LargeHardonCollider

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The dominance of cat content VS dog content on Lemmy reflects its current techie userbase in c/showerthoughts
[–] LargeHardonCollider 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don’t think he’s saying they’re better, he’s saying it’s a preference thing and he prefers dogs because you can bond more with them.

Cats are way easier to take care of because they don’t need as much attention, which makes them better for a lot of people

biggest scam in c/[email protected]
[–] LargeHardonCollider 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you mind sharing a bit about how you were able to take a long break? I’m really interested in doing something like this before I turn 30; I’ve been working since 21

Ethics Rule in c/[email protected]
[–] LargeHardonCollider 4 points 1 year ago

Lol I do the organic one all the time

YSK: Lemmy All Third Party Clients List (Android/iPhone/Web) with status of that apps! in c/youshouldknow
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Another case for defederating from threads.net (Meta’s Twitter replacement that supports ActivtyPub) (self.technology)
 

There’s been a lot of talk about Meta’s new twitter clone called Threads because it will federate with other ActivityPub apps. I’ve seen several posts about them possibly using the app as a way to embrace, extend, and extinguish ActivityPub.

Another more immediate concern I have is that Meta will now be able to harvest data from users of other ActivityPub social networks like Lemmy and Mastodon. If Alice on Threads follows Bob on Mastodon for example, that means Bob’s mastodon instance will send information about all of Bob’s posts and everyone who interacts with them to Meta so that Alice can see it.

This is a concern specifically with Meta and other big tech companies running ActivityPub-enabled servers, because their primary motive is to harvest user data to use for advertising. The scariest part to me is that users on networks like Mastodon specifically migrated to Mastodon to get away from big tech, and Meta is still able to harvest their data with Threads.

These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor in c/technology
[–] LargeHardonCollider 2 points 2 years ago

Another really big concern I have is that activity pub by definition shares all your posts with any instance that hosts your followers. So if you have a mastodon follower on FB’s activity pub/twitter replica, FB automatically gets your data even though you don’t use it

These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor in c/technology
[–] LargeHardonCollider 2 points 2 years ago

Another really big concern I have is that activity pub by definition shares all your posts with any instance that hosts your followers. So if you have a mastodon follower on FB’s activity pub/twitter replica, FB automatically gets your data even though you don’t use it

The type of things they get are

  1. Your profile
  2. Whatever you post
  3. Who interacts with your posts
Fish Tacos in c/foodporn
[–] LargeHardonCollider 1 points 2 years ago

Oh that looks delicious! What kinda fish do you use?

Can I please clock out now? in c/[email protected]
[–] LargeHardonCollider 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Once I applied for a job via email and forgot to attach my resume 🤦 didn’t realize till the hiring manager emailed me back asking where my resume was. Got the job in the end though

So how does lemmy make money? in c/[email protected]
[–] LargeHardonCollider 1 points 2 years ago

Not sure that’s actually a problem. A lot of what’s wrong with traditional social media is the financial interests aren’t aligned with users interests.

As long as there’s enough donations to sustain hosting costs, there will always be a few volunteers to run the servers. And if one decides they’re done, lemmy will still exist because there’s other servers to go to.

It is all coming together in c/[email protected]
[–] LargeHardonCollider 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The website definitely works, but it has weird issues with posts jumping around.

Also you can’t use gestures on the website, but you can on apps. Like swiping to comment/like, tapping to hide, etc). It just feels way smoother

It is all coming together in c/[email protected]
[–] LargeHardonCollider 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah Memmy is way better than the web app, and you can already do most of what you’d want to do. Definitely recommend checking it out

“Sync for Lemmy is happening!” in c/android
[–] LargeHardonCollider 3 points 2 years ago

Fr I’m glad people have moved on from material design for iOS apps. Always felt like there was so much wasted space, and not enough gestures

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