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mark, 1 month ago

I really hope this is sarcasm. I couldn’t imagine basing my friendships solely on whether or not they use Twitter.

mark, 1 month ago

Yeah, depending on the branch I’ve found that method not to be too reliable. openrss offers branches for RSS feeds for commits on every branch though: e.g. openrss.org/github.com/octokit/octokit.rb/…/main

mark, 1 month ago

sigh So Threads can throw their posts out into the fediverse, but no one from fediverse is allowed to post comments back? Why am I not surprised? 🙄

mark, 1 month ago

I hope you’re right!

mark, 1 month ago

Have you tried the Signal app? Has all that and works pretty well!

mark, 1 month ago

Signal app is great. Would that be a better alternative? Or is that too niche for Discord users?

mark, 1 month ago

Maybe Vimeo?

mark, 2 months ago

Interesting idea. A couple questions:

How would it work if the open source maintainer is a commercial company?

AFAIK there are no restrictions on when an Open source maintainer can change their license. They can do it even after their work has already been used.

So couldn’t a company like, Facebook (since they own open source React) just change their React license to this one and all of sudden start charging everyone for it? 🤔

mark, 2 months ago

Sure but new versions are released pretty often, which essentially means they can change their license whenever they want.

mark, 2 months ago

Exactly what I was wondering the entire time I was listening. None of these questions were asked during the episode. A lot of handwaving and buzzword double-speak. She didn’t go into any real technical detail.

mark, 2 months ago

Wouldn’t this effectively mark all messages from a user who isn’t using JavaScript as spam? 🙃

mark, 2 months ago

Yeah, it’s definitely a very unique approach I haven’t seen before. I’ve been using the “honeypot” method for years, which has been working surprisingly well.

mark, 2 months ago

Eh. These sorts of metrics aren’t always accurate. And the source company did the study in 2016, which was a very very different internet, and doesn’t go into detail about how they were able to determine this number. I would take that with a grain of salt. I agree that just having a notice somewhere is better than not, though.

mark, 2 months ago

Not the person you replied to. But I think they meant that Bluesky is using a protocol that only the company uses.

Sure its a federated and decentralized protocol, I guess. But if they’re the only platform using it, it’s still rather centralized in that regard.

mark, 2 months ago

Sorry, that’s not what I meant. The AT protocol has been available since they began. So anyone could have built apps on it all this time. Federation isnt required for their protocol to be used.

I just haven’t seen any entirely working apps (made by non-Bluesky devs) using their protocol yet. And they totally ignored using or improving ActivityPub. So it comes off as their just kind of building their own thing, which is a centralized way of thinking.

They would’ve been better off building Blusesky on ActivityPub, an open protocol that’s already battle-tested and in use by a number of different apps and made my different developers. But building a whole new protocol that no apps are using has the same net effect as if a centralized company like Instagram Threads were to do it.

If you’re saying there are non-Bluesky apps using their protocol, can you link to these apps here in a reply? Totally open to being corrected.

mark, 2 months ago

News sites are better to consume via RSS feeds. Check out openrss.org that has feeds for a lot of websites. There are even RSS feeds for Mastodon and Lemmy.

mark, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

There is if you want RSS feeds for things like Lemmy search. And if you want the links in feed items to be associated with a single instance. AFAIK, regular Lemmy feeds dont provide that. But ofc people can use Lemmy feeds if they want.

mark, 2 months ago

You can get an RSS feed for a Lemmy search term e.g.

openrss.org/programming.dev/search?q=cats

mark, 2 months ago

Nice! I was looking for something like this the other day. Also great that it’s available on Flathub.

Who are these people downvoting these posts? 😆

mark, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Announcing my departure from moderation?

since you’re quitting Lemmy entirely? I’d ask why but I’m sure that’s probably a little too personal. If it’s related to the moderation of those subs, it may make sense to disclose that, though. 🫡

mark, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Totally understand! Social media and the constant flow of information in our feeds can be so detrimental to our mental health. If you do consider coming back, RSS feeds may be better for you. They allow you to control your sources, how frequently you see content, and you can even filter things easily. It’s just like any normal feed on any website, but you can add different websites and sources to it and it just gives you way more control over your level of consumption online. Here’s a good article about how RSS feeds help with our mental health if you’re curious. Always put your health before all else, and wishing you all the best!

mark, 2 months ago

Yeah, because anything that isn’t a big new JavaScript framework is just way too complicated

mark, 2 months ago

Haha this is only their attempt to collect more data (than required on taxes) on US Citizens. Look at the process to sign up. It’s obvious. If they really wanted to help the population file their taxes, they would just not require filing at all. They already know how much we make, so they know what we owe. At most, if liability is an issue, they should be sending us the tax information they already have on us and we just check off if its correct or not.

mark, 2 months ago

It will be fixed. It’s gov. So baby steps. The EU is working hard and it’s going to be a while before we get everything we want.