I'm trying to create a healthy porn community on lemmy. And the hostility of lemmy towards it is worrisome in my opinion. People are calling for de-federating lemmynsfw, people file false reports on my NSFW-only communities, the majority of instances ban porn,…

IMHO, there should be only two tags "NSFW", "NSFL". (= Not Safe For Life, meaning gore) There was this running-joke on reddit last year "when I was younger 'NSFW' on /r/all meant boobs, now it's most likely a video of a bomb being dropped from a drone blowing up russian soldiers."

I don't think we should rate the degree of NSFW or NSFL. Where is the line? I assume a topless lady is NSFW, not porn. But is a fully nude woman or man NSFW, or porn? If it's still "just" NSFW, what about two fully naked men holding each other penises? Or a woman on her knees looking at a penis without touching it, with her mouse open? This is a very fine line.

I'm in favour of most european broadcasting laws: visible nipples are fine as long as they're not sexuality, but "16" or "18" rating is recommended. Visible anus, vulva or penis makes "18/Unrated" mandatory, whether there is intercourse or not.

I would translate this to lemmy to "anything with nipples, anus, vulva or penis visible is NSFW, regardless of intercourse" No grading of "NSFW" or "porn."

I am trying to create a tolerant NSFW community on lemmy, it's the first time I hear about this "Citizen Code of Conduct". While I am totally opposed to Doxxing and general harassment, there is this part which concerns me:

1. Unacceptable Behavior

The following behaviors are considered harassment and are unacceptable within our community:

• [...]
• Posting or displaying sexually explicit [...] material.

Where does this apply? In lemmy code contribution? or in the communities? If this applies to the community, this is quite worrisome.

The GDPR doesn't apply only to services hosted in the EU, but any services handling the data of an EU citizen.

This is why some news outlets in the US just decided to block EU users all together, out of laziness.

IANAL, but the GDPR doesn't cover pseudonymous data. Actually the GDPR encourages data processors (= services) to use pseudomization.

Personally identifiable information are IPs, email addresses, street address, name, date of birth, ... Lemmy only collect IPs and email addresses. And these are not shared between instances.

Whether the service is hosted in the EU or not, as long as it serves EU users, lemmy should provide a way to delete emails and ip information in a self serving way. (maybe by deleting the account) In the mean time, instances admins have to fulfil requests to delete emails/ips of EU citizens from the database.

I'm very defensive when it comes to NSFW. But I think "NSFW flag with mandatory reason from a drop down" (e.g. nudity, sex, violence, gore, explicit-language) is the best solution which satisfy both. That is actually a great idea.

Lemmy is not opimized for google. There is some consideration when you run a full-javascript app like Lemmy, and to the best of my knowledge, Lemmy didn't follow their guideline.

Reddit is profiting a lot from the network effect. By now this reddit is a known brand, has a lot of content is already there, has a lot of people (especially non-technical users) are already on reddit, and they're there to stay.

All the other reddit alternatives, including lemmy and/or the fediverse suffers from:

• Bugs (I love lemmy, but gosh, have you seen how buggy and sometimes unresponsive it is?)
• The complexity of "servers" (don't get me wrong, federation is the way to go IMHO, but it is confusing to non-technical users)
• Lack of content
• Lack of users

Everybody is talking about the Digg exodus, but nobody is saying that it didn't happen in a day, it took ~1 to 2 years.

This is a British news paper. The UK has made a point to be as blindly aggressive towards Russia as possible. I think this is to compensate for Brexit and catering to Russian oligarchs for years…

I much prefer German, Dutch and French newspapers, they are much more nuanced on the situation of Russia and Ukraine.

Putin is not in the best position, but he is not in the worse position either:

• Russia is really good at defending and attrition-based war, like they did Chechnya and Georgia. They now dug their trenches, and just have to protect, this is why the counter offensive is stalling.
• Prigozhin is a useful idiot. He is here to show "how bad it could be." Putin uses Prigozhin to show himself as man of restrain, as opposed to Prigozhin who looks and sounds like a lunatic. If Progozhin was really an issue, Putin would have taken him out months ago.
• The sanctions against Russia are weakening, the BRICS are all buying from Russia without restrain, helping to fund Putin's war. The BRICS are either on Russia's side or indifferent to the war.

Of course, this is far from a success across the board. I think Russia never expected Finland's membership of NATO, this came as a blow for Putin and Russia. If Sweden candidacy is, hopefully, ratified, it's check-mate for Russia in the Baltic. I also think Russia never expected Western Europe to do that well without Russian gas. Germany is now the second biggest supplier of weapons to Ukraine. This is really a blow to Russia.

Anyway, my point is that Putin is far from being done, unfortunately.

Also I avoid British and American media on the Russo-Ukrainian War, it's becoming borderline propaganda with no nuance. We need to be realistic, and really understand the situation to vote for the politicians pushing for the right decisions.

ABSOLUTELY NO!!!

Other websites with karma are full of bots who repost, a few year later, the content that was popular in the past, in order to mine reputation.

Karma also creates an echo chamber with self censorship where people won't post anything unpopular out of fear of loosing karma.

I like diversity of opinion. I don't want facebook, I don't want to read my opinion with a different phrasing.

Reminds me of this tweet:

Meta is playing the "we want to have an open network" the same way google used to use XMPP/Jabber for gtalk, but as soon as they will get the opportunity, they will lock it down and fuck the federation.

I'm happy that Kev told them to shove it.

Unfortunately, reclaimthenet.org has become more and more click-baity in their headlines...

This is what he said (from the reclaimthenet.org article):

“We’ve seen them; Snapchat, TikTok and several others, serve as places where violent gatherings have been organized, but there’s also a form of mimicry of the violence which for some young people leads them to lose touch with reality.

“You get the impression that for some of them they are experiencing on the street the video games that have intoxicated them,” he added.

(This is the source in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHpqbo7p38Y )

The ministers have been complaining about a "gamification" of the riots, where protesters push each other to destroy more stuff through social media. And that's what he was condemning.

I'm not aware of him having requested deletions of riot content. That would, indeed, by worrying for a western democracy... But France civil liberties have been on the downward-trend since the 2015 Paris attacks. So I could see this happening. But data to social media companies have been requested, which is IMHO not alarming, but always makes me uneasy...

I know a guy who loved unix in the 80s. He saved everything he had to buy a SunOS machine at home, since he already had one as a workstation at his dayjob. As soon as Linux was semi-"usable" (we're talking about the early 90s), he migrated to it.

I know how lucky I am to be a 2000s Linux users. But sometimes, I'm kinda envious of this early generation. For example, with this guy I know, his knowledge of legacy unix APIs is insane…

Because there is no karma system on lemmy (thank goodness, I'm against karma), you can easily create a 1000s of bots which will upvote your post and bring it to front page.

The solution is not some custom anti-abuse system which can be game. (Stuff like "you can't vote because of the age of your account", ...) IMHO, the solution is bot detection. Since everything is public an an instance, somebody at some point will start scraping instance to detect bot behavior and inform instance owner. It will come with maturity.

Everybody is talking about the GPDR, but the GPDR when hosting in the EU, should be the least if your concerns. As I said elsewhere:

• Lemmy is not doing tracking/personalized-ads.
• Lemmy is only collecting IPs and email addresses as personally identifiable information. It's not sharing them. So it makes GDPR compliance easy.

The real issue is Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market which is a nightmare if you want to host lemmy legally. Realistically, the government don't care about a few copyright infrigement by some guy/gal hosting a lemmy instance in their garage.

But, if you want to follow the law to the letter, the EU doesn't have any fair use. So theorically, you need to allow users to only post creative commons images, with attribution. Or do some copyright checks on the content posted on your instance. Here is an EU video on how to comply with the directive, it's a nightmare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHpqbo7p38Y (this video also has been cut, but this is what he said)

I'm not gonna translate the whole thing. TL;DW: he says that social networks are used by rioters to hype eachother up in order to escalate the violence, like a competition. And he concludes his point by what the article translated correctly "it sometimes feels like some of them are re-living in the streets the video games that have intoxicated them."

But he never blamed video games. He is just repeating what other ministers have said, which is that (according to them) there is "a gamification of riots", were kids are trying to out-compete each other over snapchat, with videos of violence, between housing projects.

He is not blaming video games, he is condemning the escalation and the gamification of riots.

Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of macron, but I don't want lemmy to become the next mob-justice/outrage platform. I'm just trying to provide context and nuance, which I would love to be spread across Lemmy.

I think the solution is a central registration which selects a random server from https://github.com/...

For example, join-lemmy.org should do this, IMHO, without any technicality. Just transparently register to random server, with a curated cross-servers pre-selected list of subscriptions. Once users are distributed across servers, people will just recommend friends/family to join their own server, then the centralization of join-lemmy.org won't become an issue. But I might be utopian.

They should given cyanide pills to everybody in that metal pipe, like they did for all the missions to the moon.

Lemmy is buggy and unresponsive for you?

Compare to old [dot] reddit [dot] com? Yes, a thousand times yes! When clicking on "Reply" or "Post" I see spinning a spinning wheels for ~30s. Sometimes, I'm looking at the front page of a community, and new posts rush in over the websocket from different communities. It looks like the websocket updates are absurdly buggy.

If you're comparing the reddit's redesign, I guess lemmy is about as responsive/buggy.

The server thing isn’t that bad

Because you're a technical user. For the average user, it's convoluted and unnecessary. (Again, I'm a huge fediverse supporter, it has to be this way, but I have to admit it's not user friendly.)

4chan is just a bunch of people pretending to be racist/homophobic/... for the lulz. Only a minority are hardcore trump supporters, neonazis, ...

As I said in another comment, the GDPR protects people. And the GDPR only applies to personnaly identifiable data (IPs, email addresses, street address, legal name, date of birh...) Lemmy only collect emails and IPs, and do not share them between instances. So it's very easy to comply to the GDPR as long as you don't do anything shady.

The EU has a marketing issue. They tried to pass legislation to prevent companies to collect data. But instead, company displayed a popup, kept collecting data, and blamed it on the EU. Everytime I see a popup, I blame ruthless data collection.

Actually, Lemmy is most likely violatiing the California Consumer Privacy Act, which, as opposed to the GPDR, gives the right to update/delete any data generated by the user, not only personally identifiable information.