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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Simply a wrong URL: https://lemvotes.org/

    Anyway, there’s no way to hide the information. The instances need to communicate with each other and send each activity, so if I upvote something, my instance notifies yours (and every other it federates with) about it so that your instance can display it as well.

    That’s most likely how the site works - it’s simply an ActivityPub server which gets notifications from every server that federates with it.

    Theoretically, your instance admins could defederate from them and then it would stop getting updates.



  • No idea who that is. I get the point, though. I just disagree that’s what’s happening.

    But I’ve been downvoted before when I said that the current backtrack on chat control is nothing but an attempt to make it pass but be obscure about it. Turns out I was right. Let’s see whether I’m right again. Though I’d be happy to be wrong in this case, I’m just afraid I’m not.















  • Well, I did it this year finally after thinking about it for a decade+.

    One of the reasons I did it was to document stuff for future me - if I never need to redo anything I wrote about, I have a perfect manual.

    The other reason is to help the community. I sometimes tend to write about fairly obscure things (like creating a Matrix bot with E2EE enabled, or mixing Go and PHP using FFI) that might actually help someone if they search for it.

    I don’t know about you, but whenever I ask an AI something that’s not really mainstream knowledge, it sucks so much so I have to search anyway, so tech blogs will always be needed.

    Edit: I also took it as an opportunity to learn about ActivityPub, my blog is fully federated and you can read it here on Lemmy if you want. So if you can find some learning opportunity in there, go for it!