inevitably there are times you need to use spaces

When? You indent with tabs then add any spaces you want for precise alignment. When would you need to use spaces to indent?

I’m glad you’re telling me it’s a joke. I don’t like it when things are taken out of context and some post is basically asking me to form an opinion on someone.

Nope, they were mostly local users.

Speaking of not fast… I just got 8 comment replies in my inbox that were made up to 3 days ago.

I made a post and got “network error”, but it turns out it went through anyway. Took three tries to not get the error, so I ended up making three posts. Had to delete the two extras.

Nice try NSA.

You don’t even know what you’re talking about. Security features of Intel chips? The encryption happens on each phone. Phones don’t have Intel chips on them. The server is only a relay. The encryption algorithm is open source and security experts say it’s good encryption. The code is right in the APK and anyone can look at it.

There is no way for me as a user to see who your contacts are by using Signal. Obviously, since it uses phone numbers and not accounts, the people operating the server know who you are messaging. But other users have no idea.

NSA Cloud Servers? I highly doubt that. Using a packet sniffer it’s easy to see which IPs your phone is talking to. I doubt an of them are “NSA cloud servers”. Once your encrypted packets are sent, though, it’s impossible to know how they are routed before they go to your recipient. I assume the government knows exactly who I message, and I don’t care about that. It’s friends and family. If you care about that, then don’t use it.

Get your facts right if you want to be an anti-Signal advocate because right now you just sound like a lunatic.

You can’t. Not unless you run your own instance of Lemmy and defederate them.

EDIT: Oh, it seems a server lookup is required because post URLs don’t have the community name in them and post numbers are unique on each instance. I wonder why Lemmy was programmed that way.

Let’s say we have this post in the Android community:

https://lemmy.world/post/863026

It could have been this or something similar:

https://lemmy.world/c/Android/863026

And then a copy on sh.itjust.works could have been:

sh.itjust.works/c/Android@lemmy.world/863026/

No lookup needed. Instead, the copy on sh.itjustworks is:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/604989

It’s a different post number entirely, local to sh.itjust.works. Seems like a poor way to do the URL scheme. imo.

At any rate, my confusion comes from never noticing this before because I mostly use Jerboa with no URLs shown.

It’s not clear exactly what this does. What is a “corresponding page” on your home instance?

If a link on the web points to otherlemmy.com/c/fun, what will it rewrite it to? mylemmy.com/c/fun@otherlemmy.com? That would be cool. Then I could comment and such. None of the screenshots actually show this, and none of the text explains what it actually does.

But that’s can’t be what it does because why would that require any communication to the Lemmy servers? All the information is in the URL itself combined with the knowledge of my home instance and a list of instances. So, I guess I need a better explanation.