With how microblog media works I think those packs should have been tags, not accounts

Open source, federated platforms do not:

• call back ads companies to get your ad id/cookie, so also don’t:
  • cross-reference which posts resulted with viewing the articles and ads in those articles
  • cross-reference which posts resulted with viewing which products in stores
  • check with ads companies which “competition” you switched to and with what content you interacted there
  • have info on how your demographics’ profile (things you interact with) connect with the content you watch
    • so also, they don’t sell this data back to ads companies
• process which content you interact with in order to make you stay on the platform longer or trigger you to write angry comments so you create content for others
• process at what local times you view content in order to process how to target your demographics
• process what you chose to not interact at all (only view, no vote)

I’m afraid I could go on but I think you get my point

Someone could be scraping how you vote, what you write, how you write, at what times you write, etc. But for outside scraper there is no way to make sure (from that info) which ads you’ve seen on article sites and what things you bought or browsed. So yes, open-source, federated, socially-run platforms are better for your privacy

Forks are a central part of the open-source ecosystem and are expressly intended to enable further development, adaptation, and also alternative governance models.

Yes, but the immovability of *GPL licenses is what protects the projects from exploitation. OO put an addition to that license that the name is part of the copyrighted thing. So if for whatever reason the work done by NC is not being merged into upstream, or is not being fast enough, there should be two OO. One from OO and a fork from NC. If the code-bases drift apart, well, now we have two incompatible OnlyOffices. In that case those additions might have been a dumb idea. But I think we can’t afford to have exceptions from enforceability of the license

I think it’s a problem with UTF in the URL. That’s why apps work well and browser for some reason doesn’t

Fennec is nice

I think the previews should be federated along with the activity. The main issue described by itsfoss and the mastodon bug is not about previews themselves generating a lot of traffic but federated nature of fediverse multiplying the number of requests. If along with the post/toot/w-v the preview got sent out too, that might ease the load on the publishing host

I think topics and public feeds serve that role

On Piefed.zip 63 up, 3 down, 2 emojis (those should federate as up, AFAIK)

That feature was moved to displaying icons (this is old stuff, don’t worry)

Fortunately this has already been patched but still, what a fuckup

Chromium needs no introduction (used to be an interesting browser until Google’s mask “don’t be evil” fell and straightforwardly revealed their corporate face and farce), Firefox have been “welcoming the new AI overlords” for a while, text browsers (such as Lynx) are far from feasible for a CAPTCHA(and Anubis)-driven web…

To me the hope lies in Firefox forks

I haven’t been an opponent but I must admit, when you have headless machine of different arch (so no chroot) you try to make connect to LAN and start sshd, managing those links in those directories feels more like shooting in the dark. In that case simple scripts in a dir were easier

https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1084529/lemmynsfw-is-down-possibly-forever-the-server-is-still-serving-images-and-videos-though-if

I think they might mean the GenAI back and forth

I think it would work better if Ghost created a community along the user. On PieFed I can open the user page but in order to subscribe it would need a community

Piefed does this

While I can’t offer my time, I like the idea. A community get-together for improving community stuff 👍

move communication in a friend group to a Signal group chat

If I looking for decentralized chat,
him name is Arcane the Delta chat

They need a scan of your ID because you might be a kid, but they’re pondering regarding leaving X

I checked it out. Do I read it correctly that it’s a bit like BBS but via ssh and without blocking the line?