So, Google has done this before. They do omething similar with dislikes on YouTube. They aren’t doing it manually. When a bunch of pissed off assholes brigade an app and flip a bunch of five star reviews to one star reviews based on one policy change, that’s generally not something that Google want to have too trong of an effect. If negative reviews continue steadily over time, they’ll pile up.
Except Robinhood absolutely deserves a one-star rating. Sure, go ahead and remove the reviews if they’re untrue, offensive or obscene, but negative reviews about an incident that actually happened shouldn’t be removed.
The official apps for Android & iOS are getting ready to be released for Beta testing very soon. I’m not sure but there may be a FOSS third party app out for Android already
roblox is literally one of the most popular multiplayer games currently on the market and probably has like 95% brand recognition among people under 13 so yes, a lot of people play roblox.
I’ve had my eye on these for a while. They seem great in non-winter conditions. The only weakness I see is wintertime use. I live in a northern climate with long and sometimes quite harsh winter season.
The Fins bike throughout winter. The Dutch and apparently also Germans have a saying, “you’re not made of sugar.” There’s a Scandinavian saying, “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.” Unless you’re farther inside the Arctic circle than Finland, you probably just need to get better cold weather gear.
But even if you only used it in the summer, you’d still be making the world a better place by taking one car off the road even for a single season.
“However, I think that possibly going forward, we might rework the onboarding user experience into presenting a default option as well as an advanced option, where all that stuff with choosing a server would basically be hidden away from the people who get intimidated by choice.
Also Another statement about groups (which isn’t new to me)
“What’s next for Mastodon? What should people be on the lookout for next?
Groups, probably. That’s a big feature that’s coming. Well, it’s what you would expect. Facebook has groups, Twitter has communities, and Mastodon will have groups as well.”
Yeah I'm curious what form the groups will take. There are are group channels now to a small extent but they're hardly noticleable. It seems like he wants to win over people from facebook next. I'm a little concerned about the impact that will have on the the culture of Mastodon since when the last boost from Twitter happened due to Elon's takeover, some people brought attitudes you'd expect on Twitter.
I don't always agree with Eugen's decisions but it's interesting to see the Fediverse get more press at least and he did a pretty good job of explaining it to those who are totally new to it.
There is a pull request up for groups in Mastodon, but it hasnt been updated in a long time. It is also completely incompatible with Lemmy.
What I honestly do not get is why platforms with evidently less features, more restrictions, and less compatibility get the most attention. Or, to be honest, I think I know: They just promote themselves stronger.
Mastodon is not that bad. It's just a shame that they limt the character number. Would be nice to have real groups, too. Oh, and if they could implement good ways of private posting, that would be a blast. While we are at it, they could implement local posts (blogs). Maybe not only blogs, but also photos, videos, and other files. Wikis are not much different from blog posts, either. In fact, you could even implement an add-on system for whatever content to be hosted and shared (webDAV, and calDAV calendars and cardDAV addressbooks would be the icing on the cake). The problem is that most of that content would be hosted on your local instance, so you'd have to add means to authenticate remotely (as in OpenWebAuth) and control read/write persmissions of users on other instances federatedly. Oh, and in case you want to port your identity to a different server, it would be a dream to move all your history and content with you. Or even host your identity synced over multiple instances, so if one is not temporarily or permanently not available, you just switch to another one until it is back online.
I know, this is all science fiction, but maybe one can hope for some of it to be added to Mastodon within the next two decades... Sorry for the promotional rant for Hubzilla and, with some simplications, also (streams) - which started to provide all that 12 years ago, including the open source code for it, ready to be copying to other Fediverse projects.
There is so much choice in the Fediverse of existing platforms. I wonder why people usually focus on the simple ones and expect them, against their philosophy, to grow into full-featured ones...
So i've poked around the fediverse a little bit and I wouldn't underestimate the power of "ease of use".
And while I think microblogging is the worst format for social media ... I again wouldn't underestimate how relatively attractive it is to follow a person and just send off a small message and get one back ... the direct personal interaction of a straight forward microblogging platform is probably quite good for ramping people onto a new system.
Part of the problem is that Mastodon is arguably not a great citizen of the fediverse. Maybe no platform is to be honest (I really don't know). In my view, there's a point at which a certain level of dominance that ethically demands action in favour of the fediverse over the particular platform one works on. In Mastodon's case, that point has probably been reached ... maybe a while ago.
Without a strong sense of such a culture ... I fear the fediverse will always have the potential to go the way of Linux Desktop: (IMO) a fractured, confusing (and probably lower quality than it needs to be) array of options that puts-off many would be open source users and so never took off even after it was too late (ie, everyone uses android and iOS now anyway).
It's not Twitter that Mastodon has to seize the moment from. It's all the other commercial offerings that will inevitably pop up in its place as Twitter crashes and burns.
@rysiek@KelsonV I'm all for the growing hype around ActivityPub.
From The Verge:
"The hottest new thing in social isn’t vertical video, and it’s not AI-driven algorithmic feeds. Instead, it’s a little-known, years-old protocol called ActivityPub that could help rewire the entire social fabric of the internet.
"In recent months, a number of tech companies have thrown their resources into ActivityPub and what’s now known as “the Fediverse.” Tumblr is working with ActivityPub, as are Flipboard, Medium, Mozilla, and even Meta. There’s now an official WordPress plug-in for ActivityPub, which will enable the protocol for something like half the internet all at once. Developers are using ActivityPub to build new and different takes on YouTube, Instagram, and much more. ActivityPub is everywhere! ActivityPub!"
@ttmrichter@KelsonV Something with no agency can save something just by existing. Saving is not an act exclusive to things with agency. For example, if I fell out of a building, a trampoline on the ground could possibly save me.
Doesn’t Edge send all urls you visit to Microsoft through browser.events.data.msn.com? Microsoft has been tracking every site you visit since the start.
The longer part of the windows install process is not the installation. It’s removing all the pre-installed bloatware, removing or disabling all the telemetry and other undesired features that are on by default.
The start menu entries are stored in an encrypted file somewhere beneath a thousand different folders. But its possible to copy a cleaned start menu file and paste it in the correct directory in the default user folder to give new users an ad-free start menu.
Doesn't seem to matter what search engine you use. Instead, this issue seems to impact people using the latest version of Edge.
Microsoft’s Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website. Reddit users first spotted the privacy issues with Edge last week, noticing that the latest version of Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis.com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to. Microsoft tells The Verge it’s investigating the reports.
theverge.com
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