Since 0.19.4 you have the possibility as the instance admin to proxify all external images
Some instances at least will proxy the images requests, naking all traffic appears to be from your home instance but it's not a guarantee. We had to turn it off because of some issues early during the rollout, we'll look into turning it back on soon.
I'm surprised DOGE themselves aren't using it to skirt FOIA.
Or maybe they are.
I really hope that governments adopt the ActivityPub standard + RSS whenever possible, and allow users to subscribe to these feeds from the instance or software of their choice.
Custom: 10% because you didn't put the default 15% / 18% and gave me extra work
If you not the only one holding the encryption key, you can't guarantee your data cannot be snooped.
Either encrypt your stuff using GPG, or use something like Cryptomator.
Moral of the story: when in doubt, pixelize any potential personally identifiable information (aka PII).
Personally I stick to relatively legal IPTV playlists, such as https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv
Straight and to the point, no bullshit.
The only place where I struggle is finding the perfect player. On PC I use iptvnator and on Android I use IPTV Pro. They work well enough, but I wish I had a universal app that could carry the configuration between devices.
Looks like the dewormer didn't finish the job.
It was bound to happen, and one less reason to use shortlinks.
I prefer not to link to those, but I still think it's important to link to the original source. Sometimes they're the first to post about it and there's not much way around it (until someone posts a link to an archive version that bypass the paywall, or someone provides an NYT gifted link, etc). So it's either that or we lose the potential for discussion.
There's a community for gifted link articles to NYT right there: !nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
The fediverse is just an umbrella term to indicate the network is using a common and open protocol to communicate (ActivityPub, OStatus, etc).
Using the ActivityPub protocol doesn't require the developer to make their platform open-source.
And you can make a bridge between Mastodon and BlueSky, in fact it already exists in the form of https://fed.brid.gy/