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mark , to Fediverse in Threads can now show replies from Mastodon and other fediverse apps
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I dont want any parts of Threads. But if they're gonna federate, at least do it 100%. This half-ass, piecemeal approach where they release an itty bitty teeny weeny change every month is weird.

mark , to Lemmy Apps in Offline Reader app?
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Yeah open rss has Lemmy feeds that always link to the instance of your choosing.

What do you mean by multi communities?

mark , to Technology in The People Deliberately Killing Facebook
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This is an interesting perspective, and I very much see how people can have it. Totally agree that the internet just isn't like it used to be, arguably for the worst, depending on who you ask.

As much as I hate these big tech platforms, the issue isn't that they're doing what they're doing. After all, capitalistic societies (especially the US) don't just ignore it, they actually encourage this sort of "money above all else" mentally that a lot of these CEOs and shareholders have. So what platforms are doing shouldn't surprise anyone. Maybe some of it should be made illegal, but I'd argue making new laws still won't really address the problem.

The real problem is that we (everyday people) need to take more responsibility over the mental health of ourselves and our children and just stop using this brain-rotting software. We can complain about what they're doing to humanity all we want, but if we continue to use these platforms, we're just making it easier for them to do the bad things they do.

mark , to Technology in Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
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Genuine question: how do we actually "kill the big fish" though? Majority are going to continue to use big tech out of convenience and because they dont care much.

mark , to Fediverse in Lemmy subscribe to post
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If you use RSS feeds, there is. There are services that provide RSS feeds for Lemmy posts. You can subscribe to those and get an update whenever any comment is made on the post.

mark , to Fediverse in The Trouble with Forking Mastodon
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As an engineer who's worked on very large codebases over two decades, I've realized that this is so much easier said then done.

If people want to fork Mastodon, great. But they'll quickly realize that what they may think are straight-forward "improvements" will lead to them having to address bigger architectural issues.

Many design decisions that were made when building Mastodon may not be perfect, but they address a lot of very complex decentralization and federation issues.

There's no such thing as perfect software. What some may think is an improvement, others will think is a terrible choice. Each decision is a trade-off and will have downsides. We just have to decide which of them we're comfortable with living with.

mark , to Technology in Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook
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Not condoning it, but all I can think is how terrible Facebook is for "coordinating" stuff like this. I mean, if FB or the feds wanted to find out who these people are, track them down or something, they can do that pretty easily. People who do stuff like this aren't too bright, though. So not surprised, I guess.

mark , to Technology in YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers
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Why isn't Rumble an option? Genuinely curious. Is it because it's not open source? or federated or something?

mark , to Open Source in OpenSSL goes GitHub only
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These were great in their day, but it’s time to move on to something better and safer.

How is it "safer" when contributing to the codebase or filing and discussing issues will now require creating an account and giving up personal information to one of the most privacy-invasive tech companies in the world? 😳

mark , to Technology in A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feed
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Yeah I'd personally like to see more regulation and cases fighting for privacy rights instead, especially here in the US.

mark , to Technology in YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''
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Google says pause ads on YouTube are getting a very positive reaction from advertisers

Bc screw the users and their reactions 😄.

We really need a good YouTube competitor. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.

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