The thing is a database can be used from different applications, so it can have a normal lemmy/mastodon instance working on it and other applications that only read and analyze data.

If meta is putting it’s dirty hands on this it’s to male profit and violate our privacy. If we federate with it it will have access to our data as well to analyze. I dont want that.

I am among the ones that don’t want defederations whatsoever but the reasoning behind this choice is not arguable, the law is the law.

Thanks for the transparency and keep up the good work 👍🏻

Even if you do not provide a real fingerprint from your browser if you allow it to collect so many information it’s still able to uniquely identify you because noone is going to have all those info the same as you

Not in my experience, only a handful of comments were restored after 2 weeks in my account, just delete them manually and you’re good to go

You can use powerDeleteSuite to delete everything from your reddit account

The thing with AI is that it is both a parasite to the content it is trained on and an alternative to it because people who ask AI don’t ask in forums

These tech giants are searching for a way to keep everyone happy but I honestly don’t see any

Reddit just realized it has been sitting on a pile of gold the entire time and now it wants to reap its rewards

Why is he saying he would like to see a federated approach?

With federation there is no monetization, no centralized analytics, no centralized control over content. All things meta strives for

Would you consider samsung wallet big tech?

They are much smaller than google (user base wise)

I am not entirely sure it can be installed on non Samsung phones and non stock roms

Thank you! Really easy to understand

Let me ask you another question, where are my comments stored? Are they only in my instance or are they elsewhere too?

Lets say i comment on a post from my instance, if someone from another instance sees the post will il be replicated in their instances database?

What if i comment on another instances post? Will my comment be stored in the other instance database or in mine?

What if i delete a comment/post? Am i guaranteed in Will be deleted everywhere?

How has a self hosted imap been treating you?

I heard some pretty brutal stories, like big email providers just refusing emails from self hosted servers

So the “true” state of a post is always in it’s instance of origin

I think this is because YouTube pushed so much its shorts (tiktok knockoff) but they’re not as profitable. My guesstimate is that at least 70% of traffic is in shorts now so longer content is rarely played along with longer ads

If you are on android there is vimusic which is a completely free music streaming app that works through YouTube music apis so you will have every single song you already listen to

I used 1password for over two years and switched to bitwarden 1 year ago

Easy transition, however bitwarden is not as feature rich. There are a couple things I miss like vaults and items like database credentials or ftp and so on. The mobile android extension is not as good at picking up login forms

I will still use it rather than 1password for it being free and open-source