Speedrunning terms are a gold mine for this sort of thing.
Most obvious one is "gay baby jail".
wizardbeard
joined 2 years ago
What part of it? The app itself? There are alternative clients. The protocol? It's made for people to host app repos, not to ensure everything hosted in an F-Droid compatible repo is safe. The fact that reproducible builds arenct enforced? There's always a gap where you're trusting a third party unless you're building everything from source yourself.
It's the android equivalent of a package manager.
F-Droid is like any other place you get apps and programs to run on one of your devices: caveat emptor. At least all packages are open source so you can review yourself.
This is as absurd as saying you don't use linux because someone could typosquat a fake repo or app through the package manager.
I can see the logic. The realities of day to day life and managing a household together are a considerably larger presence than most people realize until they're shoulder deep into adult life.
We can filter out NSFW work
I have that turned on, and I heavily lean on blocking communities and users, and I still get NSFW shit fairly regularly.
Maybe make use of the existing blocking features, and use a client that has keyword filtering?
I've been able to get my experience pretty damn close to as filtered as I want it just with community, instance, and user blocking.
Who decides what is "without a doubt"?
Everyone's personal barometer is going to vary on that wildly.
If each instance decides on their own usage, then it no longer becomes a useful filter. We already see this with the NSFW tag (god forbid I ask for it to be put on a post showing the business end of a fleshlight hanging out the rear end of a stuffed animal dog, that isn't nsfw apparently because it's not real nudity or something).
From one coder to another: This is classic coder overconfidence. The complexity isn't in the hypothetical code but in the people and how the feature may or may not be used.
Explodingheads is going to have a distinctly different idea of "political" than Lemmygrad.
The Fediverse has few enough daily users that you can block political communities and the people who post overwhelmingly political content outside of those communities.
You can also use one of the handful of clients that allow keyword filtering.
There may be NSFW (18+) content on these sites
I didn't realize there were versions that attempted to be sfw!
Good news! There's a community open source project to port the engine used in Jak and Daxter to PC.
Looks like the first two games are mostly playable, with their efforts focused on getting Jak 3 working now.
To summarize my comment on your post of this article on lemmy.ml:
Literally who?
How in the absolute fuck does any group not involved in hosting the largest fediverse instances even begin to justify looking for $1.3 Million in funding?
I have literally never heard of this group before now, and my immediate question is "What do they bring to the table? How important can they be if I've never heard of them? In what universe can any organization related to the fediverse justify looking for 1.3 million dollars in funding‽”
The two systems they offer (as listed in the article) Fedicheck and CCS, as far as I am aware, already have open source alternatives in db0's Fediseer and whatever his anti-CSAM tool is called.
They also offer... guidelines for fediverse moderators? Not frameworks for bots or automoderation tools. But their opinions on how others should moderate spaces that this group doesn't actually run.
Did anyone out there ask for an advisory group for something that thrives on it's individuality?
Maybe I'm too used to the old reprehensible internet. Maybe I'm too used to spaces that keep an intentional level of friction against new joining outsiders.
Maybe I'm missing something critical here and I've only been exposed to db0's work being on his Lemmy instance.
I would love to be provided with more information on this group, and direct examples of value they've provided to the Fediverse.
But at a simple gut check, this comes across like a group of self righteous people who rather than run their own instances, want to be paid to tell others how to run instances.
Anything this group is doing should be open source, should be well advertised, and should be well discussed Fediverse-wide. The fact that I'm only first hearing about this group during what is effectively an e-begging session sets off alarms.
Lemmy has just had it's first round of spambots in DMs. Does the fediverse now have a group of self righteous non-admin non-mods trying to make something they can make money from and put on a resume?
This would not be the first instance of resume stuffing "guidance organizations" to try and enforce themselves in an online space/open source project.
At absolute best, assuming this is a group known in Mastodon and the various non-lemmy fedi-spaces: This would not be the first time some group that is deeply invested and well known in Mastodon crosses the border to Lemmy to find that despite sharing protocol, there are differences in culture.
Just because your Scout Troop and the AA meetings use the same building, that doesn't mean that AA members have any interest in supporting the scouts, or in having the scouts tell them how they should run AA meetings.
Let me be clear: I want to be proven wrong and for this group to be a pleasant surprise of a worthwhile force for good and the continued growth of the Fediverse.
But I'm also being honest about my reaction to some group I've never heard of before claiming to be so vital to the Fediverse that them maybe not getting $1.3M is something that I should care enough about to donate.
This is thematically similar to an idea I brainstormed with a bunch of college friends ages ago.
Instead of an RPG with a fishing minigame, a full fledged fishing game with a semi-hidden JRPG side mode. Like one of those weirdly detailed Dreamcast fishing games, then halfway through you start fishing up vaguely Lovecraftian things. Things get weirder until someone dies in an accident during a tournament, and when that lake reopens you fish his undead body out and start some JRPG shit with Cthulhu and Atlantis. Complete that and it goes back to fishing game like nothing happened.
This was before the trend of "secretly a horror game" indie games, and the tone was more goofy than it sounds.
Anyway, I'll have to check this out!