…Of course.

Governments already have the data. In a certain way you already trusted them by getting your passport

Bold way of saying I “trust”. I never chose to be born in a given country, they have not obtained an informed, actionable consent on my end for that association, nor have I agreeded to have my activities bound by specifically their imagined permits regarding where this or that land ends. And once again: this does not solve for those who have their own State as one of their primary aggressors.

your smartphone is checking

No, no and no. I’m using lemmy on a desktop computer because typing on a phone is a PITA. Requiring a phone, or any other physical second factor authentication, is additionally antithetical to the “let’s use less resources” point of the fediverse.

governments provide the lists

No, no and no. We already don’t trust corporations, why would we trust governments? Who among here is free of sin to cast the first stone? The US? (And woe betide having to authenticate with your own government that is already repressing you)

your smartphone only sends

No no and no. No need for smartphone.

What the hell is all this crap? Who are you really working for? Make your disclosures.

Multiple identities is a completely orthogonal problem to bots and trolls. Your lack of understanding of the privacy and security concerns in this is rather troubling if you also furthermore go around saying that you are making an implementation. Is this vibecoded? Have you mathematically proven that the ID information can not be possibly reversed? Can the user selfhost the authentication backend or is the instance in control of it? (or worse, a third-party)

¡Exactly!

Now, what are good options, I dunno. But I’ve always considered that it’s important for platforms with strong presence of social resistance to have adjacent hosting in something like extrajudicial waters, or at least in countries that can safely ignore things like the DMCA.

They would easily dare to enforce it against smaller entities who can’t fight back, is the point.

The laws of pneumatics and hydraulics dictate that closing the iris not fully makes the produce go uuuuuh

stronger.

This is quite simply solved by using in your presentation a site that already rebrands Anubis.

ANUS SHIELD

Ooof, a lot of things.

• Github-like uptimes (95% or lower, basically) (yes, I know I’m on SDF’s lemmy, thanks)
• Github-like moderation (“we are right-wing ‘neutral’” and such asses, no Luigi, no guillotines for CEOs, etc)
• Github-like servicing (severely blocking what is accessible to guests or to API use, for example)
• Severe Big Tech dependency / cock-sucking (annoying Cloudflare captcha for example)
• There being flat out better options elsewhere

The AI disclosure is important. Which one, where, how and why. Just to show an example why it’s important, it’s basically the same as this thing that is absolutely needed and normal in the food industry precisely because we allow people to do things the wrong way:

This food product is processed in the same tanks, conveyors belts and filters that also process Imperiling Allergen.

I say this in all of these threads: more users does not mean a better experience.

It does when your current amount of users is functionally equivalent to, like, “2”.

I really like your idea of “baby’s first instance”. And then they are sent off the nest.

That’s why you are supposed to pick an instance that does most of that work for you: one that will have already blocked what you don’t like.

The banlist is public but is essentially a hassle of an Excel spreadsheet to crawl through, what would be nice would be having some sort of public “moderation trends” (broad-strokes view of what have we been blocking and will continue to do so) and “moderation commitments” (eagle view of what will happen when you report a post to us).

unlike

Google does a lot of “defederating” (for lack of a better term), it’s one of the reasons why setting up and hosting your own email is one of the nightmare sections of selfhosting communities.

Coca-Cola the drink is named after the drug and no one complains. Plus, words can have and acquire more than one meaning during their lifetime (see eg.: “fine” which means all of bad, regular and good).

…until found by another means.

And we have cats communities to deal with that one!

I feel like this is an issue of (either accidentally or incidentally) putting focus on something that doesn’t really need it. Picking instances should not matter; not in the sense of “it’s federated blah blah” but more in the sense of “it’s 2026, there’s password managers, noone uses their real identities for everything; having multiple accounts wherever it’s convenient should be normal”.

Where do all those meme posts about “Lemmy is bad name / bad branding” come from? I’ve seen it recurrently enough every time someone launches a FOSS thing that I would normally suspect it’s part of a LLM farm or a scam attempt from some sort of naming / patents agency, but I’ve seen these reactions from long enough (2015-ish).