The Activitypub protocol is nothing but a piece of paper. Meta can rewrite it if they want, but that doesn’t mean Lemmy, Mastodon or the many other platforms would automatically use it. Programmers have to implement it, and then instance admins have to deploy it. So by inertia it’s likely that changes would be ignored by most platforms. However they could easily bribe developers or admins to make certain changes.

Lemmy 0.19 supports authorized fetch when retrieving remote objects. Enforcing it for fetches from Lemmy would also not be hard. It doesn’t make much sense though as long as we don’t have private communities.

All of the fields should be defined in context. Which one do you think is missing?

The spec allows using plan JSON for Activitypub.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Downvotes federate as Dislike activity which are part of the standard. There are some nonstandard parts eg for locking posts distinguishing comments. But most platforms including Mastodon or Peertube have such custom fields.

There is already Sepiasearch specifically for Peertube.

I bet a year ago you would have said the exact same things about Lemmy, and yet here you are.

There are plenty of Wikipedia articles which are not objective, particularly when it comes to politics or history. Of course federation means there would be many different wikis. That makes sense, for example different countries should have their own independent wikis, instead of using one controlled by a different nation.

The more I think about it, the more I like the name. Here is the freshly renamed repo, but its not released yet so 🤫

It sounds like you didn’t read the article at all, because it clearly explains how Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales himself is involved in many such cases of corruption and manipulation. The code is not the problem, but the fact that a single organization has full control over the site and can decide which contributions get accepted or rejected.

Wikipedia has very major problems, but almost nobody is aware of them. Give this article a read to get an idea.

Yes the mascot is not mandatory, thats why I said bonus points. Fedipedia is too boring though, and too similar to Wikipedia.

I like this, although it feels a bit too short.

Yes I saw this before. However the structure is quite confusing and not at all like Wikipedia. From what I can tell it also doesnt federate that well.

There is no specific release date. It depends how much time we need to fix remaining bugs which are being reported.

The Atlantic Council report linked in this post is quite interesting. For those who don’t know, the Atlantic Council is a major “think tank” which is funded by billionaires and the US government, and helps to write US foreign policy. In the report is a section about moderation on Mastodon and the Fediverse (from page 124). However the report only talks about moderation in terms of fighting “disinformation”. Other things like moderating trolls, spammers or racists are completely ignored.

I opened an issue about it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2264

The change to cursor is intentional, it improves server performance: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3872

3 and 4 are most likely caused by problems with server-side rendering.

Images were temporarily broken due to authentication problems, but thats fixed now. If you encounter problems in apps, please them to the developers so they can fix them.