I felt kinda bad for the people who were here when I joined two months ago. They had their own little community which would get quickly overrun by ex redditors. I wasn’t sure if I was a refugee or a colonizer.
I feel like it’s like discovering a hidden place at a lake that’s really beautiful. You can’t really claim it as exclusively your’s but would still very much prefer it if no one else went there, as selfish as that might be
Yeah, I actually like this concept. The fediverse has the power to be much larger, but it doesn’t have to be for any group that wants to keep things small.
I also kind of like how the fediverse has space for just the worst, most bigoted folks to fuck around and find out here. If they run away to rumble or truth social or whatever alternative they’re trying this week, they can stay in their little bubbles and pretend they’re the real popular voices, at least until it inevitably implodes.
In the fediverse, they can see the federation graphs, they can read the defederation announcements, and they can start to see exactly where they stand in popular opinion. I think that’s got to have an effect on them long term. The paid shills can try to deny reality from their followers, but it’s harder.
Sync for Reddit was one of the more popular Reddit apps on Android. (Maybe even the biggest?) Now that Reddit has stopped being reasonable with their API fees, the developer of Sync has been working on a Lemmy client using the same name. It released a couple days ago.
Most of the other Lemmy clients on Android are free and open source, but Sync is closed source and will be ad supported unless users pay a $20 one-time fee to remove ads or pay for a subscription to get some additional features. Because Sync is closed source, there’s no way for users to audit what data the app is collecting or sending out.
Many users are using Sync because it’s familiar and has a high degree of polish and functionality thanks to being a fork of a very well established app. Its popularity, along with the issues I mentioned above have got a vocal portion of the user base railing against the app and another vocal portion of the user base defending it.
I mean it is possible to audit the data it would be sending out without network access unless the dev has gone out of their way to make it non reverse enginneerable
It’s not protected at all, and after reddit crapped out, the dev even released a version with a bunch of security features removed to make it easier for the reVanced team to patch the client so it keeps working with reddit, using your own api keys.
The whole discussion took place on his official support-discord. I was genuinely flabbergasted he was so cool with people disassembling the app, and even helpful in the process.
As for data tracking, it’s possible to log it with the duckduckgo privacy tracker, and I confirmed that buying adfree completely removes any outgoing connections to anything but the respective lemmy instance you’re using.
That’s good to hear, that shows the Sync dev was most likely being honest when he said buying the paid version of the app would completely disable the ad library.
I like Fruity smells too! I have one now that smells kinda like a SweetTart candy but it’s called Wolfthorne and is aggressively masculine in the packaging and such lol
Great. Now I’m worried I’m a normie and not the “Manifest Destiny” nerd I have been trying to be.
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Seriously though, from the comments, it’s seems like the corporate rats gaining ground in places that are federated is going to be a lot harder, and more user resilient.
As soon as a space is big and diverse enough that you stop recognising usernames or even instances, you’ve got to signal intent. It’s unavoidable. Only alternative is to give shelter to shitheads, who say the same things, but mean them.
That is why lemmy is decentralized, no one can buy every single instance. and even when a corporation buys the codebase of lemmy, another person can come in and create their own platform that is still compatible
Whats a lemmy? Does it taste good? The folks at “Red Dot” said you can find them on the fediverse? Is that like an online market where you get fruits? So lemmy is just a slang for lemons? How many of these “instances”/markets are there? How long does it take to download lemons?
Sorry if these words aren’t clear. The doc said getting high on lemons cause something called “cognitive decline” idk what that’s supposed to mean… smh my head these weird people and their mad scientist looking lab coats… 🍋😮💨
It’s possibly a place or point in time recorded on the Highways, of folks coming to or possibly changing. It’s hard to accept those that haven’t experienced it yet. But, when you see that light in their eyes… don’t be a dick.
Lemmy is an existential concept of social integration in a Web 2.0 forced reality, it’s forged on the ideals of a declining sociological view point, radicalised by the merging of multiple neurological dependencies baked into a form fitting, yet ridged ergonomic palindrome.
I get the different licenses apache Gnu, copy left, copy right. I’m just not intricately familiar with them. Is there one that exists that could do both?
No, but there are copyleft licenses that require anyone using a fork of some open-source project for for-profit purposes to subsequently open-source any changes they make.
Lemmy is AGPL v3.0. From what I understand, that means anyone running Lemmy (or a fork of Lemmy) needs to make their source code public, even if their code changes are strictly to support their own network infrastructure.
it really doesn’t matter though, as a corporation only needs to implement an interface to Lemmy via ActivityPub protocols; in other words it they could write a completely closed-source backend to use for profit and as long as it can poop out the correct data structures over ActivityPub to allow Lemmy instances to understand it, it will work.
This already happens as we can see and subscribe to kbin magazines, and Mastodon users can be @'d and IIRC can reply to comments via Hoot (or whatever they call it). Kinda wild, but it also leaves the door open to literally whoever.
I think the real interesting question is will a large corporate player be able to maintain a captive userbase? None of the doomsday scenarios play out in their favor unless they can capture users and communities - because then the usefulness of the whole thing rides on their server being available. At that point it’s reddit with more steps - they can do what they want.
I use benzoyl peroxide facewash in my pits when I shower. I never smell like BO or anything else.
Those brightly colored tubes of marketing they sell in the deodorant aisle probably don’t do what you think they do. This is because the mega conglomerates that sell this shit don’t care if their product works or not. What they sell you on is shame and poor body image.
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