ChanHaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng), one of the @fedify maintainers, is asking the #fediverse which of his two projects he should present in the Social Web devroom at @fosdem 2027.

@drfed is an #ActivityPub debugging tool that he is building with @z9mb1, @gaebalgom, and me. fedi.blue (https://fedi.blue) is a library for servers that interoperate over both ActivityPub and the AT Protocol. Both would make good talks, which is why I would rather the audience picked.

The poll closes on 13 November 2026, so vote for the one you would rather sit through. #Fedify has three maintainers now, and all three of us are going to #FOSDEM 2027 and submitting proposals to the devroom. (The CFP is open until 27 November 2026 if you have a talk of your own.)

#fedidev #FOSDEM2027 #ATProto #ATProtocol

Big news for CSS fans *and* typed data fans: Firefox’s CSS Typed OM (Object Model) support, which exposes CSS values as typed JavaScript objects that developers can manipulate, will soon be even better thanks to work by Igalian Jan Varga! 🚂🚂 https://blogs.igalia.com/jvarga/css-typed-om-in-firefox-ready-to-ride-the-trains/ #CSS #JS

I’m new here, fleeing reddit and it’s war on anonymity. Happy to be here!

I created my account on Lemmy.world, and yesterday learned how to subscribe to communities on other servers.

I was adding a few from Lemmy.ml, but hit a snag with a couple, using the ‘Privacy’ community as my example: when I hit ‘subscribe’ and enter ‘Lemmy.world’ as the instance to follow from, I just get a white page with ‘Server error’.

I left it 24hrs and tried again, and its still the same.

Any hints?

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

@tbr @oleksandr @vbabka @NetworkManager
Won't work with Copilot (any flavor), Microsoft doesn't use IPv6.

#Ouch

"AI is a valuable tool for finding vulnerabilities, and I'm not discounting that. But seven months in, the evidence still doesn't match the launch narrative. The CVEs are a sliver of this year's total, almost none are being exploited, fixes have stalled while duplicates and withdrawals pile up, and the triage burden is shifting onto the open source maintainers Glasswing promised to help. The receipts keep coming in. They still don't reconcile."

https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-november-update

#DuckDuckFedi — I'm looking for excellent examples of BA-level course materials for *Critical AI Literacy*. Ideally available online.

Papers are easy to find, syllabi and course materials less so

Some examples:
* Work coming out of the CAIL project by @Iris @olivia and others: https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-projects/cail
* Modern Oracles or Bullshit Machines by @ct_bergstrom https://thebullshitmachines.com/index.html

What else is out there? I look forward to seeing what the fedi hivemind surfaces!

#CriticalAI

Size and commercialisation generally go hand in hand. After all, how do you keep something running with infinite users submitting infinite content for free?

This is a big issue for everyone, it’s important that the fediverse understands that size might some day increase the importance of sensible business models or proactive funding initiatives to counter the growth. This doesn’t mean harmful profit models necessarily, but it does mean keeping revenues under control for individually run nodes or for archiving services for old fediverse domains that might not exist forever.

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

@dec_hl
Das find ich toll! Muss ich mir merken hehe

@kyonshi wow! Like trophies!! 🏆

@molly0xfff but was it live-streamed?

Two New 3D Printer Nozzle Patents Challenge CHT Designs https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/suzao-patent-uses-a-hollowing-filament-path-to-melt-material-faster?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing

@hacks4pancakes "I was a mediocre merchant in feudal Mythdonia, but then I got run over by a horse and reincarnated in your Reiwa era and I have the dumbest power which is somehow unraveling your whole economic system"

@smallcircles I hear ya. Sometimes the way I do the inline linking is more on using the linked keyword(s) as a way of hinting at the subject of the embedded article more generally. In this case, I think clicking on that particular link, in the context of the question that was posed in the issue would lead you to the answer you gave.

In any case, I agree that a social network for the people, by the people, with its central aim being to facilitate relationships, not shareholder value is paramount