Giver of skulls

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Joined 102 years ago
Cake day: June 6th, 1923
  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Which is most privacy friendly instance of lemmy?
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    1 day ago

    Lemmy, and ActivityPub in general, is quite bad for privacy. To the point where I doubt it’d be legal for a company to host a server within the EU. Everything is handled by volunteers and amateurs. Privacy policies are bog standard or barely enforced. You have no idea what servers are using and selling your information, and any server can follow basically any community.

    The easier it is for someone to create a new account after getting kicked or banned, the more likely it is that other servers will block that server and leave you with a near useless Lemmy account.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•how can I repair defective URL metadata for Lemmy posts?
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    1 day ago

    “Just a moment” is probably the anti bot/anti DDOS service that particular website uses kicking in. A real website would interact with the web page and redirect before most people would notice, but bots and scrapers grab the lightweight HTML and run with it.

    There is no good solution for this. If you’re the instance admin you could configure something like Flaresolverr to bypass bot protection pages, but you’d still need to update Lemmy to not grab the first page requested and wait for the redirect cycle to complete first.

    As a user you can try picking links to sources that don’t have this type of bot protection built in, or you could link to the AMP page which is usually cached on Google’s servers without an anti bot system active.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoFediverse@lemmy.world•is shadowbanning a thing on lemmy?English
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    2 days ago

    Instances can ban you without others being affected. Your comments could be visible on one instance and not on another, so there’s a level of shadow banning going on.

    Real shadow banning isn’t implemented in Lemmy. It could be, but it’d only work for accounts on the same server. It’d also be pretty easy to detect, although the same also goes for other places that do effectively use shadow banning to fight trolls and bots. The people shadow banning works against aren’t smart enough to verify that they haven’t been caught in the first place.