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  1. Comment on Russia's FSB announces a felony investigation into Wagner Group's incitement to 'armed rebellion' in ~news

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    I would imagine there are contingency plans in place between other nuclear powers that game out collapses like that, in which they likely move to secure nuclear controls. having said that, i think...

    I would imagine there are contingency plans in place between other nuclear powers that game out collapses like that, in which they likely move to secure nuclear controls.

    having said that, i think there are tiers of collapse of a state, and i doubt we're going to see 0 to 60 tom clancy overnight.

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  2. Comment on Do you think this place will get big on/after July 1st? in ~tildes

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    so loaded question right - what do you mean handle a comment? if you're talking about from user-perspective, then instead of showing demize said it shows demize@server1 said and thats it, other...

    1. so loaded question right - what do you mean handle a comment? if you're talking about from user-perspective, then instead of showing demize said it shows demize@server1 said and thats it, other than that- its likely stored locally. federation does not need to be a complete implicit bidirectional trust because the interaction happens on a server which is federated with multiple sources. this already happens EVERYWHERE in the web: every website that offers log-in through google, facebook, github, and what have you, is essentially the same thing: JiT provisioning with federated authentication.

    2. its written in rust, which is highly performant, and i would image theres a maximum chain length (i am making assumptions here) to how far a reply goes down the chain. to me that chain length is 1: the origin server to every server that's federated with it.

    i agree that if you are hosting your own server on a little container and it suddenly becomes super popular, that yes you'll likely run out of compute to handle all taht traffic, but this isnt a federation problem, rather than a scaling one and anti-brigading is a thing and i believe you can restrict who actually posts on your server via federation.

    otherwise youre slinging txt around which quite frankly, isnt that hard or that heavy. otherwise l2 quote steraming on any trading platform worth their salt would crash local browsers.

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  3. Comment on Do you think this place will get big on/after July 1st? in ~tildes

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    this is a good point which is why, imo, the name of the game if you want to be part of lemmy is to have your own server for root, and then federate into other servers rather than making an account...

    this is a good point which is why, imo, the name of the game if you want to be part of lemmy is to have your own server for root, and then federate into other servers rather than making an account on server you dont know as your central identity store.

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  4. Comment on Do you think this place will get big on/after July 1st? in ~tildes

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    we spun up a lemmy server with a few friends and federation seems to work really well out of the box, but its also optional. you can make accounts on each instance if you want, and with the...

    we spun up a lemmy server with a few friends and federation seems to work really well out of the box, but its also optional. you can make accounts on each instance if you want, and with the attention its getting, 3rd party apps will likely allow you to have several accounts coexist next to eachother.

    lemmy federation model is new, sure, but there's not much to fear from it because ultimately its dependent on linked servers. what IS nice though is that, imo, a use banned on one instance will get those bans federated through across to other instances - and to clarify these would be federated bans not global ones. so in this case a ban is just cut access for user1@lemmyinstanceB from lemmyinstanceC and all instances that are subscribed to lemmyinstanceC will also now sport a ban for user1@lemmyinstanceB

    this can be abused pretty thoroughly too, so ill be following along to see how we an ensure people arent just banned across the lemmy-verse because one bad mod had an issue with someone.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest in ~tech

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    yeah, i think i agree -- reddit's admin team is too small and their powers are too broad to single out a user like this of a few niche subs especially when many of larger sub mods are openly...

    yeah, i think i agree -- reddit's admin team is too small and their powers are too broad to single out a user like this of a few niche subs especially when many of larger sub mods are openly hostile to the policy changes and haven't gotten the same treatment.

    it really does sound like someone's creds got compromised.

    6 votes