Mastodon and friends are built as open conduits with very little in the way of safety or permissions. Spam should be expected.
It’s not a Fediverse vulnerability. It’s a Mastodon vulnerability. Don’t want spam? Use a better fediverse technology.
No idea. Sorry.
Sounds like something is incorrect in your setup. Nothing Lemmy does requires x11, dbus, or any display technology.
You are correct. Streams is Fediverse software that you install on a server.
I initially misunderstood your question, so deleted my post. Sorry about that.
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Run your own instance. It’s the only way you’ll be able to set your own policies. Otherwise you’re subject to policies of the instance you’re on and those policies may change at any time.
That bad?
Last time I used Windows on my own was back in the XP days. I saw some of the early Vista and it was even worse. I can’t imagine what the recent versions are like.
Check the database pool_size variable in the Lemmy configuration.
Wallabag might work.
Have you considered hosting your own instance instead? Seems like that would solve the issue.
Conversations, Cheogram, Dino are the ones I’ve used.
You make a valid point, but I have to disagree about the need to collect the data without consent. I think the key here is opt-in. The way cellular devices currently work there is no way to use one without the location tracking. That is not technically required. It’s a design choice on the part of the telecommunications companies. Let’s imagine a telecommunications infrastructure that does not and technically can not track identifying location information. With such an infrastructure, the potential for abuse is immediately gone. Then let people opt-in to location tracking services using apps or other features on their device on an individual basis. I’m not against giving people individual choices. It’s the forced location information gathering that needs to go.
The act of collecting the location data should be illegal. Selling it should never have been possible.
That’s lip service to privacy with spyware in reality.
These are all good questions.
The lose of signal won’t matter. It happens to me all the time as I move from wifi to wifi.
For your third question, it depends on if you a have a key backup with a key security code. That’s something you should set up asap after your initial client login. If you do, then you can recover. You might want to look at https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/16202 for more explanation. The question comes up a lot.
Regardless, I’d make sure you’re always logged in twice if you can. Do you have Element Web running alongside Matrix? If you do, keep logged in on a desktop, or laptop. Just in case you lose the phone.
Here’s how I do it. Might be worth giving it a shot. This is on FreeBSD, but I doubt that matters.
git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git lemmy
cd lemmy
git checkout 0.17.3
git submodule init
git submodule update --recursive --remote
echo "pub const VERSION: &str = \"$(git describe --tag)\";" > "crates/utils/src/version.rs"
cargo build --release
strip target/release/lemmy_server
Then copy target/release/lemmy_server to wherever you want to run it.
It’s developers working on their time to build an app they want. You don’t have the right to demand they do things your way.