Are you seeing the errors on our sign up page too? Our captcha difficulty is set pretty low

Wow, it’s so full and colourful :)

Nice job everyone!

I have collected notes on the legal basis of each point, but we wanted to speak to legal professionals before writing that out officially. Additionally, there is some proposed legislation around online harms, and so we will need to wait before we can write something definitive around that. Depending on what ends up becoming law, we may move some rules down to “Prohibited by Fedecan Policy” instead.

It seems these rules, as drafted, are just “nice to have’s” without a corresponding enforcement avenue – assuming of course that all users are subject to Canadian law, which is probably not the case.

The focus for that section was more to do with what our legal responsibilities are, rather than those of the individual users. We do have users from all around the world.

Thank you! That is in line with what I would have said. I’ll add on some remaining thoughts

I’ll tag @ZERONOVABLOSSOM@sh.itjust.works for the reply as well, thank you for raising the discussion about these areas. There are already some lines that I want to improve based on the discussion here.

Mental health && Eating Disoders

As imaqtpie has mentioned, that bit was included because of past issues with social media platforms around those topics. I’ve also found that the culture on the Fediverse has a focus around tagging content so that it is easier for users to control their online experience, especially on the Mastodon side.

I agree with imaqtpie’s stance on those questions. While I want to wait for more discussion before proposing changes, right now I’m leaning towards separating the mental health point from the other two. Graphic content and sexual content is easy to identify, and people expect that content to be labelled. Discussion around sensitive topics might sometimes need a label, but that would be situation dependent. We could include a line to say that people can use their best judgment on when to label such content, or most it to another section entirely.

An asterisk with a definition somewhere in the rules would be nice. I could look it up but I worry my understanding of these terms will differ from what you’re meaning.

That is a good point, we can definitely do that. Maybe some expandable cards (which look like this ) with the text “What is sockpuppetry”, and a longer explanation with examples underneath. I could take from the examples @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works shared if that would be ok?

There is likely a better term for the SEO point, but I’ll have to think of what to call it. It’s pretty obvious when it happens on Lemmy, since the account will primarily post links to the website that it is trying to promote. Before we enabled registration applications on Pixelfed.ca, we were getting a lot of accounts with bios that included links to gambling sites or sketchy online businesses.

I think that works, from a distance it still looks like two separate things

Hmm, I’m not sure what colour would work best on the top of the left side. I’ll start on the other flags in the meantime, what do you prefer?

Oh nice, many cursors make light work 😄

Someone added a cool 3D effect to our flag, so I thought I’d add it to the other large flags too. I hope that’s ok, I am happy to revert it :)

I’m not familiar with the wallets that you linked, but I might add

• RFID protection is often present in wallets, and it would be helpful
• I had a wallet with a coin pocket, but I stopped using it because I was starting to notice an imprint in the wallet from where the coins were sitting. I rarely need to use coins, and I have other places to keep coins, so it’s not a big deal for me

As for recommendations, do any of these fulfill your requirements? They’re pretty good

https://bellroy.com/

That is fair feedback. I was actually intentional with how I wrote that section:

We make up one part of the Fediverse, and we intend to have a positive influence on the rest of the network. Living in Canada, we’ve been shaped by frameworks such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and its values naturally shape how we approach the decisions we make about our platforms.

My intent with that paragraph was to point out that our guidelines and enforcement may differ from how other jurisdictions handle similar content. The best way I thought to describe that was that as a Canadian team, those decisions will be guided by the social/cultural/legal frameworks that we are most familiar with, one of which is the Charter.

While doing the research for this, I came across the guidelines of some other platforms that explicitly tie their rules to the Charter. However, I didn’t want to do that. While the Charter does offer protections that other parts of the world don’t have, there is also plenty of academic discussion and criticism about the Charter and its limitations. It is a product of the political moment when it was created, and while it can shape some aspects of how a modern online platform should be run, there are going to be gaps that we need to address ourselves.

A related example is our Tier 1 Rule 2. We start with how the Criminal Code defines an “identifiable group”, but extend it to any group that a reasonable person would recognize as a target of hatred. The list on the Criminal Code goes back decades, and it takes a lot of time and political will to update it. An online platform meanwhile will need to address issues around hate quickly, and so we will need to use our best judgment on when we need to act.

I would love to clarify the wording around the Charter (and any other sections) to address the concerns, if you have a moment to share more thoughts on what to work on :)

That’s good feedback, we can add a few lines to clarify that you’re allowed to share publicly available information. Maybe anything that is already shared publicly by the organization in question, such as information on the contact page of a company? I see some more feedback around rule 5 in the comments, so I’ll wait a bit before drafting up a new version.

I have made a note of your suggestion, thank you! Also happy cake day :)

That sounds good, I’ve noted that down. Cheers :)

It’s hard to do a maple leaf at a small scale 😄

and we appreciate you as well!

Also, happy cake day 🎂

I guess it’s art now

@Undearius@lemmy.ca did a design in a previous year, and it might be fun to build on that:

https://lemmy.ca/post/24881080/10330307

This is what it looked like at the end in 2024:

Once people have an idea of what we want to do, we can add it to the CoTemplate. If we decide to relocate from our current location (as our current spot is quite small), the lemmy.nz area looks nice right now :)

The cotemplate site has a button near the top where you can copy the image link, and then paste it in the template field on Canvas (be sure to set the x and y offsets to 0). Then everyone knows exactly where to place pixels (or not 🪿)

This was a cool read, if anyone wants incentive to read it, here is the key bit

The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is a good example here, displaying levels of intelligence and capabilities far beyond those of other cephalopods and matching that of primates, despite no evolutionary link here. Exactly how octopuses developed this rather unique capability remained a mystery, though recent research by [Rishav Mitra] points at the rather unique ribosomes in these animals.

Ribosomes are the molecular machinery at the core of each cell that enable the synthesis of proteins. Due to their highly crucial role, they tend to remain evolutionary unchanged, which makes the big change observed in the octopus (i.e. order Octopoda) in the form of this H88 rRNA break quite remarkable.

Ribosomes are the molecular machinery at the core of each cell that enable the synthesis of proteins. Due to their highly crucial role, they tend to remain evolutionary unchanged, which makes the big change observed in the octopus (i.e. order Octopoda) in the form of this H88 rRNA break quite remarkable.

A lot of bad ones out there, but some are worse than others. For example, I’m not going to consider a Samsung TV because of how many times they’ve done something sketchy

LG is also falling down the list with this incident

Thank you :) I’ve been collecting notes from when users made suggestions, and that helped to get everything organized. It took a lot longer than I was expecting because there are so many resources out there to read and get ideas from.

I’ll check back to see some of the developing sections, like the AI guidelines, once theyre done.

Do you have any quick thoughts on what you want to see for that section, or any concerns that you want to see addressed?

Yea that’s a good point. I know the Lemmy devs are working on a new frontend, and it would be nice to be able to customize some of these things.

Have you tried https://photon.lemmy.ca/ ? It is more customizable and it puts the subscriptions and sidebar on different sides

we have a few other frontends: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis