FediOnFire, a Fediverse project similar to Firesky, which offers an IRC-like view of the global firehose, has shut down after a misunderstanding led to community backlash.

  • breadguyyyyyyyyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I don’t like Gleason or nostr but this happened with mostr too lol, people were getting real up in arms accusing it of duplicating accounts, going so far as to DMCA the project. but that’s literally how federation works, any account or post that’s federated is cached on the instance lol. it’s like people don’t realize that their public posts are public

    • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.caEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      To be totally fair, nostr’s whole thing is that users can delete all of their federated data if they want to, so it makes sense if they are upset about having their data copied to a place they can’t control.

      Not sure how realistic that is with the data being publicly accessible via the web, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the they have some kind of license that gives the dmca request the ability to hold a nonzero amount of water. Then again, I wouldn’t be suprised if completely fails, either.

      • breadguyyyyyyyyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        12 hours ago

        nostr relays can comply with delete requests or not, same with fedi servers. pretty sure they all do though and relays don’t share posts with each other. there’s a couple of crawler services like nostr.band and noswhere for search and indexing, but if you delete your fedi post or don’t post publicly it should be gone from mostr

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    17 hours ago

    There’s a small, but extremely loud segment of the Mastodon userbase that seems to view presenting public posts in any manner that’s different from how a vanilla Mastodon server does as an invasion of their privacy. There have also been a few projects that raised reasonable concerns about privacy and moderation, but this page doesn’t seem to make a distinction.

    It appears to contain misinformation about FediFirehose, which ran client side and just showed the output of a public relay.

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      16 hours ago

      It’s not nearly a small enough segment, really. It’s a fairly significant fraction of the pre-2022 population.

      They were excited to see people show up after Musk bought Twitter, but it was a very “now you’ll have to play by OUR rules!” kind of excitement.