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ericjmorey
ericjmorey @ ericjmorey @beehaw.org
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Threads is All The Worst Parts of Twitter And Instagram in One Very Bad App

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  • When have people been able to tell the difference?

    • [HN] Facebook's Threads is so depressing

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  • Because it will create more problems than I want to deal with.

    • [HN] Facebook's Threads is so depressing

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  • You had me until the last sentence.

    • [HN] Facebook's Threads is so depressing

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  • Any opinions on the culture that has developed since yesterday is premature at best.

    On the technical side they had over 1 30 million accounts register in 24 hours. The site service didn't crash. That's impressive.

    I'm assuming that it will never federate with activity pub, I hope I'm correct.

    • Mastodon and Lemmy

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  • It's as secure as using a 3rd party apps that you didn't compile yourself. Wefwef is open source and you can host it yourself if you want.

    • Warning: Lemmy doesn't care about your privacy, everything is tracked and stored forever, even if you delete it

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  • It's not what I would have bet on, that's for sure.

    • Warning: Lemmy doesn't care about your privacy, everything is tracked and stored forever, even if you delete it

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  • I certainly don't like the Raddle community's reaction to this, however Beehaw's community has shown somewhat similar reactions to certain topics that have come up. Having some reactionary drama seems unavoidable in any social group. That said, the software that Raddle runs on is pretty sleek. Seems to rival Tildes in quality for a link aggregation and forum software. But it's inability to federate makes it fundamentally different from lemmy.

    • Can I block a federated instance?

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  • I don't think I'd view them as a problem here. They need to triage the issues and they're going to focus their efforts on things they see as a bigger benefit. They haven't indicated that they would deny code contributions to add this feature.

    • Can I block a federated instance?

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    • Google Workspace users can now log in without a password, thanks to passkeys

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  • I thought passkeys would make password managers obsolete for any authentication where a passkey is used. Maybe I'm not understanding something.

    • What are your favorite browser extensions?

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  • Firefox:

    • uBlock Origin (uBO) - The internet is basically unusable without this. {GPLv3}
    • Dark Reader - I like using dark themes and I hate when I get blasted with a light theme when I visit a site. This keeps that to a minimum. {MIT}
    • Firefox Multi-Account Containers - It's nice to keep things separated. {Mozilla Public License Version 2.0}
    • Consent-O-Matic - Automatically marks my saved cookie preferences on consent pop ups. This is a great tool to help counter to the dark patterns related to GDPR, but it isn't perfect. {MIT}
    • NoScript - I don't like giving blanket permission to run JavaScript in my browser. This let's me choose. {GPLv3}
    • Wayback Machine by Internet Archive - Archives the sites I visit automatically and provides a one click option to visit an archived version of a URL that returns 404. {Proprietary | I don't know of any alternatives}
    • Tampermonkey - There are a few very useful scripts that I run periodically. Tampermonkey keeps them organized and easy to run. {Proprietary | I don't know of any alternatives}
    • Reddit Enhancement Suite - I got a lot of value from this extension over the years, but I don't know how much value it has going forward for me {GPLv3}