Vlyn @ Vlyn @lemmy.ml

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Nothing is safe.

Use a password manager and a unique random password for each service you sign up with. It's the only way to protect your accounts.

The solution has been the same for the last 20 years: Use a password manager, do not reuse passwords. That's it, you're done.

Even if the Lemmy instance admin steals your password (which would be easy!) they can't do anything with it.

Not really, because I don't go straight to eating. After getting out of bed I first brush my teeth (or go to the toilet, depends), then I shower. Afterwards I make breakfast. So between brushing my teeth and eating there's roughly around 20-30 minutes. With a glass of water before taking the first bite there is no taste left.

I've thought about brushing before or after breakfast for a while and neither way seems great. Before is great because you lose the bad breath from the night. After is nice too, except you like coffee for breakfast. General rule is always: Don't immediately brush before or after eating, especially if you eat anything acidic, that fucks your teeth up.

Once in the morning (with a tongue scraper beforehand), once before bed (with flossing and the tongue scraper beforehand).

Seems to work well enough so far. Oh and an electric toothbrush is a must.

A lot in the game is based on the SCP Foundation, which is basically supernatural stories written from the view of the foundation (with plenty of redacted material). There's tons of stories, see here: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

Control very much feels like a bunch of SCPs thrown into a game, but with only half of the story behind each one. Just giving you glimpses unfortunately.

There are several ways. If you want to overwrite and delete:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10905-reddit-overwrite-extended/code (This runs as a script in your browser over a plugin, like Greasy Fork, you install the JavaScript Plugin, add the script code, navigate to your comments and let it work).

For just overwriting without deleting.. haven't found something good yet. I adapted the script above for it and it took a while.

There is also shreddit, but it has more setup: https://github.com/x89/Shreddit

My first reaction is (like it was back on Reddit): Fuck, what did I do?

Either I made a good comment or something really controversial, either way now I'm stuck with replying to everyone.

Control was cool, but at the same time a massive letdown. Like you run into cool SCP like stories and entities and then when the tiny sidequest is over in 5 minutes that's it, done. Some things you never even find out about later on, just like the writers had a cool idea, put the first few sentences there and then didn't know how to continue.

Felt like constantly getting blue balled, compared to just reading SCP posts.

A 4060 won't do. Look here: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/A4PfY3XtVKdAWjkQD9uhLZ-970-80.png.webp

Oh and you also need a decent CPU of course.

Thank you!

Meta will only go full on E/E/E on the fediverse, even by "accident" (like adding new features and breaking the standard). Better choke them off right from the start and build small organic communities instead.

It's pretty damn simple actually. Let's say we fully federate with Threads, what will happen?

1. Threads gets a massive amount of users, they already have 20 million sign-ups on the first day! Their user base will be gigantic
2. We'll get a big influx of content (if Meta does the federation properly), huge communities will pop up on Threads and you'll join those communities. It's unlikely that Threads users will join communities hosted on smaller instances, why join a community with 1k users if Meta has one with 200k?
3. Now Meta controls 99% of the users AND content. They can switch off federation at any moment. Maybe they cover it with "we have a new cool feature, but it breaks federation, sorry!" in that moment all our Lemmy instances lose most of their users and content. And you lose all your communities you joined
4. Lemmy users will migrate to threads, because they want their content back, the fediverse dies (except for a few hundred to thousand hold-over nerds who won't give up)

Fuck Meta.

Use one of the scripts that overwrites your comments first. Just deleting doesn't help one bit.

They also rate limit you to one action every 1.5 seconds or something.

Cross community censorship: For example on Reddit you wrote a comment in subreddit A (maybe even a negative one for that topic!) and then subreddits B, C and D permanently ban your account. If someone starts with that crap again they should be shunned.

Oh and verified users only communities, that sucked too.

But that has always been a thing. Just like Reddit mods banning you from their subreddit just because you posted in another subreddit they didn't like. It sucks, but it's nothing new.

If either a server admin or a community mod doesn't like you for what you're doing, they can kick you out. It's the same as if this was an old time forum and you pissed off the admin.

With lemmy you have to watch two things:

1. Trust the instance admin you sign up with, this is where your account data lives, the admin can read everything on your account. Hell, even your password if they manipulated the instance code, so use a random one
2. Trust the moderators of the communities you interact with. If you interact with a community and the mods there don't like you, they can just remove your posts for example. Same as with Reddit

A random person outside of your instance or communities you interact with can't do much. They can "steal" your posts and comment data and see your votes. But that's it. They can't block your account or kick you out of your favorite communities. They could obviously harass you (just your account, not your email), but then you can block them. Or ask the admin to block their entire instance.

I mean I didn't upvote or downvote porn on Reddit either. It's all personal information.

On Reddit there were plenty of people with access and the data was sold to advertisers.

Here it's public, not great but not terrible either. Also makes it easier to battle vote brigading?

You take away power users and people fed up with Reddit and the casual user who doesn't care is left over.

If you look at blackout votes it was usually around 4 to 1 in favor.

During and shortly after the blackouts there were a ton of upset casual users calling the mods cunts, the blackouts don't help, stop holding other users hostage, give me back my content!!!

Those users don't care about third party apps, mod tooling and so on, they just want to browse the site. These angry users got the loudest while protestors took a break or left for the Fediverse.

Just your browser already gives away a ton about you. See here: https://amiunique.org/fp

Out of 2,000,000 fingerprints my browser is unique (well, I do use Firefox). So in theory a website owner could identify me just based on that. No IP needed.