Yea it's going to take a while before some of the communities get going.
I think at this point, each community is going to take a little bit of work with the other spaces where people for that niche are gathered. Having good quality content here, setting up a sister subreddit-community thing, etc.
I got that from the article though, it's in the bit I quoted as well
I'm not from the UK so I was using the articles
I didn't know EFF was behind privacy badger, I've seen the extension around but never looked into it
I think it's one of those things where the intent is good, but the implementation will cause issues. Another risk is if the laws are abused under the guise of protection. At the same time, it's an important issue to try and address.
Encrypted messaging for example. It's impossible to have secure and encrypted messaging while also scanning the contents for issues. The best you could do is local scanning, but that won't be effective at all (it'll block legitimate content and let through harmful stuff).
If you get rid of encrypted messaging, that will make a lot of day to day work impossible, and it would harm those who need the protection of encrypted messages (ex. Journalists, whistleblowers, those under totalitarian/authorative governments)
I'd love to have some URL cleaning and redirection options, but I can't seem to get this one to work. Maybe it's something with my configuration, but I can't seem to trigger the app.
Would be nice if it appeared in the share menu, or even if I could open the app and paste in the link for edits
The article is about how there's less of it over time. Areas that were once nice (ex. Great views over the water or over a nice field) no longer work because of nearby light pollution.
Kinda left out the important bits, quoted below
Platforms will also need to show they are committed to removing illegal content including:
child sexual abuse
controlling or coercive behaviour
extreme sexual violence
illegal immigration and people smuggling
promoting or facilitating suicide
promoting self-harm
animal cruelty
selling illegal drugs or weapons
terrorism
New offences have also been included in the bill, including cyber-flashing and the sharing of "deepfake" pornography.
And the bill includes measures to make it easier for bereaved parents to obtain information about their children from tech firms.
Online safety campaigner Ian Russell has told the BBC the test of the bill will be whether it prevents the kind of images his daughter Molly saw before she took her own life after viewing suicide and self-harm content online on sites such as Instagram and Pinterest.
Digital rights campaigners the Open Rights Group said the bill posed "a huge threat to freedom of expression with tech companies expected to decide what is and isn't legal, and then censor content before it's even been published".
Lawyer Graham Smith, author of a book on internet law, said the bill had well-meaning aims, but in the end it contained much that was problematic.
"If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, this is a motorway," he told the BBC.
He said it was "a deeply misconceived piece of legislation", and the threat it posed to legitimate speech was likely to be "exposed in the courts".
And popular messaging services such as WhatsApp and Signal have threatened to refuse to comply with powers in the bill that would force them to examine the contents of encrypted messages for child abuse material.
Wikipedia has also said it can't comply with some of the requirements of the bill.
After royal assent the baton will pass to the communications regulator, Ofcom, who will be largely responsible for enforcing the bill.
It will draw up codes of conduct that will provide guidance on how to comply with the new rules.
Those who fail can face large fines of up to £18m, or in some cases executives could face imprisonment.
So many articles about what he's pondering or what he might do
How about we read about it when something actually changes
It's still missing a handful of features from Windows10, which might keep some people from upgrading
Oh for sure, I think the only reason some communities are clean is because they aren't that big yet.
I've only had a handful of threads spiral out of control, and it was a mess to clean up each one. The button to remove something is right next to the button to make someone a mod. Also once something is removed, it's inaccessible to everyone including the mods. At one point I removed something and couldn't ban the user because the comment was gone. It was a spam bot though so I got them a little while later.
Ah makes sense
I can still see beehaw content because they didn't defed with lemmy.ca, but I've avoided posting to their communities. They feel like gated communities, which wasn't productive to community building.
Feel free to advertise your communities here:
[email protected]
I requested the community a few days ago to get it rolling again. It's much harder to find and discover communities compared to Reddit, so communities need a lot more promo than they would have otherwise.
It doesn't have to be your community, and you don't need to say a lot. You can also just stay subscribed to see the cool communities that get posted.