Draconic_NEO

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

It’s not really that fundamentally different from the idea of Lemmy, the interface is just different but the idea of having communities and posts in the communities is the same.

The thing that would be tricky and would probably have the most friction would be anonymous posting since that’s where things get really ugly regarding moderation and user conduct, since a good amount are just going to be spammers and many others will be trolls and malicious users.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

I agree, peer tube’s biggest issues so far besides the storage or the fact that there are almost no peer tube servers which offer user accounts (which isn’t needed explicitly to watch videos but makes the experience much better), and also the fact that there aren’t really any good apps to use it with that aren’t outdated or abandoned.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

Forgejo having Federation enabled would be great since it would allow people with Codeberg accounts to contribute in self-hosted repos without having to apply or beg for accounts on them just to submit issues and pulls.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

Could always try reaching out to @nm as they’re the person credited as the creator on the bottom of the page.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

I don’t think that really makes sense because revenge porn is technically porn and it’s not consensual.

So I would disagree calling something porn doesn’t imply consent, it merely describes sexually explicit material.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

You’re not wrong, lots of people on Lemmy.world just really kiss up to fairphone because of their perceived betterness in other ways. Just because they claim to be doing some things better doesn’t mean they aren’t doing anything wrong or scummy.

Also I bet there’s quite a few apple fanboys here who support copying apple in removing features, for some strange reason.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

People will deny this but this is the only real reason for doing that. The other reason is copying apple, which isn’t really another reason as apple removed it for the first reason. Fairphone just went the extra mile to claim that headphones are wasteful, in essence they’re making an excuse to cover up their reason why and also trying to force others to do it as well.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

Probably but they certainly don’t want you to know that and almost certainly will say that you can’t.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

FYI Sublinks is a drop-in replacement for Lemmy, it’s fully compatible with the API and database structure, so it can simply be swapped out and aside from UI differences it’ll work Basically the same, it could even be used with the Lemmy-UI in which case there would basically be no difference in appearance and function.

Also due to the nature of Federated services as long as everything still speaks the same protocol it doesn’t matter that much the software each server uses. The community will still be accessible on those services.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

People are going to try to make up reasons, all of them are an excuse to cover up the real reason which is copying apple and forcing people into Bluetooth to sell more expensive tech junk to people. The original and really only reason.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

That’s it, right there. Artificial exclusivity, that’s what it always was anything else is an excuse to look or seem better or less scummy.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

Probably injecting the ads into blank screen periods.

Maybe we should bring back screensavers, would really fuck with devices like this that look for blank screen time that would simply never occur.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

You can tear the wifi antenna off the board, and it’ll never connect again (not just unplug it from the card, actually tear it off the pads), could also remove the shield from the Wifi module as well for good measure and it would never get a good signal ever again.

If you’re feeling really brave you could even try removing or cutting the traces connecting the Wireless module to the main system bus, has diminishing returns though since it would be very easy to short or destroy the PCI bus rendering the system completely inoperable.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

They already have that it’s called click fraud or automated ad clicking, mostly though it’s websites that earned money from advertisers who engage in this, as a sleazy way of making more money.

Though if you want to partake in it there are ad blocking extensions that also do it. It’s not perfect but it is quite damaging to the advertising industry.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

I get that it’s probably technically possible to bypass

Not exactly a bypass it’s more so destruction of property (your own property might I add, since there’s no clause that says you have to return it to the company at some point)

it’d actually be illegal to bypass and almost nobody would do it.

Yeah we’re definitely not at the point in time yet where it is illegal to vandalize your own things, hacking in some places, but vandalism of your own property not so much (exceptions only for rentals or leases, which TVs aren’t since you never need to return them).

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

Obviously but it could become very hard to do that with Smart TVs dominating the space now.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

It’s because of bots, in the past there was enough moderation to deal with them plus a larger amount of natural engagement.

Now after the exodus there is significantly less real engagement and much poorer moderation. Those combined allow bots and low effort posting to thrive.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

Pretendo is open source.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

First of all, no it doesn’t. The fediverse is about servers communicating with each other, that doesn’t mean all servers, it just means that multiple servers communicate, and if a server is being problematic it will be blocked or limited, as another example a good amount of servers limit or block Mastodon.social and due to spam issues. Threads in this regard is no different, it just so happens to be a much bigger problem than Mastodon.social hence why there is much stronger efforts to defederate it.

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especially when users can already block content from domains they dislike.

No, you are deliberately or unintentionally misrepresenting how domain blocks and indeed blocking in general works in Lemmy (Domain blocks target communities and do not hide users or their content), and even with Mastodon this doesn’t solve the biggest problems with threads, that being the extremely poor moderation and the EEE threat which are server wide problems and not user preference issues.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

Mine also blocks it due to issues regarding poor moderation and hate speech.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

Neither did Mastodon.social or Mastodon.online, though honestly I’d recommend people steer clear of those instances when signing up for a different reason, they’re also very widely blocked or limited by a lot of servers due to issues with spam and moderation. Ironic that these instances are already too big to effectively moderate, yet threads is bigger and also way worse (see link in other comment about their moderation issues) and yet people still want to federate with them.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

I don’t really see the point since the federation is one-way (at least last time I heard), so you can’t reply to anything as it never gets sent back to threads. You’d be better off just following it as an RSS feed if you really want it (There are unofficial tools to do that for threads and it might be officially available in the future).

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

That is not really true and anyone who actually believes that is in for a rude awakening.

See I think that you’re a bit confused because when they say that or things similar to that what they really mean is that no one person controls the fediverse. Not that there are no laws or rules because they’re absolutely are.

For example if you go around spouting bigotry you will find yourself banned from a majority of public federated servers, and if you are on a server that you are not the owner of you will likely find yourself banned from that one. The fact that it’s decentralized does not mean that it doesn’t have rules or is some kind of free speech safe haven.

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

Two people listening at once, or DJing. It is very gimmicky but has its uses

Draconic_NEO, 1 month ago

The fact that people still defend removal of headphone jacks just goes to show how brainwashed they are.