sovietknuckles [they/them, undecided]

For anyone on Linux: teams-for-linux is an unofficial client that works way better than the official client. It’s also in AUR

StartPage. It’s Google search results, including calculator, weather, etc., but without sponsored results.

E.g. as an user there is absolutely no reason to use Chrome instead

What do you mean instead? Edge is a Chromium rebrand

Google playing catch-up 😔

Aurora users unaffected

Strike funds aren’t something you can debunk. And if they were being paid enough already, they wouldn’t be striking.

The writers and actors are on strike right now, and if you pay for media before their strike is over, it makes it easier for Hollywood to profit off existing media, ignore the writers and actors, and starve the writers and actors out.

If you want to support writers and actors while they are on strike, so that Hollywood folds first, consider donating to

• WGAE members’ strike fund

• WGA Solidarity Assistance Fund (supports both East and West)

• Food and practical support for their picket lines

Is it wrong to pirate movies […] and load onto my Plex server?

no

WhatsApp is more convenient than Signal and more people are on WhatsApp

What do you say to all of the people who use Whatsapp instead of Telegram because its default privacy is better? Privacy is one of the main selling points of WhatsApp, even though Signal has better privacy.

Signal is much better than Telegram in terms of privacy. Do people find Telegram more convenient?

Threads can only display ads on their app

What is stopping them from adding ads to the website?

if lemmy.world adds ads, people can just not use the lemmy.world website

That’s what I imagine happening, a few people can’t stand it and leave or use uBlock, and the rest of the userbase gets served ads

As far as i know they cant force other apps to show ads

Not unless ads are a footer or something in post or comment content. That’s an intellectual property gray area, I wonder what will happen.

You can avoid that notification by switching to i3

However Meta decides to serve ads on Threads or Threads content. Whatever it takes, Threads will definitely do ads, as they are owned by an advertising company, but we don’t really know how LemmyWorld will do ads until those ads are live.

[…] it sounds like you’re arguing that the downtime is because of massive user registrations and not from an attack like they said themselves […]

I have no idea where their downtime is from. If it is DOS-related, though, they would protect against it using a DDOS protection service like CloudFlare, which costs $$$

Lemmy.world hasn’t done anything to suggest they would be a significant privacy and security risk to users, at least not yet

They have, though. The LemmyWorld admins doxxed a user who they believed (incorrectly) to be Hexbear admin CARCOSA@hexbear.net. Source: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1754850

[…], pushing ads to federated servers or collecting and selling user data would absolutely change that I guarantee it.

We’ll see, but the larger they grow, the more permanent they get, and ads only affects that so much.

I didn’t and won’t go as far to accuse the instance owners themselves of being behind the attack but I won’t say it isn’t a user from Hexbear because nether you or I can prove that it isn’t.

Hexbear is not more suspect than other instances, and there is no reason to name-drop Hexbear, alone, in particular. If they’re being DOSed, then whoever is responsible is most likely involved in a community that has a culture of DOSing in general, like a Chan, maybe the same one that has actively been responsible for vandalizing Lemmy instances.

How do they expect to serve ads to people with that abysmal uptime that they have.

The probably see it differently, that their uptime is limited by their funding, and additional revenue would help uptime.

Maybe it will maybe they’ll be financially successful but I bet they’re probably also going to get defederated and therefore not platform successful.

The current logic I’ve seen about why instances continue to federate with LemmyWorld is that they’re “too big to fail”, the same logic applied to Threads, and I don’t see ads changing that. If Threads uses a more PR-friendly way of running ads when they inevitably do, maybe LemmyWorld will copy whatever ad-serving method that is.

[…] and that’s probably just from one person from hexbear who’s pissed at them, […]

You probably saw someone else say this, rather than making it up yourself, but Hexbear does not DOS anyone, please don’t repeat misinformation

They’re not risking legal troubles unless they receive and don’t comply with a DMCA takedown request. Like I said elsewhere, this is about making their site friendly to advertisers.

Concern trolling about the legality of discussing piracy is just a distraction. Their goal is to serve ads on their site, and removing all references to piracy is a step towards that.

Rocky Linux’s latest response to RHEL shenanigans is particularly cool. Since RHEL made the source code unavailable for packages, Rocky Linux now bases their RPMs on source code scraped from RHEL container images where the source code is still included

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