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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Subreddits were not a problem before since they were accessible on the web without needing an account. But now reddit is gradually locking them down behind authwalls and things like not letting search engines index (other than Google).

  Lemmy communities dont have this problem and because lemmy is federated, its resistant to such enshittification (plus you can easily create your own lemmy instance for only your team). So imo they are a good alternative to forums (and reddit) and a good solution to this problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Discourse already exists (and most big companies use that).

  Also you can see many other things on Reddit or Discord too (or the internet). Im not sure how that is a point against federation. If companies really want to control everything they can create their own instance (like KDE’s lemmy instance).

  They can defederate everyone from their instance to get an “unfederated” instance but again it changes nothing imo.

  In fact defederation is a negative since now you have to worry about new signups, moderation, etc. While in a federated instance, you can leave moderation to other instances and only allow team/company members on your instance. Users can sign up on other instances and still be able to interact with your instance for support, help and other stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now Even Gmail Will Push AI-Powered Search on You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Enabling this feature will probably require you to agree to Google AI training on your emails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is getting mobile ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Element is an app for “Matrix” (thats like lemmy but for discord) that is developed by a for-profit company (the company mostly manages deployments for big governments). But not only is it open source, its just one client of many for matrix. The vast majority are developed by individuals (Cinny, FluffyChat).

  Plus, it’s not even remotely similar to Discord. There are probably discord features missing from matrix but they certainly have a lot of similarities. Though tbf Cinny is the closest to discord in terms of design and functionality not element (but they both are matrix clients).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So this post has (at the time of writing this post):

  • 0 favorites on mastodon
  • 101 upvotes on lemmy (2 downvotes)
  • 9 replies on mastodon (7 lemmy instances, 2 mastodon)
  • 8 replies on lemmy (7 lemmy, 1 mastodon)

  From this I would say it seems lemmy upvotes dont seem to federate at all with mastodon. Replies seems to federate but for some reason 1 reply from mastodon is missing on lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  thats a very fair point, I had not seen anyone else make this one But the problem is that in this case, this functionality was entirely undocumented. I dont think it was intended for programmers.

  Now if the firmware was open source, people would have gotten to know about this much sooner even if not documented. Also such functionality should ideally be gated somehow through some auth mechanism.

  Also just like how the linux kernel allows decades old devices to be at the very least patched for security risks, open firmware would allow users of this chip to patch it themselves for bugs, security issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We really should be pushing for fully open source stack (firmware, os) in all iot devices. They are not very complicated so this should be entirely possible. Probably will need a EU law though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a comment somewhere that to exploit this a person has to be physically in the area (i think it was in a radius of few meters iirc). Thats not much better i guess since its not had to be around random iot devices but it at least prevents mass attacks (if true).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  aha thanks! i was wondering how ppl do this yeah but tbf discord has a lot of features

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  depending on which client you use, the ui can be very discord-like (this is cinny): raw.githubusercontent.com/…/preview2-light.png

  Also matrix has calls (at least element does), though not sure about screen share. And since when was discord e2e?

  I ll admit matrix was for a long time really slow but matrix 2.0 largely solves this and other usability issues. Calls and screen share are still not standardized but its all being worked on. With matrix, its not just about building one app, its about building a decentralized ecosystem all connected by the matrix protocol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but it can look similar to discord: raw.githubusercontent.com/…/preview2-light.png

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any counter AI bots in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  why dont you make something like r/SubredditSimulator? It would be cool to see what modern llms can do in this respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New To Android? What Apps to Choose?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Izzy takes apks directly from devs repos iirc Fdroid builds everything themselves so its kinda like the debian repos on linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Jetsons' robot finally arrives: Sweater-wearing Neo Gamma android helps with household chores⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They will become cheaper over time. In the future buying robots like these could be like buying a new car i.e. expensive but still reachable for most and for others they might be able to buy used ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends. On older devices there isn’t much testing of newer versions of the kernel so they can be more broken than an older version.

  Case in point, recently on an old laptop (~12 years) I noticed video performance was real bad which I later found out was due to modern distros defaulting to the iHD intel graphics driver. But iHD is only supported from 5th gen (Broadwell) onward. So, on older devices anything depending on the graphics driver for hardware acceleration (like video decode) fails and falls back to software rendering.