A toot is literally the sound of a birb. It’s got more comfy than “tweet” does.

I would hav thought stuff like Lemmy would have configurations to eg.: not allow to upload images locally, only hotlink.

Anyway, an alternative is “zero knowledge” storage, where you don’t know what you are storing (hence, you can’t “choose” what to host or not host either). Another alternative is disjoint storage, where two different servers store different halves of a file (eg.: an Odd Bytes server and an Even Bytes server), but this means now it’s necessary to hit more servers to recover a file.

But the sensible thing to do IMO is to apply “common carrier” concept. The water distribution company is not, to my knowledge, held liable when something happens like you fill a bucket of water and share it with someone else.

XMPP is the way.

*sips coffee while waiting for the 1.0 release*

What I’m hearing here is

Proposal to add current Fediverse symbol to Unicode

Yeah I mean it’s basically a consequence that an upvote or a downvote can be for any number of reasons not shared from up- to down- or viceversa, and a simple voting system is ill-equipped to represent or contextualize that. Various solutions are viable, but my perspective is that if up+down-voting is here to stay, that part could be extended so that the act of voting could be this one bit more representative.

Another idea would be to just open it up and let people use any emoji to react.

Please no! XD We already have enough emoji as it is, not to mention they are comboable in non-portable ways or they change meaning according to the provider / renderer (GUN becoming WATER GUN is a good example).

But I do think there are valid “reaction sets” that could be interpreted with emoji, and pretty much all of them happen to match the examples you have provided:

Positive reaction / Upvote ; Negative reaction / Downvote.

Reaction of commiseration / offer of emotional support / “Hug” or w/e.

Reaction of joining in activity / offer of technical or factual support / “Let’s do this”.

Fun; Unfun

Reaction of surprise / “TIL” / “wow”.

Factually correct ; Factually incorrect.

Reaction of “same”, “this tbh”, “mood” or other such neologisms

Ofc I prefer the reactions are biased towards promoting good interaction; I really don’t see much use for reactions like “hostile / rude”, “faggot”, “kys” or stuff like that. Downvote and, depending on the case, Factually Incorrect and Unfun deal with most of that.

Because they have to be able to act upon invalid / spam / bot / brigading voting if it happens. And there is not a reasonable way to do that without knowing the voters (not necessarily the votes) that is not “disable votes for this particular subject”.

One concern is whether this would be too complicated for people to understand or engage with properly.

Grandmas nowadays already spam emoji conversations happily. I wouldn’t be any worried that this system looks “complicated”. Did we forget that we were once children who loved to tinker with things, be they the concrete such as the bathroom lock or the abstract such as mom’s rules on if we can keep a pet?

Other posts have already posted it better than I could, but my tl;dr is: one of the good things about Lemmy compared to the “competition” is that votes are public – or at least the fact that someone voted is.

I wouldn’t mind restricting access to how a user voted, in particular if in the future something like multi-choice upvotes becomes a thing, or even something I’d love to see as is dual-voting (“I downvoted because I don’t like it but I upvoted it because you are absolutely right about it”, this is absolutely different than not voting at all if the who is voting is being tracked).

But on a fundamental level, in the least instance admins have to be able to know who votes for our version of the system to even work compared to the competition.

Yes.

Can I ask seriously why the hraka do icons have to be a font? *.png has existed since… well, almost since before I existed. Not to mention stuff like CSS imagegrids.

Pretty much everywhere I go and open a webpage, I’m first met with text symbols that are something like “Á” or “§” and I can’t figure out what are they for unless I hovertext over them and the link says something like “sign up” or “join our Discord”… then I realize that, sure thing, the site relies on a remote connection to fontawesome to even display their menus correctly. Of course since I use uBO, I have remote resource connections disabled unless they’re needed ones.

If anything, I’m at least pleased that these are not huge ass-SVG banners that are like 4 to 6 screen tall bird or globe icons that a remote javascript is supposed to redraw as social icons of an adequate, small size. But at least one thing that is good about using images is that they have an accessible fallback: the alt attribute, or the title if you are lazy. To my knowledge, fonts don’t have such an accessible fallback on HTML.

GRRM is still writing his series.

That’s simple: have the earliest works released into the public domain, while he keeps squatting on the newer and promised ones.

How long do you think copyright should be?

No easy solutions but my general guideline would be that both copyright and patents should never last more than half the retirement age of a current generation, calculated via actuarial tables or some trustable scientific method.

The rationale is simple: the ultimate purpose of both is (or, well, should be) to promote creation so that society in general can be participant of the resulting effects. Half the retirement age not only is a good compromise between giving creator control and giving at least half of society the opportunity to enjoy the public good result of creation within their lifetime and within their fair opportunity to earn wages, in particular in such cases as eg.: big pharma and medications, but also promotes that big creators, such as corporations, act towards the public good of lengthening life and providing good living standards for the rest of society.

Not to mention everything community about cats!

Yeah I just checked Atkinson Hyperlegible and, at least the version I can access (the one on Github) lacks entire Latin and compatible character ranges, as well as having a substantially limited math symbols set (only two greek letters show, for example).

The weird thing is, if I understand how fonts correctly, that shouldn’t have been an issue. The font doesn’t register those missing characters, so your browser should have known to fallback to a default typeface for the missing characters. It’d be weird if you have none of the many compatible fonts (not even, say, Times New Roman).

Leading with the hard questions, I see!

(I honestly wouldn’t know how to answer the question. I guess in order to pirate it, you’d have to fetch a copy from someone who broke the license terms and is thus not authorized to distribute it, but that kinda turns into a Catch-22)

It’s likely that system only has the base Latin-1 font set for some weird reason? Or a misconfigured fontserver (or equivalent in Windows). My understanding is that the text “sail the high seas” uses glyphs in both the Latin D group and the phonetic extensions groups (feel free to correct me!), so pretty much any Unicode-aware font since 2010, FOSS or otherwise, would render this correctly.

I personally recommend the Liberation font set, although it’s free software so you can’t really pirate it.

if you want voice well, then idk what to say

Mumble!

I’m not sure it’s that difficult to follow. If you offer a service in the EU, you are responsible for your server deleting personal data (or, even better, not even hosting it in the fist place!); you are not responsible for other people not deleting their copy of personal data.

But I’m not that well-informed in the actual legalese so my best understanding is the big issue is the EU’s definition of “provide service to the EU” more than anything else. They seem to think that just because your users might upload a local copy of a picture of someone from the EU, even if you yourself are not allowing connections from the EU, then you are serving to the EU. And with how nazi the EU has been going lately with stuff like ChatControl, the last thing I’d want as an instance owner is to be upheld to arbitrary boomers’ (lack of) understanding of technology.