Video games are not that important. That's why cheating in them is not that serious. It is not worth the security and privacy risks of putting rootkits in people's machines to address cheating.
Many people in gaming communities advocate physical and sexual violence towards people who cheat, there is a perception that gaming is more important than it actually is.
Games aren't important enough to ever outweigh the risks, just like they aren't actually important enough to justify physical and sexual violence against those who break their rules.
People trying to argue for this as some paramount issue that needs to be combated no matter the cost need to get some perspective.
With arguments like those that person already seems like an astroturfer IMO. Also sideloading is the language corporations used to delegitimize decentralized app installation.
All the people complaining about this tool are pathetic. These votes are publicly exposed with your actor (account) over activitypub. They were never intended to be private or hidden. Mastodon lets you see everyone who liked a post pretty transparently and is very transparent about the fact that the data isn't private.
@lena@gregtech.eu isn't leaking anything or exposing some hidden 0-day exploit. She is merely doing what anyone who can subscribe to see the ActivityPub stream can do. That's any Admin or any user who can host a server with Activitypub compatible software on a domain.
Trying to bully people out of making tools like this, or get people to snitch on server admins running them is attempting to reinforce a false sense of privacy, and is a losing battle ultimately, especially when we have defederation bypassing tools out there, which when used for viewing only (not posting content) are practically undetectable.
I can access many of the broken communities from external links and I might even be able to create posts in them from the UI but I cannot access their links directly from the UI, and they also don't load from my mobile App.
People can use it to get updates on the instance itself, just because they don't have accounts here doesn't mean things on this instance do not effect them, such as planned outages or federation bugs.
Also since users from other servers who participate here are still part of this community, and may want to provide feedback in discussions related to the server or even provide suggestions for how to improve the programming.dev instance in general.
I think locking other users out of the instance's meta communities is honestly bad practice and enforces tribalism in the Fediverse.
Instances aren't just servers that communities are hosted on, they are larger meta communities themselves, and people who participate in our communities also participate in our instance in general as if it were one larger community.
Totally agree with this. I was trying to do CSS theming on my personal website on SDF to try and make it look nicer but I gave up and just went without it because it never worked right. It's a crappy website anyway with a lot of problems (doesn't have correct margins so on anything outside specific resolutions it looks wonky).
Video games are not that important. That's why cheating in them is not that serious. It is not worth the security and privacy risks of putting rootkits in people's machines to address cheating. Many people in gaming communities advocate physical and sexual violence towards people who cheat, there is a perception that gaming is more important than it actually is.
Games aren't important enough to ever outweigh the risks, just like they aren't actually important enough to justify physical and sexual violence against those who break their rules. People trying to argue for this as some paramount issue that needs to be combated no matter the cost need to get some perspective.
With arguments like those that person already seems like an astroturfer IMO. Also sideloading is the language corporations used to delegitimize decentralized app installation.
All the people complaining about this tool are pathetic. These votes are publicly exposed with your actor (account) over activitypub. They were never intended to be private or hidden. Mastodon lets you see everyone who liked a post pretty transparently and is very transparent about the fact that the data isn't private.
@lena@gregtech.eu isn't leaking anything or exposing some hidden 0-day exploit. She is merely doing what anyone who can subscribe to see the ActivityPub stream can do. That's any Admin or any user who can host a server with Activitypub compatible software on a domain.
Trying to bully people out of making tools like this, or get people to snitch on server admins running them is attempting to reinforce a false sense of privacy, and is a losing battle ultimately, especially when we have defederation bypassing tools out there, which when used for viewing only (not posting content) are practically undetectable.
I can access many of the broken communities from external links and I might even be able to create posts in them from the UI but I cannot access their links directly from the UI, and they also don't load from my mobile App.
https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor, https://programming.dev/c/teach_programming, and https://programming.dev/c/data_structures still seem to be completely broken. Might need to investigate what's happening for those as well.
CC: @Ategon@programming.dev
Site is completely broken. Really hope they get it it fixed. A lot of other communities are still broken and its been over 30 days.
Any ETA on when these issues might be fixed @Ategon@programming.dev @snowe@programming.dev?
People can use it to get updates on the instance itself, just because they don't have accounts here doesn't mean things on this instance do not effect them, such as planned outages or federation bugs.
Also since users from other servers who participate here are still part of this community, and may want to provide feedback in discussions related to the server or even provide suggestions for how to improve the programming.dev instance in general. I think locking other users out of the instance's meta communities is honestly bad practice and enforces tribalism in the Fediverse.
Instances aren't just servers that communities are hosted on, they are larger meta communities themselves, and people who participate in our communities also participate in our instance in general as if it were one larger community.
It can't. It requires invasion of privacy to verify information about the individual they don't have the right to access.
Digital age verification goes against privacy. Let's not delude ourselves into thinking it can.
Maybe that would be a good feature request or something that could maybe be added to Pangora?
Totally agree with this. I was trying to do CSS theming on my personal website on SDF to try and make it look nicer but I gave up and just went without it because it never worked right. It's a crappy website anyway with a lot of problems (doesn't have correct margins so on anything outside specific resolutions it looks wonky).