I mean, discoverability is hard, sure, but add a few hashtags and you can get a lot of people to see your posts. also, mentioning a lemmy group as a user posts your post to the community.

Mastodon really is the internet explorer of the fediverse.
In any case, I don’t think its that bad. I would compare it to an email provider accidentially leaking messages. Still bad, but its not a reason to abandon email as a means of communication.
We should encrypt posts, like diaspora does. Like how we should pgp encrypt emails, but no one will.

also, I just checked myself, a random “private” post I made isn’t accessible over AP if I curl it unauthenticated. Running curl.exe https://calckey.world/notes/a63slz8j6l -H "Accept: application/activity+json" returns nothing, but replacing the uri with a public post does show it.
An insecure server’s copy of the post isn’t accessible over AP, only the original post’s link should return anything.

Maybe I’m wrong, but shouldn’t posts only be insecure if they’re propagated to the insecure instance? Is any private post visible to people on servers that the poster doesn’t have followers on?
Could I curl the uri of a post thats “private” and get the post’s content?

You cannot use a mastodon app as a lemmy client, but you can view lemmy communities by opening them as if they are profiles. For example, open @fediverse@lemmy.world and it will show up as a user, but it will be the communitiy’s posts.

You can mention it in a post to forward the post to the community as well.

We are tiny in comparison to the rest of the fediverse.

Sharkey’s mastodon api implementation lets you ddos the server.

As people predicted, transphobia has affected cis people.

I tell people to make a live usb to test it first.

Most people just use the online office 365 thing.

What issues did you have with LibreOffice? I didn’t spot any problems when I used it

Its a good idea for their shareholders, who don’t think beyond the next quater. Pretty sure most of them don’t have object permanence.

Sure, but when are they going to remove that registry option?

Why is everyone reccommending linux mint all of a sudden? What happened to ubuntu and fedora?

Because we need your data silly 😊

Or linux.

Pavlov Reaction?

I wouldn’t say that, more just abusing a monopoly.

That would also key in (no pun intended) with the nomadic identity FEPs.

Posts should be encrypted, this is what diaspora does. I agree with this. For emails though, pgp is used by no-one. Also, AP uses tls as well.

I was thinking that encrypted posts could work with multi key encryption (if my understanding of this post is correct https://stackoverflow.com/questions/597188/encryption-decryption-with-multiple-keys ).

The problem (imo) is mastodon being the internet explorer of the fediverse, and refusing to do any encryption.

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