Lemmy release 0.14.0 - the controversial hardcoded slur filter is gone + bunch of federation improvements.

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[–]AlanSmith33 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

Nice.

[–]LarrySwinger2 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Faith in humanity restored... A tiny bit, at least.

Btw /u/JasonCarswell bringing this to your attention.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Very cool! Thanks for the ping!

Ping /u/d3rr.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

yep, way cool. big release and they are fixing their past insanities.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

You wouldn't need Lemmy-Ansible but I think it's great and neato.

" Be aware that if you have federation enabled in the Lemmy config, Mastodon and Pleroma users can now fetch all posts and comments, to view them and share with their followers. The Lemmy blocklist/allowlist can not prevent this, it only prevents posts/comments from blocked instances to be shown on your own instance. The only solution to this problem is disabling federation, or waiting for signed fetch to be implemented. "

This has me wondering if the blocked content is still shared and archived. Signed fetch sounds curious, and if it's modular I wonder if other modules could be developed to serve our evil plans benevolent free-thinking purposes.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This has me wondering if the blocked content is still shared and archived.

blocking instance: no

blocked instance and any federated instance of blocked: yes

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I don't fully understand. I'd ask a question but I don't know where or how to start.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's get crazy, I don't understand it all either. There's single instance policies and then the federation at large policy and then even the policies of your federated app vs other federated apps (lemmy and mastodon interactions).

But the cool thing is no one is in charge of anything, so you can easily hack up your instance to refuse to ever delete anything. You can get a 'this user deleted their account' message, but your instance says fuck it and does nothing. very hackable, no centralized blockchain shit whatsoever. no teams.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Critically, filtered or not, everything can be backed up - and when spam tries to abuse this it can be managed?

Simple but not: I'm for 100% open free speech 1) if people can set their own tolerance filters (ideally interactively participatory) 2) and if spam/STABs/porn/illegalities can be tagged or nullified if necessary.

[–]filbs111 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

The joy of regex: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/b18ea3e0cc620c3f97f9804c09b92f193809b846/config/config.hjson#L8-L12

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

You'd think they'd at least alphabetize their censored slurs so you could read their code easier.

(fag(g|got|tard)?\b|cock\s?sucker(s|ing)?|ni((g{2,}|q)+|[gq]{2,})[e3r]+(s|z)?|mudslime?s?|kikes?|\bspi(c|k)s?\b|\bchinks?|gooks?|bitch(es|ing|y)?|whor(es?|ing)|\btr(a|@)nn?(y|ies?)|\b(b|re|r)tard(ed)?s?)

Asshole is absent.
Bitch is censored.
Cocksucker is censored.
Cunt is absent.
Many other basics are absent.
I'm still certain shill, sealion, and liar are not name-calling.

What is mudslime?

Tyrannical n!ççér5 can never kill creative expressions.

So much effort could have been put into adding actually useful things (metatags, archival tools, etc).

[–]filbs111 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I wonder whether their ideology prohibits unit testing this.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The units who coded it surely tested it.

[–]sproketboy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

read their code easier.

Perl? Regex? DEFY!

[–]Rastafoo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And now sites like WolfBalls are rising up. Thanks for the software Lemmy! Bye Bye now! XD