Sounds like a torrent

Because it is torrenting. I clicked on the “More information” link in the popup and:

PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users by default to help lower the load on the server. The main threat to your privacy induced by BitTorrent lies in your IP address being stored in the instance’s BitTorrent tracker as long as you download or watch the video.

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No idea about copyright though, but I also don’t quite understand the issue there that doesn’t apply to ActivityPub itself too.

They can, but they might have trouble discovering it. Other instances won’t become aware of your magazine until one of their users searches for it explicitly, and even then posts won’t be federated until someone subscribes. So you’ve got some advertisement to do.

This is a general problem though which Lemmy suffers from too. Lemmy has this problem less because there’s third-party websites which list all Lemmy communities and you can browse them there. But those don’t support Mbin magazines from what I’ve seen. (edit: seems like Mbin support was added since I last checked)

One way to overcome this problem that I know of is Lemmy Federate. As I understand it, it tries to subscribe to your magazine from various instances (including big ones) using its own account, so it starts getting federated there.

Fellow Mbin user here.

When I go and press edit on a text-only thread of mine, I get the following fields in order:

1. URL (empty)
2. Title
3. (unlabaled) the post body, the main text of the post
4. (unlabeled and grayed out) the magazine it’s posted to
5. Tags

Your links show up in the post body, but the mod wants you to paste the original article URL into the URL field instead. If you’re using another language than English, it might be named differently.

Alternatively, when making a post, you can decide between creating a “link”, a “thread”, a “photo” or a “post” (exact wording might differ between languages and instances). This is currently a thread, but they want you to pick the link option instead. But like I said, editing should include the ability to fill in a link without having to recreate the post as a link post.

kbin.social had a lot of users, but its death killed its popularity. Barely anyone moved over to Mbin instances.

And even then, the only reason Steam ended support for Windows 7 was because it’s an Electron (Chromium) application. They decided to upgrade their version of Electron, probably to take advantage of newer security fixes in Chromium, which forced them to drop Win7 support because Chromium already had ended support for it.

“There’s no way to say I don’t want to share this”… Yes there is. Don’t hit the upvote button, if you don’t want anyone to know.

Well yes, that’s what I meant with the part before that.

That’s more about discipline and applies to every social media. There’s no way to say “I don’t want to share this” on the fediverse. Even private messages are shared.

This isn’t unique to Lemmy, every social media including Reddit allows you to prevent sharing something by never posting it in the first place.

I’m saying beyond that there’s nothing more you can do. So Lemmy literally doesn’t do anything more there than Reddit did.

For context, this was in response to this part of your comment (emphasis mine):

On Lemmy there’s only what you yourself willingly share with the rest of us.

Which sounds like you’re saying Lemmy is somehow different and better than Reddit at this, which it really isn’t.

But if you’re tracking, datamining, or selling my data then there’s the problem.

And that’s easier on the fediverse than any other social media platform. It’s the downside of the federation aspect. Lemmy doesn’t need to have this stuff built in, anyone can just track and datamine and sell data as they please from anywhere. And I think it’s foolish to think Meta at least isn’t already doing that, considering they are well aware of the fediverse and how it works. But others are probably already on it too.

There’s no tracking or data-mining on Lemmy, which infringe on your privacy.

Not built into the Lemmy software, no. But there’s for sure data mining and tracking happening, with how open the fediverse is. If you actually think there is none of that, you don’t seem to understand how the fediverse actually works. Anyone can just hook up their server to the fediverse and start harvesting your data freely if they want to.

On Lemmy there’s only what you yourself willingly share with the rest of us.

That’s more about discipline and applies to every social media. There’s no way to say “I don’t want to share this” on the fediverse. Even private messages are shared.

What you describe could also be pointed out as transparency. Transparency is a good thing, right?

Well, Lemmy isn’t the one being transparent then though. Since Lemmy hides votes from its users, but shares them with other instances.

I’d argue the fediverse is probably not the ideal place for a privacy focused audience. There is no privacy here, only illusions of it. I can easily see who upvoted this post for example.

This episode was a huge disappointment imo.

Like, I enjoyed most of it, but the resolution was such a letdown. It was so anticlimatic and weak, the author basically just axed the arc and completely invalidated memmeln’s character as explored throughout the episode before reaching that point. She was NOT built up as the type of character who will be swayed by a pretty man to swoon over.