dreadbeef
@dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 3 days ago:
I’m just doing a bit of research (I’m also not the guy you were replying to :p), but I found the developer is really just one person seemingly (the only registered person I could find for the company representing Revolt [based in the UK]) and that is Pawel Makles. He’s also listed as the data controller of all of your data revolt.chat/legal/privacy
My concern at first glance is this guy is only 21 years old (born 2003). I don’t think the dev seems too shady from this quick look, but being only 21 with a bunch of private data doesn’t seem too stable imo.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
I’ve been using mastodon for nearly a decade now. The major thing I think is missing from ActivityPub is a decentralized/federated way of doing auth. The ideal for me in ActivityPub is having a profile/DID service provider that you then can attach to services. This would theoretically be like having just a federated identity (or however many identities you want) that you can then go to a lemmy instance or mastodon instance etc and “log in with federated ID” like log in with Google but not dependent on a corporation.
Auth and identity in general is definitely the biggest hurdle with ActivityPub. Right now it’s a bunch of distinct and non-tied profiles, which isn’t necessarily bad, but many people would like an easier way of doing this. Instead of saying “which lemmy do I want to join” it’s just “which identity service do I want?” and then go to and use any mastodon or lemmy or Pixelfed service with that single account. There’s many ways to do this, but it’s definitely possible and it’s being looked into.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
I’m just saying, because someone is a scientist absolutely does not absolve them of human fallibility. I just don’t like the take of “because scientist, therefore smart or wise” and that’s not true, they’re just (hopefully) educated and credible in their one specific field and nothing else.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
Look at Linux’s popularity over the years. It is absolutely climbing. FOSS hasn’t even peaked yet lol
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
Never meet your heroes. If a scientist is human, they’re as fallible as any other.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 2 weeks ago:
My friend in high school had every palm pre, that thing was awesome
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 3 weeks ago:
This is probably targeting a adult content creators, aka trying to get a finger in onlyfans’ pie
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Leftists were banned on Reddit long ago and federation and internet archtiecture and infrastructure is made by generally leftists and libertarian types. So yeah, lots of leftists and libertarian types are around these niche and relatively new (I started using the fediverse nearly 10 years ago lol). Surprise pikachu face when normal people stop using reddit and see leftists since they were shielded from them by corporations, but it shouldn’t be that surprising honestly
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 4 weeks ago:
“You’re holding it wrong”
- Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 4 weeks ago:
kinda funny, early Redditors like me used to think 9gag was never good lol, kinda like ifunny