I recommend this site to compare all the apps across various platforms

https://www.lemmyapps.com/

I think Interstellar and Voyager are available on both android and Linux

Personally I would suggest picking different apps on each, since it’s all the same backend data. A mobile focused app may not behave as nicely on desktop.

You can likely also run some of the alternative UIs as PWAs or full apps, but I haven’t explored that yet

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis

What kind of content do you create? That might help you find someone :)

It depends on how the person is sharing the image.

If they upload it directly or link to the image file on a website that supports it, then it will appear nicely. Otherwise you might need to click on it in order to see it

No problem!

I looked around a bit, and I think the relevant code for it will be here: https://gitlab.com/diasporg/poduptime

They have a guide page here where server owners can request manual fixes: https://gitlab.com/diasporg/poduptime/-/wikis/Podmin/Server-Owner-Help

The link for location changes is dead, but I think they were trying to link to this page: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-data-correction-request . For those behind cloudflare, they ask for manual PRs, and I found this issue where a Mastodon instance requested manual changes: https://gitlab.com/diasporg/poduptime/-/work_items/42

This will likely be a more involved fix on our end, since a number of the data points need us to contact third party organizations (the coordinates, the greenhosting, etc). I’ll add it to our todo list for later :)

Oh wow that’s embarrassing, I must have been saying it wrong this whole time.

I’m sorry about the other errors as well, I blame being tired while trying to get the shields.io icons working through trial and error. They don’t have the best support for alternative git platforms: https://shields.io/badges/gitea-forks

I think it should all be fixed now: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis#mlmym

Ah, ok that makes sense. That would be wasteful for something that is only useful on the rare occasion.

In that case, a troubleshooting mode might work better, where the user can run tests somewhere in the user settings. Or a button somewhere on the feed that the user can click on to run the analysis on demand.

Oh I see what you mean

I guess it’s hard to say which one is more likely to kick off a wider war. I was thinking along the lines of 911 and using terrorism to sell it to the population. But I can also see how the opposite could be true, especially if there are legal mechanisms on how the country needs to respond

I can confirm that lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, and pixelfed.ca are located in Vancouver Canada, hosted out of a colocation space in the city. We wrote about it here: https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-01-18_update-finances-new-server#new-server

Meanwhile yes sh.itjust.works is hosted on the east coast of Canada. Some of that may change as things are upgraded / reorganized but for now that is true

I haven’t had a chance to read through your post yet since I’m about to head out, but are there specific ways that we could be more transparent about our location? I’m happy to look into it to add that information.

Cool post, from what I read so far :)

Wouldn’t a terror attack also be an act of war on British soil?

Being accurate is important, especially when misleading claims can lead to a war getting even bigger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims

With how hard the trump admin is pushing this, I’m going to need more evidence before repeating their talking points.

It depends on the type of community.

If its only one person but they’re sharing neat photos or articles about a topic, then yes I’ll still subscribe. Some of my favorite communities on here have one or a few dedicated users. Over time more users do begin to post, even if the majority of the content is by one motivated person.

Out of curiosity, are there any updates on this from Sal? I’m not in that Matrix currently

I wrote that line 😄

The situation was still ongoing at the time of that change, and I figured that a new user doesn’t want to read a bunch of lore if they’re just there to pick a UI. Anyone that is curious can ask here or simply search for it

Your instance runs the following

https://m.lemmy.zip/

https://blorp.lemmy.zip/home

https://a.lemmy.zip/lemmy.zip

https://old.lemmy.zip/

You can read more about it on this page:

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis

IMO there’s a difference between the vibe coded one-shot projects (which tend to have those AI generated looking websites), and using LLMs for targeted and focussed suggestions. The contents of that file and a quick skim of the PRs and commits doesn’t change my mind on that, the project still looks like it’s made by competent developers who may or may not use AI for debugging/brainstorming.

I know some people will still prefer having zero AI usage and that’s fine too. For me their AI use doesn’t meet the threshold for me to have doubts about the quality and longevity of the product.

I also found this: their website / blog uses the Eleventy static site generator: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/website-blog

They’re probably using a static site template, maybe Astro.

They’ve put a lot of work into Bonfire, off the top of my head

• working with activitypub stakeholders to get a proper standard for groups (which helps us directly)
• tooling for other platforms to use
• a separate platform focussed on academics with integrations to academia services

It’s far from some vibe coded project

I do that for the same reason you’ve mentioned.

From the admin side, it makes next to no difference so I don’t think an admin won’t care. It’s only a problem if someone goes voting on the same piece of content from two accounts, or commenting in the same thread to steer a conversation

In your case, if you segment activity into different topics, there’s little risk of that happening

I don’t think that’s what happened?

There is a discussion to be had about why the ICC is better at getting justice in some regions over others, but that also shouldn’t mean that we just give up altogether. Victims in the global south deserve justice too. That includes those in the Central African Republic, many of which are from the same race and ethnic background as him.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/23/central-african-republic-icc-verdict-in-seleka-commander-case

(The Hague) – The International Criminal Court (ICC)’s conviction of Mahamat Said Abdel Kani for crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic offers an important measure of long-awaited justice for victims of the abusive Seleka armed group, Human Rights Watch said today.

In 2012, the predominantly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted the Central African Republic president, François Bozizé, and seized power through a campaign of violence and terror. In March 2013, the Seleka took control of Bangui, the capital, attacking civilians and pillaging the city. In late 2013, Christian and animist militias known as anti-balaka, began to organize counterattacks against the Seleka. Both the Seleka and anti-balaka have been implicated in widespread atrocities against civilians.

https://www.dw.com/en/icc-convicts-car-ex-rebel-leader-of-crimes-against-humanity/a-79387178

Prosecutors allege that prisoners at the facility, who were suspected supporters of Bozize, were subjected to various forms of torture, including whippings and body mutilation.

According to the court, inmates were also denied food or water, with some drinking their own urine out of desperation.

One cell, dubbed “the hole,” where prisoners were held in dire conditions, was said by the court to be directly under Said’s office.

Meanwhile the americans are trying to dismantle the court

Said’s verdict comes at a time when the ICC is facing extreme pressure. In February 2025, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order authorizing sanctions on ICC officials and others supporting the court’s work. Since then, the US government has imposed sanctions on ICC officials and staff, a UN expert, and three leading Palestinian human rights organizations. Together with three other human rights groups, Human Rights Watch has sued the Trump administration in a US court over its sanctions targeting the ICC.

They have a well known baby formula scandal too. They used unethical advertising practices to get women in developing countries started on free baby formula, and then the women had to keep buying the formula when the natural lactation stopped.

They would then have trouble sourcing clean water and clean equipment, causing the babies to get sick. They would also try to stretch the formula because of financial limitations, and the babies would be malnourished

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestlé_boycott

Advocacy groups and charities have accused Nestlé of unethical methods of promoting infant formula over breast milk to poor mothers in developing countries.[23][24] For example, IBFAN claims that Nestlé distributes free formula samples to hospitals and maternity wards; after leaving the hospital, the formula is no longer free, but because the supplementation has interfered with lactation, the family must continue to buy the formula. IBFAN also alleges that Nestlé uses “humanitarian aid” to create markets, does not label its products in a language appropriate to the countries where they are sold, and offers gifts and sponsorship to influence health workers to promote its products.[25] The company not only made use of mass media promotion (e.g. billboards and posters) and sample distributions, they also had sales people dressed as so-called “milk nurses” to visit mothers in hospital and at their home to praise formula and its benefits.[26][27][10] Nestlé justified its actions by rejecting the responsibility for e.g. the lack of clean water in many developing countries and further argued with freedom of consumer choice, which in the company’s opinion allows for formula products to be sold in developing markets

Is there more context on what this is or what was happening?

IMO that’s not the issue

The issue is the lack of safeguards. In our rush to call out the dad based on the headline, we shouldn’t let Google and the banks off the hook. The dad should have set limits on the card/account and paid closer attention to the kid’s view/ad activities, but both google and the banks benefitted from the poor design/usability issues that led to this.

EDIT: Since it was the company card, maybe the dad couldn’t have set limits on there. He used the company card on an older purchase, and since it was tied to his account, google offered the card as a payment option when the kid went to boost his ad. While I’m at it, screw the advertising industry that made YouTube into the mess it is now.

As for this bit

why is a 9 year old even allowed to post to YouTube

I remember about 15 years ago, a lot of kids wanted to post gameplay videos and music/art they made to YouTube. Some parents handled that poorly yes, but others took the time to watch the videos and approve them before anything was uploaded.

Kids want to explore their interests and it can be healthy to explore it with them, and teach them things along the way. Telling them no outright might push them to do it anyway, but this time without supervision.