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- Comment on Forget boomers vs millennials, the next conflict is millennials vs each other 7 months ago:
This graph really shows how the focus on boomers by millennials and my fellow zoomers is really just a distraction from the real issues of class and wealth inequality.
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- Comment on What are your complaints about Lemmy? 7 months ago:
- Comment on What are your complaints about Lemmy? 7 months ago:
Provide the ability for users to migrate their account and all associated data (posts, comments, moderation actions, saved posts, etc.) from one Lemmy instance to another.
To implement this feature you’d either have to:
- Edit the DB entries of every instance to match the new profile;
- Create copies of the old content on the new instance and federate that out, thus duplicating all the data. You could have it delete the old content, but you’d still need to recreate all the posts and comments.
Either of these would be very susceptible to abuse. Giving bad actors a button to force instances to run hundreds, potentially thousands, of operations probably isn’t the best of ideas.
- Comment on Inside the thriving black market for illicit Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat drivers 8 months ago:
“People pressed into slavery to deliver takeaway” is the kind of dystopian that fiction can only aspire to. Christ.
- Comment on Rooster Teeth Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery 8 months ago:
Damn, someone really didn’t like the new episode of Camp Camp.
Also, please, RWBY my beloved be OK - Comment on Dutch government scrambling to keep ASML in Netherlands 8 months ago:
To be fair, an ASML engineer explaining some advanced piece of tech would be great ASMR.
- Comment on Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
Isn’t Thunderbird completely self-managed? I don’t think they have anything to do with MozCorp.
- Comment on The Verge - The fediverse, explained 9 months ago:
No, they’re asking about getting stuff posted on Mastodon to appear on their Lemmy feed. You’ve got the platforms the wrong way round.
- Comment on The Verge - The fediverse, explained 9 months ago:
You can’t, unless the Mastodon user tags a community you’re subscribe to.
- Comment on I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why. 9 months ago:
True. That would be true of any platform which allows tips, you’d have to connect to some source of money whether it be paypal or crypto. Paypal’s fees would be prohibitively expensive but it would be theoretically doable. Either way, it’s a <5 minute setup process if they care to do it.
But people already have Paypal and understand how to use it. Most people don’t understand cryptocurrency, and don’t want anything to do with it because of its association with scams.
Interesting I didn’t know AP supported E2E. I guess it’s Mastodon that doesn’t support that element of the AP protocol then?
Here’s the issue.
Also, I looked in to Nostr a bit for this and do you seriously think profile links like this will catch on with people?
primal.net/…/460c25e682fda7832b52d1f22d3d22b3176d…
Say what you want about AP, but usernames like <(at) makeasnek (at) lemmy.ml> are at least memorable. How am I suppose to tell someone IRL about my Nostr profile, say of a 64 bit string out loud?
- Comment on I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why. 9 months ago:
This assumes platforms win based on technical details, which they don’t. Mastodon will probably ‘win’ (whatever that means) because of network effects and general culture.
Nostr has an optional built-in tipping functionality where you can leave tips for users whose content you like. You can tip a fraction of a penny or $100. And users can tip you. This has a few effects. For one, it incentivizes people to use nostr. Non-profit orgs, for example, can use it to fundraise.
But user have to be technically minded enough, and willing, to set up a crypto wallet to do this.
In mastodon, admins can read your DMs. If you DM somebody on another instance, that’s two instances that can read your DMs, and so can anybody who breaks into their server. In nostr, all DMs are encrypted by default and can only be read by the intended recipient.
E2E encryption is possible with AP. Besides, if what you’re talking about needs to be unreadable to third parties, you should probably use something like Matrix or Signal, especially considering how bad Mastodon’s DMs actually are.
- Comment on Sonic X Shadow Generations - Announce Trailer 9 months ago:
How will Sonic fans react to the uptick in writing quality?
- Comment on UK government sets out plans for ‘biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years’ 10 months ago:
Their press release does talk about SMRs:
The Civil Nuclear Roadmap will give industry certainty of the future direction of the UK’s ambitious nuclear programme, on top of the government’s historic commitment to Sizewell C and world-leading competition to develop small modular reactor (SMR) technology.
[…]
Following its launch last year, Great British Nuclear (GBN) will drive the UK’s nuclear ambitions forward, including through the game-changing SMR competition which will soon invite short-listed companies to tender.
Unlike conventional nuclear reactors that are built on site, SMRs are smaller, can be made in factories, and could transform how power stations are built by making construction faster and less expensive. Alongside large gigawatt power stations, SMRs will play a key role in delivering on the expansion of UK nuclear capacity.
- Comment on Fediverse link-aggregator PieFed launches in beta test 10 months ago:
Ah my bad, I remember one of the Miskey forks saying it had Masto API and just assumed it was a Miskey thing.
- Comment on Fediverse link-aggregator PieFed launches in beta test 10 months ago:
Maybe they can implement Lemmy’s API, like what Misskey et al. does with Mastodon’s API, so it can use the same apps.
