Andrew

Your instance rejects Follow requests from instances not on your ‘Allow list’, which is a pretty small list.

Edit: the list has since been expanded.

Re: your edit - please feel free to open an Issue for PieFed about it. It’s MBIN content in Lemmy’s communities, so it’s something that needs attention (we should show it, even if Lemmy doesn’t). I’ll have a crack at fixing it next time I’m working on the code.

'Bin follows the same format as Mastodon for inline images, which is different from Lemmy.
Mastodon puts the details for an inline image inside an ‘attachment’ field, with nothing in the ‘content’ fields, whereas Lemmy doesn’t use an ‘attachment’ field at all for them, and includes the HTML for img src in the content.
It’s always been the case that Mastodon didn’t show images from Lemmy comments. I don’t know if the reverse is a new thing or if it’s always been like that.

This is a great list. Note, though, that lemmyverse.net (and by extension, !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl) are less useful at the current moment than before because lemmyverse needs an update before it can crawl the increasing numbers of instances on 0.19.4 or above.

I wouldn’t do this personally, but if I did, I think I’d at least pipe the results to head -n 1 to only act on the first result.

I think virtualizing the python environment (with venv) has become quite common, although my only evidence is that the server I’m using to send this was written in Python and uses one.

It seems to be quite a lot for the server it’s hosted on though (which is not the snappiest). There are, of course, still areas in the world where - for one reason or another - people still are effectively on dial-up speed-wise.

Buster should turn their attention to the size of the images uploaded to servers like this: 1.1M is arguably overkill for this one.

You can’t meaningfully just tag ‘main’, you need to include an instance too. https://activitypub.academy is good resource to test and verify this stuff out for yourself.

It probably is. I’d tried Mastodon but found myself not going back. Phanpy re-invigorated my interest in it.

You can get a lot of that through Lemmy’s API

I imagine that only the admins can give you logs of logins and IP addresses though.

Fetishes are irrational by definition. They’re not passed down - they come about from childhood hang-ups (no-one wants to be eaten by a bear because their father or grandfather wanted to be eaten by a bear).

I saw some criticism of Netflix’s ‘Ripley’ adaption, based on the fact that Andrew Scott is in his late 40s, so his character (and all associated characters) had to be maybe in their late 30s but not much younger. They said that a father wouldn’t be as interested in him returning the USA in the same way that he would be if his son was in his early 20s (as in the ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ film). I thought they could just add a line from the father, saying he’d tolerated his son galivanting around Europe until now, but now needed him home because his father was starting to consider retirement and wanted him to take over the business.

Preventing replies can done on some Fedivere apps (not Lemmy, yet, though, I guess). e.g.

As for your other points, they all sound like attempts at improving the quality of the conversation. They might not have been implemented well, but requiring a clarifying comment for a question, and blocking low-karma accounts aren’t bad ideas in themselves. Lemmy, etc don’t really deserve praise for not even trying to implement ideas like this at all.

(the benefits that others are mentioning in the comments have lots of validity, though, of course)

The Wasp Factory and We Need to Talk about Kevin (both have scenes of an older child abusing the trust of a younger sibling, which really bothered me at the time).

A user on an instance that’s different from the instance that wants to ban them (so methods like IP logging or browser fingerprinting or whatever wouldn’t be available).

For remote actors, it seems to mostly rely on banned users not being very imaginative when it comes to naming subsequent accounts, and/or them not being able to leave a particular subject alone.

PieFed (which’ll let me subscribe to this post), Matrix, and Mastodon (using the phanpy web client)

Looks interesting - I imagine there’s lot of uses for this. I currently use ngrok to tunnel from 443 to a local server, which is good way to test fediverse apps, but I wouldn’t be able to use bore for that (because it only assigns random public ports above 1024, and doesn’t deal with the SSL end of things)

Sorry. It’s from me being too online. Must. Put. Phone. Down.