I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)
!homeassistant@lemmy.world and !selfhosted@lemmy.world for more
Others have commented on the issues with Vivaldi, but do you have points on what you like about Vivaldi? People might suggest non-chromium browsers that do the same things
I’ve seen some dashboards around, is this what you’re looking for?
At the same time, the variables in that calculation might change over time. If it becomes easy enough for them to support it, or the costs of not supporting it get too high, they might change their minds.
Alternatively: wean yourself and your friends off of snapchat. In my part of the world, snapchat isn’t popular anymore. It doesn’t offer anything new and so barely anyone uses it.
Another side I haven’t seen mentioned
It might be easier to track users in Chrome. If even a few users open it in chrome instead of Firefox, that’s a benefit for them
This part of the interview felt relevant to the fediverse (note that this was pasted from a transcript, and you might find it easier to watch the video than read the transcript):
Australia’s safety commissioner recently took on Elon Musk for example requesting the removal of vision of a stabbing in a church here in Sydney. It was unsuccessful, should tech platforms be held responsible for spreading that sort of content.
Well I think we need to break that question down and actually question the form that tech platforms have taken, because we live in a world right now where there are about five major social media platforms that are very literally shaping the global information environment for everyone. So we have a context where these for-profit surveillance tech actors have outsized control over our information environment, and present a very very attractive political target to those who might want to shape, or misshape, that information environment. So I think we need to go to the root of the problem. The issue is not that every regulator doesn’t get a chance to determine appropriate or inappropriate content. The issue is that we have a one-size fits all approach to our shared information ecosystem, and that these companies are able to determine what we see or not, via algorithms that are generally calibrated to increase engagement; to promote more hyperbolic or more inflammatory content, and that we should really be attacking this problem at the root: beginning to grow more local and rigorous journalism outside of these platforms and ensuring that there are more local alternatives to the one-size fits-all surveillance platform business model.
Anyone dealing with issues: try setting the user agent to chrome to see if this is Google’s doing
Definitely this one, the products are sometimes placed right next to legitimate ones and worse:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-homeopathic-products-1.6254025
Hidden camera reveals some pharmacists recommend homeopathic products to treat kids’ cold and flu
I sometimes come across influencers pushing chrio “treatments” on pets or newborns, saying it makes them “breathe better” or be “more energetic”
It’s infuriating
Looks cool, I like the lists of games in the sidebar
Feel free to promote on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca as well
Just saw it, came back to delete this one lol
I like !privacyguides@lemmy.one because the project is behind it
Whenever friends ask about resources, I always link them to the privacyguides website. I should use their community more as well
In the meantime, congrats for making this community the most active one!
I like this one 😊 Nice work on getting it going!
I agree that it’s silly to remove comments offering alternatives.
It’s totally fine to not want to merge, but responding in the thread would be better
Hard to believe anyone makes apps for iOS, considering the hoops you have to jump through just to make it available to download.
This is something I’ve heard, and assume is the case, but I don’t know the specifics of. What kind of hoops are there?
Yea I’d prefer to wait until it’s on fdroid proper
Yea it’s really about what people have as the mental model for the platform they are on. It might take time for people to internalize what the network is doing.
Mastodon and Lemmy do mix as it is, but it could be better. Two big areas I’ve heard are
Lemmy users need the ability to follow mastodon users (kbin has this I believe)
Mastodon users have a hard time following Lemmy communities and seeing posts, because they end up getting a waterfall of every post/comment at once overwhelming their feeds
That’s a good point, even the platforms may change over time (either by name, or entire projects migrating).
People here say “lemmy” way too much when they really should consider the Fediverse as a whole.
Part of it is that we don’t federate that nicely to the rest of the fediverse yet. I expect that to change over time though
I’m fuzzy on the details, but I do get reports from users on another instance as long as it’s “relevant” (ex. in one of our communities, one of our users)
Banning a foreign user on our instance will fix the problem for our instance, but they need to be banned on the home instance too in order to stop the spam from continuing
The article is nice, but I’m not sure if I’d send it to friends that aren’t familiar with the fediverse. It seems to gloss over some problems and focus less relevant ones
It doesn’t touch on the issues with Blueskys protocol and makes it sound like an equivalent choice (or worse, a better choice). In the downsides section it touches on racism in badly moderated instances, and the difficulty of setting up an instance. Those issues aren’t relevant to the vast majority of users who will join a large instance that has defederated from the bad stuff.
It’s a nice article for those who are already somewhat familiar, but a bad first impression