As long as a deleted post is no longer visible in the publicly-accessible parts of the site, that would be enough verification for me.

I don’t know how the GDPR authorities verify compliance with mainstream proprietary closed source apps, do you?

Yes, although the server will not ignore the deletion activity if that server is running Lemmy. We’re talking about Lemmy here, not the fediverse as a whole. OP singled out Lemmy in the post title and said “lemmy devs are not concerned with…”

I’m sure there is more to be done in this area. It’d be great to know for sure which software treats deletion activities properly (I’m really unsure about Kbin, I think it does not) and which does not so instance admins can make informed decisions about who they federate with. Perhaps this information could be made available right within the UI that Lemmy admins use to control their instance, rather than an obscure documentation page somewhere…

IMO having deletes federate should be part of a minimum standard all fediverse software has to meet (plus mod tools, spam control, csam filters, etc) before it is allowed to federate but obviously we’re nowhere near having that sort of social organisation.

OP is simply incorrect.

I’m coding a Lemmy alternative right now and have been testing this functionality out extensively. Deletes of posts and comments certainly federate, I’ve seen the AP traffic to make it happen. Also, the docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/05-federation.html#delete-post-or-comment

I haven’t tested what happens when the ‘delete account’ button is clicked… Mastodon solves this by sending a ‘delete this user’ Activity to every fediverse instance so there’s nothing about ActivityPub that makes removing an account and all it’s posts in one go impossible.

You mean Max Blumenthal, regular contributor to Russian state-owned propaganda channels Sputnik and RT?

But none of those things are important to Republicans. That’s just stuff they say.

You have it backwards - we don’t find a cool project we want to contribute to and then try to learn the technology needed. Instead, we already know the language/tech/tool from our work or education and then seek cool projects to contribute to that use that language/tech/tool.

As a beginner you can’t expect to rock up to a github project and be productive or even understand what is going on. Usually open source projects are not extensively documented and no one will have time to show you around. That is no way to learn.

No one can be productive in more than a handful of languages/tools. Once you have more experience you will become specialised in certain languages and can seek projects that use those languages.

For now, try to find a situation where there are people around who will invest time in helping you to build your skills. A supportive employer, or tertiary education.

The initial enthusiasm is wearing off.

Check out these graphs (scroll down) https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They don’t show October yet, but there are some downward trends visible.

Check out Matomo

Code does not exist in isolation from the community of developers that produced it. Who we collaborate with defines us, to some degree.

Everything we build is on the shoulders of what came before. Your contribution now creates a world that makes other people’s work possible in the future. While the literal artifacts you produce will not be there for long, for the time they existed they provide a small piece of the platform upon which the next generation will be created. Like sand eventually forming rock.

This isn’t a censorship issue. This is a choice about whether to publicise and promote pedophiles or not. No website has a right to be included in join-lemmy listings.

They’re authoritarian leftists, who support Putin. They have more in common with fascists than most people do.

How long has it been there? Months?

The lemmy.ml devs were ok with Nazi instances being on join-lemmy “because people can just choose to join a different instance if they want” (or words to that effect) so it’ll be interesting to see how far they take that line of reasoning.

Elementary OS has a pay-what-you-can app store https://appcenter.elementary.io/

Pick your battles. If you jump on everything that’s wrong you’ll be continually arguing and never getting anything done. You need the relationship to be good enough that when you do go against him he’ll like you enough to listen and that can’t happen if every time you open your mouth it’s a fight. You will also want a positive reference when you inevitably leave.

Often the way things are in the code is a result of organizational problems that you are powerless to solve. Ignoring progress and changes for 10 years is quite a feat (composer was released 11 years ago) and to accomplish that that the senior dev must have established a power base in the company through relationships or reputation and chances are that you will not dislodge him (You’re not trying to dislodge him but that’s how he will be feeling). He’s probably defeated people like you multiple times over the years. You’re not just up against him, you’re up against everything and everyone in the company that allows him to be the way he is. Fixing that is well beyond your pay grade.

Learn what you can, enjoy the money, always be looking for your next gig.

By all means, put some effort in. Please.

The issues you raised about those sites were fixed within two hours.

https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

Would you still want this if All was less of a dumpster fire? E.g. if a community like /c/Memes could be excluded?

When someone creates a new discussion in a merged community, which servers would it be posted to? All? Of only one of them, wouldn’t it be confusing for the user to suddenly have to choose? What if the component communities have different moderation policies?

…or maybe rapidapi.com