Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • Fairly sure that this is never going to happen, nor do I think it should, unless you’re describing duplicate content sent to the same community on the same instance within a certain period.

    The fediverse is decentralized and by design each instance is independent. Data is shared between instances depending on subscribers. There isn’t a central database for every post or comment.

    A person posting the same content on two instances would each automatically distribute that to other instances. At some point there’d be overlap when the duplicate content arrived at the same instance.

    At that point, which one is duplicate and which one is original? Do you delete the duplicate? What about the other instances that already have the content?

    Do you want to introduce a definitive source of truth that tracks which post was first? Doing so creates a single point of censorship and failure.

    So, I’m going with, no, that’s not something I think can, or should ever happen.





  • I have been making a weekly podcast about amateur radio since 15 May 2011. It started life as “What use is an F-call?” and in 2015 was renamed “Foundations of Amateur Radio”. I’ve made over 700 episodes so far.

    Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents.

    It’s available as audio, text, email, RSS, YouTube and Morse code and can be found on many podcast platforms. It’s also available on amateur radio repeaters, as eBooks and on lemmy.radio and it can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

    More info: https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/

    Feel free to ask questions.

    Onno (VK6FLAB)














  • You can speak your mind and still be kind and considerate. You tend to catch more flies with honey and after a while nobody resents a hard truth in the mix.

    On the other hand, being less considerate about truth means that people will ignore you or worse actively fight you just to spite you.

    You definitely don’t have to be passive, but you don’t have to be a dick about your truth.

    Note that I’m not saying that you’re planning to be a dick, just that I’ve been where you are and don’t wish that on anyone.