gets bored once he ships the MVP

He doesn’t even need to do that, just look at that Whatsapp clone he named after himself.

I was curious to see how they handle this on the fedi side, because they obviously can’t stop you from uploading images to other instances, so decided to do some digging myself.

The fedi code for this is here and looks like this:

# Alert regarding fascist meme content
if site.enable_chan_image_filter and toxic_community and img_width < 2000:  # images > 2000px tend to be real photos instead of 4chan screenshots.
    if os.environ.get('ALLOW_4CHAN', None) is None:
        try:
            image_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(
                Image.open(BytesIO(source_image)).convert('L'), timeout=30)
        except Exception:
            image_text = ''
        if 'Anonymous' in image_text and (
                'No.' in image_text or ' N0' in image_text):  # chan posts usually contain the text 'Anonymous' and ' No.12345'
            post = session.query(Post).filter_by(image_id=file.id).first()
            targets_data = {'gen': '0',
                            'post_id': post.id,
                            'orig_post_title': post.title,
                            'orig_post_body': post.body
                            }
            notification = Notification(title='Review this',
                                        user_id=1,
                                        author_id=post.user_id,
                                        url=post.slug,
                                        notif_type=NOTIF_REPORT,
                                        subtype='post_with_suspicious_image',
                                        targets=targets_data)
            session.add(notification)
            session.commit()

The curious thing here, apart from there being both an environmental variable and site setting for this, is the toxic_community variable. This seems to be a renaming of the low_quality field Piefed applies to communities, which are just communities with either memes or shitpost in their name.

You also don’t get social credits docked for this.

So wait, they pull in Tesseract and don’t use it to make search better? Talk about missed opportunity.

I just guaranteed you on fediseer, so you should be good now.

Assuming you have a standard deployment with docker compose, go to the directory with the docker-compose.yml file and run this:

docker compose logs lemmy | less

You might have to scroll for a bit, you can hit / then type mastodon.social then enter to find occurrences in the logs. Jump to next/previous match by hitting n and N/shift-n respectively.

I was able to fetch the comment without issue (https://feddit.uk/post/42810312/22639417), so it could be something in your setting somewhere. You can try to resolve the comment (go to search in the web UI and past the URL for comment), then after you can run the command above and jump to the end (Alt->) and it should say something about why it failed to resolve.

They seem to have blocked Nutomic, so won’t see this.

They completely deindexed Link (spacelawshitpost.me) for not showing appropriate reverence for Charlie Kirk after he died by pointing to their TOS policy on promoting violence, but an organisation that only exists to exert violence on non-white people gets a pass.

Build communities without the middle men.

I did: https://bsky.app/profile/flamingos-cant.xyz/post/3mcd423kj2c2t, Bridgy-fed wraps the entire text content of a post into a single <p> element so the it’s being collapsed into a single paragraph in the markdown conversion.

Formatting is a bit weird, but it works! https://feddit.uk/post/42603656

When you delete something, your instance sends it the instance of the community. The community is suppose to process that and then forward that delete to every instance where a subscriber of that community resides. In this case, either zip failed to send the delete to world or something went wrong on world.

Taler needs buy in from banks and irrc it’s only being trialled by some Swiss banks atm.

Comments can be marked as an Answer, like on StackOverflow.

Was anything changed about how this federates? If no, what protections are in place against someone just patching their instance software to always return an "answer": true on Notes?

Link to the article as it doesn’t show up on Lemmy: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/firefox-dev-clarifies-there-will-be-an-ai-kill-switch/

Earlier this week, I announced the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory–a project I’ve been working on since June 2024. Hundreds of people shared it on Mastodon and BlueSky. Comparatively, almost nobody on Hacker News ever saw it.

I’ll admit I missed this despite it being posted in !technology@lemmy.world. Lumping Masto and Bluesky together here is weird though given the Masto post got 300+ boosts while the Blusky post got 25 reposts.

Wow, that’s bad. I would hate working with this so much.

of numbers instead of human-readable names

TBF, they have introduced a ‘verified’ system that lets you use human readable names.

Yeah, people are tribal and decentralisation lets people express that in ways centralised platforms don’t. Something, something, tech won’t save us.

Clicking though to community to post and selecting a community from the create post page are same problem rearranged. A user who subbed to ~technology@piefed.social isn’t going to know the difference between !technology@lemmy.world, !technology@lemmy.zip and !technology@piefed.social.

Solution 2 in the post, multicommunities. I’m not sure it actually solves the problem though, as you still have to go to the actual community to post and I imagine multicomms add an extra layer of confusion to that.