This is just absolute number total posts and they’re a shitposting heaven that existed for 4 years before the big reddit exodus. In monthly posts they’re still in the top 10 iirc but not 2nd

Correct. We don’t have need to be growing. 40k mau are nothing to scoff at and is bigger than most other online forums who can feel very busy even with 1000. So long as we’re getting as many users as we’re losing, we’re good. And the continuous enshittification of reddit will ensure there’s always people looking for a new home.

That’s not what my tool is doing

Rate limitors from ipv6 tend to take into account the whole subnet which is assigned to your account, so that’s not a way to avoid them

https://libcom.org/article/infosec-101-preventing-doxxing

Other than that, I would suggest always using proxies or VPNs when accessing fediverse services from your location.

That’s not really the problem. The main issue until now is that when you try to proxy all images, what ends up happening is that a lot of popular image hosters start rate limiting your server’s IP, so your users end up just seeing a lot of broken images, and they think you misconfigured your instance. @sunaurus@lemm.ee had to deal with this iirc.

Ye, this shit is no joke if you’re actually inside the Kingdom! Exercise tight OpSec please!

We already had p2p reddit. It was called Aether. It failed due to lack of users.

AI Horde does both text and image yes. You can easily use it on the browser from https://artbot.site/ (images) or https://lite.koboldai.net/ (text). You can register an account for free on https://aihorde.net/register to go faster than anons (or it’s going to be quite slow). It’s crowdsourced and volunteer run.

Thats very cool. It brings to mind some sort of espionage where spies are exchanging massive messages contained in 2 numbers. The index and the Metadata length. All the other spy has to do is pass it though pifs to decode. Maybe adding some salt as well to prevent someone figuring it out.

Totally wouldn’t work. We Americans believe in a brotherhood/sisterhood of suffering. I

As someone who’s been in the compulsory military service, this is exactly what would happen. The “old cans” in there haze and expect the newbies to suffer like they did.

That male orgasm was painful. I got this idea from seeing their o-face somewhere and assuming it indicated pain.

The rare case where metal and programming collide directly.

Surprised this is not getting more upvoted.

I don’t quite remember Moe being quite so…buff! 😅

Anyone remember technorati? What about the nethernet? Ah that brings me back…

Image processing libraries are used at the forefront of almost all web services, including lemmy and are extraordinarily robust. I really don’t have the time to go at this in depth, but if you are familiar with this stuff you will know how extraordinary such an exploit would be and its existence would be causing massive chaos all over the world.

You mean an exploit payload embedded in an image, and pwning a system parsing that image through python PIL? While there’s never a 100% chance of anything, you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than this coming to pass and at that point you’re at more security risk at using the internet altogether.

Why would it be a security risk?

I don’t see how it’s a privacy risk since you’re not exposing your IP or anything. Likewise the images are already uploaded to your servers, so there’s no extra privacy risk for the uploader.

yep