Even with this change, I’m not sure their argument makes sense. What part of the CCPA’s definition of “sale of data” precludes them from using it is beyond me. The definition is clear about ending with “…for monetary or other valuable consideration”. So what consideration is Mozilla getting for transferring data to web servers?

I understand funding a large project like Firefox is hard. But they also have some of the most hardcore fans tech has seen. Kagi has shown that users are willing to pay (I myself use their $10/mo plan). So why can Mozilla not attempt this? A lot of us donate to Mozilla Foundation–where does that money go? How much goes to Firefox?

The ToU is in Mozilla’s Bedrock repo, but I don’t quite know what that repo does. I’m curious if Firefox forks would still be subject to it.

Yeah. Part of what I get for paying is the Bridge app so I can use Thunderbird instead of the website. I don’t want or need the LLM thing.

You started the voting thing. I merely said I was apolitical.

I’m not a citizen: I can’t vote.

I mean I was apolitical for most of my life, honestly. Barely followed news at all. It’s just depressing.

It’s useful for short term renting. I’m interning and it’s stupid hard to find a 3 month lease.

I see, I guess at that scale API requests add up. I suppose it is a solution, and if replies don’t count, the limits are rather reasonable.

Why would that affect these metrics?

I wonder how the transition will affect existing users. I paid upfront for like 2-3 more years, so that better not go away. The Google Domains page still doesn’t show any notice, weirdly.

That’s fair. I think I should invest my time in contributing to third-party apps, though. That’s a barrier to entry for newbies, I think, who want to be able to tap an app on their phone instead of going to a website. I believe Memmy uses Expo, which I might be able to contribute to.

These are good points. It sucks that as a PhD student in CS, I still don’t understand the workings of federation and other important Internet concepts. I hope someone smarter will work on this stuff, though.

I bullied my friends into using Telegram. Although, I do use Instagram, so some of them message me there instead.

This. Not that I pay for YouTube Premium, but I’d be annoyed if I got ads on top of that (regardless of whether it’s from YouTube or the creator).

Same. Good mobile and desktop UI, and a passionate community are big wins here.

God bless archive.org. We’d be so screwed without their efforts.

I love it. It feels like a more niche community (that’s a plus). There’s a strong sense of community here. I also like the UI (except for kbin–which I know isn’t Lemmy–I can’t seem to collapse comments there). Is it a little janky? Yes–and I’d argue that’s part of the charm, sometimes.

It’s insane how ludicrous his ideas in particular seem to be, especially with Twitter. This has to be trolling, surely? Or does he not want to allow people to block him?

That’s probably the most janky feeling thing. The other thing is that communities from other instances only sync on yours when the first subscriber from your instance adds it to their feed.

It’ll take time. I think eventually we’ll have enough knowledge on Reddit alternatives like Lemmy where we can add “lemmy” to our search strings instead of “reddit”.