If that’s so, these instances (and who knows which other ones in the world) now host OPs and comments that I as an author decided to delete.
How does one delete information from the fediverse? If this is true, you cannot. Your data will be hosted forever, at least somewhere.
If people use their personal name for an account, this might result in a significant GDPR problem for all instances.
What will Apple do if they if the EU continues their plans with regard to client side scanning? That’s not one country, but many.
Apple previously planned on introducing client side scanning, but backed out after they received a high amount of critique.
Yeah, I agree this unwanted behavior of Lemmy. It’s a variation on ‘security by obscurity’. It’s ‘social security’ by obscurity. Except that it isn’t obscure at all.
I didn’t know Kbin users could see the upvotes, but I’ve just discovered that kbin users only see favorites. Just like on Mastodon.
Check out the Kbin page @banaflip@kbin.social shared in another comment. You can see who upvoted your comment under ‘activity’. If you upvote my comment, my comment favorite count increases with one. And you can see you are one of the ‘upvoters’ under favorites.
If however you downvote my comment, one of the favorites appears to get removed. By you. Even if you didn’t upvote before. At least, that’s what I think happened when I tried this on another comment.
Well, that’s about it. But isn’t this strange?
At least, that’s what appears to be happening. You can check for yourself with the link provided to the Kbin instance above.
Interesting. But that’s more like the Mastodon favorite I guess. And considering the heavy Mastodon/Kbin similarities, that’s not surprising of course.
There’s also a downvote and upvote section, but those are all empty.
I’ll deliberately try to downvote your comment to see what happens.
Edit: indeed, there’s no downvote. Just one less upvote. How does this work?
Edit2: I’ve undone my downvote and now two favorites show again. But what’s weird is that my downvote simply removed the upvote of the (first?) upvoter of your comment. Is this really what Kbin does? You cannot start removing upvotes of random other users can you?
Isn’t that weird?
Kbin users can see it, admins can see it, but Lemmy users cannot.
if not most mobile apps don’t even support DMs at all, so you can use those.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that’s not a suitable work around for me.
I use Voyager and consider it by far the best client, but I’m not going to switch apps because Lemmy doesn’t allow DMs to be blocked.
It’s also not just about hiding, but the sender should be aware the DM cannot be send.
You cannot block a user that already send you a message.
You also cannot delete a DM unless the administrator helps you. If you receive abusive material you’re more or less stuck with it.
I don’t want DMs, but I must accept them now.
If you start your own server, you moderate yourself.
Whether others want to federate with your server is up to them.
I don’t understand why some people get so confused either. It’s just like choosing an e-mail provider.
Create the account, try it out, if you don’t like it, delete it. If you do like it, keep it. How hard can this be? Then again, it apparently is.
The client apps might help out by including an account creation wizard.
No, this is the most serious lacking feature IMO.
But you could of course simply register your username at multiple instances and subscribe to the same communities. As there’s no ‘followers’ like on Mastodon, the effect is the same.