Ideas and opinions are NOT identifiable information, unless you’re so smart as openly writing your personal data on a public forum (something noone should ever do, it’s even bannable on reddit), your comments and posts do NOT contain and personally identifiable info, only your account does.
While I could understand this approach for big enterprises, to avoid the hassle of managing thousands of employees PCs, I don’t understand it for home use.
I mean, people who want a PC at home, want it for the multi-purpose capabilities and power in gaming, not to mention full control over it.
Those who only use the PC for email, browsing the internet and watching videos, are better served with a tablet, they’re so powerful nowadays that you don’t really need a PC for those simple tasks, students would be better off with chromebooks, they’re even cheaper, a few types of jobs, like professional graphics for example, are better done with a MAC, and probably other things I’m forgetting right now.
I fully switched to Linux years ago, but if I were still using Windows, I know for sure I’d be furious if my computer stopped working only because the internet went down or MS servers had some downtime.
I’d love to know what they know that I don’t to be so sure this won’t blow up in their faces.
Those 4 are the default ones that come with the software, people are already working on custom themes, in time we’ll get a lot of options I’m sure.
For now you can get custom themes by using a browser addon like stylus and grabbing the themes from github, for example: https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes
True, but the language is independent from that.
I mean, the language itself has a set of “features”, not all of them are implemented on all platforms as you rightfully said, but it’s not that the language changes because there are differences in the implementations.
Markdown is not Lemmy tho, it’s a markup language independent of the platform, like HTML, reddit uses it as well, also github and mediawiki (wikipedia) and many others.
While each platform can provide formatting help, it’s not the entire language, have a look here: https://www.markdownguide.org/
This. Stadia was one of the last example, they’ll kill this new service too after a few years, it’s not worth to even consider using.
TIL what the GAFAM empire is.
Besides that, I think the following quote is key:
Google realized that most XMPP interactions were between Google Talk users anyway. They didn’t care about respecting a protocol they were not 100% in control. So they pulled the plug and announced they would not be federated anymore
I never used Google Talk nor XMPP but I gather XMPP didn’t have enough users to sustain itself.
Chat systems (and Twitter/Facebook similar platforms) need a very high amount of users to be “sustainable” because they are centered on individuals.
The fediverse doesn’t need that many because is centered around meaningful discussions, having too many is even counterproductive because discussions derail into shitposting (look at reddit).
I agree with the blogger when they say
We should not try to include as many people as we can at all cost. We should be honest and ensure people join the Fediverse because they share some of the values behind it
Mainly because if we did, lemmy would go down the drain as much as reddit has done the last few years.
I want Meta blocked because I don’t want their shit coming over here, much more than being worried about them trying to extinguish the fediverse, tho you can be sure they will indeed try.
Who controls the Overseer Control?
That’s interesting, tho I’d rather have that info seen by admins only, it could lead to brigading/harassment otherwise IMO.
all personal data from EU users must remain in the EU
Create your account on a EU server, problem solved.
Lemmy (fediverse in general) doesn’t send account data away, and posts don’t qualify as personal data, when you publish something to the internet, it’s public by definition.
Leaking industry secrets is a much bigger concern that boosting productivity a little bit.
We’re talking about very specialized engineering work, it’s not something you can totally rely on a bot to do, though it might help sometimes, it’s fully understandable for specialized companies to want to ban GPT internally, until there’s a way for them to host a totally internal one.
Yeah, very difficult situation, I truly hope they’ll find the help they need.
Yeah MS did kill their phones but that’s nothing like Google launching dozens of new services then killing them after a few years, Google has unfortunately been doing that for quite a long time.
For me he’s also stupid, I mean, you’re managing one of the biggest websites in the world and you don’t know accessibility is an international standard?? You need “guidelines” before you know what you should implement in your own official app? (he said this during the AMA) Come on …
Will they ever stop creating new services only to shut them down a few years later?
No wonder people don’t trust them anymore.
Heya! :)
There is no way someone can link your username to who you are in person, unless it’s you who write it out.
Laws don’t protect people from themselves.