edric

Exactly, that was my point. Email as it is, is insecure, because you can’t encrypt it and make it work universally unless everyone else does.

Well for one, email is inherently insecure, so not sure if the fediverse can learn from that. It’s already not private.

He should volunteer to provide his info then. Lead by example right?

I also want it on desktop

Spotify without a paid subscription on FF desktop with uBlock Origin is pretty good. It will start playing random music after a while, but it’s not enough to bother me. Just refresh and you can go back to listening to your music.

I just got that from the website itself, unless I’m misreading it:

It says they use Bing behind the scenes and deliver search ads from Bing as well.

Mine was removed 30 something years ago in 3rd grade. I did have some auto-immune stuff happen to me like hyperthyroidism and eczema, but they all manifested in my 30s.

They’re probably riding on one of the big telcos’ towers right? I wonder how they’ll keep that private. The site doesn’t load properly for me and I can’t see any more info other than the plans.

Hey. Not singling you out at all. The fediverser project was just the first thing that came to mind when I posted my comment, and I remembered the part where you messaged people directly. I think I have the same opinion with regard to people having accounts made on their behalf and their comments reposted without their consent. I’m curious, do you have any data on the % of people who chose to take ownership of the accounts that were created for them? I’m sorry about the negative (and some very harsh) feedback you received on lemmy with the fediverser project.

How would that be the fault of the people who are trying to promote the Fediverse?

Wasn’t saying it’s the fault of people promoting lemmy. I was just using that as an example of how even users who willingly tried lemmy during the exodus are hard to retain. My point was was that the only way to get more users on lemmy is to make the platform and its content better and let it grow naturally.

Mass unsolicited messages are like JW knocking on your door to preach. No one will appreciate that. This is like the alien.top creator’s methodology. While backed by good intentions, you’re not really convincing anyone to switch. Organic movement of users is really the only full proof way to get more people on lemmy AND actually retaining them. A large number of reddit users who joined the mass exodus 6 months ago are probably back on reddit now and only a few actually stayed.

I used to use Tusker, but the new Mammoth app is pretty solid. Their “for you” feed is nice and a good alternative to the home feed without having to browse all.

Nice! I hope it gets popular enough to get the same multitude of desktop front-ends and mobile apps Lemmy now has.

I think there are levels to it. Adblockers, while still not being used by the majority of people, has a pretty significant chunk of users and is becoming more common to regular people, not just privacy-concerned users. So I think DNS level blocking is fine. You start to stand out when you add more privacy and anonymity tools on top of it, like Decentralyes, for example.

Oh wow. And I was suggesting Firefish to my wife to get her off twitter because it looked “fancier” than Mastodon. Glad she hasn’t switched over yet, and I’ll probably just get her on Mastodon instead. I wish catodon success though, and I hope it’s a better replacement for Firefish.

Brian Krebs.

Oh damn. I have the beta on my phone but haven’t really used it since I’m not on kbin. I was waiting for it to be compatible with lemmy. Too bad because it has a very nice looking and smooth interface and it seemed very promising. Adios to the app on my phone I guess.

Almost all the elements in the image are the most cliche design templates of the vaporwave aesthetic, so it’s probably just from all the images already out there. To be fair though, all those pre-AI images probably also took inspiration from classic retro games.

I agree with the email metaphor being a bad example. If you’re talking to a twitter user, it’s easier to describe it as a platform where anyone can set up their own twitter website and you can sign up with any of them and see content from the other sites. Then just switch it up to whatever they’re familiar with (i.e. reddit, discord, etc.). I don’t know why people like using email as an example.

I dunno man, I don’t think many people would appreciate random DMs from people they don’t know, especially ones that are advertising/promoting something. It sounds spam-ish, even if they just receive a message once. Also, I would think a lot of prolific reddit posters have some sort of incentive for doing it (sponsors or just simply addicted to the karma). I don’t think a lot of them will be willing to do the same on a platform that doesn’t really give you any incentive (karma isn’t really a thing and sponsors wouldn’t want to invest in a very small and niche userbase).

Yeah the datahoarder one was the first time I commented on a post thinking it wasn’t a bot/reddit-repost. I had a lengthy answer and only realized later on I was talking into a void. lol