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- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
Not interested in the short-video concept. But it’s a great name, though. Short, sweet, and doesn’t sound too “techy”, not too complicated to pronounce or spell.
- Comment on GitHub - sv1sjp/lemmy-rss-pybot: Lemmy RSS PyBot is a powerful Python bot that reads RSS feeds and posts new articles to your favorite Lemmy communities. 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t someone create this same thing last week? 🤔
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 2 months ago:
Damn. This needs to be a blog article and saved somewhere! No need to apologize. You’ve done a great job explaining a very technical topic in a simple and relatable way.
- Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable 2 months ago:
That level of feed curation will appeal more to the masses, yeah. Just no one has started an instance like that yet. Although you seem like the perfect person, based on your analysis and responses. 😉
Bluesky is closer to what you’re describing. The platform is more centralized and the feeds are more curated for the masses.
- Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable 2 months ago:
Very true. But that’s what we can create whole instances for: to be the site you think will attract the users you want. There’s nothing stopping anyone from starting a whole new world they want to see in the fediverse. Lemmy and other fedi apps are built like they are for that very purpose.
- Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable 2 months ago:
A centralized frontend and a decentralized backend seems great in theory, but I’m not quite sure that’s even possible without some one or some group owning the centralized frontend. And if one single entity controls the frontend, it defeats the purpose of decentralization. We want to avoid anyone person or group owning any part of the flow of our communication,
- Comment on Post upvotes are like github stars 2 months ago:
Every time I get downvoted, I move an inch closer to the exit door of this community.
By community, do you mean just this particular Lemmy community or the community on Lemmy collectively? If the latter, there are other alternative Lemmy communities on other instances that may be better suited for you.
Just would hate to see someone leave Lemmy over toxic energy in one place. There’s a big world here in fediverse!
- Comment on c/political_weirdos, a community dedicated to weird politicians and their weird supporters 3 months ago:
AKA “Trump roast” 😄
- Comment on Follow RSS feeds from Lemmy 3 months ago:
Same here. This seems valuable for anyone who would want Lemmy to be a first-class RSS reader. But I prefer to just use my RSS reader and add feeds to that.
I use a combination of RSS feeds provided by Lemmy and the ones provided by openrss.org, which has most if not all news sites nytimes, bbc, etc.
- Comment on Threads can now show replies from Mastodon and other fediverse apps 4 months ago:
I dont want any parts of Threads. But if they’re gonna federate, at least do it 100%. This half-ass, piecemeal approach where they release an itty bitty teeny weeny change is weird.
- Comment on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" 5 months ago:
Genuine question: how do we actually “kill the big fish” though? Majority are going to continue to use big tech out of convenience and because they dont care much.
- Comment on Lemmy subscribe to post 6 months ago:
If you use RSS feeds, there is. There are services that provide RSS feeds for Lemmy posts.
- Comment on The Trouble with Forking Mastodon 6 months ago:
As an engineer who’s worked on very large codebases over two decades, I’ve realized that this is so much easier said then done.
If people want to fork Mastodon, great. But they’ll quickly realize that what they make think are straight-forward “improvements” will lead to them having to address bigger architectural issues.
Many design decisions that were made when building Mastodon may not be ideal, but they address a lot of very complex decentralization and federation issues. In software, there is no perfect scenario. Each decision is a trade-off and will have downsides. You just have to decide which of them you’re comfortable with living with.
- Comment on Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook 6 months ago:
Not condoning it, but all I can think is how terrible Facebook is to coordinate something like this. I mean, if they or the feds wanted to stop it, find out who these people are, or track them down or something, they can do that pretty easily.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 6 months ago:
Why isn’t Rumble an option? Genuinely curious. Is it because it’s not open source? or federated or something?
- Comment on A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feed 6 months ago:
Yeah I’d personally like to see more regulation around privacy rights, especially here in the US.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Google says pause ads on YouTube are getting a very positive reaction from advertisers
Bc screw the users and their reactions 😄. We really need a good YouTube competitor. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 6 months ago:
So don’t use RSS then? No one’s trying to convince anyone to use RSS if they don’t want to. I was just correcting the validity of the original statement.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 7 months ago:
RSS has no adoption anymore
Not true. RSS feeds are the only thing I use these days and know quite a others that do as well. Sure some sites may not have RSS feeds by default, but there are a ton of services that auto generate RSS feeds for you.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 7 months ago:
Ah yes! Thank you. Will try this today
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 7 months ago:
Speaking of, does anyone know how best to block YouTube ads on my Sony TV? It uses Android and I have the YT app on it.
- Comment on Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule? 7 months ago:
Just depends on what works best for each of us. But personally, I agree with you. It’s not that I think one company owning a ton of the services is a bad thing in itself. But history has shown us that, when a company starts to dominate a certain market, they tend to start becoming tone-deaf to their user interests, because they can’t (easily) switch and go somewhere else.
- Comment on What's your take on Bluesky? 7 months ago:
Exactly what I was wondering the entire time I was listening. None of these questions were asked during the episode. A lot of handwaving and buzzword double-speak. She go deeper into any technical details.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Haha this is only their attempt to collect more data (than required on taxes) on US Citizens. Look at the process to sign up. It’s obvious. If they really wanted to help the population file their taxes, they would just not require filing at all. They already know how much we make, so they know what we owe. At most, if liability is an issue, they should be sending us a list of the information they have on us and we just check off if its correct or not.
- Comment on Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change 8 months ago:
It will be fixed. Baby steps. The EU is working hard and it’s going to be a while before we get everything we want.
- Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change9to5mac.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google 8 months ago:
It’s pretty obvious they’re only doing this to try to push people who like the recommendations to create an account. But can’t people just create throwaway accounts to temporarily relieve their recommendation fix?
Their recommendations are useless anyway. I don’t want to see 200 rock hard abs videos just because I watched a clip of Roseanne doing sit-ups.
- Comment on Apple Wants To Kill PWAs 8 months ago:
Well, mine are pretty sassy
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 9 months ago:
This seems to interestingly prove the point made by the person this is in reply to. Breaking laws come with consequences. Not caring about a robots.txt file doesn’t. But maybe it should.
- Comment on Introducing Stacks: The official Programming.Dev blog 9 months ago:
Nice! Looks like it’s built with Hugo! Never heard of that framework before but looks like it saves a lot of dev time. 👍