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The Firefox Terms of Use announcement showed once again how many there are. (i.imgflip.com)
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I'm personally in favor of [email protected]

  • fits the theme of the instance
  • is not on .ml
  • is not on .world
  • 3 different active mods
  • no power tripping noted so far
  • 2nd most active community after [email protected]

[email protected] admin has been quiet for a while, the instance seems to be running on auto-pilot, https://lemmy.one/c/meta has no communication from the admins since a long time

Programming.dev is still running Lemmy 0.19.5, and they had a quite severe issue of database corruption for 3 months. Thankfully, it's solved since (https://programming.dev/post/20515601)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)

...and then there's Vaporeon.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I was missing one, was sad about it too.

[–] rtxn 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, Vaporeon being the odd one out is accurate.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey guys, did you know...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

…that in terms of human companionship, Flareon is objectively the most huggable Pokemon? While their maximum temperature is likely too much for most, they are capable of controlling it, so they can set themselves to the perfect temperature for you. Along with that, they have a lot of fluff, making them undeniably incredibly soft to touch. But that's not all, they have a very respectable special defense stat of 110, which means that they are likely very calm and resistant to emotional damage. Because of this, if you have a bad day, you can vent to it while hugging it, and it won't mind. It can make itself even more endearing with moves like Charm and Baby Doll Eyes, ensuring that you never have a prolonged bout of depression ever again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

In Japanese, Flareon is known as Booster. Let it be your emotional booster.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

lemmynsfw was right there

[–] cm0002 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)
  • is not on .ml
  • is not on .world

Not on the .ml Tankie instance and not on the giant centralized hub of .world, The only 2 reasons needed LMAO

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think I'll never get why you are still using an account on .world, while you are always quite critical towards the LW centralization 😄

[–] cm0002 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've got plans to move, just waiting till I launch my own instance...when I get to it on my long to-do project list lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You should maybe consider switching to another instance "in the meantime"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Or piefed! ;)

Theres a lot of good servers both on lemmy and piefed, but the mod tools are really good on piefed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Switching is a pain tbh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Usually takes me a few minutes to export/import the settings to a new alt, not sure how it is on Mbin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Before seeing the arguments I saw the ml community and thought "privacy advocates that also are pro state sponsored backdoors?"

Glad I'm not the only one

[–] A_A 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Hi, ~sorry_for_making_this_comment_so_late~

if they ( @nutomic... , @dessalines... ) are really state sponsored and anti- security ... then it's very bad news because they wrote the Lemmy code !
... if so do we know something about it ? or do we have more reasons to suspect ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Wow, there's too much to cover here.

I know the authors are tankies. It's widely known. But:

  1. Lemmy is open source, code can be audited for backdoors.
  2. The instances can an often do apply patches server side, do even if the original source is clean, the instance can be tampered with. This also apply to ml.
  3. Even without backdoors, Lemmy has no encryption whatsoever. Any instance admin can see everything you do and your "private messages". You can create your instance, federate and watch. It's actually very possible that LLMs are training with Lemmy because of this.
  4. The fact that a tankie designed a social network without encryption is a very telling thing.

In the end, I don't do PMs and I assume everything I do is never private here or in reddit, so I'll mitigate what I can.

BTW, I didn't say they are state sponsored, only that they are pro state sponsored backdoors, meaning backdoors for the government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[email protected] was always meant to be for guides rather than just news

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The mod just posted a news article

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah I'm going on what it was back in the day (so probably on reddit when it split from privacytools.io). It was the companion sub/community to privacyguides.org (which does post guides) but I guess whoever is moderating it now is fine with news posts too. Not a problem on its own, the only issue is basically what this memes highlights!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are dozens of us Lemmy.one users! Dozens!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I used to be a lemmy.one user like you. Then I took an inactive admin to the knee

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It's kinda exclusive now that registrations are closed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Honestly the duplication and splintering of communities across instances will be a big problem if Lemmy ever gets more mainstream.

So probably not, but still.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's already an issue now.

I hope this meme will help at least limit it down to 2 or 3 communities. Having 7 for the same topic is too much. People want to post and comment in a place active enough, not crossposting everything to 7 communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've been thinking that there should be a better shorthand for linking to a community on a specific instances. Something along the lines of giving each instance a shorthand up to 4 characters or something, and then do community links in the format //. So give sh.itjust.works sjw as a shorthand, and /sjw/privacy becomes the community name. I think that would make it easier to remember the one you mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The auto completion works quite well

[email protected] took me six characters to link it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't think you're going to see that in every mobile client...Sync doesn't have it for example. I think the benefit is more in remembering than typing, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Clients should definitely implement this.

Remembering comes with context. Most of the people already know about hexbear by now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Can’t live with em, can’t live without them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

good progress on decentralization!

world news is still dominated the world

much work to do be done

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I have switched the recommended privacy community recommendation from [email protected] to [email protected] on my communities due to your advocacy Blaze!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Gotta catch 'em all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I fail to see the problem. For privacy sublemmies especially it feels nice to have a redundant way of getting told about important stuff like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It would be more efficient to have 2-3 core communities rather than 7 like this.

People are not going to copy paste their relevant comments to the 7 crossposts of the same article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People are not going to copy paste their relevant comments to the 7 crossposts of the same article.

I don't see how every comment section has to be identical, although in the case of privacy/security maybe there are cases where important information is shared in the comments, idk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's take the recent issue with Firefox. People are looking for an alternative, or to better understand what the risk is

Lemmy.ml

Lemmy.dbzer0.com

Lemmy.one

Lemmy.world

Let's imagine that someone comes up with a detailed analysis of what is happening with the new ToC, and which alternative people could consider switching too. Do you think they'll go through the hassle of sharing that information to all of those threads?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you think they’ll go through the hassle of sharing that information to all of those threads?

I can't predict the future, I can only say that I personally have shared comments (with links) that I found insightful before, and I'd hope others would do the same if it was important enough. And sure, time on this earth is limited, but when I want to know something I trawl many comment sections to get a better picture.
Would it be easier to gather important tips if there were less sublemmies? Yes, undoubtedly, but my original point about redundancy, as the instances are all hosted different places in the world, is also a positive thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

my original point about redundancy, as the instances are all hosted different places in the world, is also a positive thing.

But that's a different topic.

[email protected] posts and comments are currently replicated on probably 50 other instances. It's still the single community on that topic.