My Mastodon instance disappeared. Now what?
I joined mastodon.xyz a few years ago and never had any problems. Then today I tried to sign on and couldn’t. The server simply isn’t reachable. I can (and have) created a new instanceuaccount on a new server, but losing all my data has me concerned. What should I do with my new account so I don’t lose everything if this...
Lemmy doesn't need much in the way of scripting (lemmy.nz)
It is really nice to see that there are not a massive amount of ad-servers and google / meta / twitter crap in my script blocker....
Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly went live on the web - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Meta briefly made Threads available on the web before pulling profiles offline a few hours later. The Verge was able to access Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s first thread (is that what we call them?!) using the web app, and many other brands and creators including Netflix, Gary Vee, and Instagram....
Yet another PWA Lemmy client, need name suggestions! (youtube.com)
cross-posted from: zemmy.cc/post/79525...
Australian firm sues Twitter for $665,000 for not paying bills (www.cnn.com)
Twitter, also known as X Corp, no longer has a media relations office. Reuters could not immediately reach Twitter’s Australia office.
The 600 posts non-verified Twitter users can get after preloading did it's thing (www.deutsche-startups.de)
Elon, when do you learn how “paying the bills” works, hm?
Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com)
Anyone else frustrated by cross contamination from Youtube, Youtube Music and Youtube shorts?
These are all products that I legitimately like and want to engage with, but linking them all to a single account and more importantly a shared recommendation engine feels very flawed....
Google is laying off employees at Waze (www.theverge.com)
Maybe a controversial opinion, but Lemmy is pretty great as a PWA
So Jerboa broke on my phone just now and I didn’t want to stop browsing Lemmy. Unfortunately no suitable alternative was found so I just decided to check if I could open it in my browser and install it....
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.
1password implementing privacy-preserving telemetry system (blog.1password.com)
"We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private....
How Your New Car Tracks You (12ft.io)
Working on a native iOS app for Lemmy. Finally far enough along to share some teasers. Post your feature requests!
https://ibb.co/G7JXffk https://ibb.co/qBYG0Dy https://ibb.co/YDqHv9Z https://ibb.co/ByCH71M...
Lemmy user list (lemmy.ninja)
EDIT: I’m putting this up front so it’s the FIRST thing you see and read: I WAS WRONGI ASSUMED (and I know better) that it wasn’t possible for me to have 3000 accounts created within a day or two of going live. I ASSUMED what I saw was accounts that were NOT local, I WAS WRONGI created a process to remove the bot accounts...
How do you find RSS feeds that you're interested in?
I’d like to take my RSS feeds from an aggregator of news to a curated selection of interesting things. Interesting newsletters and blogs are where I think RSS shines, but I struggle to find this content....
Lemmy needs two things to be successful
In my opinion, there are two big things holding Lemmy back right now:...
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
Amouranth made a chatbot clone to outsource flirting — and protect herself (www.polygon.com)
there is… a lot going on here–and it’s part of a broader trend which is probably not for the better and speaks to some deeper-seated issues we currently have in society. a choice moment from the article here on another influencer doing a similar thing earlier this year, and how that went:...
Willow - Open Source Local Voice Assistant (github.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/55351...
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (www.wired.com)
“The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago....
Mastodon?
I’m pretty new to the whole Lemmy thing, but I figured I’d ask peoples’ opinions on whether it’s worth it to get into Mastodon too now that I’m officially a member of the Fediverse....
Tafkars: Reddit-API proxy for Lemmy (help wanted) (imgur.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/768790...
Timeline of total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances (public.flourish.studio)
A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances as a bar chart race: public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14058992/ and as a line chart: public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14080522/.