Hi all! I used to be a daily r/selfhosted lurker and a bit active user. Since the Reddit saga I thought that r/selfhosted would be one of the first and bigger community to move to Lemmy due to the IT knowledge of all of their users and the sensitivity about self host/privacy/open source, but I see that not only the community is...
Subscriber numbers mean little. Take a look at the trend for the posts per day and comments per day graphs. They’re far more accurate indicators of the level of engagement actual users are having with reddit.
I’ve just checked for 10 of the subs I used to subscribe to, 2 of which have over 30m subscribers - all of them have the same downward trend in terms of posts and comments. I’m not saying reddit is in trouble but less new content is being created and that which is is being talked about less, eventually that will take a toll.
I guess I am asking morally. I expect this sort of thing from Bing and Google but it surprised me to see a company that is privacy focused basically trampling over someone elses IP to the point they feel they can offer rights to someone elses content and make money from it.
Obviously, this was before I learned what sort of person Eich is. Now I’m not surprised. I guess we all have to decide if something goes against our own principles enough to use/not use something.
Privacy invasive or not, it’s not right what they’re doing and, in my opinion, speaks to their ethics as a company. That in turn leads me to mistrust choices they might make in the future, including regarding privacy.
Only an hour up and due to someone on the estate’s dog barking rather than what I agree might be the world’s first ever recorded fediverse based nightmare.
I’ve given up trying to get back to sleep and put the kettle on.
Its decentralized nature isn’t due to censorship, or a lack of it, but its structure. Of course there’s going to be some degree of censorship because instances all have individual rules which, if you break, you’ll be penalized for which can take the form of removal of content.
The only way to have total free speech is create your own instance which is a total free for all but then you’ll attract the worst sort of people and your instance will end up defederated by instance owners who don’t want content from literal Nazis federated to their instances.
I don’t like the idea of .world federating with Threads. I want no part of anything Meta related intruding into this space for various reasons.
However, the decision to rests with each instance owner and them alone. The admin of .world has elected to adopt a wait and see approach. I think that’s a mistake but it is their decision.
What you’re asking is absolutely none of your business, nor mine. .world has provided, in the very blog post you provided a (totally superfluous) screenie of outlined the finances for June for .world - something I don’t believe they’re required to do but did anyway.
You either accept these things or you move on to another instance. Descending into a fairly squalid gaucherie and requesting information that is none of your business is beyond the limits of reasonable expectation. This is not Musk or Zuckerberg or Bezos or Branson or some other mega-rich oxygen thief, this is an ordinary person like you and I, providing a free of charge service with no privacy invading scripts, no ads, no mental health destroying algo or similar activities. Whilst I believe a wait and see approach is flawed when it comes to Meta, due to what they are, I don’t extend that same approach to individual people who as far as I know have done nothing whatsoever to earn distrust. Even if they attended the NDA controlled meeting with Meta that is still no evidence of bad faith. To be honest, I probably would’ve done the same if only because I would be intensely curious as to what they had to say.
Dial this back a bit, please. You’re in no position to request such information and to do so is pretty classless.
No, they wouldn’t. They’d just own some servers. And in the meantime, other instances would appear. To own the fediverse you’d have to completely control every web server in existence, halt production on new web servers and somehow find a way to make open source software licenses invalid, buy then patent, then remove all the existing fediverse software types, somehow repeal ActivityPub as a standard and then make it all illegal across the entire world.
A couple of years ago, researcher Tomas Ståhl from the Department of Psychology at University of Illinois, looked at four studies to help settle a question:...
It’s interesting. I think (with no evidence other than personal anecdote) that if you posed an ethical dilema to a theist, they’d say “its important to do the right thing because that’s what god says I should do and I don’t want to go to hell” whereas an atheist would simply say “it’s important to do the right thing because it’s the right thing.”
Do theists not really exhibit altruistic morals if the reason for those morals is fear of going to hell/not getting into heaven?
It makes it easier to prioritize what I work on if I know someone’s wanting a feature. What sort of stuff do you wish Alexandrite had? Especially talking about missing features from the main UI.
Unless I’ve missed something, there’s no way to save one’s settings…this could be my issue though as maybe they’re in persistent cookies - I have my cache and all storage set to clear upon exiting the browser.
Would it be possible to generate a unique URL with ones chosen settings in the querystring? Lots of privacy specific web based software does this (teddit.net, Whoogle etc). It would mean we could bookmark a URL which could restore our settings.
r/selfhosted is still rising, WTF? Come to Lemmy!!!
Hi all! I used to be a daily r/selfhosted lurker and a bit active user. Since the Reddit saga I thought that r/selfhosted would be one of the first and bigger community to move to Lemmy due to the IT knowledge of all of their users and the sensitivity about self host/privacy/open source, but I see that not only the community is...
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