It’s much more likely it’s a matter of preventing their detection technology from falling into the hands of people that would wish to circumvent it.

I read their reply as sarcasm, especially the “give my all” bit.

EU twat: “Hey you wanna go back to Africa?”

Person living in Belgium: “Wtf? No, why would I do that?”

Lemmy, his arms wide.

That’s pretty succinct.

But thanks for the links those are helpful.

Yeah I get how it works but I have problems explaining it to someone without going on a rant and explaining activitypub. I suppose at this stage that’s to be expected, before everyone knew what a website was someone had to tell people about http.

Well that’s three, there are at least 1200 more and that’s not including the YouTube and Instagram like sites that are, or could be, federated, and they all have slightly different feature sets depending on what software they’re running.

That’s what I’m talking about. A way to describe those feature sets in a word.

I’m fine being called an anarchist but I prefer the term “voluntarist”.

As long as I’m free to opt out of the collectivism I’m happy to live alongside it and encourage others to engage with it if they want.

Image hosting is always easy, it’s never cheap. That’s the difference between an instance with tens of thousands of users and your server with 1.

Well this was a JWT compromise, I think, but even still people use really bad passwords all the time. A salt is stored with the user record. The salt’s job is to invalidate rainbow tables. If you have a collection of a million bad passwords you can check them all salted in a second or two. Obviously that’ll depend on the hashing algorithm to an extent.

Yeah anyone not using randomly generated passwords at this point is just fucking up. I know exactly three of my passwords: the one for my email, the one for my password manager, and the one I’m likely to give out (streaming services and such). The worst anyone can do with the third is cancel my Disney+ or something, and it’s really only given to my mom and sisters.

I get what you’re saying but I’m not sure I agree. I’m able to sign up, obviously, but I’m also pretty much neurotypical. I don’t think we should put up what are effectively artificial (or at least neglectfully ill-designed) hurdles for people who aren’t.

Ads are common attack vectors. Blocking them is a matter of security.

It’s up to you as a consumer to make those choices.

But would you do your job if it didn’t pay you and you couldn’t pay your rent? If I decided to really put effort into running an instance, developing a nice frontend, paying for the servers, should I not be able to pay my rent?

What amount of money is acceptable for me to have to spend, since it’s immoral for me to try to get any of it back?

That’s like saying they’re “in talks with HTTP”. ActivityPub is a protocol. It’s an open source standard. That standard is currently under development by the World Wide Web Consortium. There is no “ActivityPub” for them to be in talks with.

I just have a cron script running on a machine that does something like this every 10 seconds

C_IP=`dig +short my.domain`
IP=`curl https://api.ipify.org`
if(C_IP != IP) {
    updateRoute53(IP)
}

This is just for my main home server. Gets the job done because if it’s out of date for a few seconds nothing matters.

It’s definitely possible to see scammy for-profit strategies pop up.

There’s not inherently bad about there being a profit motive. Servers are expensive, developers are expensive. There are costs to be paid, and if I am going to do something full time I’m going to have to pay my bills, too.

That said, there’s definitely a line where it’s taken too far and it loses what originally made it great cough cough.