Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC
By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST
"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.
Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC
Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grav…Elis Gjevori (Middle East Eye)
Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32467220
By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.
Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC
By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 28 June 2025 21:08 BST"Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grave breaches of international law.
"This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces," said L. Compton, Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs. "It exemplifies Channel 4's commitment to brave and fearless journalism," she added.
Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC
Channel 4 will broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a documentary laying out damning allegations that Israeli forces systematically targeted Gaza's hospitals and medical staff throughout their military campaign—allegations which would amount to grav…Elis Gjevori (Middle East Eye)
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Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m
"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."
Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.Sanya Mansoor (The Intercept)
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Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32465391
Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."
Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."
Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.Sanya Mansoor (The Intercept)
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Has anyone had success putting ProtonVPN or any other VPN aside from MullvadVPN on Bazzite?
I've installed it through secureblue's ujust script. I think this has been the smoothest experience I've had with it on Fedora Atomic.
Previously, I relied on the wireguard profiles I downloaded from ProtonVPN and which I loaded through NetworkManager. While it definitely worked, it was a hassle to redo it every now and then. Furthermore, switching on the go to something else I hadn't loaded already was never an experience I enjoyed doing.
Though, for completeness' sake, ProtonVPN^[Note that, IIRC, IVPN and Mullvad don't fare better in this regard.] hasn't fixed its IP leakage on Linux. And, to my knowledge, the workaround is only available with access to the wireguard profiles. And thus, the cumbersome method actually offers a very tangible merit over the comfortable one.
Finally, while I don't endorse the use of NordVPN, it's the only other VPN that's installable as a sysext. Note that systemd system extensions are still experimental, though. Even if they've (read: N=1) been reliable to use for me.
secureblue: Hardened Fedora Atomic and Fedora CoreOS images
Hardened operating system images based on Fedora Atomic Desktop and Fedora CoreOSsecureblue
That guy is a piece of garbage for sure, but as a man losing most of his hair I hope not to be lumped in with trash like that.
PS: Who is the other guy? Sorry for not knowing.
Love... is a burnin' thing...
And it makes... a fiery ring.
Bound... by wild desire...
I fell into a ring of fire.
...
The taste... of love is sweet...
When hearts... like ours meet.
I fell for you like a child...
Ooooh, but the fire went wild.
...
biography.com/musicians/johnny…
Johnny Cash and June Carter:
Two fucked up, rough and tumble assholes who... married and remained together, totally devoted to and thankful for each other for 35 years, died within 4 months of each other.
Burnin' Ring of Fire is one of the most famous songs of all time... June wrote it, Johnny sang the most famous version.
youtube.com/watch?v=1WaV2x8GXj…
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Andrew Tate:
Self described drug dealer, rapist, sex trafficker, failed MMA fighter... openly states he is disgusted by nearly all women, and only fucks them because it makes other men envious of him, also he claims to only fuck 18 and 19 yos ... apparently he married someone a few months ago.
I'm sure that'll work out well.
Oh right, uh, no notable discography, nor chin.
(why do you think he has the beard)
Johnny Cash Described His Love for June Carter as 'Unconditional'. Inside Their Love Story
Immediately drawn to each other, the country singers navigated rocky roads before and throughout their marriage.Biography
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Huh, I may have it wrong... but that would mean wikipedia has it wrong.
Says June Carter and Merle Kilgore wrote the original version, sung originally by June's sister Anita.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_…
Maybe Johnny edited it a bit?
I... struggle to say this pun but uh:
This is some real Folk-Lore.
Wait wait wait wait........you mean somewhere, out there in the world is MMA footage of andrew tate getting his ass handed to him?
Why is this not viral???
Wait you haven't seen this?
Hold on...
youtube.com/watch?v=yPW0VaTYhN…
Watch those knees just go fucking limp and askew... real KOs lol.
Its likely not viral because this is all bootleg, PPV footage, you'd get copyright takedown'd / sued into oblivion by all the various fight organizations.
I think most of his record is in relatively minor leagues, only a few fights in relatively bigger deal organizations... not sure.
Idk about MMA, but afaik his kickboxing record was pretty good, but essentially he was an average/slightly above average pro who had a massively padded record - he mainly fought people who were ranked far lower than him, won some low to mid level titles and didn't take actual fair matchups or compete in tournaments that you'd expect actual highly ranked pros would compete in.
So, he was a perfectly adequate kickboxer and could beat a lot of pro kickboxers in lower divisions but nowhere near "best in the world" / "olympic level" or whatever else he claims
Haha yeah the wording is rather ... malleable, in that way.
Much like your-
You get it lol.
Israel Suffered Extensive Damage [ex-CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson]
Despite the arduous efforts of Israeli censors to hide the devastation Iran inflicted on Israel with its barrage of ballistic missiles during the 12-Day War, information is emerging that destroys the myth that Israel had an impregnable air defense. The map at the head of this article reveals the sites targeted by Iran. Based on the videos of strikes in Haifa and Tel Aviv, I think this map accurately portrays the massive scale of the Iranian attack. For the first time in its history, Israel took a major beating.
Actually being progressive to get women's attention and tell them about how lucky they are that he's not like these other closed minded men can certainly be used to control a woman. I highly recommend reading "Why does he do that? Inside the mind of angry and controlling men" by Lundy Bancroft.
I had to admit that I had been controlling of my wife for years and didn't even realize I was doing it. Sometimes I try to cling to my old ideas and dismiss this stuff but I really can't.
"Straight pride" isn't a thing. It's purely a reactionary response to gay pride.
The point of gay pride is for gay people to show that they're not afraid to be who they are in the face of systematic discrimination. It is specifically countering the culture of gay shame that had been the norm in the past. Straight people are already the overwhelming majority and have never been oppressed for their sexual orientation. There's was never any shame associated with it so it makes no sense to proclaim that you're "proud" to be straight.
It's like someone who finished a marathon expressing their pride for their accomplishment, and some loser who has to make everything about themselves says "well I sat on my ass all day and I deserve to be proud of that too!"
The issue is not that it's not okay to be proud of being straight, you're welcome to feel pride all you want. The issue is when you but into someone else's moment and make it about yourself.
Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts
At a panel hosted by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) in London on Saturday, experts accused mainstream Western media of contributing to the denial and distortion of atrocities unfolding in Gaza.
Omar al-Ghazzi, Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, called the trend “a war on history.” He warned that the use of media narratives as future historical sources could shape how upcoming generations understand the events in Gaza.
The panel also pointed to specific language patterns in coverage. Hanif noted that the term “massacre” appeared 18 times more often when referring to Hamas attacks than to Israeli attacks on Palestinians. He said this imbalance reflected a wider rhetorical bias and an uncritical acceptance of Israeli government claims—particularly those targeting local journalists in Gaza.
British-Israeli journalist Rachel Shabi said Israel has consistently framed its ban on international reporters entering Gaza as a safety measure, while accusing Palestinian journalists of links to Hamas. She criticised international media outlets for accepting these narratives without challenge. Historian Avi Shlaim described Israel’s media strategy as an aggressive propaganda campaign designed to suppress criticism by labelling opponents as antisemitic.
Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts
As Israel’s war on Gaza intensifies and expands across the Middle East, media analysts and human rights advocates are raising concerns over the lack of international accountability and the role of western news outlets in shaping public perception of …MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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The United States Cannot Defeat Iran
The United States Cannot Defeat Iran
Those whose calculus of a US/Iran war has assumed overwhelming American air superiority will abruptly find the parameters of their equations altered.William Schryver (imetatronink)
Defeat is not a goal, and war is not a likelihood
The destabilization of Iran and distraction from Israel's Palestinian genocide, and the vilification of Islam to aid in both of those things, are the actual goals, and those can be accomplished through the threat of war and the propaganda campaigns that accompny it.
Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"
This article is a response to Tim Chambers' recent writeup, titled The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix). It's a pretty great read, and I'm writing this not as a rebuttal, but to analyze and expand on the points made.
This is a musing on 7 problems that have been pointed out, with some ideas on what progress has been made to fix them.
Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"
Thinking through Tim Chambers' writeup on how to deal with the sometimes very spotty UX of Open Social Web platforms.Sean Tilley (deadsuperhero)
I don't get your "Sin #2: Navigation Inconsistency" as I don't have those three Timelines on my instance.
which shows my followed hashtags and users; then I have discover where I see trending posts/hashtags/users/news and then a live feed which updates in realtime.
Also why propose to dumbify the nature of the fediverse? If you don't want to use those features simply don't, those who want to use those features can continue to do so?
Is this entire piece just opinion based or did you actually backed it with user testing/feedback (users tend to not be as dumb as an Uxer think they are)
Amazon delivery van erupts in flames in Arlington
Amazon delivery van erupts in flames in Arlington
An Amazon delivery vehicle was fully engulfed in flames on Sunday in Arlington, Virginia.Jessica James (WJLA)
The Millionaire Exodus Myth
About 11,000 news pieces were published around the world in 2024 by some of the most read and most watched news outlets claiming that droves of millionaires were fleeing countries in record numbers. This was a huge exodus, we were told, with economic consequences, and the root of it all was supposedly taxes on the super-rich. But here’s what all this media reporting left out, these record numbers of millionaires leaving represented just 0.2% of all millionaires. In other words, almost 100% of millionaires did not move to another country, yet somehow this was spun a full 180 into an exodus. So where does this story come from? Well, it’s based on a report published by a firm called Henley and Partners, which helps sell golden passports to the super rich. Golden passports were just ruled to be unlawful by the European Court of Justice, thanks to a challenge by the European Commission, which said golden passports impose a serious risk of corruption, money laundering, tax evasion. Our review of the Henley and Partners report shows that there were several issues with the report’s methodology, its sample and its reporting. But what the media reported and what governments listened to was a fiction, based on questionable data published by a firm that helps the super-rich buy their way out of rules that apply to everybody else. Scare stories like these are used to block the positive change people want.
The Millionaire Exodus Myth | naked capitalism
Millionaires are not fleeing countries to escape taxes.Conor Gallagher (naked capitalism)
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lemm.ee has shut down for good
lemm.ee has shut down at 00:14 UTC.
unfortunately I realized too late that I have had hundreds of saved links to posts and comments from there, so I did not have enough time to save them, but anyways it is interesting that maybe a third of the post links I could try were dead. I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.
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it should, as long as the post was synchronized in the past...
seekms your username was different on lemm.ee:
~~hmm that's interesting because I did not have a lemm.ee account! :D~~ just 3 tons of links to it.
edit: I misunderstood it, no I didn't have an account there
also in the meantime I did some research. it turns out I was probably remembering the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher userscript: greasyfork.org/en/scripts/4692…
it can look up posts by their activitypub id, which is the de-facto ID of a post, that is same across all instances. this ID is the url of the content on the original instance. so, the following could be an activitypub id, if the post was actually created on lemm.ee: lemm.ee/post/64477597
to look up a post by this, the userscript uses the /api/v3/resolve_object API endpoint.
it searches your local instance, and if you are authenticated it also queries the host in the url, lemm.ee in this example. but of course this remote query does not work anymore.
now here comes the twist. I know I always read lemmy through sh.itjust.works, so whatever I saved should be known by this server. and the link that I save, often does not point to the origin instance, because clients work that way.
so it seems 2 lemm.ee links that I tried to look up were not actually posted there, because bmy server does not know a post that has this ap id, I just somehow got a link that points to the lemm.ee version of that post or comment........
Fortunately the messaging app I misuse for link collection always loads the title and image of the webpage, so by some manual work I should be able to find the actual links to each of them.
Lemmy Universal Link Switcher
Ensures that all URLs to Lemmy instances always point to your main/home instance.greasyfork.org
$ curl -sw'\n' \
https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsh.itjust.works%2Fcomment%2F19488525 \
| jq -r '.comment.comment.content' | head -n 1
~~hmm that's interesting because I did not have a lemm.ee account! :D~~ just 3 tons of links to it.
$Edit to add: Lemmy seems to URL-encode ':' and '/' sometimes :/
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Deleting your account deletes your content, unlike deleting your Reddit account. Hence the linkrot.
I learnt pretty early on that saving posts using the save button was not a good way to save the information 😮💨
Bookmarks won't help if the content gets removed. You've got to copy the important information elsewhere.
I tend to use either a note app (Joplin) or a self-hosted wiki for that.
Yes with ActivityPub there's always failed federation. But Lemmy will send the delete request out when you delete your account. Other software or instances might not honour it, but the intent is there.
As opposed to reddit who do not remove comments when an account is deleted, only mark it as a comment from a deleted account.
I'm not against Lemmy's implementation, but it does require you to collect information you need at the time not assume it will always be there.
$ curl -sI https://lemm.ee/ | grep '^location:'
location: https://join-lemmy.org/
I was literally filling out an application for another server when it went down. Sad day.
Unfortunately I waited too long and now I can’t see my subs that I wanted to migrate.
I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.
Are you sure? Are lemm.ee posts showing as deleted for you? It looks like the copies of anything posted to lemm.ee still exist on the instances that it was federated with. Try this link !animation@lemm.ee, I am pretty sure it should still work on your instance.
It's not all the lemm.ee posts, just a significant amount of them.
also in the meantime I realized my hundreds of lemm.ee links are not actually links to lemm.ee hosted posts, but just links to the lemm.ee view of them. I was just very often copying the wrong link that still worked, but wasn't the definitive one
Piefed speaks to Lemmy instances, yes.
You can import data here: piefed.social/user/settings/im…
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This is the flagship instance of PieFed, an open source project for the fediverse. Also try another server.piefed.social
I'm sure I was sufficiently notified, but I am not big on reading updates on ny instace, so this came as a surpise just now.
Thanks for the server! Onwards to the next!
The original shut down thread was posted over 3 weeks ago.
Damn, since I saw the warning thread I was hurrying my slow ass to back up my stuff, which I gladly did (some days ago), lemmy.zip is my new home now.
I feel sorry for the users that didn't get the chance to backup their stuff... An auto backup feature for Lemmy backend might be worth checking out perhaps?
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What do you mean? The authenticator instance could ban users, the moderators and the content provider instances could ban users, content provider instances could defederate from authenticator instances and viceversa.
Not sure I'm seeing the issue you are seeing, it's just basically forcing lemmy instances to instead of being both to just be one or the other. The benefit is that the actions on one is free from the drama on the other. One would be dedicated to hosting users, the other would be dedicated to hosting communities, less burnout overall.
Complete bans (at the home instance level) would require synchronization between the content provider instance and the authenticator instance.
Mod actions are caused by users comments on content, so the two aspects are closely intertwined, you can't dissociate the content from the users.
At the moment, admins synchronize in a group to deal with toxic users, usually leading to the ban of those users on their home instance. Having a split between two types of admins adds an additional layer that could actually increase the admins workload.
Since he said that the authenticator is the one that handles the communication & access, I expect banning the person from the authenticator would already automatically prevent anyone using that authenticator (or any other authenticator federating with it) from seeing the content.
As I understand it, the only thing the content provider would do is hosting the data. But access to that data would be determined by the service doing the access control, in the same way current instances are doing it.
the only thing the content provider would do is hosting
Hosting involves removal of content, which is triggered by actions performed by users.
At the moment, if a Lemmy.world user spams CSAM content everywhere, other admins can reach out to the LW admins, they ban the users and purge the content.
In a users/content model, with Lemmy.users and Lemmy.world still being the content, other admins have to reach out to the Lemmy.users instance, get them banned, then to the Lemmy.world admins to trigger the purge of the content on the communities.
On top of that, it is currently recommended to mod from local accounts, as report federation will be fixed in Lemmy 1.0, not released yet: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu…
The main part of the "admin burnout" comes from the management of users. There isn't really that much to manage on the content part that isn't linked to users.
Moderator from other instances not receiving reports
Requirements Is this a bug report? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a single bug? Do not put multipl...obosob (GitHub)
Hosting involves removal of content
Exactly. That means instances would not longer have that responsibility. That would be on the hosting service, meaning less pressure for the instance. Once they ban the user, the content would not be shown, it would be purged from the federating network of that instance, regardless of whether the hosting service actually deletes it or not (but I expect it would be better if the protocol makes it so banning a user sends a notification to the hosting service).
At the moment, if a Lemmy.world user spams CSAM content everywhere, other admins can reach out to the LW admins, they ban the users and purge the content.
It's more complex than that, at the moment, because the purge also involves mirrored content in other federating instances. The interesting part is that after it's triggered, then the process is pretty much automatic. When purging, Lemmy.world admins don't have to manually go around asking to all the other instances to delete the content. The purge request is currently being notified automatically to instances federating with it. Why would it be any different for a content hosting service?
Exactly. That means instances would not longer have that responsibility. It would be responsibility of the hoster, meaning less pressure for the instance. Once they ban the user, the content would not be shown.
At that point, the content instances would be merely storage. This model is already possible now, but the vast majority of instances host both users and content, because it is more interesting to have users to build a local community than just being a storage server.
If some admins were interested in only being storage servers, you would see more instances not allowing user registrations, but all the 35th most active instances allow them: lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
The interesting part is that after it’s triggered, then the process is pretty much automatic.
There have been cases where federation deletion was not processed correctly, so it would add an additional layer of potential issue
- lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38123874
Why would it be any different for a content hosting server?
As I stated above, it is currently recommended to mod from local accounts, as report federation will be fixed in Lemmy 1.0, not released yet:
- github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu…
- lemmy.world/post/30022166/1719…
What that means is that on top of your Lemmy.user account, you would need a Lemmy.content account that would be able to fully moderate the community as a local account. Users don't like to juggle between different accounts to moderate and participate.
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it is more interesting to have users to build a local community than just being a storage server.
Imho, it comes down to how much you care about the content of the community you are building. The reason I'm in lemmy.ml and not some smaller instance is because of problems like the ones showcased here.
If I could self-host my own content I would not mind being somewhere else. In fact, I'm considering setting up something through brid.gy. The fact that there isn't a separation of the hosting means that if I want to secure my content I need to have my own 1-person instance which is not something the protocol is very well suited for. Plus it's likely most lemmy instances would not federate with it anyway since, understandably, they may prefer an allowlist approach rather than blocklist. The only sane way would be to have the instances have full control of the access as they are now, with storage being in a separate service that can be managed separately, the hosting service.
it is currently recommended to mod from local accounts
Would this change at all if there was a hosting service?
I expect you would still be recommended to mod from local accounts (the "authenticator"), even if the content hosting was a separate service. The local account would continue being the primary source of access to the content.. note that having a separate hosting service doesn't mean that the hosting service must be the one managing access to the content from the fediverse.
The reason I’m in lemmy.ml and not some smaller instance is because of problems like the ones showcased here.
Quite a few instances are managed by non-profits which are much less prone to service disruptions, like fedecan.ca/en/ for lemmy.ca.
The local account would continue being the primary source of access to the content…
Isn't that contradictory with the users - content separation?
note that having a separate hosting service doesn’t mean that the hosting service must be the one managing access to the content.
That seems contradictory with the previous point. My understanding was that
- users would use Lemmy.user accounts to browse content (this is the recommended way to avoid user management for the content instance admins)
- mods would use Lemmy.content accounts to moderate communities (users would have to switch to those type of accounts from the first type if they want to start / mod a community)
Is this correct, or am I missing something?
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Discover a new way to connect online. As a Canadian not-for-profit, we can help you join a growing network of federated social media that prioritizes community over profit.fedecan.ca
Then I think we had a different understanding. My understanding was something akin to what bluesky does with the PDS, the data service just hosts data and hands it over to the other service which is the one actually doing the indexing of that data and aggregating it into communities. The data of the community might be hosted in the hosting services, but it's accessed, indexed and aggregated through the authentication service.
The access management, the accounts, the distribution of data, etc. that's still in the server managing the federation. That's the way I understood it, at least (I'm not the person that originally started this train, that was @TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca ).
This allows the content to potentially not be completely lost if an instance dies because it would be easier to carry your data to another instance without losing it. It's the same principle as in bluesky but applied to the fediverse.
Self-hosting - AT Protocol
Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider ATProto network.AT Protocol
Ah, I see. So something like activitypods.org/ ?
That would be an improvement indeed, but probably not something we will see any time soon.
ActivityPods - Personal data spaces powered with ActivityPub
Brings together ActivityPub and Solid Pods and empowers developers to create truly decentralized applications.ActivityPods
Complete bans (at the home instance level) would require synchronization between the content provider instance and the authenticator instance.
What are you referring to as a ban? Complete bans already require synchronization between different federated instances. Sometimes the home instance of a user is unable to entirely delete the content of a user because of it.
Mod actions are caused by users comments on content, so the two aspects are closely intertwined, you can’t dissociate the content from the users.
Not really. Mod actions are over a community, not user history. They are perfectly able to remove user comments within their community, and since they are the authoritative source that controls whom it is spread to that has greater influence. That never stops the same content by the same user from appearing elsewhere.
At the moment, admins synchronize in a group to deal with toxic users, usually leading to the ban of those users on their home instance.
They would still do the same, but the "usually leading to the ban of those users" perhaps does more to reveal what your actual problem is than anything else. You and me will have to disagree, because admins should not be authoritarian figures, but should only have control within their domain.
- If they want to administrate over a group of users, they can have control over which users are and aren't allowed over that particular group. They can issue their own warnings to users.
- If they want to administrate over communities, they can have control over which communities are allowed and how users are allowed to interact with those. They can remove users from those communities entirely.
The small but loud minority of toxic users can just have their authentication instances defederated if those instances refuse to do anything with them. If it is an authentication instance doing the defederation, then it will affect all of their users. If it is a content provider instance, it will affect all of their communities. In the current system, it does both because both are coupled into the same instance, so it's even compatible with it.
It stops bad faith actors from trying to pollute communities to slur entire instances, like lemm.ee or blahaj, because of their problems with their userbase, by simply stopping it from being an issue. Administrators don't have to worry about policing communities or users if they don't want to, they would be able to better choose whom they are catering to without bad faith backlash elsewhere.
Almost nothing of the current structure changes, except that dedicated instances have the functionality they don't need disabled. Both can still block each other to their heart's content, and if your problem is having more "splits" - that is literally what federated instances are, there can always be more ... Maybe your problem is with the fediverse and its distributed nature? You are making it out to be as if there is only ever a big bad group of toxic users and that all administrators always completely agree on all bans to make your argument work. At that point, just create your own reddit clone.
I addressed a few of your points in the parallel thread with @Ferk@lemmy.ml (actually, it seems like you read it as you commented below)
As I stated in one of the comments
At that point, the content instances would be merely storage. This model is already possible now, but the vast majority of instances host both users and content, because it is more interesting to have users to build a local community than just being a storage server.If some admins were interested in only being storage servers, you would see more instances not allowing user registrations, but all the 35th most active instances allow them: lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
I had a second look, and instances not allowing sign up are either going to shutdown (lemmy.one) are false positives (bookwormstory.social/signup) or are single-person instances:
Your vision is possible now, but it seems like almost no one wants to implement it.
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If admins goes missing like the feddit.de ones did, the same problem would still impact that instance, be it a user or a content instance
If admins just want to shutdown without willing to transfer the instance / domain like the lemm.ee ones did, the same problem would still impact that instance, be it a user or a content instance
Using instances with non profit like fedecan.ca/en/ (lemmy.ca and piefed.ca) seems a better way to mitigate that risk.
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I think you are misunderstanding the problem being solved. Expecting all instances to become non-profits and manage even more responsibility exacerbates the problem and inhibits the fediverse growth. Non-profits also have their share of pitfalls and is an entirely different beast.
lemm.ee told you the reason they were shutting down - not enough people to keep the place running and burnout. I can't force you to see how minimizing and distributing responsibility helps those issues if you don't want to. Less responsibility, easier for people not to ditch projects or end them.
That has nothing to do about what they decided to do afterwards. I thank them for not transferring the instance domain to a completely different party without user consent, and people would have disagreed with that so it's best everyone found their own solution. It would even have put their account information at risk.
lemm.ee told you the reason they were shutting down - not enough people to keep the place running and burnout. I can’t force you to see how minimizing and distributing responsibility helps those issues if you don’t want to. Less responsibility, easier for people not to ditch projects or end them.
Lemm.ee had the option to close their registration at any time. But registrations are only one source of user management.
In a scenario where Lemm.ee would have become a content instance, but kept their federation policy, they would still have received all the reports about posts on the communities they hosted, wherever the reported user comes from.
Lemm.ee was the instance with the most active communities after LW, there's no way to avoid a certain level of responsibility.
Like I said, I can't force you to see it.
In a scenario where Lemm.ee would have become a content instance, but kept their federation policy, they would still have received all the reports about posts on the communities they hosted, wherever the reported user comes from.
Being a dedicated content instance provider would also inherently imply dedicating that instance to a certain, more controlled type of content. An authentication instance might want to cater to a geography, which will probably decide to interact with the rest of the world and to provide adequate verification and certification mechanisms. A content instance might want to cater to a geography or a subject, resulting in specialized participation, with certification and verification based on the content, not the user.
You keep seeing monolithic instances that congregate the most communities as a plus. That's a negative in my perspective on the fediverse. It shouldn't be competing reddit clones with the one having the most communities winning out.
Being a dedicated content instance provider would also inherently imply dedicating that instance to a certain, more controlled type of content. An authentication instance might want to cater to a geography, which will probably decide to interact with the rest of the world and to provide adequate verification and certification mechanisms. A content instance might want to cater to a geography or a subject, resulting in specialized participation, with certification and verification based on the content, not the user.
Those control mechanisms were available to lemm.ee. There's a reason most active instances mostly defederate from certain instances.
You keep seeing monolithic instances that congregate the most communities as a plus. That’s a negative in my perspective on the fediverse. It shouldn’t be competing reddit clones with the one having the most communities winning out.
I don't, I'm the one regularly pushing for more decentralization of communities (reddthat.com/post/20197120 , e.g. !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com vs !privacy@lemmy.ml)
But I would rather have instances use the tools they currently have (and hopefully more will come with Piefed development catching up) rather than trying to re-engineer the whole platform when some instances don't use the existing moderation tools.
Like I said, I can’t force you to see it. The fact that you think it would mean re-engineering the whole platform means you aren't getting it. It's almost literally the suggestion of least effort, it's largely an organizational change that encourages instances not to cope with more responsibility than they can deal with by encouraging decoupling the current structure into two more specialized ones.
If you want re-engineering the whole platform, then I would suggest having all instances be authentication instances and rather than "host" communities to allow users to broadcast to community labels. Have any number of moderation groups be able to be created in an organized on that label or a personalized way by allowing users to select their own curators, perhaps even extrapolating it from the downvotes of trusted users and prioritizing the ranking of those they value. Work on providing a ground.news of discussions instead of biased takes and prunings from those in charge. Allow fast tracking of moderation across these adhoc groups for specially toxic content. That would solve the problem of nobody really going from a 10000 user community that has 100 daily posts to a 10 user community with 2-3 posts a week, because they would all operate within the same community but every user would be able to customize their perspective. The risk then is to balance the bubble they've created with transparency of all the other bubbles people are creating to interact with the community. Each particular instance would be able to be as biased as it wants to particular users or groups of users, but their content would truly be broadcast and federated.
Like I said, I can’t force you to see it. The fact that you think it would mean re-engineering the whole platform means you aren’t getting it. It’s almost literally the suggestion of least effort, it’s largely an organizational change that encourages instances not to cope with more responsibility than they can deal with by encouraging decoupling the current structure into two more specialized ones.
You make this about me, but nobody else sees it. As you said, content instance are possible today (admins just have to disable their registrations), but nobody does that.
Cool, I'll come to you to check on the feelings of literally entirely everyone else when I need to. I'm glad everyone went out and got themselves a spokesman. Meanwhile, I'll point you to an earlier mention in my comments about raising awareness.
You shift into completely diametrically opposed claims whenever it seems to suit you and portray a lack of awareness and possibility as consensus in this regard. Is it "trying to re-engineer the whole platform" or is it already "possible today"? There is no use like this because without willingness, people will just set up the instances like they've been told they have and perform slight variations on them. That is no proof or argument against the idea at all from people just following the cookie cutter.
A solution to this is Nostr.
One identity across the entire network.
Twitter-like Platform/client dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.
Reddit-like platform/client dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.
PC dies overnight? No problem, all data still there.
Data is sync'd across multiple relays, you can run your own, and clients are interoperable.
It's my go-to now, for everything.
A person's posts, their followers/audience, chats, etc never needs to be migrated.
Media is stored using the Blossom protocol which was created for Nostr.
V4V(Value 4 Value) is also a thing, so instead of just Likes/Reactions you can tip/Zap Sats (Bitcoin over Lightning) but that's optional.
It's not centralised though.
It's quite decentralised actually.
As for your "nazi bar problem", I'd suggest you review the relays you connect to. That's the beauty of free speech, and power of choice.
The content isn't gone.
It's still retained by the various instances that lemm.ee federated with, and entering the url of a lemm.ee post on those instances should still let you find their local copies if they have it.
yeah but it turns out a lot of my lemm.ee links are not actually to content that's originating from there, but lemm.ee-view links for which if I search, there's no result.
Fortunately I also have the title and image permanently loaded for these links, so I can find them with some manual work
Looking for a Safe, Super Open Source (and also cheap if not free) Journaling app. Any Recomendations?
I have already tried DayOne and Journey
Didn't like them Particularly. DayOne seems uncool and even though they claim, a little unsafe. Plus i once before lost all my journal entries in DayOne bcoz i didn't save the encryption keys in my GoogleDrive.
Journey is Worse (my opinion). They keep on pushing me to buy their paid option which costs 4$ per month. Like WTF. Its just a Journaling app.
I am not going to try Penzu because i have heard a lot of bad reviews on how they cheat people and stuff.
Finally i landed on DD-DigitalDiary which isn't open source. Which Sucks. But at least isn't costing me like 50$ a month or anything. Its mostly free. But i am looking or something better.
More specifically OpenSource, Free (or almost free) and idk, modern & sxy
Like when will these huge companies understand. Not everything needs to be VC funded.
Next i am launching my VC funded Venture backed Fried Eggs company
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My bad, I though everything was in their repo but since I'm not a Dev myself I don't know.
Here is the link anyway: github.com/anyproto
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Socialism != Communism
Socialism advocates for collective or government ownership of key industries to reduce inequality, while communism seeks a classless, stateless society with communal ownership of all property.
Kinda? Socialism is a transitional status towards communism. Socialism is largely categorized as a system where public property is the principle aspect, ie large firms and key industries, rather than private. Communism is when socialism has developed to the point where all production has become centralized, and collectively owned, thereby eliminating class and the modern conception of a state.
They are disinct in that they have functional differences, but are the same in that they are largely the same concept but at different historical stages.
How to undo Firefox changes to the titlebar controls buttons?
Firefox seemingly very recently shipped their own titlebar controls buttons, which worsens even further the lackluster OS integration. In the screenshot you see my regular control buttons on the window to the left (default KDE Plasma theme) and the new custom buttons Firefox is serving now.
Would anyone know how to undo that change in about:config or anywhere else?
My GTK Theme is already set to "Breeze".
And my Firefox Theme is set to "System".
Thanks though.
What you are referring to are the window decorations.
Apart from Linux Mint, Firefox almost always uses client-side decorations. What you are showing here is still client-side.
It is just that Mozilla recently enabled vertical tabs option for everyone, so the top bar is now slightly smaller than before. You can disable vertical tabs easily by searching in the settings.
like this
warm likes this.
Did you change the gtk theme recently? Firefox follows the gtk3 titlebars, not the qt ones. You would have to change the gtk3 theme back to breeze to have it match again.
If you changed off the default firefox theme, it will also no longer use native titlebar buttons, to make it use native ones with a different firefox theme, go to about:config, search non-native, find the titlebar buttons option, and turn it off.
My GTK Theme is already set to breeze:
Changing the value in about:config had no effect.
Thanks anyway though!
I have the same issue since one or two months, I'm on Firefox Nightly 142.0a1 currently.
For me it looks like this:
Firefox on the left, Dolphin (which uses the system titlebar control buttons) on the right.
A few months ago, firefox also used the system titlebar control buttons. When I noticed the change at first, I also searched for solution online and in about:config, but didn't find anything. All other solutions posted here sadly don't work:
- browser.tabs.inTitlebar only adds a standalone titlebar, like you noted.
- When searching for non-native in about:config, I don't see any titlebar buttons option that I can turn off.
- Vertical Tabs are already disabled for me in the settings.
If anyone finds a solution to this, I would be happy to be notified. Thanks in advance!
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
If @Frellwit is right, this seems to be intended and not a bug :(
1967099 - firefox nightly using custom titlebar buttons irrespective of widget.gtk.non-native-titlebar-buttons.enabled value
RESOLVED (nobody) in Core - Widget: Gtk. Last updated 2025-06-25.bugzilla.mozilla.org
Damn, but I'm not sure if I agree with gregp's resolution of the bug. The way I understand the changes in bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… it should still use the system theme, but rendered by firefox itself. However, the current state is that it doesn't follow the system theme anymore :/
EDIT: I just saw this comment: lemmy.world/comment/17957836
And yep, that's correct. I'm also using the Papirus icon theme, when I change the theme to breeze or something else, the buttons in firefox titlebar also reflect this change after a restart. So Firefox is now using the window-{maximize,minimize,close,....}-symbolic icons from the icon theme and not from the window decorations setting.
1964046 - After bug 1964022, titlebar buttons with adwaita look a bit off.
RESOLVED (emilio) in Core - Widget: Gtk. Last updated 2025-06-25.bugzilla.mozilla.org
1967099 - firefox nightly using custom titlebar buttons irrespective of widget.gtk.non-native-titlebar-buttons.enabled value
RESOLVED (nobody) in Core - Widget: Gtk. Last updated 2025-06-25.bugzilla.mozilla.org
wizblizz
in reply to Maroon • • •hobowillie
in reply to wizblizz • • •I actually just moved my gaming PC from Win11 to Mint Cinnamon 2 weeks ago. There was some driver fuckery (I have an Nvidia card) that made things a bit wonky but everything worked out after some adjustments.
Do you mostly game through steam? Do you install your games on a separate drive?
Steam makes the transition the easiest. All of my games "just worked" with Steam. There were a few modifications required to ensure stability with the games settings but it was mostly smooth sailing for me.
I just used thumb drives to pull all my games save files to and an external drive to back up all my installed games so I wouldn't have to re download them. Save game files are usually pretty small so all of the ones I had backed up on a single thumb drive and Steam and Linux creates a faux Windows folder system for each game and you just reinsert the save games in those folder structures at the correct spot.
wizblizz
in reply to hobowillie • • •I do primarily game thru steam, I've got icue software that isn't compatible but I believe I can use openrgb. Nvidia card also, is it just driver related?
hobowillie
in reply to wizblizz • • •Sorry for the late reply but the driver stuff was me trying out proprietary vs community Nvidia drivers and then just weird things that would happen on restarts after switching/updating drivers. I have an intermittent issue where the primary monitor (I have two) alternates being entirely light grey, red, blue, and green upon startup I haven't researched it yet because I just restart the computer and it is fine. And it has happened maybe 3 times over the last month (amongst dozens of restarts). There are a few things like that that only happened once so I wrote off the occurrence.
I have had the most luck with the proprietary Nvidia driver so far.
wizblizz
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