@pixelfed I hope those overwhelmed admins are enforcong their code of conduct policies and bringing on subreddit moderators to manage their magazine groups :blobcatbusiness:
@pixelfed Is this an active user count instead of total user count? Wondering because it reports kbin.social as having 27,290 users, where as kbin.social's own statistics report 146,620.
Edit: Upon further review, I think kbin's statistics is reporting the total users in the fediverse, and not just on its own platform.
@pixelfed One alternative could be Bunny Fonts as a replacement for Google Fonts : https://fonts.bunny.net/. Or i guess selfhosted / local (Google) fonts would be another option
Ya, self-hosted fonts would be best. It's super easy, just copy a font file over and point at that instead of the remote URL. I'm not sure why people would compromise their users' data by having them hit remote big-tech servers. What's the point of a fediverse built upon the bits of big tech, especially when there are simple alternatives?
@pixelfed Of course using Google Fonts is not embezzling user data.
Contacting Google servers without consent is. If you don't understand the basics of that, you should really get yourself updated on basic user rights and valid legislation in major parts of the world.
Server admins in EU are sued for embedding fonts from third party server, and that's very reasonable because browser metadata is personal data.
@Natureshadow@pixelfed Can you link to the issue in the tracker, I can't seem to find it?
Also, as you might have noticed, everyone in that project is pretty overloaded with the surprising influx of users and issues. The code is still early prototype.
Pretty sure the admin intention is to act in good faith.
@0xtero@pixelfed I can see that. However, you don't accidentally use tracking third parties. That only happens intentional, and with all JavaScript toolchains I know, doing it is more work than bundling fonts and frameworks locally.
@Natureshadow Sigh, have you considered maybe writing a pull request to fix this, or contacting the developers about it, rather than spouting nonsensical accusations?
Kbin isn't a startup, or company, it's a fediverse project maintained by a single person that is experiencing a rare, once in a lifetime opportunity for platform growth, and something that non-important is probably not top of mind for them at this time.
@pixelfed The first step is stop calling legitimate basic user rights expectations "nonsensical". That spirit pretty much disqualifies you as a developer of publicly used software. The only sensible behaviour is never transfer user data to third parties without consent. If you can't agree with that basic principle, and instead laugh down users who want their rights protected, please refrain from publishing software for users.
@Natureshadow You shouldn't associate things that can come from incompetence with malice.
The Kbin developer isn't intentionally doing this to give Google data, but most likely just used it due to it's popularity. He also has lots of bugs to fix ever since it became more popular.
Give him some time, and in the meantime you can use your favorite content blocker and stylus to stop loading the font and use your own.
@pixelfed I would also suggest you order the software page based on MAU instead of total registered users. Makes more sense to me if it’s going to be a popularity contest.
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