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Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy | Mozilla privacynotincluded in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] ginerel@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago

I know that, and I hate it. Yet, I do not know any other way to meet hot singles in my area (or not in my area).

I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only) in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] ginerel@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

It's not really hard to type a website, it's rather hard to remember it. You remember your username. Okay. But where were you? mastodon dot what?

When you use your full address, it's not that hard to remember it.

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I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only) (kbin.social)
 

A while ago I posted a thread back on the

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website, with a personal opinion on why the Fediverse seems a bit complicated. It basically goes like this: Mastodon (and pretty much every Fediverse project out there) is based on the idea of using multiple websites.

This is not really a problem on the desktop, as you're using the browser to log in to the Fediverse. You go to mastodon.social or lemmy.world, maybe bookmark these, and you log in as normal (if you do not check the remember me option at login). Same goes with Facebook, with Xitter, with the

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website etc.

Alright, but the newer generations (not everyone, but many folks part of them) rather use apps instead. And what do these apps do? Present a login screen with fields only for the username and the password (at most).

What are the Fediverse apps doing? They are also asking for the website where they would log you in. So you go open e.g. the Mastodon app, then type the website that you need to access (which in many cases it might not contain the word Mastodon in it), and only then you can enter the credentials.

What am I asking now (especially app developers): Wouldn't it be better (if doable) to take some cues on how actually email (and XMPP for that matter) works, and ask the user for the username and the password instead in one go?

Like, everyone knows how to use email, everyone is familiar with that. And as I mentioned, XMPP is also doing it as well:

Gajim account login screen

Wouldn't it be doable?

What does a post-piracy world look like? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] ginerel@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

No, I don't think it will go like that.

But if piracy would go away, then it would mean we live in a great world:

  • Software: FOSS/Freeware/Donationware software prevails. People want to use this kind of software, and this is the go-to for any appliance. People would be deeply affected if they could not use free (as both in freedom and/or money, as mentioned before) software - gone will be the days of everyone needing Adobe products or MS Office for their professional work, and the year of the Linux desktop would be in the history books.
  • Movies and TV shows: They would be available anywhere, on demand, in any format. Or there would be this website where you would go to and watch whatever you would, without ads. It would kinda be the same with music.
  • p0rn: I don't have enough knowledge in this field, I just go to certain websites when I need. Guess it would be like on the previous point? idk.

As long as those points are not achieved, there will always be a need for piracy, and people will always find new ways to get their content. So far, I do not see us being somewhere even close to that ideal world, so there are plenty of reasons for piracy to exist.

I personally try to pirate things more ethically, for example I try to buy music and games whenever I can, but I know several people that pirate stuff just because they can.

Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp in c/technology@lemmy.world
Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] ginerel@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

I kinda get all the Threads worries and the fact that some people might not be comfortable with Meta collecting their data for advertising. But this is just insane. It just makes me think people are just irrationally angry at everything, and they like being that, instead of informing themselves about what everything does.

Download lossless quality music without paying corps. that stream it in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] ginerel@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably they just want to use the same app they're using for listening to music. Although I also have them both. And I love AntennaPod more for podcasts, plus there's no tracking, and it's just a different experience overall.

Welp, it happened. For the first time a Lemmy comment of mine was removed because a mod didn't like the viewpoint expressed. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] ginerel@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

lemmy.ml
first time [...] a mod didn't like the viewpoint expressed.

Haha, wow, first time?

Welcome to this place. Lemmy.ml is notorious for being run by the actual tankies that created this project. See what they support, what they don't, and have an opposite opinion on that. You will get the boys telling you how it acchually it is not and call you a glowie CIA agent or whatnot for not siding with them. The Reddit migration probably made them more accepting of opposite opinions, but probably because things have calmed down more a bit lately, they started aggressively moderating stances like yours and probably anti-Kremlin takes as well (seriously, before that, if you were against the Russian invasion in Ukraine or against China's politics you would have been accused of being racist towards them - but hey, you can say whatever you want against the USA, or The West, you can't be racist against these, can you?).

Anyway, here's a longer take by FediTips that explains the issues with Lemmy:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379