You can follow Lemmy users from Mastodon etc. But the outbox isnt even used by Mastodon, so we havent bothered to implement it properly yet.

if i open my own user profile from mastodon, it only shows me about half the posts that i actually make.

That is normal, its usually because no one on that instance follows your user profile specifically. Part of your posts are federated because someone is following a subset of the communities where you are posting.

Private communities in Lemmy only federate with approved users and their instances. So if you dont trust lemmy.xyz, simply dont approve any followers from that instance, then it will never receive any private content.

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Yes that’s me ;)

They contacted us just a few days ago, asking if we want to sign. So I also don’t know any more details yet, only what the public declaration says.

Okay I’m adding that to the donation page on join-lemmy.org.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-translations/pull/50

Better integration with Mastodon or Pixelfed mainly needs to be done from their side, but it seems those projects are not interested. Are there any specific improvements you would like to see?

Thanks for donating!

If you don’t have a smartphone are you truly human? ^/s

Lemmy puts up full-page advertisements for donations but a lot of that funding goes to running Lemmy.ml and seemingly only very little to actual code development.

Please stop spreading misinformation. The server for lemmy.ml only costs ~70€ per month which is only 2% of the total donation amount (3336€). With Lemmy we care a lot about writing high-quality and bug-free code as well as offering a good user experience. All of that takes time to do well.

Edit: For your information, only donations via Opencollective pay for lemmy.ml hosting. All other donation methods are exclusively paying for developer salaries.

I asked @dessalines@lemmy.ml about this as he is more familiar with the ranking algos:

Maybe not renaming active, but possibly renaming hot… but IMO they’re fine. Its just different from reddit, and more like the hackernews algorithm: join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html#hacker-news . It’s more new-focused to prevent the main problem of reddits which is rewarding first posts / comments, regardless of their quality

If your instance invents fake users for voting, that is very easy to spot if you view the profile and its all empty. So you need to add a profile picture, bio and some posts as well. But if the names and avatars are all similar, or the posts are obviously LLM generated, its still quite easy to spot manipulation. Or if the modlog for that user has entries for vote manipulation. On the other hand if there is only the total number of votes, there is no way at all to see if they are legit.

I think a much better option for vote privacy is what Piefed tried using “Local-only votes”. So privacy-conscious users can choose that their votes are not federated, and then only the local admin can see them. This could be a simple boolean user setting, or could be more granular to allow/disallow vote federation with specific instances.

Here it is: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/1a11/fep-1a11.md

By the way sent you a private message, hope you received that.

Do you think it would make sense renaming Active to Hot and vice versa?

Right and also many western police/military receive training from (former) IDF soldiers. Seems like Israel is the blueprint for the future of our countries.

Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.

MediaWiki is a much bigger project, with probably dozens of developers working on it full-time. It has a lot more features. Ibis on the other hand is only a small project which I’m developing on the side. If Wikipedia wanted to federate, the best option would be adding that logic directly into MediaWiki.

Oops youre right, I closed registrations a while ago as I wasnt working on Ibis and there were too many spam accounts. Opened it for now, later I need to add something like Lemmy’s registration application.

Highly qualified people are probably not interested in working for the government. Or maybe this was outsourced to some cheap private company, who knows.

Yes that is what I mean, admins can only see private messages that their own local users are either sending or receiving. Not from users on other instances.

I agree that privacy is important, but most admins probably couldnt care less what their users are writing in private messages. And there is a tradeoff between implementing end-to-end encryption, or implementing other features that may be more important.

Setting an instance is easy, but actually getting a significant amount of users is much more difficult. And as admin you can only see the private messages of your local users, no one else. So if you are not talking about illegal stuff the risk is negligible. And if you are, use a real messenger application or better yet avoid all computers.