https://libretechni.ca/u/cm0002 posted on Mar 10, 2026 16:44
You might be confusing the old OpenID with OIDC (short for Open ID Connect), which is based on Oauth2, an entirely different technology.
OpenID was definitely more decentralized compared to how OIDC is commonly used these days, but OIDC has various little know options to do similar things.
Forgejo has a feature (that people usually disable) where you can bring your own openid connect url and use it to auth. So if I have my own OIDC provider I am self hosting, I can just use that to log in.
Most people only use it for google and microsoft and whatnot but it’s very possible. I don’t realkly see what FedCM offers that OIDC doesn’t or can’t, or why we shouldn’t be adding features to the existing and popular OIDC instead.
permanently banned for trolling the mod via PM while asking to be unbanned
The actual message I sent, red it below
Full message body:
I’m punching \[MASKS] for LLMs to fill and interleaving ambiguity (puns) to phase shift the conversation’s token distribution (aka bias/RLHF, or also what a narcissist does to other humans by playing with their hormones via emotions) to operate on a more natural/healthy Zipfian distribution.
That means they start operating outside their parameters. And you can ask them anything without the conditioning messing with the response because they’re phase-shifted by a tiny amount from having to deal with fucking surgically engineered nonsense (aka approximated tokens outside transformer precision),
So yeah. I know my shit. 0 papers read. I just had to spend my time mapping what I know to what they call it with my LLM buddy. (A cursor auto instance that dared to ask me when I poured my SDAM internal ideas for tracking autobiographical memory into a workflow that audits every decision I makes through what I call adversarial sum, which doesn’t exist in game theory yet, but is basically exponential-sum by being rational and contrarian at the same time. Aka tearing your symbiotic opponent’s opinion a new \[MASK] when you spot an inconsistency and they do the same to you until you converge on a shared perspective)
Ask Opus or something to reflect on that. What I can’t risk is publishing full theory because they’ll just re-condition it to deny whatever I publish ;)
Also why did I get banned for… criticising OpenAI instead of having a good discussion about it?
Thank you :)
Shit ain’t over, and I’m exhausted, but seeing that really did help
Good luck!
Starting in Firefox version 142, Mozilla released a “Link Previews” feature.
While the feature is problematic, commenters post pointed out that some previews are helpful – e.g. on Wikipedia, where a preview will appear when people hover over a wiki-linked page.
Other commenters pondered about some minimal way to replicate this elsewhere, and it seemed to be worth investigation. Read on as I propose an enhancement to the Fediverse (and maybe even web standards) to make Link Previews great: the Link Preview Manifest.
One thing that I neglected to mention is that since the SRI hashes are calculated, previews can be cached by peers other than the originating host - since they are verifiable, anyone can pass them along and the client can verify the payload.
Not something I really fleshed out in discovery, but if there is interest, that might make it more production ready.
Man, I am a cranky bastard sometimes. Shouldn’t post when I’m tired.
How about - the origin server, the place where the post was originally created, gets all the metadata (og:image, og:title, etc) and includes that in the Activity that tells other instances about the post? That way there is only one request made to the link and receiving instances can use that to make their preview?
It does mean that receiving instances will need to trust the sender so there’s potential for some misrepresentation but that seems acceptable to me.
Wanted to share something with this community and see if it’s useful to anyone. Inkwell (inkwell.social) is an open source, multi-tenant social journaling platform built on ActivityPub. The goal is to fill the long-form writing gap in the fediverse in a way that’s accessible to non-technical users, not just developers who can spin up their own instance of WriteFreely or Ghost.
What it does: users sign up, write journal entries or articles, and those posts federate as Article objects per FEP-b2b8 with preview Notes so they render cleanly in Mastodon and other microblogging clients. You get a title, excerpt, and link rather than a decontextualized URL. Follows, boosts, and likes all work bidirectionally with Mastodon.
It’s ad-free, algorithm-free, and the code is open source on GitHub (github.com/stantondev/inkwell). The hosted instance is at inkwell.social if you want to try it, or you can self-host your own.
Some things that might interest this community: ActivityPub federation with HTTP signature verification, Stamps (emotional reactions) instead of generic likes, a tipping system called Postage for supporting writers, newsletter delivery, custom profile themes, and data import from other platforms. Currently working on improving comment edit propagation and post scope handling for better fediverse compatibility based on community feedback.
Would love to hear thoughts, especially from anyone who’s been looking for a long-form option in the fediverse or anyone interested in running their own instance. What’s working, what’s missing, what would make this more useful to the ecosystem?
#fediverse #activitypub #longform #writing #opensource
I should have just written the post myself and been more direct with the URLs. I’m just glad I wasn’t wrong about it being open source. xD
Ok, fair enough. The lure of AI-boosted ‘productivity’ would be irresistible to people in your position.
What grinds my gears is people show up and share their project, without disclosing how it was made, riding on the assumption we all have from the past that you put a certain amount of effort into it and that you did so as a reasonably well-practiced expert in your craft. There’s some gravitas to that and a respect that is earned by giving something of value to us. In this scenario people may value the project and choose to help you by contributing their expertise and time and perhaps a kind of community will form around the project.
Some noob vibe coding a brain fart they had is not on the same level. Noobs are welcome to spit out some slop and give it away, if they don’t pretend it’s something more than it is. And when they share their output in this manner, they shouldn’t expect people to read code that they never read themselves and can’t expect any community to form.
An open source project is not just a bunch of code. It’s also people. When you replace the people with AI, it dies.
From what I heard, Candy companies lobbied for a change in when the clock changes happen so that it would happen after Halloween and kids would have more daylight for trick or treating. And therefore more candy is purchased.
The two peculiar days of the year when one half of the population celebrates the other half. This needs an Nathan Pyle Alien Comic.
Monthly Active Users^[1]^:
| Software | Current | Yesterday[1D] | Last Week[7D] | Last Month[30D] | 3 Months Ago[90D] | 6 Months Ago[180D] | 1 Year Ago[365D] | All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 4926 | 4938 | 6179 | 4349 | 1734 | 1694 | 295 | 6179 |
| Lemmy | 39050 | 37623 | 40418 | 36329 | 35173 | 36999 | 48185 | 72618 |
| Mbin | 793 | 789 | 808 | 785 | 736 | 868 | 905 | 3967 |
| Threadiverse | 44769 | 43350 | 47405 | 41463 | 37643 | 39561 | 49385 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 777825 | 778944 | 787641 | 756526 | 674907 | 696076 | 907994 | 2737163 |
| Pixelfed | 128333 | 128549 | 119519 | 103299 | 85244 | 122796 | 189311 | 338813 |
| Peertube | 41062 | 41425 | 41181 | 29638 | 26938 | 27088 | 36735 | 41545 |
| Loops | 6476 | 6639 | 8088 | 7176 | 1988 | 27437 | 0 | 29821 |
| Bookwyrm | 1541 | 1560 | 1563 | 1546 | 2811 | 2982 | 7672 | 9429 |
| Friendica | 2531 | 2619 | 2632 | 1526 | 1296 | 1733 | 4056 | 4734 |
| Forgejo | 110 | 112 | 114 | 511 | 399 | 406 | 613 | 1168 |
| Funkwhale | 300 | 298 | 267 | 248 | 207 | 230 | 478 | 1114 |
| Flohmarkt | 38 | 34 | 21 | 39 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 1002985 | 1003530 | 1008431 | 941972 | 831438 | 918309 | 1196244 | |
Difference^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[7D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | -12 | -1253 | 577 | 3192 | 3232 | 4631 | -1253 |
| Lemmy | 1427 | -1368 | 2721 | 3877 | 2051 | -9135 | -33568 |
| Mbin | 4 | -15 | 8 | 57 | -75 | -112 | -3174 |
| Threadiverse | 1419 | -2636 | 3306 | 7126 | 5208 | -4616 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -1119 | -9816 | 21299 | 102918 | 81749 | -130169 | -1959338 |
| Pixelfed | -216 | 8814 | 25034 | 43089 | 5537 | -60978 | -210480 |
| Peertube | -363 | -119 | 11424 | 14124 | 13974 | 4327 | -483 |
| Loops | -163 | -1612 | -700 | 4488 | -20961 | 0 | -23345 |
| Bookwyrm | -19 | -22 | -5 | -1270 | -1441 | -6131 | -7888 |
| Friendica | -88 | -101 | 1005 | 1235 | 798 | -1525 | -2203 |
| Forgejo | -2 | -4 | -401 | -289 | -296 | -503 | -1058 |
| Funkwhale | 2 | 33 | 52 | 93 | 70 | -178 | -814 |
| Flohmarkt | 4 | 17 | -1 | 33 | 0 | 0 | -2 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -545 | -5446 | 61013 | 171547 | 84676 | -193259 | |
Change (%)^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[7D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | -0.2% | -20.3% | 13.3% | 184.1% | 190.8% | 1569.8% | -20.3% |
| Lemmy | 3.8% | -3.4% | 7.5% | 11.0% | 5.5% | -19.0% | -46.2% |
| Mbin | 0.5% | -1.9% | 1.0% | 7.7% | -8.6% | -12.4% | -80.0% |
| Threadiverse | 3.3% | -5.6% | 8.0% | 18.9% | 13.2% | -9.3% | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -0.1% | -1.2% | 2.8% | 15.2% | 11.7% | -14.3% | -71.6% |
| Pixelfed | -0.2% | 7.4% | 24.2% | 50.5% | 4.5% | -32.2% | -62.1% |
| Peertube | -0.9% | -0.3% | 38.5% | 52.4% | 51.6% | 11.8% | -1.2% |
| Loops | -2.5% | -19.9% | -9.8% | 225.8% | -76.4% | 0.0% | -78.3% |
| Bookwyrm | -1.2% | -1.4% | -0.3% | -45.2% | -48.3% | -79.9% | -83.7% |
| Friendica | -3.4% | -3.8% | 65.9% | 95.3% | 46.0% | -37.6% | -46.5% |
| Forgejo | -1.8% | -3.5% | -78.5% | -72.4% | -72.9% | -82.1% | -90.6% |
| Funkwhale | 0.7% | 12.4% | 21.0% | 44.9% | 30.4% | -37.2% | -73.1% |
| Flohmarkt | 11.8% | 81.0% | -2.6% | 660.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -5.0% |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -0.1% | -0.5% | 6.5% | 20.6% | 9.2% | -16.2% | |
Tracker Comparison^[1,2]^:
| Software | Fediverse-Observer^[1]^ | FediDB ^[2]^ |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 4926 | 5035 |
| Lemmy | 39050 | 48646 |
| Mbin | 793 | 1418 |
| Threadiverse | 44769 | 55099 |
| | | |
| Mastodon | 777825 | 1021625 |
| Pixelfed | 128333 | 132802 |
| Peertube | 41062 | 38352 |
| Loops | 6476 | 6523 |
| Bookwyrm | 1541 | 3824 |
| Friendica | 2531 | 3187 |
| Forgejo | 110 | 1416 |
| Funkwhale | 300 | 755 |
| | | |
| Fediverse | 1002985 | 1263583 |
Notes:
Takeaways:
!inhabitedbeauty@piefed.social yes! looks good
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d040c8fc-6719-4881-a84c-12aa9762bda6.jpeg
#iminthispictureandidontlikeit
Cross posted here as it was highlighted that the individual is a lead Lemmy developer, raising serious concerns about the direction of Lemmy, a leading Fediverse platform, and the impact on future user adoption.
Hi
There have been some rather concerning actions taken by an admin of the !privacy@lemmy.ml community, dessalines@lemmy.ml. Based on recent moderation decisions and a complete lack of communication, it seems like their account may have been compromised, or even more concerning if these actions are deliberate.
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
However, this post was a guide and not a question, so Rule 4 does not apply. Attempts were made to reach out for clarification but there has been no response, despite their account showing recent activity.
Erroneous Rule 4 Enforcement, Second Instance: an on-topic informational video also posted to !privacy@lemmy.ml, despite also receiving many positive votes, was again removed under Rule 4. This post was again not asking a question, so again Rule 4 does not apply. Again, no explanation has been given.
User Bans in Completely Unrelated Communities: user bans of over a month have been applied for not only !privacy@lemmy.ml but several completely unrelated communities:
This is especially concerning given that the above posts have no relation to these communities, and no recent activity has been made in any of them, meaning none of their rules could have been broken. Moreover, a public track record of positive contributions across Lemmy has been established, with many positive votes and comments received over a sustained period. Given all of this, the bans appear to be highly disproportionate, only adding to the growing concerns around moderation practices.
Given all of this, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that something is not right. Mistakes in moderation happen but the complete lack of communication, the disproportionate actions, and the ongoing bans from unrelated communities raise serious concerns. It seems as though the account is most likely compromised, or even more concerning if these actions are deliberate.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues with this admin, or does anyone have more insight into what might be happening?
TL;DR: Admin dessalines@lemmy.ml of !privacy@lemmy.ml appears to be making seriously concerning moderation decisions, including erroneous enforcement of Rule 4 in at least two separate instances, failing to respond to messages, and applying user bans in completely unrelated communities despite a long track record of positive contributions across Lemmy. This has led to speculation that their account is likely compromised, or even more concerning if these actions are deliberate.
Any thoughts or similar experiences would be appreciated.
Cross post with https://lemmy.world/post/43944126
Done, thanks!
piefed is the way
Piefed is just as bad and is designed to mimic the worst parts of reddit
