Fediverse

Just wanted to share this interview we just put out with Jaz Michael-King, the guy that founded IFTAS. They're doing some really wild stuff trying to wrangle in harassment, spam, objectionable content, and CSAM, and are looking to provide tooling for the Fediverse, as well as trauma resources and training for moderators.

Really fascinating interview, I learned a lot by talking to him.

Interesting thread that summarizes it well.

https://disroot.org provides several decentralized federated services, as email and xmpp, besides other cloud services as well... But not sure if asking here is right or not, but don't know anywhere to ask either...

Is it having a license issue, does anyone know about it? Any status updates?

Websites prove their identity via certificates. LibreWolf does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for disroot.org. The certificate is only valid for p1lg502277.dc01.its.hpecorp.net.
 
Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

But also:

disroot.org has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that LibreWolf can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

The issue is most likely with the website, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the website’s administrator about the problem.

I also tested with ungoogled chromium and pretty similar thing...

Anyonea aware, and also about disroot saying on this?

Edit (sort of understood already, no issue with disroot at all): The issue only shows up under the office VPN. It seems like disroot is not recognizing the office's cert...

Edit: Solved. Yes it's the office replacing the original cert with its own, as someone suggested. Thanks to all.

Point A: There is a lot of trolling on weekends here on Lemmy, it's pretty blatent. It usually starts on Friday and lasts through Sunday morning.

Point B back history: I posted something in Lemmy.world on fediverse pointing out some weird half deletes or a kind of shadow banning. The admin started trolling me and now I'm banned from there. I could use another alt, but I don't really want to be there anymore anyway, I left Reddit abuse for a reason. But it got me to thinking about what they're doing over there.

My partner was thinking about joining lemmy.world a week after I did, which was at the great escape from reddit time, and my partner said it seems like they're advertising to get more people. Now that I'm banned from there and most of the communities are on there, most people can't see what I comment on. It's a lot of control of what's being seen. We don't know who runs these instances, it could be anyone or any corporation.

Point B, the trolling: Occasionally I post on world by accident or just need to type something out, lol, and I came across this thread.

Comparisons, with no person blocks (hopefully world doesn't change these threads, screenshotted in case):

https://lemmy.world/post/12424866?scrollToComments=true

https://sh.itjust.works/post/15188582

One is straight up reddit trolling, Russian style. The other has a bit of trolling, but nowhere near.

Conclusion: I know it seems like I'm picking on world, but it could happen to any instance. Also, I'm not seeing the trolling from shitjustworks either, is there a policy that extreme negatives are banned here? World is the one I've noticed it on, there could be more (or not). Just be aware and think about trying other instances occasionally.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12409937

I know there are a ton of iOS apps for Lemmy. But what are they missing? What experiences would you like? It could be quality of life or big and ambitious features Many of you often have really good ideas and feedback, I’m looking forward to responses.

This sounds like something Lemmy would also really benefit from.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10361406

Thorough report about the recent Fediverse spam.

Related posts:

• We seem to be getting attacked. - https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/235816
• Solutions and origins of the spam wave currently hitting the Fediverse - https://feddit.cl/post/1883287
• Mastodon CVE Report - https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/111944073448637061
  • Remote User Impersonation and Takeover via Cache Poisoning - https://arcanican.is/excerpts/cve-2024-23832/discovery.htm
  • Remote user impersonation and takeover - https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-3fjr-858r-92rw

An awesome new app just got released for free on itch.io, that lets Fedizens create their own MTG-style playing cards.

It's mostly about mastodon, but spammers also have hit Lemmy communities. This mastodon post contains solutions to mitigate the wave for admins, and also link to the origin of the thread. Turns out they're japanese kids from discord.

Mastodon CVE Report

Didn't expect the mastodon CVE report/account would kinda end up being about platform diversity on the fediverse (TLDR: only mastodon really had the problem, which was huge)

https://arcanican.is/excerpts/cve-2024-23832/discovery.htm

@fediverse

#CVE #mastodon #fediverse

We sat down and chatted with Shawn Grigson from Oliphant, who gave us a fascinating and detailed view of what crowdsourced community moderation looks like.

He weighed in on challenges and headaches, and a possible way forward for brighter and better things in the Fediverse.

As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.

https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/111925461009889302

more in thread + https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F

A few more examples:

Found via JWZ: Helpful Notices

I posted a callout earlier this week, and originally planned to use Guppe Groups.

After some feedback about gup.pe accessibility and ephemerality I've created a New Community here to discuss issues facing interop of the Article type object across the #fediverse

https://lemmy.ml/c/article_interop

Bridgy Fed made a splash earlier this week by announcing its latest progress in connecting the Fediverse to Bluesky and Nostr. Sadly, not everyone was welcoming.

We recently chatted with two of the devs involved with Bonfire. Honestly, they have some really amazing ideas about building a modular Fediverse platform that developers can build on for their own apps.

The Fedipact statistics are interesting

7% of active users committed to #fedipact - https://fedidb.org/current-events/anti-meta-fedi-pact

* How representative of the user base is this, or are admins gatekeeping here? A large survey would be good to clear that up.

* EG, Mastodon, relative to its userbase, seems the most "Meta friendly" with only 57% of fedipact users (but ~80% all users)

* Fractal of niche-dom? Fedi ~1% of social media, fedi-pact ~ 10% of fedi. So anti-meta-fediverse ~0.1%?

@fediverse
@fediversenews

A conversation is a collection of messages with a common context. The ActivityStreams specifications define both collections and contexts, but very little guidance is provided on how to use them effectively. This document specifies an Acti

At the end of 2023, we ran a census on lemmy.ca. Analyzing the data took a little longer than I thought it would, but the results are now available!

To see the post, you can do one of:

• Use this link: https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231
  • On mobile, your app should open it in your home instance
  • On desktop, you can use the InstanceAssistant extension to redirect the post
• Open !main@lemmy.ca and see the pinned posts

I didn't do a regular crosspost in case there is an error in the results. This way I only need to fix one post instead of many.

Hope you enjoy :)

In Germany there's an app called "Jodel", which is essentially like a localized reddit/lemmy. That means, you only see posts from people near you (the default is something like 10km, I think).

This is of course awesome for localized events, Craigslist style posts, or just discussions about local stuff.

I wondered, despite creating local communities on Lemmy or tags for your city, is there anything like it on the fediverse?