This is one scenario I proposed when we were last having this discussion: https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/07/07/if-i-was-meta-and-wanted-to-make-fedi-implode.html

N=1 but outbound federation just worked for me in a post. It seems some work was done just recently including an upgrade to -rc.8.

It’s best not to think of SDF admins in binary terms like “present” or “absent”. They are an undulating force which makes changes here and there and we’re all along for the ride.

That is the discussion. Microsoft is pretending by making it the upgrade path for two products which actually are local, and hoping users won’t notice.

Honestly I’m glad they highlighted the telemetry. I went through the local report about what’s included and while it’s not an upsetting level of detail, it’s more comprehensive than I would have opted in to if asked.

Still, as sibling points out it’s in a completely different league from slurping up your IMAP creds, something which has always been local-only data. This is the second time I know of recently where MS has trampled on this kind of local-only expectation - the other was Edge defaulting to sending the contents of textboxes you’re filling out on webpages to the MS cloud for spelling and grammar checks. Thunderbird is still a sound recommendation, and unlike Microsoft, I trust that if I uncheck the telemetry box they’re not going to try to get me some other way.

It certainly is so :) https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/10/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-september-2023-progress-report/

Can confirm - a comment I made to a lemmy.world community around an hour ago hasn’t shown up on that server yet.

Edit to add: looks like this post correlates with when I was logged out of my session, and I see we’re on a newer version than before. Probably something not quite right from the upgrade?

They’re certainly thinking about it, going by this post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/173597?scrollToComments=true

Lots of previous discussion on this thread: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/578847

No idea if it’s relevant in this case but at least once I had to clear both browser cache and the cookies/site data to get Lemmy rendering right after an update.

Happily no, all okay here on web UI. e.g. 10 hours, 7 days, 15 days and 19 days on https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/anonradio

I wrote a longer take on point 3: https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/07/07/if-i-was-meta-and-wanted-to-make-fedi-implode.html

Ask yourself, in three years from now will you be thinking “it’s so nice how Meta lets me follow and interact with their enormous userbase for free, without advertising, using my own open source server and frontend”?

Remember that’s the basic expectation today for a participant in the fediverse. If this feels implausible, doing anything else is very incompatible with the fediverse’s existing values.

The problem isn’t just that it’s Meta, it’s any situation where a much larger actor comes in with different motivations. Today we have a small number of users whose servers are almost exclusively run on a “community service” model. Meta is an advertising business. They are much bigger and will define the fediverse if allowed in. If we allow them to connect, it should be much later after organic growth which means we can assimilate them properly and deflect any bad behaviour.

What might happen if Meta throws their weight around? I can predict at least three outcomes

• Proprietary variations to ActivityPub, probably starting with something that seems “understandable” like moderation reasons.
• Certain new features get centralised on Meta’s servers only (e.g. search) claiming that it’s for efficiency in the distributed environment.
• Claiming spam problems, require individual instance operators or their users to verify themselves with Meta to enable federation.

The question in my mind is whether their intention is to destroy the competition, or keep the fediverse alive as a way to claim that they are not a technical monopoly that needs to be broken up by regulators, in the same way that Google provides most of the funding for Firefox.

This station is now the ultimate power in the fediverse! I suggest we use it.

I get a different video, which is from one of the submitted links further down the page. My best guess is a Lemmy bug is shifting the clickable video element into a tiny box in the top right of the page.

I’ve been having some other issues on and off with the thumbnail rendering since we updated to the RC so maybe it’s related. (Oddly the images are loading fine according to the network requests, it’s just the CSS isn’t being set right to display them.)

Well we have upvotes but no links, so here we go: https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/planetsmolnet (@visiblink@lemmy.sdf.org I liked your idea of focusing it around “smolnet”)

I wonder if I will regret being a mod on a community where “on-topic” isn’t defined. Hopefully it won’t be a problem!

Thanks for all the work on the instance!