JohannesOliver

It’s unfortunate if the sh.itjust.works folks aren’t speaking, their listed rules seem pretty reasonable and the problem users appear to be breaking the rules of that instance too.

I don’t think I’m the only person who won’t reply to an email until there is something actually productive to say.

In the past they had jumpers for the same purpose.

It needs to affect revenue. To do that it needs to last.

It’s either this or we go outside, but the sun is out there. And people.

There’s a good chance your account was activated. I don’t think notifications were going out for a bit.

Joining is immediate, where some Lemmy instances require manual approval even now.

The main page comes off as more approachable and familiar. They also have a ton of local communities (or "Magazines") so people can do a lot even without the Federation. I find the Microblog stuff somewhat confusing, I think because it doesn't have much of a UI built around it so it is less familiar than Mastodon. It is fairly centralized though, in the sense that there aren't that many kbin instances out there.

I don’t think it will keep it from taking off, but I am not sure that all the most popular communities should be on lemmy.ml.

I appreciate that the devs/admins for the most part do encourage dissent.

Not really. Usually you have to request the community vs creating it yourself. Allows the admins to curate.

You can find some in beehaw’s list of blocked instances.

The stats page lists users it knows about, including Federated (see also: the People tab).

Local counts can be seen at: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0 - currently about 22k.

FediDB uses the nodeinfo for its stats gathering, but has a delay.

There was some discussion just before the Reddit influx, actually: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199

Edit: Also read through the history of Lemmy for some info on the motivations.

I have no problem with the admins of their instance running it however they want, and they made a really cool project and I appreciate that for the most part they do not have a problem with people who disagree with them. I think people should think twice before re-creating all of their favorite reddit subs on that instance though.

Communities have moderators too.

Currently kbin is the only one I am aware of.

Who is “they”? The users, or the communities? Beehaw creates the communities, that’s why there are relatively few, so I don’t see that Beehaw communities would have much reason to move anyway. Beehaw has no create community button.

It is reporting users it knows about, which includes federated servers. The local stats can be seen at https://fedia.io/nodeinfo/2.0, under users.

It doesn’t seem like they’ve been doing things like that at all.

How does anti-privacy fit in there, and what mainstream alternatives are better?

You might want to check what those calls are, specifically. Out of the box they use the iCloud Private Relay to hide network traffic, essentially a VPN. If you go onto the wifi settings of her phone and turn off the "Limit IP Address Tracking" it will likely be a lot less chatty. Otherwise there is iCloud stuff, but overall they do not collect all that much data at all (they allow you to request a copy of what they do collect on their privacy page). You might also help her review the privacy settings on her phone, there are many things that can be disabled.

Mobile Safari has supported content blockers for a few years now.

Multiple. Locally I have Timeshift doing btrfs snapshots every so often. This is mostly to roll back to a snapshot if something breaks. I've never had to use it (and probably should).

I use Pika backup every once in a while for a local backup to an external drive. Mostly because it's easy to restore quickly.

I have duplicacy doing backups to a cloud provider. I used to use duplicati for this, and it was fine - although I didn't like that it seems to be forever in beta. I like that duplicacy can do deduplication between backups of different machines which most other solutions I've seen cannot. I like its selection of cloud providers vs Borg/Vorta and some others.

That’s kind of the point. Reddit still benefits from that content.

Yeah I think it is. If you go to settings you can change the default (under “Type”).

kbin paused federation while they dealt with the server/network issues, but was federated before that. kbin is actually larger than lemmy.world.

That’s why the government makes sure they can garnish you wages and even social security.

What fediverse services are set up that way? For most projects, the flagship instance is by far the largest. For Mastodon it is something like 900k difference between the next most popular instance.

For a while vendors tried to lock down the BIOS pretty hard. Dell might still, I remember having to call and get assistance when a password was forgotten and they had to generate a backdoor key of some sort. Maybe that is less of a thing now that Bitlocker is widely used on corporate laptops and it is sensitive to tampering.

There are likely more communities available on an instance that kbin does not know about. I think that list is limited to what kbin has indexed and cached based on user activity. The downside to such a list is that a user may think it is exhaustive.

My suspicion is kbin is not actually listing every possible community either, just the ones it knows about through the same sort of indexing, where Lemmy does not have an interface to view all of the known communities by instance. This hampers discovery a bit, but also avoids confusion as there may be additional communities available that don’t show up in that list if someone else on your instance hasn’t subscribed to it.

Kbin is heavily centralized right now, so the main instance does know about a ton of stuff.

All on the homepage? Strong disagree on that one, I’d rather subscribed was the default. It doesn’t really matter since it is easy to change it.

If I want to discover new things I can click all myself.

Jerboa is developed by one of those people the mastodon post is talking about.

I doubt they will. They already added a 10 minute limit in airdrop for the “receive from everyone” setting (China first, now worldwide). From a security perspective it’s a good change but it does block the usefulness of airdrop as a tool for mass messaging.