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Lemmy.world status update 2023-07-04 in c/lemmyworld

[–] Gold_ghost057 12 points 2 years ago

Yep! Donating to both their Open Collective page for Mastodon.World (didn't grab that link by accident), as well as their Patreon page for Mastodon.World works!

They have a note up on Patreon that donations there also contribute to World.Lemmy, as well as another Lemmy instance!

Here's the link to their Patreon; https://patreon.com/mastodonworld

Gfycat is shutting down September 1st in c/technology

[–] Gold_ghost057 24 points 2 years ago

I don't think it's wrong to keep questions like these in mind, it's great for information security and your privacy!

I'm with ya - no hate and no ill will to the hosts of any of these instances, but a cautious or informed user is a safe user. And safe users tend to mean user longevity on a platform! So it's kind of cyclical, the "safety> accountability> user" relationship.

Gfycat is shutting down September 1st in c/technology

[–] Gold_ghost057 -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sorry for the extra posts! Kept getting a post error on mobile.

Gfycat is shutting down September 1st in c/technology

YSK there is a setting in your Lemmy profile to hide posts that you've seen. Upvoting counts as interacting with that post and will hide it after refresh. in c/youshouldknow

[–] Gold_ghost057 10 points 2 years ago

Thank you for this! Just made the adjustment, I was starting to get a bit annoyed with the same top/ active posts showing for the last day

Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day in c/technology

[–] Gold_ghost057 5 points 2 years ago

Holy shit, I hadn't stopped to realize your point there!!! Of course any AI scrapers would just start bit crawler accounts, if any of them weren't already doing that as well. Along with any other info scrapers out there - I can only think of the one example tbh