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- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 days ago:
You really should encourage your contacts to use more secure channels than Twitter dms, especially for illicit behavior.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 days ago:
If you are a major contributor in a niche community, you can publicize your move with info of how to keep following you and syndicate links to your content on your desired platform for a set time then leave. On your desired platform let followers from Xitter know how to follow you (email, rss, bridgy, etc) if they don’t want to join your desired platform.
If you are mostly a content consumer or have FOMO, use a bridge not an account. DM all the friends you want to keep of where to find you then leave. Bird.makeup is a great Xitter bridge for the fedi.
In either case, there isn’t a reason to keep am account there.
- Comment on Comprehensive List of Federated Journalists 2 weeks ago:
Anyone make/find a non-google export yet?
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
Game engines and servers are great candidates for developers to collaborate their ideas into FOSS projects, but the model is harder to sustain for completed works.
While internet games can have subscription models where you pay them for doing game master type activities, moderation, and access to a hosted game server, static games are more like art where you run into issues getting food and housing when you make your work output available for free. Crowdfunding / patreoning creators (in the larger sense of the word, not necessarily the app) can be a way for that to work, and we need to support more creators trying that model if we want to see more of it.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
We really need to push for more right to repair laws and things not produced by the copyright holder (say for 5 years) should lose all copyright protections.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
How would they know it’s emulated and not video captured from a real device? Are they only targeting when emulators are mentioned / shown in the window?
More reasons to switch to owning your content and hosting on your own platform or a PeerTube instance instead of only hosting on YouTube / Twitch - you can actually fight the takedown notice in court instead of having to accept that YouTube doesn’t. This seems like a winnable fair use case if you can prove you own the game legally and are using your own rom dump.
- Comment on Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over. 1 month ago:
Well that’s a bummer but not surprising.
I wonder what a federated education marketplace could look like.
Some sort of (possibly locked) video hosting, maybe even Peertube, course discovery more like bookwyrm with lemmy style discussion forums? It’d be cool to have testing/assignment material like Blackboard built in too.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
FB Marketplace killed Craigslist at least in my area (US). Nextdoor somewhat is a counter but that has its own problems.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
I prefer scaled to active sort for that reason.
- Comment on New Email Scam Includes Pictures of Your House. Don’t Fall For It. 1 month ago:
It’d be great if popular show casts like BBT would do more PSAs.
- Comment on Lemmy interoperability with other Fediverse projects 2 months ago:
You can put Lemmy communities in lists so they don’t spam your home feed. fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodo…
- Comment on Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them. 2 months ago:
Cool to see that the app is just a nice wrapper to query OSM data and not using yet another dumb silo. Its also just a webapp and not a native app spying on your data. en.stnameslab.com/american-search-app/ is the app.
I wonder if this would make sense as a mapcomplete.org layer
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
If public transport mapping is your goal, it might make sense to try out the MapComplete Train Station mapcomplete.org/stations? and Bus Routes mapcomplete.org/transit? themes which give an easier, more focused, mapping interface. Quest apps like Street Complete can also make getting into OSM a bit easier, though OSM Beginners Guise is great too. wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners'_guide
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
Yes! wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport though it is a bit complex to fully add routes, adding stops is super easy!
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
Great points!
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
YouTube still pays creators pretty high comparatively (55% of ad revenue according to businessinsider.com/how-much-influencers-get-paid…). You are simply getting a service (hosted, searchable, collection of the largest collection of web videos in an extremely nice interface) that costs money even outside of the creator’s cost. For creators they are allowing that 45% cut of ad revenue to get access to the YouTube audience, paid hosting that simply works, nice creator tools, etc.
You can state that it’s a valueless thing that anyone could replicate, but the evidence is that there aren’t many alternatives that do better. Today we do have things like PeerTube (which I think all creators should consider selfhosting with ads/subscriptions and federating the free stuff after a delay) and joining creator owned video services like Nebula (which could be made even better with federation). Unfortunately, with both you run into the discoverability problem, something creators and their audiences are paying to solve when you are hosting on YouTube.
I’d take your argument further back on the sourcing of getting content to you - why should you pay for internet service when it’s the content of the videos you watch not the wires that deliver it that have value? If you hacked around your neighbors WIFI to get some free network access, you could zero-cost get something you might not necessarily want to budget for, and you get quite a nice service out of it. Why shouldn’t that be okay when you still Patreon the creators of your videos given your reasoning about YouTube providing no value?
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
I totally agree we can’t simply drop SMS immediately, but what am I missing in supporting backwards compatibility (for example via my pseudo number solution, like how VOIP works) preventing us from moving forward during a stagged shutdown in the span of decades? MMS and RCS both would also fail under cellular data loss, and SMS itself hasn’t always been available during major disasters. I’m not sure I buy the argument you can’t have similarly low energy towers (even with net neutrality states, you can still cap all bandwidth per user), and a simpler tower that only does data should be far more reliable than a tower that provides multiple carrier services given the simplicity (and it’s very rare to have towers that only do voice + SMS anymore).
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
Yeah that’s a big problem that I’m trying to research solutions for myself too. It was way better when I could tell people to just install Signal and it’d replace their SMS app but be secure when others use it, but unfortunately Signal dropped SMS. Currently I just have all the apps, but since Signal does contact discovery (like Whatsapp) I follow a Signal, Whatsapp, FB Messenger, RCS (via Google Messenger), then SMS pattern and stopping when I can contact someone. Obviously, this has the issue that all these apps are getting far more data than they need and I’d like to look into a multiplatform app that does e2e. From what I’ve researched so far, Matrix bridges (servers that connect your Matrix account to a third party messaging service) might be the answer.
I haven’t tried it yet but there is a Matrix bridge that you can host if you are selfhosting a Matrix server (or use a commercial Matrix provider that already hosts it) that will allow you to connect to your Whatsapp friends without needing Whatsapp that could be interesting for at least that use case docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/setup.html?bridge=whatsapp .
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
ASFAIK Signal doesn’t support RCS, only Signal protocol, after they dropped SMS.
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
Why not switch to something not owned by Facebook like Signal (or something on an open protocol like Element)?
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
Why should anyone care about RCS? The trend has been to get everything into data instead of carrier owned services for two decades now, we don’t need another SMS (it will likely always be a fallback). What we should move onto is a carrier and device type angnostic universal standard protocol over TCP / QUIC like XMPP or Matrix, with SMS as the backup.
When you get a phone you can get an phone system account and a telephone number already. Modern apps in the Google ecosystem should already recognize you are already signed in with Google and sync your contacts. Since almost everyone is already in the Google ecosystem, if Google supported it they could have extended their XMPP implementation in Hangouts to allow messaging directly via XMPP to those contacts and SMS for anyone not yet in the system (similar to how Signal did, Apple does, and Google does now with RCS). Unlike Apple, since its just XMPP, users can still add friends and be added by friends on other XMPP servers (ex. their ISPs, their own, or a third party). They could have supported or jumpstarted a new very simple open source alternative app for that portion for AOSP if the EU complained. Eventually Carriers could have supported passthroughs for those still on feature phones and other users of SMS to use the number@carrier accounts to hit XMPP users with generated SMS numbers for non-SMS users (pushed either by business necessity or part of a government / teleco org like GSMA staged removal of SMS and telephone numbers). It’s all data at the end of the day.
Instead, they developed a whole new protocol to fluff the telecos and keep the now badly managed telephone number system even more necessary allowing spammers and allow the problems of legacy SMS to continue.
Apple, Google, and Samsung should all be shamed for not supporting fully open protocols and necessitating dependency on user harming stacks.
- Comment on The $53,000 Connection: The High Cost of High-Speed Internet for Everyone 1 year ago:
Even if that is an accurate number, there are only ~56 million Americans living in census defined rural areas. With some actual planning we should be able to get missing backbones from our urban areas (which should be getting far more funding). Wireless is also a gamechanger, with microwave, 5g (and nextgen 6g), and Starlink, and that can really reduce this cost since not everyone needs fiber. If we can incorporate requirements for new backbone lines with any greenfield rail or highway projects we can get wireless coverage out faster and cheaper.
- Comment on Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance? 1 year ago:
What would be nest is a feed aggregatior that combos as a lemmy / larger fedi client. When reading your feed, there can be a comments button. The button would do a quick lookup to see if there has been any discussions tracked on your instance for that link and if so let you choose on of the results to join a discussion and a start new thread button that has a workflow for posting the link in a community you select.
- Comment on Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’ 1 year ago:
Hydrogen is interesting for remote use cases, but the 10-15 year old used Leaf and Volt market argue against your second point. Most battery issues will be discovered in the first few years and after that it’s minimal (1-10%) loss after a decade, using far older tech than today’s models. The industry does need some standardization on battery modules to ensure less e-waste, more mechanics, and better pricing.
- Comment on Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’ 1 year ago:
A giant electric “luxury” truck is still a giant “luxury” truck. Buying one over the other is like buying a cruelty free synthetic beaver cap over a cap made from an actual beaver. Yes it probably is better, but you are still wearing an ass on your head.
It’s 2023, most people live in urbanized areas where a truck is similarly ridiculous, especially the modern “luxury” models. Those that actually use their vehicles for hauling things at a farm want real work trucks and tractors (regardless of engine type) with lower and longer beds.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
M365 is an option even without Windows, but LibreOffics and/or NextCloud could work too.
- Comment on Parents Upset Over New Nintendo Console - Super Nintendo - Circa 1991 1 year ago:
And emulation is so much easier, so if you don’t make legal access easy, you are stopping an easy revenue stream.