Jerry

@Jerry@feddit.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It's amazing that a company can get public officials to sign an agreement making it illegal for them to give any information to their electorate about a project that would have a huge impact on them in every possible way. No elected official should ever sign such an agreement. Why would they? But, they did. Corruption is the only reason I can think of.

  And why is there no law against elected officials agreeing to become agents of a corporation against the interest of the electorate? Same answer, probably.

  But all these people were elected by the ones they are hurting. And the electorate most likely elected their leaders based on some emotional non-existent issues instead of picking leaders based on commitment, honesty, and a desire to help people. From what I see from the rest of the country, and we are talking about Alabama here, they may have gotten the government and outcome that they deserve and are actually responsible for their own problem. I think American voters are bringing all of this personal damage upon themselves.

  I'm a disillusioned American, by the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I recommend against Brave.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I recommend against Brave.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no legitimate reason for not using a User Agent string, like all the other crawlers use, other than the desire to hide the crawler and make it difficult to block.

  I don't accept his explanation. I see it as gaslighting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can go to https://hear-me.social and click on the register button. This puts up a Cloudflare managed challenge screen which endlessly loops when using Pale Moon. It would be interesting to see if Waterfox has the same issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Peertube server, and I've requested to follow tilvids, and they denied my request, and they also do not follow my Peertube server. I think one issue with tilvids may be that they essentially choose not to federate, and therefore you won't find much because of this.

  I just searched for "Gaming" on my Peertube server and I seem to get a non-ending list of servers. Unfortunately, one column wide, but a lot. When I search for King's Quest, I am also getting a seemingly unending stream of videos.

  I follow every Peertube server I can that is clearly not fascist, primarily NSFW, NSFL, etc.

  Maybe you just need to find a server that is more federated with other Peertube servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You've ascended! You're now part of the real world!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question for admins] How do you feel about your users requesting content or account removal from other servers.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Mastodon, Friendica, Peertube, and a PieFed instance. I'm an Admin.

  Let me make sure I understand. You are asking whether I would care if you were using my server, and you asked a different server Admin to remove your data from their server (and probably ban you on that server)?

  If this is what you are asking, I personally wouldn't give it any thought. It's your data. If you don't want it on some other server, then you certainly have that right. I frankly don't think any Admin would have a problem with this. Even the opposite would be fine. If someone asked me to remove their data that came in remotely.

  I might even be impressed that you are enforcing and thinking about your rights to privacy and your right to control your own data.