In the ActivityPub JSON for this post, there is no indication that this field contains MarkDown. If anything, it says the opposite, it says it contains HTML. It’s therefore not unreasonable for other platforms to render it as such.

Actually, the name property is explicitly plain text, it shouldn’t contain any type of markup, whether that be markdown or HTML.

Hey, those councils won’t be skint when we, *checks notes*, hand over several billion £ to American big tech.

The PM didn’t under-sell AI’s potential

I love how the it isn’t even considered that he over-sold AI’s potential. Can’t wait for roads to be closed for weeks because the AI mistook a puddle for a pothole.

I’m sorry, but I fail to see the relevance of this not-for-profit vs for-profit diatribe. If you mean that things like culture and structures matter more than the a project’s legal status, then I agree, but unless you’re going to point to particular issues you have with Mastodon’s then, again, I fail to see the relevance. The things Mastodon (the company) is seeking to improve are highly technical and specialised, where people working on them need good cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience, and understandably demand a high wage.

Surprised to see you of all people question why a project needs money to pay for things.

What for?

They said what for in the previous section, improving Mastodon’s “usability, discoverability, and trust & safety”. They tried to fundraise for a head of trust and safety last month, but failed. My impression is this is them trying to raise general donations to the project to pay for things like this, instead of individual campaigns for individual things.

Is the infrastructure being provided by the companies counted as part of this budget?

I thinks so, given the previous paragraph links to their sponsor page and says as such.

He bought the company to bolster his lawsuits against Apple and Google, only to fob it off to Songtradr a few years later in the middle of the staff unionising. Songtradr then sacked half the staff (coincidentally all the ones who were part of the union) and still refuse to recognise the union to this day.

/api/v3/user is for fetching info about any user, it requires either a person_id or username to be given as a URL param to work, e.g. https://feddit.uk/api/v3/user?person_id=28426 will get my profile. There currently isn’t a way to get just the person_view from the JWT, though API v4 will have an /account endpoint that you’ll be able to GET with the auth header. Most apps GET the /site endpoint and use my_user returned from that.

He’s 100% right. (Still a douche for what he did to Bandcamp though)

How bout you go back and let your friends know that if they’re in need of a good editor, try Vim ;)

If my friends wanted a good editor, then I wouldn’t recommend a Vimitor, I’d recommend ed, the standard text EDitor :p

If Vim is so good, then why can’t you browse Lemmy from it?

This meme was made by the Emacs gang.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/ has a search feature.

[Lemmy has] no mechanism for a community owner to communicate a challenge to post to his community, so impossible to prevent spam.

Hey mods, you can do the funniest thing right now:

Why is Spacemacs listed separately to Emacs when it’s just a fancy Emacs’ config?

Isn’t Le Pen dead? Edit: Wrong Le Pen

It was added in 0.19.6, so older instances won’t have it. Edit: read the rest of the thread and you already pointed this out, d’oh.

One thing that would immediately kill the people smuggling industry is allowing people to claim asylum in Calias, but they’ll never do that.

Interior Minister Yvette Cooper

She’s home secretary, Britain doesn’t have an interior minister?

Etherium actually transitioned to proof-of-stake? Last I heard it was something they were planning to but it was being delayed for years. Good for them for actually doing it, I still don’t trust the technology and refuse to use anything that integrates it, but at least it’s not so actively destructive.

Holiday?

Mastodon doesn’t have Group support (fep-1b12), so when they reply to a post, they don’t send it to the community’s inbox (only to the inbox of the Person they’re replying to), thus breaking Lemmy’s model of federation.

DNS is not the future, crypto is the future.

There are other alternatives to DNS that don’t require you to boil the oceans, e.g. GNUnet has their own thing.

In our clients, we will decentralize this curation via gasless pubsub voting by token holders. There’s no other way to decentralize it, so this is another thing that crypto excels at (DAOs).

This isn’t decentralising the whitelist/default subs, it’s shareholder-ising. It’s also just recreating the notion of admins in ActivityPub, or replay controllers in notstr. You still have a set of privileged users able to make decisions for others, albeit less privileged than AP admins.