I’ve been thinking about how the Fediverse handles user accounts and logins for a while now, and I had a question.
Right now, users have to create accounts on specific instances on various platforms, which works but can sometimes feel a bit fragmented—especially when someone wants to interact across multiple instances or migrate to a new one.
Would it make more sense for the Fediverse to adopt a login system based on encrypted keys, like how NOSTR operates (or something similar)?
In such a system, users could have a single "universal" private key that serves as their identity across the network.
Here are some potential benefits I see:
Single Identity Across Instances: Users wouldn't need to create multiple accounts for each instance, making it easier to interact across the Fediverse.
Seamless Migration: If your home instance shuts down or you switch to another one, your identity and data could remain intact since it’s tied to your key, not the instance.
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Hey everyone,
I’ve been thinking about how the Fediverse handles user accounts and logins for a while now, and I had a question.
Right now, users have to create accounts on specific instances on various platforms, which works but can sometimes feel a bit fragmented—especially when someone wants to interact across multiple instances or migrate to a new one.
Would it make more sense for the Fediverse to adopt a login system based on encrypted keys, like how NOSTR operates (or something similar)?
In such a system, users could have a single "universal" private key that serves as their identity across the network.
Here are some potential benefits I see:
Single Identity Across Instances: Users wouldn't need to create multiple accounts for each instance, making it easier to interact across the Fediverse.
Seamless Migration: If your home instance shuts down or you switch to another one, your identity and data could remain intact since it’s tied to your key, not the instance.
Decentralization Boost: It might make the Fediverse feel even more decentralized, as user identities wouldn’t depend on a specific instance's infrastructure.
Improved Privacy: Keys could also enable stronger controls over data sharing and access at the individual level.
Of course, there are likely challenges to this approach, such as handling lost keys, onboarding non-technical users, or ensuring compatibility with existing protocols.
But it seems like a conversation worth having.
What does the community think?
Are there reasons this wouldn’t work for the Fediverse, or could this idea help address some existing pain points?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
EDIT:
I suggested this over on r/Fediverse and a Redditor gave me this:
account portability is high on the list of needed features, and there have been lots of suggested solutions.. that said, i dont think nostr is a shining example of.. well, anything.
lack of moderation is one of the biggest pain points. nostr is a cesspool of trolls
The Fediverse is already difficult enough to get as it is, add key management to the mix and we'll be a few hundreds instead of 42000 monthly active users
For most of the practical use cases, a mechanism to somehow link to your own instance would be enough.
I often stumble upon links to other instances, but from there, there's no direct way to interact via my own instance. I have to awkwardly copy URL parts around or search the post in my own instances UI.
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I guess it doesn't really work as described. The data that's valuable is your content history & unique username. There's no way around having to migrate/store this somewhere, and it shouldn't have to be replicated by every node. So basically we just need a solution for porting account data from one instance to another securely and accurately
I don't see how this proposal makes any changes. Your account is already unique and usable across the fediverse.
A key used for authentication is really just a long password, anyway.
If you mean you should be able to log into server A with your account registered on server B, that doesn't need key auth. Password auth would be fine, it's just not implemented (at least on Lemmy or any other fediverse platform I'm aware of). Authentication isn't federated, only content.
Which enables shared identity and seamless migration as you describe, but I don't think traditional web login needs to be abandoned. Fediverse will support both types of identities.
There are upsides and downsides to such an approach.
We admin several instances for example, because we are trying to create safe spaces for queer folk and want to foster those communities. We pay out of our own pockets to do so.
I've got no interest in running a generic piece of network infrastructure that can be used by bigots just as readily as the people that they harass.
The people that do want to run that are "free" speech types, which is how you end up with nostr
fun fact that I probably shared before, but my university had a physics class called estimations of scale, where you did order of magnitude estimations, usually of things really large like galaxies or small like particles, and then put them into a scale that is intuitive and made sense to you to imagine. One person I worked with did the length of his dick for the length scale (though he used something else for homework he had to turn in, probably football fields). The milky way is ~1.7*10^17 dicks across apparently.
Dan tends to work on too many things simultaneously (which isn't bad per say, and he thrives doing so) which means things get stalled and its a little hectic. Hoping more funds and community excitement will help spread the work out more and allow him to keep working as he does without other projects being on pause in the meantime.
A few of those projects just need to mature and have teams working on them, I think. There's nothing wrong with him bouncing around to different projects but it sucks that no one's working on Pixelfed if he isn't. It'd be great if he could secure enough funding for an additional paid dev on each of his major projects.
Yeah, it's crazy. Same thing for Loops, FediDB, Sup, and his million other projects. He's a one man band right now. And he has a full-time job on top of that!
I don't think that can go on for much longer with Pixelfed blowing up -- and they're still onboarding about 1000 people per hour. Just for moderating pixelfed.social, he said yesterday that he's received more reports in the last 48 hours than in the last 7 years. There's only so many hours in a day.
This is not that uncommon in open source, but I'd think that something like this community project would be more decentralized, i.e. as a lot of people (especially technical people) use it, and see rough edges, that their motivation would be higher to contribute then.
nice. I don't like that kind of social media, but that means the fediverse is getting attention and people may start migrating here instead of to progressively more privacy-violating platforms.
Great! Seems like a small subset of people are coming to the fediverse again like durring the reddit blackout. Always love having more people to speak to.
They do. I could be wrong, but I don't think Pixelfed supports groups yet so I don't think you can interact in a meaningful way. I looked you up from pixelfed.social. I can see your account and could follow you but Pixelfed only shows posts with attached media so I can't see any of your posts/comments.
you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side
OK so I went to my pixelfed.social account, searched for "@superbowl@lemmy.world" and clicked on the "follow" button.
and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.
So... does it have to be a lemmy account on lemmy.world (for !superbowl@lemmy.world, say). And is there any particular pixelfed account that the lemmy account has to follow?
I don't do Instagram either but PixelFed has pretty chill vibes. I followed some hashtags like #cat and #nature and now I have a nice little feed of cats and nature.
I also intalled it and im just gonna post cat and nature picks to boost the numbers and maybe even engage with the community. Never used instagram before but maybe this is the thing thats gonna encourage me.
These all refer to the main developer of pixelfed, dansup. The first one is dansup's pixelfed account followed on slrpnk.net where my account is. The second one is dansup's pixelfed account followed on lemmy.world, the biggest lemmy instance. The third one is dansup's pixelfed account followed on lemmy.today, which is your instance.
The account is visible to me on the first two links. HYPOTHESIS: I think that means it's "being followed" by those instances? The account is NOT visible on the last link for me, I just get an error. NeatoBuilds, take a look at the last link: it might give you an error the first time, but HYPOTHESIS: if you refresh, I think it will be visible and that means it's "being followed" on your instance lemmy.today.
Is that really the same thing though? Just for a random example of the first actor that popped in my head, Chloe Grace Moretz probably doesn't have as big a social media following as Skibidi Kid or whereas I could probably find random people in the streets in the 3rd world country that I live in if I just had to start bringing up her name without any further details. Whereas Skibidi Kid is only known by the other Skibidi kids on that particular platform and probably won't even be a big deal next year, like Dab Kid.
I used to see people express the same sentiment towards YouTubers and it's the same deal there IMO. SaltyPeeDrinker or whatever might cause a big ruckus in certain circles on the internet and have a bunch of incel fans but outside of the internet and in the real world, nobody actually gives a fuck. Not in remotely the same way as with movie stars, music stars, sports stars etc. These people aren't that important or significant, they're just another feature of online brainrot.
Edit: I feel like online 'content' creators are related to actors and musicians in
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Is that really the same thing though? Just for a random example of the first actor that popped in my head, Chloe Grace Moretz probably doesn't have as big a social media following as Skibidi Kid or whereas I could probably find random people in the streets in the 3rd world country that I live in if I just had to start bringing up her name without any further details. Whereas Skibidi Kid is only known by the other Skibidi kids on that particular platform and probably won't even be a big deal next year, like Dab Kid.
I used to see people express the same sentiment towards YouTubers and it's the same deal there IMO. SaltyPeeDrinker or whatever might cause a big ruckus in certain circles on the internet and have a bunch of incel fans but outside of the internet and in the real world, nobody actually gives a fuck. Not in remotely the same way as with movie stars, music stars, sports stars etc. These people aren't that important or significant, they're just another feature of online brainrot.
Edit: I feel like online 'content' creators are related to actors and musicians in the same way that AI art is related to human art or reality TV is related to Breaking Bad.
And what was everyone watching during the pandemic? Tiger King.
You can think as much or as little of social media and/or the film industry as you like, but there a noticeable change in the older media regarding its "talent": It's less common for them to have personal brands, quite unlike social media personalities.
I hear your point but also it might be a mostly first world thing. So kinda like comparing local country music artists to Michael Jackson. Maybe other 3rd world denizens can chip in but here (so this is purely anecdotal) but in my corner of the world, we watched movies and series and played games and shit like we would've pre social media.
Personally I'm not even sure what Tiger King is (and not that interested in finding out either, if I'm being honest) and if I go outside and ask around here, I'm not sure how many answers I would get. Possibly I'd get an answer once school is out and kids are around, I guess.
Edit: just to add, I hope this doesn't go the same way as the time I was trying to explain to Americans that the NBA really isn't this global phenomenon in every household and that John Cena is probably more famous here.
Just remember this when you see people complain about having to pick a server when joining Mastodon. It's not that, maybe it's just not easy/intuitive lile PixelFed is making it? I don't know.
And then when people were joining, I just saw them complaining about all the anger/aggression on Mastodon. It may've missed a big jump on point with Bluesky's rise, but there will invariably be more. People just have to be ready and willing.
The Fediverse needs UI work. The new world needs a new internet.
I'm thankful we have this glorified hobbyist project of a micro internet, because it's awesome. It's time for real layout work to make things more intuitive, instead of this "just solder it" open-source-in-the-bad-way energy that sometimes gets half-assedly splattered around.
For everybody who has and is working on the Fediverse, thank you.
God I hate this attitude. It's so obviously wrong and yet people fall for this trap again and again. Stop doing this please, think about it and you'll realize it's stupid.
I already know, but I also hate the "wow this shit we have sucks why isn't it better god someone please donate their skill to improve this thing I consume for free already and also show up to complain about while doing nothing"
The reason I dislike this comment is it characterizes the work of many different people as "don't care." I would bet money that there are people who work on fediverse projects who care very deeply about UX but have to settle because they have day jobs.
The UI's aren't that bad. They're replicating existing apps/styles and then bolting on features. In some clases like immich, they're replicating them so closely they're probably open for lawsuit :)
Loops is 75% TikToc. Lemmy is 60% Reddit.
If we had a couple of UI artists and Usability people join the projects and crank out designs, I wonder if the devs would implement them and spend the time making the output true to the design.
I only used sync on reddit and that's all I use on lemmy, tried many of the others and they're good but not perfect, for both the closed source and open source projects
"The UI is bad" is the stock attack on any open-source project. Doesn't matter how good the UI actually is, or how bad the corporate version is, "bad UI" is such a nebulous criticism that you can apply it to anything.
Well, people make good code that is open source, even though it doesn't make them any money. Same with wikipedia articles.
So why are we not seeing more contributions in the form of better UX/UI it the open source world? I don't see a logical reason why that has to be the case. The question is what can we do to change it, and also get UX-designers on board?
I'm not saying it's a matter of desire. It's a matter of time. A full-time developer has to feed their family, so they have to put most of their time into the stuff that makes them money. That means that their passion project is just naturally going to get less time as a function of the number of hours left in the day and the amount of energy for coding that the developer in question has.
Further, ux design is a less "atomic" process; small amounts of time working on ux is going to have less impact than small amounts of time in coding. A programmer could conceivably fix a bug or make a minor improvement or feature request in ten minutes, and a Wikipedia editor could spend ten minutes improving the grammar and punctuation of an entire article; but the ux process requires mockups, iteration, asset creation, and coding for every change—and even if that can be done in ten minutes, the rest of the ui will look completely different, meaning that the overall ux will be worse than before, despite that one thing looking better.
What can we do to change it? Compan
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I'm not saying it's a matter of desire. It's a matter of time. A full-time developer has to feed their family, so they have to put most of their time into the stuff that makes them money. That means that their passion project is just naturally going to get less time as a function of the number of hours left in the day and the amount of energy for coding that the developer in question has.
Further, ux design is a less "atomic" process; small amounts of time working on ux is going to have less impact than small amounts of time in coding. A programmer could conceivably fix a bug or make a minor improvement or feature request in ten minutes, and a Wikipedia editor could spend ten minutes improving the grammar and punctuation of an entire article; but the ux process requires mockups, iteration, asset creation, and coding for every change—and even if that can be done in ten minutes, the rest of the ui will look completely different, meaning that the overall ux will be worse than before, despite that one thing looking better.
What can we do to change it? Companies that rely on FOSS should donate to projects so that the people who work on them can afford to do so at least part-time, or empower their own employees to contribute to FOSS on company time. Those are really the only two options, barring some sort of UBI or public grant for open source software.
Thank you for expanding on this topic, and I get what you're saying about proper UX and how it requires a holistic understanding.
It least that is what is required to climb from "ok, I guess" to "good". But is there something that could get us from "terrible" to "ok, I guess"? What's your take on better, clearer design guidelines for example?
There was a point in time in OG Facebook, maybe the early 2010s, when they let you have really granular control of the timeline. Like they allowed any post to be clicked and you could change the amount you saw from that person or page on a sliding scale, and it actually worked! They of course got rid of it
If they made it so your average joe could contribute to the Fediverse with their own hardware I'd contribute. Tired of seeing social media be owned by Billionares.
Isn't this the dilemma? Each type of fediverse project has its own focus, presenting posts in different ways. If we increase interoperability to the point where everything can be presented fully on any service, will each service be able to keep their focus? Would there be a point in having pixelfed when mastodon exists?
I don't think it should be a dilemma - but some do. I don't see why there can't be different corners of the Fediverse. This is my most isolated account here and I'm fine with that. I don't personally want or need integration with Mastodon. I'm glad mbin has that for people who do but I'm not interested in it. And I think it's kind of cool that there are different cultures within Fedi. Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy are all so different from each other and I don't think it's a problem to solve.
I know the ActivityPub authors were concerned about Mastodon getting so big because it only implements a small portion of the AP spec. So they're stoked that others are building out in ways that expand beyond the needs of microblogging.
Oh cool yeah I was about to find my mastodon account and see posts and i could see my pixelfed account but shows it as no posts and no way to follow them
Mastodon is an app for sharing text that can also share pictures and videos. Pixelfed is an app for sharing pictures and videos with limited text.
You can curate a feed of pictures on Mastodon by following hashtags like #cats or #catstodon, but the interface is going to always emphasize the text first. Meanwhile on Pixelfed I can follow those same hashtags and get a much better experience for a feed primarily of pictures. Even though many/most of the posts will inevitably come from Mastodon users I can still browse those in my Pixelfed app in a much cleaner way. Artists can post their work from a Mastodon account, but the best way to view all their posts is going to be from Pixelfed.
This is why interoperability is a good thing. The whole point of federation is that different apps can implement their own version of the spec to curate a different type of user experience.
I'm not on the main pixelfed.social instance but mine went down for a bit this morning. I just waited a bit and then I was able to login again.
Mastodon and Lemmy also had a lot of trouble even they experienced these huge waves of migrations partly because no one had scaled the software this far before
Source hasn't been released, but the dev has said it will be and there's no reason to doubt that IMO. Same dev as pixelfed which is open source and federated
Yeah I don't think you can Follow people on the web interface of Lemmy, maybe on other interfaces. I think it's more a matter of: is the Instance following the pixelfed/mastodon account. If so, then future posts will show up.
Ok the cool thing is you can post to lemmy from pixelfed the same way you do from mastodon by tagging the community and instance @community@instance.domain
Wow awesome. I made another couple comments on your post from pixelfed.social and mastodon.social (as "Terencio") - my comment made on mastodon.social showed up on pixelfed.social - my comment made on mastodon.social did NOT show up on lemmy.today/post/22411382 Hypothesis: bc nobody on lemmy.today is following that mastodon.social account? - my comment made on pixelfed.social did NOT show up on mastodon.social. specifically, mastodon.social/@MrPistachios@… This was a bit of a surprise. - my comment made on pixelfed.social did NOT show up on lemmy.today/post/22411382 Hypothesis: again, bc nobody on lemmy.today is following that pixelfed.social account? Also, I forgot to add the "@sideoftheroad@lemmy.today" part.
You what we need? A snapchat alternative. I actually like the idea of snapchat even though i hate the product. Just sending a random picture to your freinds every day is a cool thing imo. And it would be pretty easy to implement probably because you wouldnt need to federate posts just send it to the users you sent it to.
Honestly, just building an RCS app with easy grouping, quick captions, streak tracking, and delete requests would be the way to go with this. Then you have an immediate network effect of every iPhone and Android user in the world, and you don't have to get your friends to switch if they don't want to.
I'm so happy to see an Instagram alternative. We can continue helping people find a better way to post and engage without giving data to everyone and their mom
I just joined pixelfed and I’ve been finding myself compelled to post. It just feels like such a small positive corner of the internet. I hope it can maintain that vibe as if grows
An initiative so feared that China has stopped saying its name
The Economist
China | The Voldemort of economic plans
“Made in China 2025” has been a success, but at what cost?
LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT from Harry Potter, “Made in China 2025” is an initiative which induces so much fear and loathing abroad that Chinese officials dare not speak its name. The plan, introduced a decade ago, called for pouring money and resources into dozens of industries. The goal was to turn China into a green and innovative “manufacturing power”, one that relied less on labour and Western supply chains, and more on automation and new home-grown technologies. This was Xi Jinping’s vision for the Chinese economy.
is an innovative Open-Source feature that enhances political discourse on social media.
It automatically labels posts from US politicians with information about their top financial contributors, offering users immediate context about the potential influences on these public figures.
Key benefits of implementing a similar feature on Mastodon could include:
Increased transparency: Users would have easy access to information about political funding sources.
Enhanced political discourse: This feature could lead to more informed discussions about politics and campaig
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Has anyone ever considered the potential creation of a Labeler similar to Andrew Lisowski's Bluesky Politician Labeler, but for the Mastodon platform?
This tool, which has been developed for Bluesky, provides valuable transparency by listing top contributors to US politicians.
is an innovative Open-Source feature that enhances political discourse on social media.
It automatically labels posts from US politicians with information about their top financial contributors, offering users immediate context about the potential influences on these public figures.
Key benefits of implementing a similar feature on Mastodon could include:
Increased transparency: Users would have easy access to information about political funding sources.
Enhanced political discourse: This feature could lead to more informed discussions about politics and campaign finance.
User empowerment: Mastodon users would be better equipped to critically evaluate political content.
Platform differentiation: This unique feature could set Mastodon apart from other social media platforms.
It could be designed to respect Mastodon's federated nature, possibly allowing instance administrators to opt-in or customize the feature for their communities.
Given Mastodon's focus on user privacy and data control, any implementation would need to be carefully considered to ensure it aligns with these core values.
The feature could potentially be developed as an optional plugin that users or instance administrators could choose to enable.
I personally believe that something like this could SIGNIFICANTLY enhance the political discourse on Mastodon while providing valuable transparency to users.
It would be an innovative addition that aligns with Mastodon's ethos of empowering users and fostering meaningful conversations.
I would consider doing something like this, but, unfortunately, I personally lack the time, energy, and technical knowledge.
Are they hell. Has anyone, ever, known their insurance premium to go down? It’s a racket. If they 20 limits are cutting costs, that cost is being turned into further profit, not savings for the customer
Of course not, at least not here in the states. My premium went up $60/year and their reasoning was that due to an increased number of accidents and claims across the board, everyone's goes up, despite the fact the I haven't had an accident or even a claim in almost 20 years.
Mine has actually gone down a couple of times with two different car insurance companies. Though my insurance has never been on the hook for a claim from me either.
I’m in my 40s, work a low-risk job, live in a low-risk area, have 12+ years no claims, a clean license. Ignoring the points at which everyone’s insurance gets cheaper as they age, my premiums has gone up constantly. Coincidentally, so have insurance underwriter’s profits. I definitely could have got cheaper insurance if I’d have compromised on cover, or gone with a worse-rated provider, but that’s not my point. The base cost of insurance is set by the underwriters, and that has increased year on year for just about everyone
As Joseph Biden’s US presidency comes to an end, many on social media this week are saying that his legacy boils down to one thing: his active role in Israel’s fifteen-month war on Gaza, which has been widely defined as a "genocide" by human rights organisations, international bodies and scholars.
Biden’s last day as president, on 19 January, is also the first day of the planned Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal that was reportedly pushed to the finish line by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, though both Biden and Trump took credit for the deal.
This has raised more significant criticism of Biden’s role in Israel’s bombing campaign on Gaza, with the US providing $17.9bn in military aid since 7 October 2023 after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel and the subsequent war.
His unfaltering support for Israel led to the infamous nickname given by pro-Palestinians and social media users: "Genocide Joe".
As Joseph Biden’s US presidency comes to an end, many on social media this week are saying that his legacy boils down to one thing: his active role in Israel’s fifteen-month war on Gaza, which has been widely defined as a "genocide" by human rights o…
i would be VERY upset with myself right now if i had voted for kamala harris on the pretext that the biden administration was the best option to stop the genocide as well as voting to protect lgbtqia from the likes of project 2025 since the public can now see the same tired excuse of an individual dissenter blocking everything recycled again for not enacting the equal rights amendment that could defend us against project 2025 and trump succeeded in stopping the genocide in a few days were biden couldn't in a year and half.
i know that these two facts fall on deaf ears for most democrats based on my interactions with them on lemmy; so i behooves us and the democrats who didn't overlook a genocide to figure out a way to get those who considered the genocide to be "no big deal" or simply "single issue voting" to be brought back to table.
we'll continue our descent into fascism without these people and i wish i know how we could bring them back to the table when they double down like republicans and refuse to admit that these two the reasons why they voted democrat was pro
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i would be VERY upset with myself right now if i had voted for kamala harris on the pretext that the biden administration was the best option to stop the genocide as well as voting to protect lgbtqia from the likes of project 2025 since the public can now see the same tired excuse of an individual dissenter blocking everything recycled again for not enacting the equal rights amendment that could defend us against project 2025 and trump succeeded in stopping the genocide in a few days were biden couldn't in a year and half.
i know that these two facts fall on deaf ears for most democrats based on my interactions with them on lemmy; so i behooves us and the democrats who didn't overlook a genocide to figure out a way to get those who considered the genocide to be "no big deal" or simply "single issue voting" to be brought back to table.
we'll continue our descent into fascism without these people and i wish i know how we could bring them back to the table when they double down like republicans and refuse to admit that these two the reasons why they voted democrat was proven false in the last week or so.
i wish i know how we could bring them back to the table when they double down like republicans and refuse to admit that these two the reasons why they voted democrat was proven false in the last week or so.
Let's just consider them a lost cause, and not expect anything significantly good for economic, foreign or even cultural policy from these rabid dogs. The Democrats will only scold us, if not aid the Republicans with fucking us over.
I think the demographic to focus on are the people who are just falling out of liberal mainstream and who haven’t formed strong political opinions of their own. They’ve already come to realize that libs are gaslighting them, and that the system isn’t working on their interest because they see their standard of living collapsing while mainstream media keeps telling them they’re living in the best economy ever. Such people become open to new ideas and can be reasoned with. As the economic collapse continues to progress, the liberal mainstream will necessarily shrink as increasing numbers of people start becoming disillusioned with the system.
17-åring misstänkt för bombdåd i Krokslätt, Göteborg. En 17-årig pojke har begärts häktad som misstänkt för att ha legat bakom en explosion på Glasmästargatan i Krokslätt i onsdags Många som bor i området kallar det för Burås.
The Israeli army claimed on Saturday that it successfully intercepted a missile launched from Yemen with air raid sirens going off in the greater Tel Aviv area and Jerusalem following the attack, Anadolu reports.
The Israeli ambulance services reported dealing with several cases of panic and injuries as residents rushed to shelters following the activation of the sirens.
In addition, flight operations at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv were temporarily suspended following the missile launch, according to Israeli Channel 12.
The Israeli army claimed on Saturday that it successfully intercepted a missile launched from Yemen with air raid sirens going off in the greater Tel Aviv area and Jerusalem following...
Spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces said in a statement on Saturday that "We targeted the Israeli Ministry of War in Tel Aviv in a missile attack."
"This operation was carried out with the 'Zolfaqar' ballistic missile, which hit the target with very high accuracy and the enemy's defense systems were unable to intercept it," Saree said
Israeli regime has continued its genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip despite the Wednesday ceasefire agreement, which will take effect on Sunday. It was announced on Saturday by the Gaza Health Ministry that the Israeli regime had killed over 122 Palestinians in Gaza since ceasefire was announced. On the other side, The Yemenis have vowed they will not stop their pro-Palestine retaliatory attack until the Israeli war on Gaza stops.
TEHRAN, Jan. 18 (MNA) – Spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree says that the Yemeni military has hit the Israeli regime war ministry's compound with a Zolfaqar missile.
"Israel" has reported financial losses amounting to $67 billion as a result of its ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) news website mentioned on Saturday.
It highlighted that this figure includes $34 billion in direct military expenses and $40 billion in general budget losses, marking the largest economic setback in the Israeli occupation's history.
Over the past year, approximately 60,000 Israeli businesses have shut down, representing a 50% increase compared to 2023, the news website said. It added that the Israeli tourism sector has also suffered significantly, with a 70% decline in visitors leading to losses exceeding $5 billion.
Meanwhile, the construction industry reported losses of $4 billion, with more than 70 companies ceasing operations, according to MEMO. Additionally, data revealed that one-third of the population under Israeli occupation now lives below the poverty line, with a quarter experiencing food insecurity.
The Brazilian government has announced the official inclusion of Nigeria as a partner country in the BRICS bloc. This was confirmed in a statement released by Brazil’s Foreign Ministry on Friday. Acco
The world needs more Robin Hoods and Ishikawa Goemon. Given increasing inequity and corruption without any real hope at a systemic level, Material conditions are right for the return of the outlaw hero, I think.
I am not a court. I don't have to have a trial to believe in somebody's guilt. According to the evidence I have seen it appears he shot a man to death.
Commiting a crime makes you a criminal, so if you break a law you are a criminal. And if the decisions of health insurance workers are also breaking laws they are criminals too.
Then if you have ever gone faster than the speed limit, you are a criminal. That makes most people in the developed world criminals.
That aside, the point is that naming someone a criminal has moralistic baggage, and by saying that anyone that breaks laws is a criminal thus immoral, you imply all laws are inherently moral.
I mean, the word criminal basically means law breaker.
Now as many laws are unjust and many horrific actions are protected by the law.
Just like at one point in time... a futitive slave, would be by definition a criminal, and his owner by definition not a criminal.
Again, the whole concept is noting that it's about the definition of the word criminal... and that criminal does not have to do with morality.... only in concurance with the laws of the land it is taking place in.
You don't know anything other than what lying American police told you and lying American media reported they said. You have absolutely no evidence or have any knowledge of his guilt or innocence. It appears that way to you because liars told you and now you are repeating it to me like an obedient dog.
It really seems like it's human nature to call out bullshit when you see it on your opposing side and then do mental gymnastics when it gets applied to you.
This literally makes no sense, you applied nothing to me and you've said nothing of substance. You are unable to say anything worth while because you are a moron. You are totally full of shit too in that you believe you have evidence of a murder that you don't and are sure people are guilty before any sort of due process. You're just another propagandized American idiot and there is no value to reading anything you ever have to say. Talk to my block list fash
They are, by law, innocent until proven guilty. The “evidence” you have seen is certainly not all the evidence, and your beliefs have been swayed before defense can make an argument.
I still think it's fucking hilarious that they tried to make him look like National Threat No. 1 but ended up creating one of the most badass photos of 2024 instead.
I get the point but "criminal" isn't a moral label. Cops are monsters even if they don't break the law. Similarly, if Luigi did it, that means he committed a crime but it still doesn't make him the villain.
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originalucifer
in reply to Teknevra • • •account portability is high on the list of needed features, and there have been lots of suggested solutions.. that said, i dont think nostr is a shining example of.. well, anything.
lack of moderation is one of the biggest pain points. nostr is a cesspool of trolls
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leisesprecher
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •For most of the practical use cases, a mechanism to somehow link to your own instance would be enough.
I often stumble upon links to other instances, but from there, there's no direct way to interact via my own instance. I have to awkwardly copy URL parts around or search the post in my own instances UI.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to leisesprecher • • •Die4Ever
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Also related, but no ETA
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/i…
Remotely open post, similar to remote follow · Issue #2318 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
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in reply to Teknevra • • •catloaf
in reply to Teknevra • • •I don't see how this proposal makes any changes. Your account is already unique and usable across the fediverse.
A key used for authentication is really just a long password, anyway.
If you mean you should be able to log into server A with your account registered on server B, that doesn't need key auth. Password auth would be fine, it's just not implemented (at least on Lemmy or any other fediverse platform I'm aware of). Authentication isn't federated, only content.
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in reply to Teknevra • • •It can be done with FEP-ae97:
codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…
Which enables shared identity and seamless migration as you describe, but I don't think traditional web login needs to be abandoned. Fediverse will support both types of identities.
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fep/fep/ae97/fep-ae97.md at main
Codeberg.orgAda
in reply to Teknevra • • •There are upsides and downsides to such an approach.
We admin several instances for example, because we are trying to create safe spaces for queer folk and want to foster those communities. We pay out of our own pockets to do so.
I've got no interest in running a generic piece of network infrastructure that can be used by bigots just as readily as the people that they harass.
The people that do want to run that are "free" speech types, which is how you end up with nostr
Blaze (he/him)
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in reply to Teknevra • • •How about a decentralized digital identity?
walt.id/
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