skullgiver

Pardons don't make anything legal. Murderers get pardoned but murder is still illegal.

If you think you can prop up an anti-Trump president that will also pardon the terrorists supporting them, then you could in theory risk it. In practice, you'll probably be treated the way the Jan 6 traitors should've been treated: shot dead, or locked up for a long time.

Looks like you were ten minutes ago: https://lemmy.world/modlog/?userId=1957570 Though I guess you'll never see this message, then.

Basically. Although, it kind of depends on what a server gets reported on first. If it's just something like account deletion or data exports, that can be done manually, just not on scale.

Yes, unless you accept the risk of being banned. Every community and every server has its own set of rules.

You can usually safely ignore these rules, but if you get banned you don't have a leg to stand on if you didn't bother with reading the rules.

Dealing with data protection laws surrounding children is a MASSIVE pain. Most Lemmy servers ignore the GDPR safely, but ignoring COPPA is a bit harder. And that doesn't even take into account the recent rise of laws blocking teenagers from social media, with varying ages and consent laws.

WordPress now doesn't need a plugin anymore, ActivityPub has beek built into the main product. As for the rest, I think the *Key software went through three or four popular forks, but everything in the pic is open source and can still be run if you'd like to.

Source control software like Gitea and Gitlab are working on a federated system for bug reports and comments over ActivityPub. When that lands, the Fediverse will suddenly get a lot bigger, although sites like Lemmy won't be able to do much with those new servers.

You can create anything that abides by the spec and it should somewhat work. However, Lemmy won't know what to do with a stream of Location objects and Mastodon won't know how to deal with replies on a calendar event. Most of the Fediverse maps their functionality onto a subset of the protocol that's implemented by most other servers.

There's absolutely nothing stopping you from creating a Fediverse LinkedIn that can work together with the rest of the Fediverse. Same with a federated 4chan or a federated review website. The spec is quite open ended. The challenge is finding enough people willing to join your server, and moderating the initial servers. That last part is mostly unsolved because only a sliver of the population wants to moderate and with no clear direction from above, having a solid moderation policy is effectively impossible.

Oh, that wasn't a dig at you! I just find it entertaining how the same technology with the same risks and impact on the future web are treated completely differently based on what company puts their name on the blog post.

FWIW both use cases seem good to me, Kagi's for using the privacy enhancing properties and Cloudflare's for decreasing the need for their CAPTCHA/bot blocking software to be cranked up to the level it's at now. For now only Safari and Kagi's addons are using the tech (Cloudflare turned off their experiment) so there's no reason to be bothered at the moment anyway.

Doing continuing business with Yandex at all is bad enough for me. I'm having enough trouble cutting off Russia-supporting products and services already, I'm not taking on new ones if I can avoid it.

Kagi is a great concept for a search engine, but looking at the forum posts by their CEO, their priorities clearly won't ever align with mine. I hope they get similar competition as Google crumbles further and further, because their business model is how search engines should be making money.

Funny how the tech space is hyped up about privacy pass when Kagi implemented it, but got outraged when Cloudflare worked with Apple to try to use it as a CAPTCHA alternative.

I'm grateful someone mentioned it. Paying Yandex is a deal breaker for me. As much as Yandex may want to be independent, they cannot be because of the country they're based in. With the way things are going, the same may be true of Google and Kagi itself somewhere within the next four years.

Kagi defends itself by saying it's "only used 2% of the time" which would make a better argument that turning off the feature to distance themselves from Russia has little impact than a defence for working with them. There's also the "but we've always done it like this" defence and something about "providing the best results" but neither are great arguments.

Whoops, brainfart. In my defence, I've only ever used yards in video games :)