zenithseeker

joined 1 year ago
 

Lemmy is definitely different from how mailing lists work in practice - much faster to get updates on, more ergonomic, etc., but in theory - could SMTP, IMAP, and a bit of ingenuity be used to turn a mailing list into a Lemmy-like interface for comments, links, etc?

I just had the idea of making a mailing list-based ActivityPub host lol, but it would probably be much slower than Lemmy in just about every way because of protocol overhead.

[–] zenithseeker@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, after reading that I think the defederation was a quite serious mistake on their part that will probably cause a lot of people to abandon their instance.

[–] zenithseeker@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could maybe get a provisional driving licence? Not ideal, but I don't think you need to actually drive to get one iirc (has been a while).

[–] zenithseeker@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certainly, but when you make a comment or post it gets transferred to all federated servers without your express consent and you currently can't permanently delete anything.

[–] zenithseeker@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

By that logic though all of Fediverse is illegal and should be shut down. There is significant work to be done there, not just by Facebook but by the Fediverse community on the whole.

[–] zenithseeker@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Or as we say in the industry, a bicorn (note that there is currently no industry that refers to them as bicorns)

[–] zenithseeker@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Wow lol, that was not what I expected to find on milk.com

[–] zenithseeker@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

As did I. Was sort of okay with third party apps being blocked, but the whole mod replacement thing is unfortunate and has caused my favourite subreddits to go down pretty much indefinitely.