I read the post and understood the problem. Then I read Dan’s reply. And he’s fixing it. In fact, he’s fixing it in the exact way the blog post says it should be fixed, “… but those filters should be manually triggered and always removable.”

Here’s Dan’s reply:

“… I hear the community: you want text-only posts. We are going to build this as an opt-in feature. If you want microblogging, turn it on. If you prefer the classic media-only experience, nothing changes.”

Why was this blog post even written then? Now it’s seeming to be personal.

One option is to switch to a PieFed instance running V 1.3.6. The devs did something about this for PieFed users that should help.

v1.3.6
Stop floods of spammy posts from very new accounts on lemmy.world.
New accounts (< 24h old) from lemmy.world are now limited to 3 posts in their first day.

V1.3.3
Automatically delete posts by very young accounts that self-delete.

piefed.social and feddit.online are two that are running the latest code. I’m sure there are others.

Yeah, that person is quite annoying.

my-sunshine.video is one with no restrictions and has open registration. Don’t know about others.

How long has the site been down, as far as you know?

Yes, it claims to proxy the traffic, but then you have to connect to the fedibuzz relay server.

It sounded from the post that there was an attempt to directly connect to a Mastodon server through the relay connection, which won’t work.

A relay, as in the Mastodon relay feature? As in Administration->Relays? If so, does mastodonapp.uk have an active relay? It can’t be used to connect to just any Mastodon server. It has to connect to a special relay server.

Not sure whether this is helpful.

I hate these hasty generalizations about a group of people. It serves no purpose and gives less intelligent people a reason to be snarky against other people.

I’m now displaying it on feddit.online. And it’s staying.

Dumb question. Are you sure the “I” after the @ in ItsGloria is an upper case I (eye) and not a lower case l (L)?

I’d really like to kick the idiot who created a font where both are identical.

I just searched for @ ItsGloria @ vivaldi.net on my Mastodon instance and everything appears good. It tells me that you switched your account to Glor.

Have you since resolved the issue then?

Proton Mail, Tuta mail, runbox.com, to name three.

And as you’d expect, with their hospital closing, they remain loyal to Trump, refusing to believe that the funding cuts had anything to do with the closure. That everyone is just picking on Trump and using him as a convenient excuse.

It’s a cult.

https://kbsd6.com/health/curtis-nebraska-hospital-closing-how-medicaid-cuts-sparked-a-rural-healthcare-crisis/

A 3-month supply of Metformin costs under $7 without insurance. This isn’t a real situation, at least not for the person who wrote this.

Thanks! I’ve tried editing it.

You have to trust someone. There’s no way around this. But trusting some app written by some unknown person that has nobody overseeing it is probably the worst place to put your trust.

So, decide. You either trust some unknown app developer, your ISP, or a VPN provider. You must choose one. Which one do you choose? Choosing none means you are off the Internet.

I have more trust in Proton VPN, Mullvad VPN, Mozilla VPN, and some other reputable VPN providers than I do in my ISP, some cheap VPN run by unknown people, or some app making crazy claims. I strongly doubt that a reputable VPN provider is doing any tracking of user traffic. But I bet MockTraffic is telling someone all the websites you’re visiting.

I think if you are worried about your traffic being tracked, you are safest with a reputable VPN provider.

I see so much wrong in these claims.

1. Anyone analyzing your traffic is not just doing so based on DNS queries. They use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and they track packets across the Internet to find out what you’re doing. A fake request won’t fool them.
2. Similarly, they use machine learning and behavioral analysis, which won’t be fooled either by a bunch of DNS queries.
3. The increased noise could be detected as malicious activity, like a DDOS attack. You can find yourself rate limited, and your network performance can drop substantially.
4. If the fake requests are real websites, your IP address can become associated with a wider range of interests, leading to more targeted advertising.
5. Instead of using a simpleton’s approach that won’t work, use real protection. Use a paid-for VPN, or at least a reputable free one (not many) with built-in ad and tracker blocking to bypass your ISP.

**The App sounds fishy, actually. ** Many apps come out claiming to provide some unique security, and they eventually turn rogue and start stealing information. This one sounds ripe to go rogue, especially since it can’t make it into the standard store. I expect to read about MockTraffic someday being caught stealing information.

I wouldn’t go near it.

5.7 on IMDB.com FWIW.

Depends on the application for me. For Mastodon, I want to allow 12K character posts, more than 4 poll question choices, and custom themes. Can’t do it with Docker containers. For Peertube, Mobilizon, and Peertube, I use Docker containers.

The headline is nuts. There’s no hidden universe on the ocean floor. I’ll fix the headline:

“Scientists Found Evidence of Distant Cosmic Events Using a Detector on the Ocean Floor”

Yes, well stated. This is why I usually skip reading people’s comments. The vast majority see everything through their own agendas and just echo words they hear.