federated or federation.

Theres actually a handful of lesser known social media and video services that can run like this, including Mastadon and Peertube.

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Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down

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There are several problem with this including total lack of SSL without the proper cert for that other domain, also Lemmy.ml's IP seems to be running a reverse proxy so the internal IP that we would want to connect to is not visible to the world this is common for web security, the owners must set allowed domains and ports in their config file.

If none of that was a problem Lemmy itself does not do well with changing domains, as highlighted here: https://lemmy.nrd.li/comment/190200

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I feel guilty for uninstalling Mull (hardened firefox on Android)

I havent heard of Mull but perhaps the project isnt quite polished yet or is too restrictive by default for your use case.

For Android/iOS (Firefox or Chromium), you can get the Ublock Orgin addon, use as is or set to "hard" mode for the most blocking. I would highly recommend to disable cookies, use a secure seperate password manager for logins, and dont allow your browser to save anything except the sites cache for faster loading. Keep up on your Android security updates.