If you are new to the #Fediverse network (inaccurately called #Mastodon network) and looking for end-user apps for mobile and desktop, check this #PublicDomain list:
#Flathub deserves a set of more performant and native applications than being attributed to a page in #Discord's playbook. Stay with me: are we really just going to blindly accept #privacy flaws of this messenger and promote it at the same time?
The fact that it only has got to the head of Discord it's long overdue to verify this popular #Flatpak distribution, I think, is worth a comment on itself, but I'll digress. It is nice that #OpenSource enthusiasts made arrangements for this verification and I have zero disagreements with the result. I'm just stupified that, in all this effort, Discord is treated like some spoon-fed royal baby - at least, according to reactions I see.
So, what was it... Flathub already had a library of nice actively developed #FOSS#applications before these news. I don't see the point in exaggerating the scales on some centralized chat thingabob with well-known #ToS and #telemetry problems, that's all. Thank you for visiting my #dRBBoard talk! ❤
Oh, what a dummy, sweet summer child me... Entrusting one feature (that goes astray from #SynchronousSoftware and VoIP nature which this piece of garbage was supposed to keep focus on) with link aggregation and presentation: I'm speaking of Discord's forum threads.
After a week of quality time with #Matrix, I return to #dRCS "server" (Discord's term for group) to check up on #forum channels. Lurking, scrolling through this joke of a bulletin board in search of older posts proved futile. Most of the #threads are simply gone! It took me long enough to make these pretty cards, now for them to evaporate without any communication from Discord...
You know what? I'm done with #CentralizedPlatforms that bite more than they can chew, all the while trashing my content! #Discord, #Reddit - shut the front door!!!
I could post this showcase of links on #Kbin or potential #PersonalBlog - now I know this better. Hello, #devRant. Welcome #dRBB, my cool abode!
"Every time I have a #programming question and I rly need help, I post it on #Reddit and then log into another account and reply to it with an obscenely incorrect answer. Ppl don’t care about helping others but they LOVE correcting others. Works 100% of the time"
Since the #reddit rebellion has been quashed and things have gotten quiet. I have been tossing around the idea of setting up a #lemmy#instance for #Fandom to share links and stuff like the old days of reddit.
It seems like the hype for #Lemmy is over. The few communities I followed are either abandoned or fed solely by bots.
What a shame. Going back to #Reddit is not an option either though.
It bothers me that we haven't found a really good way to organise knowledge around Technologies yet. We have wikis and forums, and then we have Discord servers and Reddit.
Wikis are a good idea, but surprisingly tedious to maintain. Forums are hard to search through and tend to mix in opinions with information. If you have ever tried to get average people to contribute knowledge to a wiki or a forum, you'll know there is too much friction.
Here on #dRBB we think of #OC as an original content, or an original creation. Think the entire process of production, from start to finish: can you call this your own work? If preview or anything that sits in the thread you're posting contains copyrighted work of someone else, it's most likely just an adaptation/repost and as such you cannot claim it as OC.
OC threads have this small mark prepended to the title to set it apart from other works. Traditionally, OCs get more liberty from the discovery algorythms. I'm not entirely sure how it works on #Kbin, compared to #Reddit, but in any situation think of the reader first and algorythm second.
If the piece you're about to share was made by you and you only, don't hesitate and mark it as the original content! But avoid using OC mark for discussion starters, as they don't prove substantial enough of a work as such...
Dear #YouTube. We walked away from #Facebook, #Twitter, and #Reddit already. You want to force people to disable #adblock? Please, be my guest. You are disposable.
Stupid companies are wonderful. They drive innovation in user-driven #distributed alternatives. I can't wait to abandon YouTube as well. Get fukd.
@Tutanota macht vieles richtig, und ich fühle mich mit meinen Mails dort sehr wohl. Ich verstehe nur nicht, warum man das Forum auf #Reddit betreibt, irgendwie fühlt sich dies etwas komisch an ...
Ce post n'a pas de conclusion et n'est pas un essais. C'est un partage d'expérience, d'un ressentit en tant que utilisateur et modo sur jlai.lu :)
En relisant les anciens posts du blog de #Framasoft j'y trouve un certain écho. En tant qu'ancien utilisataire de Reddit, j'avoue que la tentation est forte de vouloir attirer d'avantage de redditaires. Je me retrouve un peu dans ce rôle de prophète (militant libriste) car j'associe les réseaux sociaux capitalistes à du tabagisme passif et de l'exploitation forcé des CGU. Donc, oui je fais chier tout le monde pour la bonne cause. L'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions.
C'est difficile de cultiver un certain détachement, d'imaginer autre chose que Reddit surtout quand Lemmy ressemble à tout point à Reddit. Ya meme des posts qui ont repris mot pour mot les post publiés sur r/france. J'avoue ça fait bizarre. Est ce que le design du logiciel induit des comportements qu'on va retrouver à une certaine échelle ? Ou est ce que ça dit des choses sur nous-même dans nos interactions sociales et donc explique pourquoi on va utiliser ce réseau social et pas un autre ? Je ne sais pas.
En tout cas, Reddit comme Lemmy et Kbin, sont des agrégateurs de liens classés par thèmes, catégories comme un forum. Visuellement, on peut choisir notre fil d'actu par thématique sans suivre des personnes. Cela se démarque complètement de Firefish, Mastodon où c'est un peu le bordel mais gobalement tu es connecté à des personnes qui pensent à peu près comme toi et vont poster toute sorte de contenu sans forcément le classer sauf s'iel mettent un hashtag/filtres.
Et pour retrouver quelque chose sur mastodon, c'est galère. Il y a quelque chose de l'ordre de l'éphémère, de l'instant. Sur Lemmy, on peut ouvrir des mégafils intemporel qui sont réactivés à chaque fois qu'on commentera dessus car ce sera au premier plan, selon vos paramêtre d'affichage du fil.
En tout cas, pour revenir à ma réflexion, à mes pensées sous la douche, aux liens que nous cultivons avec Reddit, nous nous sommes exprimés sur le sujet du vote qui influence le classement des posts et nos comportements en tant que postaires. On l'a gardé comme tel. On pourrait très bien le retirer et amorcer une rupture. C'est cette voie qu'a choisie Beehaw, une instance de Lemmy. Et d'après certain utilisataires, cela a bel et bien un impact sur nos interactions.
On se cherche une identité et je crois qu'on fait une erreur : on aimerait que ce soit comme avant. Je sais pas si la comparaison avec nos ex, la reconstruction lors d'une rupture amoureuse est foireuse mais j'y vois un parallèle pertinent. Nous devrions oublier twitter, reddit, facebook et trouver notre propre ligne éditoriale sur Jlai.lu, ou peut-être pas ?
Finalement, le plus important, est ce que jlai.lu vous plait ? :)
A simple, important, and urgent tip for everyone who doesn't follow #infosec news closely: Never
install an app if you can use a web browser instead. If you have installed desktop or phone apps
with web page alternatives (#Teams, #Slack, #Signal, #Discord, #Zoom, #WhatsApp, #Reddit, and many
others), uninstall them! Use Chrome, Safari, Edge, or Firefox to access the application instead.
Why now? There's a serious (8.8 out of 10) vulnerability in the webp library, which is used by
Chrome and by Electron applications, including most of the above apps. While most vendors have not
made an official statement about this flaw yet, it seems likely that many have this flaw, and, if
so, it may give attackers the ability to take over your device by sending a malicious image.
FYI, Electron is a deployment platform that lets developers take their web front-end, and quickly
wrap it in a pseudo-browser to deploy it as a stand-alone desktop or phone app.
While there is no patch yet for most of these apps, and we don't know for sure which apps have
problems, there is a simple thing that you can do to protect yourself from all Electron-related
issues now and in the future: Just use the in-browser web-page version of the application instead
of the desktop or app version. Browsers have much stronger security than Electron and other app
deployment platforms. For example, Chrome has been patched for the above webp problem.
Stay safe: Don't install an app if you can avoid it.
The Golden Gator is a fictional bar located in Bricktown somewhere in New York. Here the Gator Crew gather for near daily light-RP, stage improv, social games and game-shows....
“Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.”
Does anyone know of a package that sends marked text/a buffer in Emacs directly to your kindle email address? Can be via mu4e or whatevs. I know I can export it as a doc and send but you have to go through a couple of hoops for that and I'm wondering if an Emacs package could do it instantly.
"Twitter and Reddit may have only lost a few million users to Mastodon and Lemmy so far, but these are nation-sized numbers, comparable to what Scandinavia is to the United States of America. The incumbents have allowed the fediverse to reach critical mass. It's only gonna get bigger"
You're probably looking for this! ☝ ( kbin.social )
The Golden Gator is a fictional bar located in Bricktown somewhere in New York. Here the Gator Crew gather for near daily light-RP, stage improv, social games and game-shows....