Maybe we have some bias on this topic, but I had the same thought. Maven is such a well known tool in IT, that I’m surprised they just created a social network with the same name. Until they get a bit famous this won’t be good for SEO.

Isn’t this just what many people predicted what would happen when everybody would use adblock? Now most people use some kind of blocker and some browsers even ship with a content blocker. Now pages need to make money in another way, so that’s either subscriptions, donations. or just force people to watch the ads anyway. I doubt people would want to donate any money to YouTube so then you get this.

It is not nice for users, but without income they would have to shut the site down. The same will happen when Lemmy gets popular, people will really have to donate to instance owners or they will also be forced to get money in another way.

MLem (the iOS Lemmy app) was also showing the user karma (but I think it was only showing karma gained on the local instance). So I guess this is nice for people that like to know their karma.

I also agree with @nlm@beehaw.org that we should leave this as a thing for yourself. The Lemmy API should not bother with reporting user karma as It would be way too easy to cheat for people with singe person instances. (and of course the toxicity that comes with karma)

For me it was a nice improvement. I liked the new window snapping feature that allows to you quickly snap an application to half or a quarter of your screen. But honestly there aren’t that many differences compared to my work laptop on Windows 10, I never regretted updating though.

I also used Linux for gaming, most of the time you will be able to get things to work. But sometimes you will have small issues in games and way worse support from the developers.

but outside of your own server pretty much nobody will care. Lemmy is federated over multiple jurisdictions, so even with full deletion implemented there’ll almost certainly be instances which will ignore the deletion request - and it will be completely legal for them to do so

Lemmy also seems to federate your matrix_user_id, that is clear personal data. It does not matter how the data gets to the federated server, this is still user data within the scope of the GDPR. It does not matter that that server does not have an agreement with the user, the instance that would ignore a GPDR related deletion request would be in direct violation of the GDPR. Maybe it can do that without consequences, though.

I completely understand that making Lemmy fully GPDR compliant will probably be impossible, however I don’t like the approach of “we will not succeed, so we don’t make any attempt”. Instances should actually delete data when that is requested, or instance hosts can get fined. For now, Lemmy has bigger issues to solve, but eventually they should do at least a best effort attempt to respect user data.

I only used the official Reddit app when reading Reddit on my phone. It was quite annoying to write posts with the app, but reading them was fine. I prefered using the website on my laptop though.

The article makes some good points, cooperation can easily get greedy when their platform gets too large. It does feel like it tries to connect FOSS to privacy, though, and that’s a bit more controversial, especially when it comes to the Fediverse. For a platform like Lemmy the most important thing is to share the post that you published, there is limited development time, security is hard, and when things go wrong it is hard to point at someone.

For example, sending private messages often leads to these private messages being readable by the admins of the instance. In the same way, instance admins can also see the email address that you provided. So we just have to trust the instance admin to be capable enough to protect our data and not leak it out on the internet.

Of course, these issues also exist in companies that want to push out new features to attract users instead of spending time to test if everything is secure. It simply is a difficult point for both FOSS and commercial software, and we need to hold both FOSS and commercial parties responsible for respecting our privacy. At least with FOSS, we can switch to a fork if a maintainer does not do their job well.

The law that requires phones to use USB-C, does not say it will last forever. In fact, the update to USB-C proves that they look for new technologies and update the law once such a thing is needed. Maybe now people have to buy new chargers, but in the long term, keeping chargers the same will reduce e-waste as people can use USB-C to charge many devices. You can charge your MacBook and smartphone with the same charger because of USB-C and the USB power delivery specification.

But the Fair Share part is a bit weird, consumers already pay for the network. But often they don’t pay for the amount of data that they use. It would make more sense to just charge users again based on their network usage, but I understand that that would be highly unpopular. In the end, someone has to pay for all the traffic though.

This was a great point, yes. The whole blackout can only really have an effect if the users show that it was not “just noise”, that they don’t want to be treated as addicts that you can just ignore, because they can’t just leave.

I always used the official app for Reddit and used new Reddit on pcs, but how can you return to a platform that abuses its partners like this. They way they treated the Apollo developer and now basically insult their users and unpaid moderators, it is almost unbelievable that a company would go this far to upset its users.

There would probably have been less uproar if they just said in an honest way, from next month on we will ban all 3rd party apps, instead of lying about everything, act like you are listing to the community and then not answer anything. There is no way upsetting your users like this can be good for selling the company …

Isn’t the official Reddit app also just a third party app that they bought 😅. It really starts to sound like he just tries to say anything that could help divide uninformed users from third party app developers, even if it makes no sense and everybody with some knowledge about Reddits history knows it is a lie.

Simply replacing all the mods sound like a good way to kill a subreddit, Reddit probably has no way to pick good mods… Mods will need some connection with the topic, and you don’t want to pick random users with no experience for large subreddits.

Apps that autoplay video adds really don’t respect people on mobile metered connections. Especially if these videos are 90 seconds long. This is such a greedy addition to an app where you are already paying for a product…

This is a very good idea, because new users will be very confused when picking an instance. Many people will fear picking the wrong instance (and some will stop and not pick an instance at all). Even though on Lemmy it really does not matter that much on what instance you are.

Interesting article, I personally use both Bing Chat and ChatGPT, ChatGPT is often more creative and Bing Chat seems to be trained more to answer your question. So their purpose is also somewhat different. It will be interesting to see Bing search integrated into ChatGPT later.

But some moves are just weird, Microsoft released Bing Image Creator (powered by Dalle 2) that lets you generate many images for free, meanwhile Dalle 2 on the Open AI website costs credits and produces results that are worse. The only advantage of Dalle 2 on the Open AI website seems to be that you can extend and edit the image by removing parts of the image and letting Dalle 2 generate those parts based on a prompt. But for most purposes, Microsoft has really just put out a better alternative for free.

Thanks for the summary. It would be great to see an actual bot for this purpose when we have too many articles to do it yourself. This was always a great way to get a basic idea whether the article was worth reading with that bot on Reddit.

Sounds like a very weird action from Reddit, you can just move advertisements that were bought for tech subreddits to the mainpage, and be like, yea we showed your advertisements to the same amount of people as we originally said we would. Companies that try to hire people interested in tech really don’t gain anything from showing these advertisements to people that just want to discuss the news and have no connection with tech at all.

Interesting blog post. Yea, those a-z layouts are really weird. They remind me of the text input the old Pokémon games had. On Smart TV’s I always try to avoid using the keyboard if it is possible to type the input on my phone.

Personally, I have a Gigabyte RTX 4000 series GPU. From what their support is saying, the card should not crack if it is well-supported, and you don’t let your case bounce. They definitely should repair the cards if the user did nothing wrong. But the support bracket situation is getting difficult, some motherboards/cases don’t provide space for the brackets they give, but if you don’t install the bracket they could refuse the warranty claim…

When I picked this card, MSi and ASUS both had cards with heavy coil whine. I guess if I had to pick a more reputable brand, I would have gone with the NVIDIA Founder’s Edition cards…

I actually found Lemmy trough comments on Tweakers.net (A Dutch website about tech news). I was reading about the Reddit API changes and how Reddit was dealing with App developers, and felt like it was worth trying an alternative.

I tried Mastodon half a year ago, but it always felt like I was on the wrong server and I did not want to deal with using multiple accounts. The whole Federation setup feels a lot smoother here on Lemmy.

Since Bing chat was released, I mostly switched to Bing and even there I have to go to Google for about 20% of the searches after Bing not really giving me great search results (in the cases I need to search for things that I don’t want to or can use Bing chat for). So I doubt any privacy-friendly search engine will do a better job.

I have used Qwant in the past, but the search results were just so much worse. That experiment did not last longer than a week.