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Neat. Checking out fediverse.observer, the general Lemmy graph doesn’t have the same shape, so it’s doesn’t look like feddit.org is “just” benefiting from Lemmy growth more broadly. Rather, feddit.org seems to be growing faster than average. The commenters from the original (German) feddit.org post attribute the growth to interest in the !buyfromeu@feddit.org community.

This old Toothpaste for Dinner comic is all I can think about when someone says they’re a libertarian. It’s got me this far.

It’s true this is a thing that you can do, but the experience seems pretty degraded vs. just registering an account with a Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed/Sublinks (did I miss any?) instance which is natively configured for the kind of threaded conversations that exist on this segment of the fediverse. The instructions basically amount to “Go to a Lemmy instance and use its interface to find a community you’re interested in, then copy the link to the discussion you want to interact with and paste that into your Mastodon instance’s search bar, then reply to the post that appears. It’s that simple!”

If you only interact with threads occasionally or you just want to try it out from Mastodon, this is workable, but you need a lot of patience for the busywork that’s involved.

I use Matrix daily but I would hesitate to recommend giving it to children unless you’re able to set it up in such a way that they only have access to the rooms you configure–I don’t think any Matrix apps have parental control settings but I’ve never checked.

Matrix has kind of miserable moderation options. Mods can’t do basic things like disabling attachments, which makes it prone to NSFL/NSFW image spam. The official automod bot, Mjolnir, can mitigate this somewhat, but can be pretty easily gamed. e.g. It tries to prevent image spam by deleting messages that have an image if they’re the first message a user sends in the channel–so spammers just send a message to highlight everybody first, then the images.

When there’s nothing that needs moderating, Matrix is great. However, it is severely lacking in ways to handle abuse. If you’re in a community that’s being targeted by bad actors (like Jared Leto), you basically just have to deal with it; there’s very little you can do proactively.

In this case, the goose didn’t even need numbers. The eagle eventually gave up the fight and flew away. Something something, don’t start a fight you can’t finish.

Only if you do it anonymously at some kind of blood donor glory hole.

It goes beyond just cracking, with support for features like SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike, but essentially yes. It’s not a meaningful YouTube “alternative”, just a tweaked version of same.

Before continuing, I want to specify that I’m agreeing with you but clarifying the situation because there is a business interest involved here.

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit with several wholly-owned, for-profit business subsidiaries, most notably the Mozilla Corporation. The Corporation markets and distributes several Mozilla products, including the Firefox browser, as well as its other commercial ventures like Pocket. The corporate subsidiaries’ profits do get returned to the owner of those businesses, which is the Foundation.

I would replace that “aggregated and anonymized” with an and/or, as that is consistent with the language in Mozilla’s privacy policy. The distinction is fairly important because de-anonymizing user data is a practice of its own and exactly what it sounds like.

Now, is the data which Mozilla “shares with” (sells to) its partners anonymized reliably enough that the identity of the person it relates to can never be rediscovered? Granting Mozilla the benefit of the doubt, if it is sufficiently anonymous today, could future developments lead to de-anonymization of that data at a later date? This could include leaks, cyber-attacks directed at Mozilla, AI-assisted statistical analysis of bulk data, etc.

I see your point but think it’s also valid to use Lemmy or other social media to engage only with memes or whatever else people enjoy. Absolutely, everybody should stay informed and passionate about the rapidly crumbling world, but there’s no rule that they specifically must do that via Lemmy. If someone chooses to use their social media as a haven from the real-world issues they encounter everywhere else, then unless Lemmy is their entire life, I don’t see that as a problem.

Source for the cavepalm: Newly Discovered Cave Paintings Suggest Early Man Was Battling A Lot Of Inner Demons - The Onion.