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To simply use TOR you do not need to run any kind of guard/middle/exit relay (this has always been the case), but yes there is the risk of being held accountable for other users data while hosting an exit relay.

This hasn’t gone away thanks to any legal precedent as far as I’m aware, so I imagine it all depends on the tech literacy of your local jurisdiction & how good of a lawyer you can afford.

In theory yes, but practically speaking trying to access a lot of the modern web over TOR would be at best painfully slow and at worst almost impossible thanks to DDoS protection providers like cloudflare.

I promise you that like 90% of the creepy stories you’ve heard are people either exaggerating or just straight-up lying to sound cool on the internet. The kind of stuff that actually needs to operate over the TOR network doesn’t exactly want to be easily discoverable by normal people.

You’re no more likely to accidentally stumble across illegal / dangerous content while using TOR than you are while using any other browser.

There are none. It is carcinogenic.

Still bitter about Vlemmy, and I haven’t made a replacement account yet.

Were they filled with spam? Or does your instance just really hate Star Trek lol

Same, k-anything has just been beaten into my brain as “oh a KDE app!”

People are leaving Reddit over their moderation rules? I thought the CEO did something with the API.

I think it’s fair to consider the Reddit admins making unilateral decisions that drastically alter how users can use the platform as “their rules”.

Yeah, absolutely.

Like I said in another reply though, I just mostly feel bad for the tens of thousands of users who were inadvertently driven there by the site being near / at the top of the list of instances on the lemmy homepage, and now have to figure out if they need to make another account somewhere else.

But in reality it’s not like any of the majority of new users could possibly have so much of a “oh no all my posts!” moment if they really felt like they wanted to switch lol.

No I completely agree, it’s entirely a weird and almost backwards move to be on a federated platform and then seemingly have your goals be at odds with the concept of federation with the majority of the platform.

And while I believe that, as an outside observer, it’s also important to realize that from the beehaw admin’s perspective they accidentally went from “dozens” to “tens of thousands” of users over the course of a few days.

At the end of the day it’s their site and they can do with it as they please, but I feel bad for all the users who were inadvertently guided there by the lemmy homepage listing them at the top, only to be at this weird crossroads now.

When DeStefano tried to file a police report after the ordeal, she was dismissed and told this was a “prank call”.

Why am I not surprised.

Yup, all fixed, thanks!

Okay, I get it now, and I appreciate the hand-holding you’re doing here. It’s a wonder I’ve made it this far at all.

But now, this post has a link to [email protected], and if I click the icon i get sent here https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] which 404s, but if delete the ! from that URL it loads correctly. This seems wrong?

I think I get what you’re saying.

What’s the correct format for the url to put into the search bar, because nothing I’ve done has returned any results when I try to search for those communities from the comment I linked.

I’m sorry I don’t really understand…

So, even if lemmy.world is overall federated with kbin.social, individual communities on other instances also have to be federated with their equivalent magazine here on kbin?

I like the idea, but I feel like something isn’t working correctly.

This comment in particular seems to add the icon with the “internal” kbin /m/ link, but their either empty or it throws a 404 error when I try to go there.

Edit: Am i just dumb, and this is still a left over / ongoing issue with kbin’s federation in general?

“convincing” is a stretch. I wrote like 2 fluff lines about nothing and they approved the account.
It’s kind of silly to think that a bunch of trolls couldn’t do the same and join the site very easily. They’re essentially trusting their users to pinky promise to tel the truth on the application lol.

Have you tried it out just in the browser? Kbin’s mobile interface is pretty great. Also if you use Safari or Firefox you can very easily “install” the webpage as an “app”, or use something like Native Alpha to do the same thing (but I think most mobile browsers offer this feature.)

The beehaw admins have stated their hopeful end goal would be a federation whitelist, rather than the current blacklist format. So even if you were to make you own / join a smaller instance it seems like beehaw’s entire goal is to be walled off from most instances.

Looks great! Any chance this could add the ability to collapse child comments? Or is that beyond the scope / ability of this kind of stuff?