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- Comment on Lemmy subscribe to post 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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'' 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes! Thank you. Will try this today
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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 IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states 2 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 2 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 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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. 👍
- Comment on Expanding the P.D Development Team! 3 months ago:
Hey glad to see this! I’d love to work on the codebase but I dont use Discord and unfortunately wont be using it just for this effort. But still… Kudos to everyone who is able to help out!
- Comment on Proposal for GitLab to support ActivityPub 3 months ago:
That’s nice, Gitlab. Now do RSS feeds.
- Comment on Bluesky posts are finally open to the public 4 months ago:
Yeah but note by “public” they really mean “if the post doesn’t require you to login”. They recently implemented a feature that lets users choose for their posts to be “public” but still require a login to see it.
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 5 months ago:
Yup. And instead, they make us pay them for it. 🤡
- Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 186 comments
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Agree. Different platforms have different purposes and the experiences probably should remain separate.
What I always find peculiar is that consolidation of all of these fedi platforms can already be done using RSS feeds. It’s the whole reason they exist. To bring all of the updates from anywhere on the internet Mastodon updates, Pixelfed, Peertube, etc into one, single timeline view. The tools are already there for people to use if people want them.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
RSS feeds are great for this! I’ve been using them for years. It allows you to build your own universal feed of everything on the internet. Open RSS is a organization that provides RSS feeds for any website. Here’s a good article that talks about what RSS feeds are.
I use RSS feeds to follow Lemmy, Mastodon, and Kbin communities and even specific users. For example, the RSS feed for the community this was posted in is at
openrss.org/lemmy.world/c/fediverse
You just add that to your RSS reader app along with any other web feeds and you have a feed tailored to everything you want to follow, catered to your interests. And no algorithms because everything is always in chronological order.
- Comment on GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in 5 months ago:
This is helpful. Thanks. Didnt even realize it. No need to use something to point out how its not a good look. It’s still good to bring more awareness around how sites like Github are becoming a more of walled gardens. But I agree with everything else you said though.
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 5 months ago:
Not sure where you’re located but I live in the USA and have it. I just ordered the phone int and then signed up for a US carrier.
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 5 months ago:
Oooh baby talk. Lemme try MAMA WAN BAHBAH NAPAA
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 5 months ago:
When you get a new phone, check out the Fairphone! I got that with CalyxOS. Works just like Pixel but super private 👍