Voyager is now available as a native app in the app/play store

Voyager is extremely impressive for what it is - webapp

It’s not only a webapp anymore, but also available as native app now

No, this is the most serious lacking feature IMO.

But you could of course simply register your username at multiple instances and subscribe to the same communities. As there’s no ‘followers’ like on Mastodon, the effect is the same.

If that’s so, these instances (and who knows which other ones in the world) now host OPs and comments that I as an author decided to delete.

How does one delete information from the fediverse? If this is true, you cannot. Your data will be hosted forever, at least somewhere.

If people use their personal name for an account, this might result in a significant GDPR problem for all instances.

What will Apple do if they if the EU continues their plans with regard to client side scanning? That’s not one country, but many.

Apple previously planned on introducing client side scanning, but backed out after they received a high amount of critique.

Yeah, I agree this unwanted behavior of Lemmy. It’s a variation on ‘security by obscurity’. It’s ‘social security’ by obscurity. Except that it isn’t obscure at all.

I didn’t know Kbin users could see the upvotes, but I’ve just discovered that kbin users only see favorites. Just like on Mastodon.

Check out the Kbin page @banaflip@kbin.social shared in another comment. You can see who upvoted your comment under ‘activity’. If you upvote my comment, my comment favorite count increases with one. And you can see you are one of the ‘upvoters’ under favorites.

If however you downvote my comment, one of the favorites appears to get removed. By you. Even if you didn’t upvote before. At least, that’s what I think happened when I tried this on another comment.

Well, that’s about it. But isn’t this strange?

• Upvotes/downvotes are actually favorites on Kbin
• If a Lemmy user downvotes a Kbin comment, one favorite gets removed

At least, that’s what appears to be happening. You can check for yourself with the link provided to the Kbin instance above.

Interesting. But that’s more like the Mastodon favorite I guess. And considering the heavy Mastodon/Kbin similarities, that’s not surprising of course.

There’s also a downvote and upvote section, but those are all empty.

I’ll deliberately try to downvote your comment to see what happens.

Edit: indeed, there’s no downvote. Just one less upvote. How does this work?

Edit2: I’ve undone my downvote and now two favorites show again. But what’s weird is that my downvote simply removed the upvote of the (first?) upvoter of your comment. Is this really what Kbin does? You cannot start removing upvotes of random other users can you?

Isn’t that weird?

Kbin users can see it, admins can see it, but Lemmy users cannot.

No, what I mean is that any user can randomly start sending DMs to another user and I don’t want any DMs.

Blocking is an action when the DM was already received.

No, I see all.

if not most mobile apps don’t even support DMs at all, so you can use those.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that’s not a suitable work around for me.

I use Voyager and consider it by far the best client, but I’m not going to switch apps because Lemmy doesn’t allow DMs to be blocked.

It’s also not just about hiding, but the sender should be aware the DM cannot be send.

You cannot block a user that already send you a message.

You also cannot delete a DM unless the administrator helps you. If you receive abusive material you’re more or less stuck with it.

I don’t want DMs, but I must accept them now.

Thanks!

You don’t need to allow other people on your server.

If you start your own server, you moderate yourself.

Whether others want to federate with your server is up to them.

What platform? Windows? Unix? Linux?

The Court of Justice if the EU will very likely disallow the use of this authority in the future, but it often takes time to litigate in court up to a point where an organization can proceed to the EU Court.

It’s a terrible way of politicians trying to circumvent fundamental rights, even though their goal always is to prevent crime. The simply pass the bill, wait until it becomes law, start doing their business, claim victory and then complain the EU Court disallows it.

Sigh.

A close cousin of Lemmy is Mastodon. If you consider Lemmy a federated version of Reddit, then Mastodon is a federated version of Twitter.

The largest Mastodon server is probably Truth Social, on which former president Trump posts his messages after being banned from Twitter.

Truth Social uses the same protocol as Mastodon of Lemmy: ActivityPub. The difference: the Truth Social administrators blocked the Truth Social server from sending out messages to or receiving messages from other servers. So it’s a private Mastodon.

Bottom line: if you run your own Lemmy server you can block whatever server you want or none at all. And others can block your server if they want. If you create ab account at somebody else’s Lemmy server, the administrator can decide to block other Lemmy servers.

If you use a Mastodon account, it’s very easy to migrate to another server including your followers. Lemmy accounts do not appear to offer that functionality (yet?), but I expect a migration tool will be created in the future. So if an administrator decides to block another Lemmy server, but you don’t like that, you might easily move to another server. As of yet, you can’t however and need to create an account on another Lemmy server.

The beauty of federating servers is that everybody can setup their own server, provided they own a domain name.

In theory I could start a server registered to unanimousstargazer.social and create an account called @unanimousstargazer@unanimousstargazer.social and participate in the fediverse. If I choose to block Meta, then that’s my choice.

I agree people are unnecessarily making a fuzz about this, as it’s their own choice to join a server or not. The fediverse is open, so why can’t Meta join. That’s up to them. And if I want to block them, that’s up to me.