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  • I have blocked lemmygrad

    so did I

    and other tankie/nazi (same shit) instances (domains) myself.

    didn’t see that yet but at least some user with a name in that direction.

    Anyway, I found it quite not amusing to see this stuff on my second day of using Lemmy - which was 2 weeks ago or so. Honestly, I’ve seen enough online communities degenerate and having a few power users/enthusiasts who like fine tuning every setting is not enough to get a healthy community going.

    I think if Lemmy doesn’t get it’s shit together in that regard, it’ll be like Mastodon where there are alt-right communities powered by it and then another normal (or whatever you want to call it?) part. However I’ve been quite surprised when my first subscriber was some alt-right dude. That was enough for me to delete my account.

    At the moment I see chances 50/50 that Lemmy can make it. But this highly depends on:

    1. making it convenient for non-technical people (discoverability across instances)
    2. have a reasonable filtering system (if it’s fully democratic and it works that would be awesome. but to be realistic, that would be a first…)









  • I think this is not how it works. It’s like saying: I’ll connect a physical lock to my laptop and I’m more secure. (Many PC laptops have on the side a standardized connector for physical locks which is often used in electronics stores)

    Better to go a step back and to consider your Threat Model. What are you doing? What are things that could likely happen right now? Is <insert security solution> adding to your security/backing up your Threat Model or is it making things worse because it’s adding stuff that you don’t need, making workflows so complicated you’re likely to misconfigure?

    To give a more practical example, there have been a lot of conspiracy theories about Antivirus software. In some sense the nay sayers are right and it actually adds possible holes since they tend to run with elevated privileges. On the other hand, does it really matter for your use case? If you download random stuff online, you should probably install one. (Probably also for your fellow humans so your computer doesn’t end up being a botnet host) But if everything on your computer is hand-picked ™, you might be actually right and they decrease security.