aeshna_cyanea
@aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
If you disapprove of internet companies caving to authoritarian politics I have bad news for you about Yandex
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
It was by the largest (by a fair margin) socialist-aligned subreddit, but in practice it was like 60% shitposts. Was originally associated with the eponymous podcast, but the hosts have repeatedly said they disliked it.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
they were originally refugees from r/chapotraphouse ban on reddit
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
yep literally this. don’t most routers nowadays have a hosts file?
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
Did you know we have these things called computer disks that can store information
- Comment on Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals 3 weeks ago:
These guys seem cool but they’re not the archive.org from the op article
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 3 months ago:
That post refers to hosting an appview that does all the same things as the official one, which involves a ton of storage and bandwidth and processing (for recommendations, notifications, and all the other moving parts), and is closed source to boot.
Frontpage.fyi is a lot cheaper simply because its used by like 50 people tops.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 3 months ago:
There are already smaller appviews that use the existing hosting/authentication infra. Nothing with any real scale but for example there is a barebones reddit/hackernews equivalent frontpage.fyi