PlexSheep @ PlexSheep @infosec.pub

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Scheiße

I'd much rather have the idiot kind of nazis than the 1930s kind.

1. Yeah I get it, it feels somewhat anonymous, but if you look, it's really not. I use my usual Internet Pseudonym and if you search for it you can probably find my personal website quickly. As a German, I've had to put an impression there even. Reminds me, maybe using my Pseudonym everywhere is something I should avoid, but then again, I've grown attached to it. I follow ich_iel on here and also read comments there. It's a small community and you just know the regulars after a while.
2. It's not hard to use if you already know it, but I feel were forgetting the majority of the population that is absolutely not well versed in technology. I occasionally listen to a podcast that addresses the social media trends of the week, and in many episodes they addressed the fediverse once. And it was only mastodon for them, they didn't even get the name right, and they didn't really get federation too. I feel like it's true that it's not hard to use, but it seems like it's still hard for the average person to get into the fediverse, presumingly caused by the network effect and the fact that corps can't milk us dry and take all our data. The decentralized nature makes it hard to grasp for "normies".
3. Yes I have great friends and love them very much. I don't have a lot of English only friends. Someone in my family is married to a man from England, and I got to know a few of his friends, it was all great. True that even in the younger generation there are groups with low english skills, I feel like we'd need statistics on it to be sure.

I don't we're arguing or anything. Thanks for the conversation :)

I feel like having fax listed in a public institution is really not a great example of the general population, and especially not of the people that would use the fediverse. Besides that, just because you have a fax machine doesn't mean you can't be technical. My father has one and he knows his way about using tech stuff, for example.

Internet infrastructure is of course a decades old problem, but then again, you don't need highspeed Internet to post on the fediverse.

1. While it's true that Germans might value their privacy more than others, the fediverse is incredibly niche and most people either use the big corpo apps or nothing. Also lemmy is not anonymous, at most maybe pseudonymous.
2. I really don't get point 2. Isn't being a member of the fediverse rather advanced? But also how are Germans technologically behind regarding common personal life?
3. I'm Gen Z and almost all of my friends know English well enough to have a conversation online. Granted, I work in IT, but not all of my friends are technology people and this still holds.

Counterpoint: I think Germany is just a rather big Western country with many technologically interested people and people who value fediverse ideals like being free from corporate influence. There are dozens of us!

It's not overused if its funny. And it is very funny

German here, no idea what it has to do with a Zange

Why do you think so? I see it as a strength in diversity and a great driving force for a proper server api

Inprofessionality is important to keep sanity

Well ladybird might be somewhat usable in many years...

Also the android app is crap and keeps crashing, and their ad blocker is mich inferior to the glory of ublock origin

What?

"Debian Zugspitze" nah I think they're fine

"Schlimmer geht immer"

It can always be worse.

Not really my motto but a phrase I find myself thinking often in the last couple months.

Same, on desktop at least, even though I often klick the no fuck you button

I meet with 3 friends online every 2 weeks to discuss nerd stuff and play some video games together after, and bopl battle has been great for that.

Women are confidential information

Not to mention the gabe stand made the hot dogs at all accessible for some nerds. Hotdogs were really hard to eat for the penguins.

I think it's survivorship bias, but yes

Iirc you can also just disable it with unset HISTFILE. This will reset when you open a new session unless you put it in the .zshrc or something.