In like exactly the same place I fucked my hand all way up with an arborist saw. Since the saw thing happened like a month ago, it hasn't stopped hurting. Now, I seem to have pulled some Fred Flinstone personality-switching bullshit with the billhook because it doesn't hurt anymore.

I just think it's important to remember that, while federation and interoperability are HUGE HUGE features (and, ultimately, the purpose) of Lemmy but I do believe that it's important to remember that there is still incredible value in a Lemmy instance that is siloed to a particular group of people and/or whitelist federated with specific other servers.

There is power in being able to create a private community with this functionality and use-cases for organizations, private groups, and whoever else to have siloed instances like this.

You could have a Lemmy server on-prem at work just for relevant work things with coworkers. You could make one for your neighborhood. You could make servers dedicated to mutual aid that federate with only eachother to further your cause and reach.

This is probably what the internet was supposed to be.

It appears to work well. And from my lychee instance, to boot! Nice

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/913697

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/923025

lemmy.world is a victim of an XSS attack right now and the hacker simply injected a JavaScript redirection into the sidebar.

It appears the Lemmy backend does not escape HTML in the main sidebar. Not sure if this is also true for community sidebars.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1088039

I've seen a lot of comments suggesting Threads should be pre-emptively defederated by Lemmy/kbin instances if it tries to join us. I'm a bit confused what the problem would be. When Meta does its usual corporate bullshit over at Threads, how would that hurt a user or community based on Lemmy.world? If anything, wouldn't it give the fediverse a boost if Threads users start discovering communities outside of Meta's control?

I presume I'm missing something, as you can probably tell I don't fully understand how Lemmy, Threads or federation all work.

@bradganley https://toad.city/notice/AXOemAPiwNppO4MF84

@bradganley TEST https://toad.city/notice/AXOemAPiwNppO4MF84

@bradganley test

It feels like mad weird to have just a completely empty community so here's a link to fill space.