Interesting solution 👍 Curious to see how this plays out!

Fair points. I’m warming up to the idea of making votes public so that people don’t have a false sense of privacy. I wish votes were actually private, but maybe it’s not a big deal if your account can’t be easily traced back to you in real life.

ActivityPub can’t evolve? Is there some insurmountable technical blocker?

I suspected this would be an issue and have avoided voting on controversial posts. But if everyone did as I do, there would be no open discussions about pressing topics.

It’s confusing enough understanding how federation works for the less technically inclined. I don’t think we should also expect them to figure out which instance is privacy-conscious. Privacy of votes should be baked into Lemmy. Even kbin users shouldn’t be able to see it.

If users want to advertise their approval/disapproval of posts they can use public comments in tandem with private votes.

Cybertool M

Incidently, I used the painter’s tape today for the first time! Worked just fine :)

After carrying this in my pocket for a few days, my thoughts so far:

• Sliding a straw over the tape as a sheath hasn’t proved necessary so far. Doing so would add bulk, making the deployment of adjacent tools difficult or requiring a reduction in the amount of tape stored on the bit driver.

• The thick gorilla tape makes it impossible to open the adjacent pliers without first opening the bit driver because the pivot point of the pliers sticks out. Putting the thicker tape closer to the bit (swapping positions of the painter’s tape and gorilla tape) may alleviate this, though I’ll have to try it to confirm. Otherwise, I’ll have to reduce the amount of tape stored lower on the bit driver.

Quite an interesting flashlight. Lots of different modes and head mountable.

Breakfast is served

The metaverse already exists, imo. It just isn’t called that and doesn’t belong to zuck. It’s all the multi-user VR experiences that exist today.

I’ve used it once to try to recover something stuck in a tree 😅 The length is quite long for some uses but perfect for hojojutsu. I also used to carry a shorter length in the form of a keychain for more mundane uses.

If you make this type of bracelet, post a pic! :)

I don’t really know the details of how “log in with your Google/Facebook account” works on other sites, but I imagine it’d work the same way. I’m no expert on this stuff tho.

It wouldn’t be centralized. There would be multiple instances and you’d choose which one to use to host your account.

I like your idea, though. It doesn’t solve the problem of moving your account from one Lemmy instance to another, for example, but it does reduce barriers to entry for other fediverse platforms.

Hmmm what if there was a new fediverse service dedicated to hosting fediverse accounts. You would choose an instance of that service to create an account and then use that account to register with a fediverse instance of Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. Kind of like you can login to various websites with your Google or Facebook account.

That would mean a single account could be used with any Fediverse service (Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.), all post history could be aggregated, and you could easily move from one instance to another.

Lemmy, Mastodon, etc., would have to be enhanced to accept this mode of registration of course.

It’s not essential for me that these different platforms talk to each other. A microblogging platform doesn’t need to (maybe even shouldn’t) integrate with a forum or vice versa. Each has its own role and muddying the water doesn’t bring any real benefit imo.

The fact that they are decentralized is what’s important and the fediverse makes that possible for all platforms built upon it.

Moving an account from one instance to another is a real issue though, I agree with you there. Defederation would become less of a problem if you could easily move your account (with its post history) and communities you moderate to an instance that aligns with what you’re looking for, assuming it exists. Ideally everyone would have their own personal instance, but that is probably not feasible for most people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb_compass

until something happens

What exact behaviors are they looking for that would cause them to push the block button?

Threads can do very well for themselves without the fediverse as they are already demonstrating. What real motive do they have to join the fediverse except to shut it down?