Littr – Link aggregator inspired by Reddit and HN using ActivityPub federation
littr.me
littr.me
The Github linked in a sibling comment can use a screenshot to give a better idea of what it does.
Other links:
Another Fediverse alternative inspired by Reddit: https://join-lemmy.org/
This is an interesting idea, I wonder how it would work out.
It's definitely interesting, but my gut reaction is that it is a bad idea. If you invited somebody, that means (a) you know them somehow and (b) you want them to participate in the community. Unless you have a stronger bond with the community and are willing to risk your relationship with the invitee for it, moderation will be quite lax, I fear.
On the other hand, having the inviter sanctioned if the invitee misbehaves is also an interesting concept. The behavior in the community will probably be better, but people will be very cautious to invite someone, possibly starving the community.
Perhaps a weighted scale would work. Alice could invite Zachary, taking responsibility for, by her choosing, 1 to 100 percent of his behaviour. Bob could invite Zachary too, also taking responsibility for 1 to 100 percent of his behaviour. Zachary could only begin using the service after 100 percent of his behaviour is accounted for. Then, when Zachary is reprimanded, Alice, Bob, and all others take a hit as well, weighted by their responsibility.
I might be willing to take 100% responsibility for my brother, but I would take about 20% responsibility for RMS and perhaps 1% responsibility for some guy I work with.
But - and sorry if I'm overly negative here - I see other issues: First, you wouldn't want to dilute the stakes too much. If my bad behavior is a very small problem for 100 people, they probably don't care too much and nor do I. The more pressing problem might be that growth is now really heard. The easiest way is if someone takes 100% responsibility, but then you only get very similar people and no new ideas. Or you need several people inviting the same person, so your community cannot grow exponentially (I think).
This might be a good approach if you strive for homogeneity and accept small growth.
My assumption for making the decision in allowing inviters to moderate their invitees is that theoretically they have a closer report to them outside of the website, and as such the moderating activity will happen out of band (ie, a face to face discussion, a private message, etc) and if that fails, they have the latitude of operating the moderation actions, like removing the offending post.
This also mostly solves the problem of bot upvotes/downvotes (you would have to follow those bots to be affected).
However, due to federation, nothing will prevent you from participating in the discussions for other instances but you have to opt in specifically into those by either commenting yourself, following the author of the discussion, following the instance itself, etc.
PS. I am the dev behind littr.me
I'm not saying you should do this, or even that it's a perfect model, I guess I'm just surprised it hasn't been tried.
In littr.me I want the focus to be explicit on forming a smallish community surrounding a restricted range of interests.
This post is fairly high on the frontpage and seems to be suffering the consequences of interest. But a Slashdot/Sigh/Reddit/Hackernews clone in the federated space is awesome. Be sure to save for later.
I'd say there is. You could crowd source moderation, but that's susceptible to the same manipulation seen with bitcoin miners.
Culturally speaking, we seek out trustable sources. I'm not sure technology can surmount that.
Why should finding a trustable source be incompatible with using technology? It seems like precisely the sort of problem that technology can help with.
Of course, technology alone can't "solve" trust, but it can keep track of identities and claims and reputations, and even allow implementation of clever algorithms for discovering patterns and making recommendations.
Anyway, here is the plan for decentralized spam/abuse prevention that Matrix is proposing, which looks promising:
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...
care to elaborate?
What's Sigh? I've searched but can't find anything.
Are there any known dictionaries or mappings from autocorrected text to possibly intended text?
Some folks are shocked to hear that anti-vax isn’t necessarily aligned with one political point of view.
I have seen this with my own eyes. People only see what mainstream media tells them to see. I rather see the receipts for myself.
I think more they don’t see much news at all.
Either way you would have heard about a variety anti vax folks if you watched it over the years.
[1]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/0.16.5/config/config....
Personally I disagree with this stance in open-source, and I do take "freedom 0" seriously for my projects. At the same time I will be quite sad if they will end up being used by communities trying to disseminate unpalatable ideas.
That's why the mechanism for establishing federating links between littr.me instances will be specifically opt-in. An instance will "follow" another instance, and that other instance will have to "accept" the follow, for content from the second one to propagate to the first.
At the same time a user will be free to follow an instance and receive its content at any time, but it will not seep into the "federated" timeline that the instance presents to the other users.
This behaviour is not set in stone yet - it's the last major hurdle - that and the 502s everyone is complaining about :D - before I feel confident to launch the platform in a more public manner - and it's different from what the major players in the fediverse world do at the moment, which is accrete instances as their users follow other users on those instances. This, in my opinion is a little irresponsible and has everything to do with the chase for the "network effect" and users numbers, which I personally see as the main down-fall of every social network that has been launched in the past 20 years.
Apologies for the 502s, this unexpected bit of publicity happened while I was deploying some barely tested code using Go generics. :(
Looking through the comments, I'm humbled to see mostly positive sentiments and I hope that sometime soon I'll have a better show and tell which will include the federating mechanism that is currently not available.
I hope the next show and tell will go better.