Carighan Maconar @ Carighan @lemmy.world

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From a privacy perspective it'd be annoying if the default weren't one-identity-per-website, though. That's how it ought to work. If the user then wants to instead use a single one (akin to how OAuth logins allow you to use a single identity for auth purposes) that's on them, but it should not work that way without explicit enabling.

Yeah I was going to say, is there a tool for keeping multiple of these pods around so I can use different identities for (some) different sites?

Yeah it's a weird internal problem. It has to exist for understandable reasons, but also naturally makes it so that nobody will want to join any but the very largest instance, automatically centralizing it all again.

In fact, the very reality of there being a three hour video of someone talking (as in, in written text this'd be a maximum of 10 minutes of reading, for a slow reader) about a supposed onboarding problem with the fediverse is irony at its finest.

Yeah... sure... if you always expand 10 minutes of content into 180 minutes using a wrong format, you might fuck up getting anybody to do anything. You seem to not want them to get what you're trying to teach, maybe.

OP self-promotes his own videos which are >10 minutes for content worthy of ~6 seconds of reading, namely it says as much as the headline of this post.

Nothingburger².

Erm, podcasts very much get dynamically placed locally-relevant ads based on listener location (probably IP) by now. Which even makes sense, some ads are not legal to run for listeners in other countries, so as long as you conduct business there (say the BBC's podcasts when listened to from Germany) then they got to abide by local advertising laws and hence need to partially present other ads. And would want to, as not all products of theirs are available in all countries equally (as some are local in their content) and hence they have no reason to run cross-selling ads.

You actually see (hear?) this a lot nowadays. Sure, it doesn't work with all platforms and definitely not with all providers, but "tracking" for ad-purposes exists in podcasts. For legal reasons, if nothing else.

But they did stick with it, AFAIK? They just took down their mastodon instance, that's absolutely not the same thing. Unless you mean to imply that all of us here, using this but not running our own instance, are also "not sticking it up for the Fediverse" or so.

Plus, let's not forget that by their underlying nature, Reddit and Twitter are not ad-driven via the ads shown directly. The real ads are in astroturfing, promotions and subtle pushing of products and ideas. And Lemmy, Mastodon, et al are just as susceptible to that, if not more so, lacking a usable central authority to curb such behavior if wanted.

Sure, you can see it like that.

Doesn't change the reality. Sarcasm doesn't pay bills and personel costs, and hence most websites directly or indirectly rely on advertising. As does most other content like podcasts or videos.

We can either keep being delusional and pretend we can magically revolutionize the whole internet and much of the business around it, or we can be a bit more realistic and try some reforms, like less privacy-intrusive advertising and analysis.

Which do you think has a better chance to actually improve the actual privacy for users? Hrm?

I mean in their defense, apps really ought to have "normal" log-in screens. Providers working around that feels like a bandaid instead of a fix.

No but you bring up a good example: You don't get your sub for donating money to Subway. You have to pay them to get it. But in return, it provides a - questionable, some would say - service to you by providing you with food.

I mean, from the sound of it, it sounds more like a poor choice of backend tech (syncing via Google Drive instead of your own server + allowing exports elsewhere) + an unwillingness to actually get certified for the required security.

In theory, as a user, we should not at all dislike companies having to jump through more hoops to proof they're not shitting our stuff out every orifice the moment we close an app. Of course, it being synced to Google Drive is essentially just that so I feel the added security requirements are a weeeeee bit misguided here.

But I also don't get why a developer would do that in the first place. It's such a weird ghetto way of syncing your stuff to just copy a file around Google Drive. It's what I do (well, with Onedrive) to have a synced FFXIV user settings folder. 😅 I expect professionals to do better than that, basically.

I guess a GDPR request is in order then.

AFAIK something you post on reddit is not personal identifying information. But you might as well try, they might just do it! :D

Because for me personally, people find these discussions via web search, and it'd be a dick move of me to make someone not find a solution to a problem they're trying to fix.

Arc: How to make a browser ugly in 3 easy letters.

But recently, they’ve started putting some of their articles behind a paywall. Since I was already donating, I automatically have access.

In that case I don't see a problem. In a lot of ways your donation became a subscription, but then again, news cost money to make. This was true during the print days, and is no less true during the digital age.

You can try however often you'd like?!

... And still could bit fix that some keys are hardcoded. But I agree, with expansion the game was quite enjoyable.