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emi, 11 months ago

They have the ability to get some without a warrant but more would likely require a warrant. Although this is not the kind of thing they need to be investigating, they are just living out their transphobic fascist dreams.

The next time I encounter a misinformed trans phobic statement in person, it will take all of my will power not to unload my pent up frustration while I attempt to calmly unravel their brain rot.

emi, 11 months ago

Exactly as it should be 🤭

emi, 11 months ago

Dear god, why are they running windows for signage. 🤦‍♀️

emi, 11 months ago

Not yet that I know of, and with the main GitHub project focusing on optimizations to deal with the waves of people… it is on us to make if we don’t want to wait. Good news is I don’t think it would be too had to make a browser extension that pulls all the links from your subscriptions page and store it in a .txt. Then from there you would just have to script subscribing to them on another instance.

emi, 11 months ago

Both memmy and mlem have been great in their own ways thus far. Both are in testflight and getting regular updates, in addition to the news about sync there is also news about another new one called artemis that is aiming to be apollo styled.

emi, 11 months ago

It isn't even their logo, they are trying to copyright images of apples.

“We have a hard time understanding this, because it’s not like they’re trying to protect their bitten apple,” Fruit Union Suisse director Jimmy Mariéthoz was quoted as saying by the outlet. “Their objective here is really to own the rights to an actual apple, which, for us, is something that is really almost universal… that should be free for everyone to use.”

emi, 11 months ago

Important not from that article:

It’s not the first time we’ve seen big tech companies attempt to trademark common terms or goods. However, a study by the Tech Transparency Project found that Apple filed more trademark oppositions over a three-year period than Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook combined.

If you think trademarking of common terms is a bad thing at all, apple seems to be the worst among big tech firms.

P.S. this "Android Authority" article put apple in the correct light in my opinion after reading it, and I use a lot of Apple products.

emi, 11 months ago

I have been testing both !memmy and !mlemapp and both still have some bugs to work out, but they are progressing quickly. Memmy for instance had 2 updates just today, looking forward to seeing what comes out of testflight first.

emi, 11 months ago

I recommend this video, it helped me understand how I can hopefully change some people's opinions as time goes on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-6-aEzbJ0Y

emi, 11 months ago

It was recommended to me one day and I really hope it is something the YouTube algorithm is pushing in general and not something super personalized since I watch a number of trans content creators. I kinda want it to be seen by some people who are on the fence about all this, one can only hope.

emi, 11 months ago

(Shark cat, 20cm/7.8in) https://a.co/d/c3WJt5M

emi, 11 months ago

They also have a smaller one with a chain holding a seal…

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/QAXBDgMYj0.jpg

emi, 11 months ago

Understandable-

How could he play feminine roles onscreen when the role he “played in [his] personal life was suffocating [him] already.”

emi, 11 months ago

I have been testing both !memmy and !mlemapp and both still have some bugs to work out, but they are progressing quickly. Memmy for instance had 2 updates just today, with another option with in the way of Artemis it is looking like we will have some, if not plenty of choice.

emi, 11 months ago

You're not alone in this, and it's important to remember that many of these laws are gaining support based on falsehoods and misinformation. Additionally, a lot of people haven't had personal experiences with transgender individuals, but when someone close to them, like a coworker, friend, or family member, comes out, it often leads to a change of perspective and understanding. Personally, I intend to maintain red zone for now, while gradually opening up to others. If things still seem discouraging in a couple of years, I may consider leaving for a better environment. Remember, your well-being matters.

emi, 11 months ago

Ukraine: The Avoidable War

Highly recommend this video on the lead up and conditions that lead to the war. (It didn’t come out of nowhere)

emi, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I think among other issues would be the Gmail-ification and iMessage-ification of the fediverse. What I mean by that is open standards like email are dominated today by many people using Gmail accounts as it is popular, “free”, and comes with a ton of features. Then google started “walling off their garden” by adding features that only work between gmail accounts. Similarly, apple also took the open standard SMS and started adding on features only available between other iPhones.

What we might see is some of the coolest features the fediverse has ever seen, but it will come at the cost of most users ignoring or dealing less with "irrelevant" things not on meta ran instances.

Hope we can resist such a change, but that is what I am concerned about.

emi, 11 months ago

Well think of the iMessage example for a second, other phone manufactures wanted to extend upon SMS with RCS to enable cross-platform read-receipts, better image quality on messages, and more... and you can use RCS between various android phones, but apple has not yet adopted RCS. Then because of the pre-existing market share of iPhones being so high, if you want read-receipts, high quality image messages, and more you with most of your contacts will either have to convince all of your friends and loved ones to use a third party app or cave and get an iPhone.

The features don't have to be revolutionary, they just have to find ways to flex their market share with their features. And their market share is almost destine to be huge if they put any meaningful effort or money behind it.

emi, 11 months ago

Alternatively, imagine a world where the US government passed a "privacy bill of rights" and also required online platforms to be freely interchangeable via open protocols like ActivityPub.

Won't happen any time soon, and if you ask why, go read !news for a little bit and come back.

emi, 11 months ago

True, but if GDPR has taught us anything… smaller firms will bend over backwards to comply and the largest ones will make cutouts, bend the rules and treat fines like fees to play. I think having the law in the US would be the best way to protect US citizens. In addition, I think it would be able to have more teeth being the country where a lot of these companies were founded and most importantly where they bank.

emi, 11 months ago

This is true, and line is king in Japan and yet I believe the most common third party messenger app in the US is Facebook messenger despite its obvious flaws. Why, because it has more features than sms, and most people already have an account.

No matter which way you slice it, companies that can profit off communication will try to wall off their market share. Which is one of the things the fediverse aims to cure.

emi, 10 months ago

True, if they integrate with federation in good faith it won’t matter that much for those not using them. But until we see what they do I won’t hold my breath on Facebook doing something in good faith.

emi, 10 months ago

This is very true, I have hosted my own email before and if you are doing it yourself and not going through a big player like google to host it then your stuff sometimes gets treated as suspect by filters. Used to beg people with Gmail accounts to flag my emails as "not spam" whenever it showed up in the spam folder.

emi, 11 months ago

Makes sense, I also think the original post would make more sense if it were talking about the distribution of large communities. For instance, if there wasn't so many of the largest communities on the same 2-4 servers, then I think browsing would be a lot smoother. In addition, I think users who say care a lot more about a certain community may choose to use that other less populated server to be their home, as it is the home to that community.

(Just a thought, I have done ZERO work with federation or ActivityPub)

emi, 11 months ago

Understandable, I do blahaj though.