Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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They did make their own apps.

Reddit isn't an app, though. It's a website. Totally different beast, with totally different needs, and totally different expenses.

Anything that lands on Meta's servers is open for Meta's use, however they see fit. Providing free training data for their algorithms just isn't something everyone here is ok with.

Many of us are here consciously because we're anti-corporate exploitation, not merely because our previous hangout spot fucked around, and Meta is king shit of corporate exploitation, and we want nothing to do with anything that's helping them.

Is there a "Subscribed" under Lemmy.world?

So, anyone can spin up a Lemmy website. They're all independent sites, with independent and unaffiliated admins.

In order to sign in to a website with a given set of credentials, that website needs to know something about those credentials. Importantly, they need to know something about your password.

And that's a security nightmare that no user should be ok with.

Now, there are single sign-on (SSO) possibilities, but for them to be universally accessible across the Fediverse, you either need to impose them on 20,000 admins across two dozen software implementations, or you need them all to a) agree to support SSO, and b) agree to support the same SSO options.

Despite the fact that most of these websites look the same, they're all completely different websites, and while they can be treated, on first glance, as having the same content, they're very different places run by very different people. They can't be treated like a singular entity.

couldn’t log in with a kbin account (which went against the whole 'you can use one chunk of the fed to engage with others!" spiel).

In fairness, it goes against the speil in the same way that "I tried to download Internet Explorer on Linux" goes against the "you can use any computer to access the internet" speil.

You can access all of the same content from websites running Lemmy or kbin, but they're still totally different pieces of kit.

The biggest advantage of a decentralized system is that none of the people who are unwilling to invest even the briefest amount of time into understanding something will end up using it.

Most of us don't care what the average person has to say on social media, as demonstrated by what they average person has said on social media over the past 15 years.

And buzz. Don't forget buzz.

I actually question whether GDPR is up for the task of distributed systems like this.

Like, if you put in a right to be forgotten request to your host server, it's not at all clear that they're responsible for the copies of your content that are being hosted elsewhere, any more than asking a news website to remove your personal information from an article requires them to also hunt down anyone else who has copied and spread the story to remove it, too.

Different Lemmy websites are independently owned and operated, and your local admin holds no authority over other admins. They can request deletion on your behalf, if that's a legal requirement, but they cannot compel action. I'm not even sure they can act as your proxy, given that there's no formal relationship between admins.

OP is nothing more than a corporate boot licking troll, if would seem. That makes this post concern trolling.

Hey OP, if you actually cared about this issue, you'd be trying to help people. But you're not helping anyone anywhere on the network.

You clearly don't want to be here. So, log off and just don't come back.

You don't need to mention the law in order to be beholden to the law.

No one is frightened of Threads being "more successful". It's an Instagram spinoff, it's obviously going to be successful.

People who are here don't want to be sending their data to Meta. That's it. That's the whole issue. Many of us are here specifically because we don't want to voulunatairly hand our IP and usage data to these companies anymore.

Why are you wasting your time here shitting on this space? You don't need to be here. You clearly don't want to be here.

Go home.

You send the exact same kind of information when you send an email.

Username, host, and IP.

It makes sense in context. They negotiated the contract via text messages, and then one party asked, via that same text chat, if the contract they'd drawn up form that negotiation was agreeable The other party replied with a thumbs up.

If we were texting about getting drinks, and you said "How about tomorrow night, 8pm, at the Ale House," how would you interpret me responding with "👍"?

Being able to one-click subscribe to all communities with the same name known by one's instance is a frequently asked for feature, so I can see it coming down the pipeline, but no, it's not a thing yet.

Even short of that, though, it would be really nice if the community search page had subscribe/unsubscribe buttons right there in the search results. It would at least make it easier.

This is coming in the wake of protests against pension reform being rammed through and riots over police killing kids.

There's zero reason to believe "being exploited by bad actors" isn't the point.

You linked "communism" and "left movements" to "banning concepts" as if they go hand in hand.

You're question begging hard, and all of your "reasons" are built on top of propaganda and logical fallacies.

Do you get what’s the point of decentralized social media

Do you?

It certainly doesn't mean "everything from everywhere can reside on the server I pay for". Nor does it mean "we can't vote them off the island if they're negatively impacting us".

It means exactly the opposite, in fact. It means we get to say "no" at whatever level we choose, and that includes at the server level.

If you don't like the choices the admins on your server make, find a new one, or start your own. That is the promise of federation.

I'm increasingly disappointed by the tracks that don't look or feel at least a little bit like a race track. That includes the Tour tracks, but also things like Squeaky Clean Sprint. They're really cute and fun to look at, but it's gotten increasingly difficult to tell what is track and what is not.

Would some racing curbs kill the track designers?

With federation, if I move servers I lose my comment, post, and upvoted history; people messaging me; and my subscribed communities

That is in no way an inherent limitation. It's just a current limitation with Lemmy and kbin.

You can move from one Mastodon instance to another and take your followers and follows with you. And if you move to a Calckey-bases instance, you can even import your old posts.

The common pattern when onboarding into the Fediverse is:

1. "I just left [poorly moderated place with too many people] because of [reason only tangentially relates to the denizens]".
2. "This place is a breath of fresh air! It feels like [the Internet at some previous reference time for the user that predated them being in spaces with too many people]."
3. "Everyone should experience this! We need to get [the people who made the previous location a hell hole] here!"