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Maybe throttled unless it passes some kind of check for being "authentic" or something. Feels like that's the general pattern with Google now.

Hell, maybe it was related to implementing this feature. You can get parallel downloads from the store now because they changed how downloads are queued or something.

It's mostly that it's just an older site and the voting/review system goes back by over a decade. Much of the information you're gonna get on there is just dated, pure and simple, and that reflects in the rankings.

And as you said, the categories aren't curated well enough. Too many unrelated suggestions.

Only issue with alternativeto is the comments and reviews are all dated, some by over 10 years, and often don't reflect the current state of the software.

A lot of the information on the site just feels very stale in general.

Having third party clients is not good for security.

If the first party provider told you this, you should always second guess them.

Moreover, providing an option that informed users can choose doesn't hurt security. This idea the user can't be trusted to use the appropriate type of messaging if provided options needs to die.

You have absolutely zero guarantees, with or without their policy on third party apps. You can not send sensitive information to someone else's phone and tell yourself it couldn't possibly have been intercepted, or that someone couldn't get ahold of that phone, or that the person you're sending it to won't take a screenshot and save it to their cloud.

A lot of software nowadays is doing a real disservice to their users by continuing to lie to them like this by selling them the notion that they can control their information after it has been sent. It's really making people forget basic information hygiene. No app can guarantee that message won't be intercepted or mishandled. They can only give you tools to hopefully prevent that, but there are no guarantees.

Moreover, this policy does not exclude them from including third-party functionality and warning the user when they are communicating with somebody that isn't using encryption.

Too many of these apps and services are getting away with the "security" excuse for what is effectively just creating a walled garden to lock users in. Ask yourself how you can get your own data out of these services when you decide to quit them, and it becomes more apparent what they're doing.

Downvotes are part of the whole curation aspect of the site, and it's a valid part of the democratic system. For all the whining about being "censored" because you got downvoted, there's countless cases where downvotes influence the sorting algorithm positively.

Garbage shouldn't sit on the same level as fluff comments no one bothered to vote on.

I'd 100% donate to them if they accepted donations.

If they accepted donations, you wouldn't want to.

The reason uBlock Origins surpasses all the others is because of who the lead dev is, what they believe, and why they do it. They are absolute hardline and believe in what they made. It's not a job.

You don't need to be that kind of person to be a good developer, but when it comes to something like an adblocker and privacy protection, you want people like him who won't falter or sell out. You want those true believers.

If he accepted donations, then he wouldn't be the kind of person that made uBlock Origins what it is.

You're lying, because uBlock Origins refuses donations. They are adamant about the purity of the project.

This is more or less how it worked on Reddit. The admins handled vote spam or abuse, there was absolutely no expectation for moderators to have that information because the admins were dealing with the abuse cases. Moderators only concerned themselves with content and comments, the voting was the heart of how the whole thing works, and therefore only admins could see and affect them. Least privilege, basically.

I think a side effect of this, though, is that it increases the responsibility on admins to only federate with instances that have active and cooperative admins. It increases their responsibilities and demands active monitoring, which isn't a bad thing, but I worry about how the instances that federates openly by default will continue to operate.

If you have to trust the admins, how do you handle new admins, or increasingly absent ones? What if their standards for what constitutes "harassment" don't match yours? Does the whole instances get defederated? What if it's a large instance, where communities will be cut off?

I don't ask any of this as a way to put down this effort because I very, very much want to see this change, but there's gonna be hurtles that have to be overcome

Ultimately I think the best solution would need assistance from the devs but I'm lieu of that, we have to make due.

Admins only. Letting mods see it just invites them to share it on a discord channel or some shit. The point is the number of people that can actually see the votes needs to be very small and trusted, and preferably tied to a internal standard for when those things need acted upon.

The inherent issue is public votes allow countless methods of interpreting that information, which can be acted on with impunity by bad actors of all kinds, from outside and within. Either by harassment or undue bans. It's especially bad for the instances that fuck with vote counts. Both are problems.

Sure, but by the same token, mods are just as capable of manipulation and targeted harassment when they can curate the voting and react based on votes.

On reddit, votes are only visible to the admins, and the admins would take care of this type of thing when they saw it (or it tripped some kind of automated something or other). But they still had the foresight not to let moderators or users see those votes.

Complete anonymity across the board won't work but they're definitely needs to be something better than it is now.

We all keep saying this but can anybody point me to which one is better?

I invariably end up having to go back to them because the other search engines all have their own problems.

The issue is the internet is polluted with SEO and all the useful things that used to be spread out are now condensed onto places like Reddit, or places that aren't even being indexed.

That just feels like shooting themselves in the foot. Just inform the user SMS isn't secure. That's it.

Not being willing to trust the user with the information so they can make a choice is asinine. It's the same reason why I stopped using Tuta. Complete privacy and security are great but if there's no option to make things a little more open for the sake of convenience or interconnectivity, I'm just not interested.

Security and privacy shouldn't be a prison.

Problem with Tuta for me is its too closed off.

Proton at least offers an IMAP bridge, Tuta utterly refuses to let you use your email outside their apps, which makes it more of a messaging app. And the fact there's no way to export everything easily or even forward messages rubs me the wrong way. I tried them and have been using them for about 2 years but I'd definitely love to get away from it.

I'm tired of these walled gardens. I don't give a damn how secure it is, if I can't leave it with my shit, then no thanks.

Does that include the IMAP bridge and multiple addresses?

after some further research, it became apparent that Discord staff could save a significant amount of money by changing S3 providers. The new bucket was set up, but when the time came to make the change NC refused to do it, even though he was not the one footing the bill.

There's a conspicuous absence of explaining why they wouldn't do it. What were their actual concerns? Did they not voice them or are they just being withheld?

NC refused to join the Discord to talk about solutions in real-time.

Why was this a requirement?

Did we vent in private? Sure.

And what did you say?

Did we dox or threaten? Fucking hell, no! And frankly I'm LIVID at even the suggestion that we did.

Well something clearly happened if his family was brought into it, so if you're going to skimp on the details, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to believe that.

The whole thing just comes back to the larger issue with discord: the record vanishes.

If it's a romhacking site, it wont have the actual ROMs, just the patches. It never would have survived 20 years if it had been hosting ROMs.

Seems weird to include Grindr with all the others, given Grindr is an actual radar. The whole point is that you're supposed to be able to see who's near. At about a thousand feet, the distance starts getting murky and obfuscated, but still, you're supposed to be able to know when somebody is close, down to a couple hundred feet.

In that case, at least, the user base knows what they're getting into when they use the app.

In fact, after the third ship sank, Sam would spend time on two other ships before eventually ending up in a sailor's home in the UK. Those two other ships ended up being sunk as well after Sam had left them.

The Germans definitely sacrificed the Bismark to implant their saboteur among the enemy.