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- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
it’s activitypub thing so lemmy as well. you sign up on one server, subscribe to community on different server, mods of the different server will decide they don’t like your server for any reason (e.g. explicitly because nods of your server didn’t blacklist some other server) amd you are out of that community. it sucks. imho something based on the old news system would be better (i.e. community exists independently and servers just subscribe to them or not).
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
I’m not talking about people I block (I am not exposed enough and don’t suffer enough harassment so I don’t block almost anyone)… I’m talking about about mods of the instancr that hosts people I care about suddenly blocking instance that hosts my account - not because anything we did but because they didn’t like that mods of my instance didn’t block another instance that has some weird (e.g. transfobic) content. I follow a friend and suddenly we are out of contact because some entirely unrelated drama. And that’s how fediverse works by design.
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
it’s not just not caring. lemmy is currently not a viable alternative for e.g. reddit (there are no active conmunities for any of mine hobbies and posting to any of those that are here doesn’t make sense - there is nobody out here who could respond to a specific question about analog photography or something similar). fediverse as a whole will never reach the momentum of old centralized social media - by design. it turns out that having many small servers with different moderation policies is great for resilience but sucks for bringing people together. i found out recently that my mastodon server is blacklisted on many of mainstream ones not because there is some bad content there but because it federates with some servers that mods somewhere else consider harmful… and so i am missing large swats of content from those.
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 7 months ago:
only one way to find out
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 8 months ago:
nice metaphore to how people use the social media nowdays… people spill their mind into a public discussion forum and and then they are pissed at the “reply guy problem” and try to come up with ways to stop people from talking instead of adjusting their expectations… i get it - everyone wants to be treated nicely but come on!
- Comment on Fully self-hosted password manager options 8 months ago:
i mean eachch of the individual programs that can load your keepass keyring is a password manager.
the keyring itself isn’t a password manager and the main reason why i use it is because each of the individual programs that i actually use to open it (keepassxc on windows, keepassdroid on my phone, keeweb on my vps…) can use the same file with the same specification that is shared everywhere.
i’m not bound to any particular program with a particular set of features. just use anything that can open that file format from a place where i choose to host it.
- Comment on Fully self-hosted password manager options 9 months ago:
keepass
it’s technically no password manager but a file format.
there are dozens of apps that will work on any platform, including soft keyboard with “password” bitton for smartphone that will just work everywhere and browser extensions, apps that allow you to use your yubikey to unlock and anything else. you can host your vault anywhere including a google drive or your own webdav or ftp server and keep local copies on your devices synchronized…
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
thinking google is about offering you a quality search at this point is like thinking facebook is about improving your social experience. they both started like that and that’s how they hooked people up. but they have their own interests now. those interests revolve around affecting how people act and think. one central thing they need to do to fulfil those interests is controlling what people see and know… and that’s very hard to do when this pesky external content generated by other that is hard to control gets into way…
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 11 months ago:
what exactly is the management cost here?
at my old company they simply ordered a yubikey for you amd forgot about it. nobody kept track of it. i didn’t even need to return mine when i was leaving. the part they manage is the user account. the hardware you get once and use for added security…
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 11 months ago:
thing is lot of that is on purpose. mastodon and fediverse are more of an attempt to come back to the state where there is no algorithm picking for you… but too many people nowdays are simply too lazy to search and actively choose what they want to see.
what we really need is to separate content (keep that in fediverse) and content access and presentation (the interface people use to access the content). if you want a bot feeding you content whole day and for your internet to become a tv you nobody can stop you. but if you want to think amd search nobody should stop you either
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 11 months ago:
what’s the rationale for IT not wanting to pay for the fobs?
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 year ago:
yup. how is that not obvious to anyone is beyond me… some of those workers have contracts that would require amazon paying severance in case they would just fire them like so many other companies do. better make them leave on their own.