I didn’t know that was a controversial opinion? Do you think that Apple are as bad as Google or Meta in terms of privacy?

Apple does have privacy violations, but the things I’ve seen them get caught doing are minor compared to the things that many other companies do openly.

The main point of the article you’ve linked is that Apple put the equivalent of a “Do not track” option in a browser, and it did exactly the same of a “Do not track” option in a browser (nothing). Does that mean that any browser with a DNT request option is bad for privacy?

Adding an option that is somewhat misleading isn’t ideal, but it’s incomparable to something like Cambridge analytica incident, or the tracking that Google put basically everywhere on the Internet.

By the way, I am in no way defending Apple. I’m just saying that everything that Apple does, companies like Google and Meta also do, just ten times over.

I believe an iPhone is way better than a Pixel for privacy, even if both are far from ideal. I’d love to be proven wrong, tho.

Moshidon is really good for android. I especially like that you can have custom timelines for basically anything

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It’s probably more expensive and inconvenient.

Also it might only take one report for an active mod team to ban a server. How long can that take? An hour? Less? If they’re on servers that real people use, bots have to be banned one by one, so the spam can last a lot longer and reach more people.

you can’t move that account somewhere else.

That means you can migrate between servers and keep all your friends and followers, something that’s currently not possible in the Fediverse.

It absolutely is possible to move accounts between instances on the fediverse. I’ve done it multiple times.

It does have some quirks tho. Posts aren’t migrated to your new account. (Some fedi software lets you migrate posts, but from what I hear it’s kinda jank).

It’s not seamless, but the option is there, and you won’t lose any friends or followers (unless they’re defederated or something)

Bluesky accounts seem like they’ll be more portable than fediverse accounts but I don’t know much about it

It’s a crawler that ports things from one platform to another without consent from the user. If either of them are unethical and should be blocked, then both should be blocked.

I understand blocking this bridge, but if admins do that, they should block other bridges too, like bird.makeup

(assuming that’s what they mean by “the fediverse”, the use of which was the first big hint that humans didn’t write this text)

What do you mean? Do humans not say ‘the fediverse’? I’ve seen plenty of people use it. We are even in a community called fediverse

Lemmy’s subscriber user count is usually wrong.

You only see the true number if the community is on your instance

Check the community from the original instance to see the actual number of subscribers

If you’re searching for instances, you should use https://lemmyverse.net/communities since it lets you quickly compare subscribers, shows you more results and also is just better overall

Nah, doesn’t really work for me. Most topics I want to follow, hashtags are either not used, or used too broadly so I’m not really interested in what I get, or used too often so my feed gets filled with posts and I can’t see the people I’m following.

What I do is if I want to see somebody’s posts but I don’t want to see all of their posts, I put them into a list. Then if they boost a post I like, I check out the person’s account and either add them or don’t add them to the list. Doesn’t work too well, but it’s not awful either.

And then I also have 1 hashtag pinned (Moshidon feature), so that I can see the posts on it without getting them in my home feed.

• Proper federation of favorites and boosts. You can’t see favorites from people outside of your instance for some reason, and boosts are sorta federated from people outside of your instance, but still not fully. Lemmy manages to federate upvotes fine, so it seems like it’d be possible.

  The app I use (Moshidon) loads the actual favorite count when you open the favorites list, but it’s annoying I have to go through that step.
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• Higher poll option count. 4 is not enough. I’d say it should be at least 6, preferably something like 15 or 25.
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• Higher character count per post. No reason for it to be capped at 500. I’d say the default should be 1500.

  Also I think it’s hard for admins to change the default character count, so that should be made easier.
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• I’d really like an algorithm (optional, of course). Getting content you want to see is really difficult. It’s hard to find people to follow, and when you do you get all of their posts in your feed, not just the ones you want to see.

For a while now, the app has been really easy to sign up on, and now the website is the same.

The process got easier in mastodon 4.2.0, now you just have to type in your instance and it takes you to it directly.

That’s a great idea! I didn’t know about shields.io. Just added it to !celeste@lemmy.ca

I changed the link a little from the one you posted. Mine is:

[![Subscriber Count](https://img.shields.io/lemmy/celeste%40lemmy.ca?logo=lemmy&label=Subscribers)](https://lemmy.ca/c/celeste)

• I added alt text (so if the image doesn’t load, or people are using screen readers, they can still understand what it is),
• changed ‘Total Subscribers’ to just ‘Subscribers’,
• and made the badge a link to the community in the original instance, so anyone wondering why the numbers don’t match up can click the badge to see where the number’s coming from.

Easiest way to know for sure is probably to search for it on fedidb.org. Instances don’t need to tell you they’re on the fediverse, but most of them have a link to the source code which will probably mention activitypub somewhere.

Yeah discovery is kinda terrible. Luckily there’s tools like https://lemmyverse.net/communities and https://lemmyverse.net/kbin/magazines, but something like that definitely needs to be built into Lemmy itself.

To get the community started you can put it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, sub.rehab if there’s a counterpart on reddit, and maybe advertise it in any relevant places. After you get just one subscriber from an instance everyone there will be able to see it in search and the all tab.

For the community to show up on an instance, it needs to have been viewed by at least one person from that instance. (You need to be logged in for this to count).

I went to https://lemmy.one/c/the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca with my alt on that instance. Now you should be able to see it from there, even if you aren’t logged in.

Also, I think for posts to be federated properly there needs to be at least one subscriber from the instance (just visiting isn’t enough). I’m not sure about that tho.

I think copying Mastodon would be the best for this. You can mark the post as sensitive (nsfw), which blurs the images. You can also add a content warning that can be used for anything (nsfw, nsfl, spoilers, etc).

And then use tags separately for categorizing posts.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/2664292

They changed it to soccer ball lmao