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/

This could just be one sed command:

echo $line | sed -E 's/TH|[EL ]|DO//g'

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.

Bryan Lunduke, Linux Youtuber/‘influencer’ who went down the antivaxx rabbit hole and became a raving conspiracy theorist.

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.

You dropped this, queen. 👑

Can’t wait for the follow up post decrying PeerTube for only allowing videos, or Bookwrym for only allowing book reviews. Just because it’s ActivityPub doesn’t mean it has to be a Twitter timeline.

Once a major actor in a decentralised network starts to mess with the protocol, there are only two possible output: either that actor lose steam or that actor becomes dominant enough to impose its own vision of the protocol. In fact, there’s a third option: the whole protocol becomes irrelevant because nobody trust it anymore.

You mean like Mastodon? Where’s the angry diatribe about Mastodon not allowing posts to have more than 4 pictures despite other platforms allowing more (Pixelfed allows up to 20 for example)?

They mention SWICG’s data portability spec, I assume they’re referring to LOLA: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola

Just lemmy.org.uk for me.

Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world

Hexbear runs an allowlist, they only federate with instances they select.

This is being worked on: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115376513498494866

        proxy_cache_bypass   $http_cache_control;
        proxy_no_cache       $http_cache_control;

Do note you probably want to put $cookie_jwt $http_authorization here as well so logged in users always get fresh responses.

The secure chat option is something called Matrix, which is a separate service that doesn’t integrate like Reddit’s chat. Lemmy just supports being able to set a Matrix account as the place to reach a user.

Maybe? You’d have to ask someone who’s used them.

I’ve actually never used anything beyond my basic mastodon.social account.

I’m hoping to finally be able to move of it if FEP-1580 goes anywhere: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115376513498494866

Mastdon’s discoverability issues are as political as they are technical. It fundamentally requires some aggregating and process of people’s data, something Mastodon users are infamously opposed to. Not for entirely illegitimate reasons, but the extent some go to oppose it is troubling.

How can it handle the TL hell where tens of thousands of requests fly in per second?

I sorry, but I find this hard to believe. Either they’re counting all requests their service gets (not just the APub ones), or Misskey is doing something really weird. Lemmy is notoriously busy compared to most Activity Pub stuff (PixelFed had to rewrite their activity handling as Lemmy overwhelmed the queue) and feddit.uk gets about 10-20K APub requests an hour.