Kalcifer @ Kalcifer @sh.itjust.works

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Personally, I've come to despise the "How're you?" greeting — it feels like it normalizes impersonal interactions and encourages the behavior of masking one's emotions. When someone asks "How are you?" I want that sentence to actually carry the emotional weight that it verbally masquerades. So, if someone says "How are you?", I just respond with a generic greeting like "Hi".

Interesting — I hadn't considered it that way.

I take the issue of misinformation seriously. I try to be the change that I wish to see.

Dang 😕. See my comment for a related response.

I recommend reporting the bug to the Sync devs to fix their Markdown formatting to improve feature compatibility between them and the Lemmy UI.

I wish Boost understood the collapsible spoilers.

On my client, it’s all expanded and I see all the formatting characters.

Ah dang, that's good to know (though I'm not sure what to do as an alternative) — I was unaware that the collapsible spoilers weren't supported on Boost. I guess that means that Lemmy's markdown formatting hasn't entirely been standardized across the service. I personally have encountered some inconsistency on the Tesseract UI with CommonMark Autolink ^[2] formatting where the autolinks don't even render ^[1].

I recommend reporting this to the Boost devs to improve Markdown feature compatibility between them and the Lemmy UI.

Based.

I do my best to cite any claim that I make. I would encourage others to do the same.

Matrix is […] distributed […].

It is? How so?

Decentralization is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within

Imo this fits my usage of the term — Signal can be broken up into many isolated servers ^[1] all offering the same service.

::: spoiler References

1. Signal-Server. signalapp. Github. Published: 2025-01-31T15:34:14.000Z. Accessed: 2025-02-01T09:24Z. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server.
   • This is the source code for the server that Signal uses. :::

That’s just open source, not decentralized.

Depending on exactly how said open source development is occuring, I could argue that open source development is an example of decentralization. It may even be an example of federation (all depending on licensing and development medium imo).

it’s decentralized

No it’s not. From literally your own comment:

Signal relies on centralized servers

I was using "decentralized" to mean that there isn't centralized control over ownership of the service in general — eg anyone can spin up their own server (impractical, imo, pushing it more towards being centralized) and people can use it (making it decentralized, imo (Please correct me if I am wrong, but I do think my usage of the term is appropriate in this way.)), but people who use that server can only communicate with that server (making it not federated). But yes it could still be said to be centralized in that it operates on a client-server model ^[1].

This is more an argument of definitions, though. I'm not trying to claim anything in bad faith.

My comment wasn't protesting the use of Signal; it was rather clarifying the misinformation in OP's post — ie misinformation that Signal is a federated service.

Signal isn't federated ^[1][2][3.1]; it's decentralized ^[1][2][3.2]. Though, for all practical purposes, I would generally argue that it's centralized.

Liberapay doesn't take a cut of donations ^[1.1.1]. They are only funded via donations, themselves ^[1.1.2][2]. If a donation has fees, they are only transaction fees ^[1.1.3][1.2].

Just looks like windows to me […]

That's because Windows copied KDE Plasma, obviously. /j

Would putting something like "#Elon" at the end of the post accomplish the same?

Could it not be said that "nothing" is actually a thing? 🤔

What a day to have eyes.

A likely comparatively barebones (but sufficient for my needs) solution that I use is Obsidian with Synching.