Fedora! To me it sits right at the sweet spot of stability and bleeding edge (they call it "leading edge"), and I'm very happy with how they run things (including the most recent controversy!).
Your right to choose is the same as everybody else's right to choose. You can decide to post something, and others can decide they don't want to see it. Decentralized just means there is no one entity to make those decisions for you.
That's why picking the right instances is important, to make sure it's not some random person in their basement. Read the about pages of the instances, see what they publish about their operations. The people behind the .world instances regularly blog about what they are doing, spending and earning for example. Some are even run by non-profits. I personally feel much better with those kinds of people running a service I rely on, instead of a company that talks to me only through their marketing department and first and foremost wants to maximize profits.
But that's also exactly my point. You should be able to transfer your account to another instance, so you're not stuck if the one you picked turns out to be bad or has to be shut down.
Remember that this is how every service you sign up for works. What's special about Fediverse services is that they synchronize posts between the instances, other than that they work like any other website or app.
If it's easy to migrate an account then it would be possible for an admin of a rogue instance or even just a rogue admin of a perfectly fine instance to take your account.
This is the case right now. Admins of your instance have full control over your account. They can remove it or lock you out at any point if they want to.
Apparently ChatGPT is really good as a personal tutor. You can ask it specific questions and it will answer with detailed tutorials and step-by-step guides.
I won't buy Apple hardware as long as they keep being absolute dicks in the tech and app world. It's a shame really, because they build awesome devices, but I would feel bad everytime I use them.
Also they are much more restricted in many aspects (e.g. sideloading!), so it would be a downgrade for me.
I doubt it. While the server to server communication is standardized with ActivityPub, the server to client (app) communication isn't. This means different Fediverse apps have different APIs to login, fetch and create posts and so on. It's unlikely that we'll ever have a standard API here, because the apps work diffently and have different needs for their APIs. Maybe some kind of common denominator, but that probably wouldn't be feature complete on most apps.
So the one app to rule them all would have to created custom API Implementations and UIs for every Fediverse app, which would be a loooot of work and probably a worse experience than specialized apps.
Imo admins should not allow the lockdown of a community on one instance in favor of the one on another. It's fine if the original mod wants to switch, but then just get someone else to mod the community or close it down until someone decides to claim it again.
The author of this blog post just realized that things posted publicly on the internet are indeed public, and that Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V exist.
This is not some special property of the Fediverse, it's how the internet has always worked. If you post something publicly (say on your personal blog) then others can see it, make copies and redistribute them, even if you later decide to delete the original content. Companies like Google build massive indexes of everything posted by anyone ever, and there is nothing you can do about it if you want your content to be publicly accessible. If you share something with just a group of people, and someone decides to make it public, then it's public. Nothing new about that.
The GDPR works in exactly the same way in the Fediverse as with the existing services right now. If you want something deleted you have to send a notice to every service that has your content. In reality you'll just send it to the X biggest services, because they represent 99% of the users that could potentially see that content, and that's usually enough. You can do the same with the X most popular Fediverse instances. Even better, we might be able to create a standardized and automated process for it, because they all run the same set of Fediverse apps using ActivityPub after all.
shrugal @ shrugal @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 68Joined 2 yr. ago
Yes it's also federated, so you can access their instances and communities pretty much like the Lemmy ones.