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- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth, it is now possible to delete your threads account without also deleting your instagram account.
- Comment on Ukraine Bans Telegram Use For State, Military Officials. 1 month ago:
Not to discredit your arguement but isn’t Signal also centralised?
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 7 months ago:
They aren’t E2EE by default. You have to enable it manually.
- Comment on Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! 8 months ago:
They also run bookwyrm.world! A fediverse alternative of Goodreads.
- Comment on Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months. 9 months ago:
Their generous offering of 10gigabytes of free storage along with a private, ad-free, end-to-end encrypted experience always sounded too good to be true. There was no way they could sustain that business model long term. At least they’re giving users enough time to jump ship and have not sold their data to Notion (judging by their twitter replies).
- Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months.skiff.com ↗Submitted 9 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 58 comments
- Comment on Ecosia plants 200 million trees 9 months ago:
they don’t “plant trees” but rather contribute very little amounts to existing programmes Ofcourse they don’t plant trees themselves, it’s a search engine with a small team. They donate their entire profit which averages upwards of a million euros every month, to local tree planting initiatives across the world and that isn’t a ‘little’ number at all.
“Every search plants a tree” is a lie. It’s not every search, but rather every couple clicks on an ad I agree, they were ‘a bit’ misleading with that in the past. Although they did state in their tree counter earlier and somewhere in their website/blog that it was roughly 45 searches (in Germany, depends on region) which raised enough money to plant a tree. They’ve since removed most, if not all of the misinformation.
They use Bing results making them useless Since when does using Bing results make a search engine a ‘scam’? DuckDuckGo also uses Bing results, would you call that a scam as well? Ecosia uses Bing search results because it’s close to impossible to make an independent search engine which gives satisfactory results without the resources of a tech giant.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 10 months ago:
It’s so ridiculous when corporations steal everyone’s work for their profit, no one bats an eye but when a group of individuals do the same to make education and knowledge free for everyone it’s somehow illegal, unethical, immoral and what not.
- "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?"fosstodon.org ↗Submitted 10 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 243 comments
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 10 months ago:
Under the same umbrella, instagram is dead unless you’re selling something.
Instagram is far from dead. It is quite popular in South Asia and actually the social media of choice for many teens.
- Comment on What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms? 11 months ago:
Personally, I initially started with following accounts of some companies or softwares that I use or am passionate about like The Fedora Project, The Tor Project, Bitwarden, Blender, Proton, some game engines (and their creators) etc. You can usually find their mastodon handles on their website and/or somewhere on their twitter profiles.
After that I branched out from there gradually, following people as I found them in discussions, the explore page and through some 3rd party discovery tools as well like “Followgraph for Mastodon” which looks up all the people you follow on Mastodon and then the people they follow then it sorts them by the number of mutuals.
- Comment on What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms? 11 months ago:
You only see posts from people you follow, you can just unfollow (or mute/block) whoever you don’t like to see on your timeline. If you’re scrolling the trending/explore page then maybe you should try switching servers or just stick to the home feed which has toots only from the accounts you follow.
- Comment on What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms? 11 months ago:
Matthias Ott (@matthiasott@mastodon.social)! I personally find his OwnYourWeb blog/newsletter really helpful as a newbie (comparatively) looking to setup my own webpage and blog.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
@Frellwit@lemmy.world is right, the following FAQ is from the uBO’s YouTube Mega Thread on reddit.
How often should I manually update filter lists? Can I somehow automate this?
YouTube filters are in a list named
uBlock filters - Quick fixes. The list updates every 12 hours. It’s the only list you might need to update - only if this page says it’s fixed, but you’re getting the message.If you’re not getting detected. Don’t update. Current estimated cost for just ONE of uBO’s CDNs: HERE. This is with other lists updating every few days. uBO’s not a company, it’s a volunteer project using free services, which have limits that we cannot cross.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
Oh wow, I didn’t know it’s used for research and policy discussions as well! That’s pretty neat.
- Comment on BVG out here recommending the best 2FA Apps! 11 months ago:
They don’t, though? Who’s forcing you to install a proprietary 2FA app in India. Unless you’re saying in general.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
Yup, it says 390 million for Twitter, you might have mixed it up with LinkedIn’s 930 million.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
Surprised to see LinkedIn’s 930 million MAU! I might have heard someone mention it irl like 2 times my whole life? But maybe that’s cuz I’m not in the job market yet.
- Submitted 11 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Bringing the power of books to the fediverse 11 months ago:
AA is just a discovery, curatorial platform. It isn’t just a discovery/search platform anymore. Source