Everyone should defederate from .ml, and most have already got rid of hexbear and lemmygrad.

It’s an absolute removed show of an instance, and the rest of us don’t want to be subject to their nonsense.

I just wish the instance block prevented me from seeing their users as well.

“Any community that gets its kicks pretending to be idiots, will eventually be overtaken by actual idiots who believe they are in good company.”

Only if the sender signed it. I presume the system does that anyway so you can be sure who sent something.

It could be sent plaintext as long as the senders signature was intact.

Or just send them the message in plain text, since you’re showing it to somebody else anyway.

But I think the issue is there’s no way for your instance to stop you getting the spam as they’ve no idea what it is until you unlock it.

I guess the best they could do is block messages from a certain user/instance but since you can generate as many accounts as you want, it’s hard to tell how effective that could be.

Yeah, it would be nice to not end up like Reddit, where every day brought a new crypto scam my way.

I’m not convinced Lemmy-style Federation lends itself well to the Discord model.

Like, you could have individual servers running (or maybe a server that hosts many communities), and a client that connects to all your subscribed ones, but I don’t think there’s a lot of value in sharing that data out across many servers, or somehow mangling real-time voice into that model.

Just have it default to one of them. A simple priority order, preferring an account on the host instance I guess.

Same for commenting, and posting. You wouldn’t have to select another account unless you really wanted to.

A lot of people are saying “just connect to another instance”, but it would be nice if the client could connect to multiple instances at once, and merge things internally, maybe even spreading the load a bit.

Probably a bit tricky for the web and linking, but maybe something for the mobile apps to consider?

Ideally the only time I’d need to swap accounts is to post.

That went to removed as soon as Adobe took over.

I didn’t like that the iPhone never supported it, but in hindsight they did us all a removeding favour.

It doesn’t, this is pretty much just for them linking with Mastodon.

It would only really make sense as a tablet behaviour.

Yeah, the channel islands and the Isle of Man have more autonomy. Officially they are “self-governing British Crown Dependencies”.

Jersey and Guernsey have different VAT rates for instance. For years, play.com was based in Jersey solely so they wouldn’t have to pay VAT on most of the cheaper stuff they sold to the mainland.

I think Sheppey is a joke to everyone including the people that have to live there.

Normal users don’t even need a PC. Most of what they do can be handled on a phone or tablet.

1 it is.

Mine had accumulated 420MB of cookie data the other day. Had to clear it before I could log in. I thought the instance was dead.

So is Linus Lenin or Stalin?

Really milking that fad before they inevitably push anything useful behind a monthly paywall.

Would that show up in browser stats though?

Steam Deck is neat and all but I’ve never thought of it as anybody’s main browsing device.

I wouldn’t get too excited just yet.

It came up a few times yesterday and quickly went down again.