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Here is the link to the original website (an NGO that monitors blocked websites in Turkey): https://ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/distrowatch-erisime-engelledi/
And here is the Google translation of the text on that page:
The IP address of the DistroWatch platform, which provides news, reviews, rankings and general information about Linux distributions, was blocked by the National Cyber Incident Response Center (USOM) on the grounds of “IP hosting/spreading malware”.
I know you said “self hosted”, but if you are interested in an Android app, Google Play Books does most of what you want, I think. You can upload your books, and read them on any device (with offline capabilities). But this is the Self Hosted community, so I will show myself out.
I don’t follow it very closely, but as far as I know, they are the only one implementing the open protocol they designed (which doesn’t interoperate with ActivityPub). However, there seems to be some efforts for creating a bridge: https://www.docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed
As you said, there are some recognizable faces and that may impact the adoption. But not being compatible with ActivityPub is a real bummer.
I think single account ActivityPub implementations are addressing a weakness of the Fediverse: one’s identity (handle, username) is tied to an instance they have no control over. If that instance shuts down users lose everything. With a single account instance, you take that control back. And since it doesn’t need to scale the architecture can be much simpler and can be deployed to much cheaper infrastructure.
The demo was not straightforward, though. And I didn’t quite get how a user can follow Mastodon users, for example.
Note that with OAuth nothing much will change - the app will still have access to the JWT token which is used to impersonate you.
The user will have the option to revoke access for your application.
That’s the main reason I don’t use any apps. I don’t think there is a real need to suspect the official UI. If one doesn’t trust the instance admins, then they should rather migrate.
In case of an application running on a server, there is no reliable way to make sure that the source being shared is the source that is deployed. As I said, I don’t think you have any ulterior motives. I’m only trying to raise awareness around a specific problem with Lemmy. Perhaps I should create a separate post about this in relevant communities, if it hasn’t been done already.
I agree that this is a feature Lemmy lacks and would be great to have in the core. And thank you for taking the time to create it. However, asking for username and password is a security problem. I’m not attributing any ill intent to your work, but something like this can very well be used to harvest account credentials. So I would advise people to not use solutions like this.
Unfortunately Lemmy doesn’t provide a better way to implement this kind of add-ons. Hopefully one day it will have a better Auth system. Until then, I think I will stick to the official UI and hope that this will come to core :)
Is the bot open source? If so, where does it reside?
Good bot!
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Does it also work with links in markdown
I believe there is already a browser add on for this. Cannot remember the name right now.
Edit: I think this should be in Lemmy core.
Good bot
Thank you very much for this!
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I would add Ars Technica to that list and call it a day.
For programming I follow YouTube channels of the conferences relevant for my tech stack (YouTube natively supports RSS). They are generally 1 hour talks but it’s a great way to stay up to date.
The shape of that bottle is creepier than the text.