coffeeClean , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Reddit in Reddit sent me invitations to their IPO to my "deleted" accounts! That's a GDPR violation!

You are on a privacy-offending Cloudflare site (#LemmyWorld), so Tor users are blocked from seeing your Cloudflare-jailed image. If you care about privacy you will bounce from that instance.

Without seeing the image, I have to ask how an anonymous user gets #GDPR rights. Or has #Reddit started supporting an identification mechanism of some kind? When I start the reg process, it asks for an email address, username, and pw, not a first + lastname (but my test stopped when a Google reCAPTCHA push was attempted). I have zero sympathy for Reddit -- they are rotten to the core scumbags, but I do not see how the GDPR can be applied to anonymous accounts.

(edit) I gather from other comments you must have posted an email. Would be great if you could copy the text of the email into the body of your post so everyone can see it and so people using screen readers can hear it. Thanks!

activistPnk OP Mod , 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to Solarpunk Travel in Other travel communities for the sidebar

I guess you don’t consider !bicycle_touring fit for the sidebar then.

Bicycle touring is relevant but indeed lemmy.world is antithetical to fedi philosophy and purpose so I wouldn’t want to promote it on the sidebar. #LemmyWorld has a group for everything and needs no promotion. They replicate communities in the free world, effectively poaching from better places.

Would you be opposed if some content from over there would also be crossposted to here?

No; feel free to crosspost either way.

My personal approach is to post initially in the most relevant free world decentralized community first, creating a new community if necessary. If the post contains a question that’s starving for answers after some time, then I might cross post to centralized places¹ in part to promote the better venue to those in places of oppression… to try to steer people toward a more ethical workflow.

Some instances only show the parent of a cross post, while other instances show both parents and children in a cross posting scenario. This is why I favor the digital rights respecting community for the initial post.

① e.g. lemmy world, sh.itjust·works, lemm·ee, lemmy·ca, programming·dev, and lemmy.ml.

activistPnk OP Mod , 29 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to Solarpunk Travel in Other travel communities for the sidebar

I ended up on world because they accepted people when many instances didn’t

That’s the problem with #LemmyWorld. They do not exercise self-control and grew far beyond that of a healthy balance of power. Part of their excessive growth is attributed to their use of an oppressive US tech giant, Cloudflare, which is a centralized gatekeeper who dictates which people get access to what. They’ve betrayed their users and sold out the digital rights of the commons in trade for gratis “security” (though I hesitate to call it security when availability is ruined to the demographics of people CF oppresses).

and i didn’t want to sign up to an instance that may be run on somebody’s raspberrypi and would be turned off in a week or something.

That’s a real risk with the small instances but it’s a risk that we accept in the free world. It’s even more infuriating when a small instance opts to suddenly join Cloudflare without announcement, as opposed to going down. Then users get pawned to an oppressor without their knowledge or consent -- while some users suddenly get shut out of the walled garden with their data trapped inside. This happened with waveform.social, lemmy.ca, and programming.dev. My content is now held hostage in those places unless I pawn myself to Cloudflare.

The way forward is better tools. There are various archival clients which grab your content as regularly as you want and save a searchable local copy. When a raspberrypi running in some kid’s mom’s basement gets spontaneously unplugged, you have your archives.

For the case at hand, I suggest creating a community either here or on the travel-specific instance lemmy.globe.pub. Let me know if you do so I can add it to the sidebar.

ciferecaNinjo , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Showerthoughts in It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna.

Not exactly. !showerthoughts@lemmy.world was a poor choice, as is:

• !showerthoughts@zerobytes.monster ← Cloudflare
• !showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works ← Cloudflare
• !showerthoughts@lemmy.ca ← Cloudflare
• !showerthoughts@lemm.ee ← Cloudflare
• !hotshowerthoughts@x69.org ← Cloudflare, and possibly irrelevant
• !showerthoughts@lemmy.ml ← not CF, but copious political baggage, abusive moderation & centralized by disproportionate size

They’re all shit & the OP’s own account is limited to creating a new community on #lemmyWorld. !showerthoughts@lemmy.ml would be the lesser of evils but the best move would be create an acct on a digital rights-respecting instance that allows community creations and then create showerthoughts community there.

(EDIT) !showerThoughts@fedia.io should address these issues.

activistPnk OP Mod , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Solarpunk Travel in Cross-border rail in Europe so complex and problematic someone made a board game of it

In principle the robotic tagging is a good idea. But there are a few problems here:

• #LemmyWorld is a #centralized exclusive walled-garden. I realize centralization is the goal for this task but I object to my content supporting oppressive instances. An openly accessible non-Cloudflare site would be more suitable (not everyone can reach lemmy world).
• Tagging Knitting is probably a bug
• Making a separate post for each tag is not good.
• I down-voted the bot in part because the bot’s posts should get a lower ranking than human posts. The bot should actually downvote itself to give way to humans.

_ohcoco_ , 6 months ago to World News in Belgium wants sanctions against Israel for Gaza bombings - deputy PM

@pleasemakesense Technical question about this post: Can someone please explain how a link from #LemmyWorld works when posted to #Mastodon?

When I click on the link, it shows this same post plus all of the same comments. I'm trying to understand how it works. thx