As long as Lemmy doesn’t support password-less and revokable logins, no one should be using alternative web frontends hosted by someone other than their trusted server admin. And as this issue clearly shows, when an admin hosts it themselves the dev can’t hide it and it is easy to circumvent.

…and the fact that their website uses AI generated templates, colours, fonts, call to action sure makes me believe that uncritically :/

You check the source code of the website, or is that just the vibe that you get from it?

I agree that my first reaction to the website was also that this might be AI generated, but on a second look it doesn’t seem so clear to me.

Apparently not:

We have a no-AI contributions policy. This is because, generally speaking, LLMs generate code that, while may work, is poorly organised and difficult to maintain.

We have old Reddit at home.

They seem to have moved the client into the main repo.

I guess it could be useful to discover and download open-source and drm-free freeware games.

So this would allow you to self-host a library of open-source games and have people connect to it with their Steam like clients to always have the latest version installed and so on?

Getting relatively non-technical people to install the correct versions for multiplayer games is a real pain without something doing it for them like with Steam.

This often doesn’t work very well as people will blame Windows/MacOS issues on the less well integrated FOSS apps and in general the Windows versions are also often more buggy as the developers spend little to no time using Windows themselves (because who would voluntarily use that crap?).

Super lightweight, and a fixed IP is not necessary, but yes you need to expose it somehow if you actually want to use it outside your home.

Definitly missing an XMPP server 😅

https://snikket.org/ works well with XMPP under the hood.

Those have been active for a few months now and usually get banned from most (non-ask) communities quite quickly.

What concerns me more is despite how obvious it is that they are bots, the posts often seem to get a lot of engagement from other accounts that are both human and some less obvious bots (or maybe lurkers).

Not yet, no. There is some preliminary work merged, but it doesn’t seem like it will fully arrive soon.

How is the open-sourcing of their previously closed main UI components going? IMHO before that isn’t completed this is a complete non-starter.

Uhm, you seem to really misunderstand why Lemmy is decentralized like it is and just want to replicate the terrible centralized communities found on Reddit.

It is no problem to find the right community for your interest right now. There are just overall not that many people using Lemmy. What you propose might seem benign in the short term, but will cause massive issue in the long run (see Reddit).

This tutorial seems to work for basic Iocaine, but the Nam-Shub of Enki part is failing here.

Also somehow Iocaine works for other websites here, but in front of Lemmy it currently fails. Not sure why.

Edit: of course right after writing this I find the error with Lemmy and it seems to be working 🤦

I sure hope LLMs are not used to develop Lemmy currently. Haven’t checked in a while, maybe I should do 🤔

But why a new Discord server? 🤦

This is a setting admins can change for both.

Despite what some other people falsely claim here in the comments, scraping is actually not the same at all as federation. Besides not being reciprocal, scraping puts considerably higher load on the server to the point where it brings down entire servers or at least severely degrades the performance for legitimate users.