That’s part of why I clicked the article, I was confused if I read it correctly

The article is nice, but I’m not sure if I’d send it to friends that aren’t familiar with the fediverse. It seems to gloss over some problems and focus less relevant ones

It doesn’t touch on the issues with Blueskys protocol and makes it sound like an equivalent choice (or worse, a better choice). In the downsides section it touches on racism in badly moderated instances, and the difficulty of setting up an instance. Those issues aren’t relevant to the vast majority of users who will join a large instance that has defederated from the bad stuff.

It’s a nice article for those who are already somewhat familiar, but a bad first impression

Very cool, thank you!

This is both really cool, and really unsettling. I wonder if this research might help in the other direction as well, such as with transplants and grafts

Others have commented on the issues with Vivaldi, but do you have points on what you like about Vivaldi? People might suggest non-chromium browsers that do the same things

https://lemmy.ca/post/23688697

sarcasm is already hard to understand online, even harder for generative AI

I know sometimes I would take a peek at the person’s comment history to see if they were well informed / a shill for the product. The AI can’t do that

I’ve seen some dashboards around, is this what you’re looking for?

• https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage
• https://github.com/pawelmalak/flame

At the same time, the variables in that calculation might change over time. If it becomes easy enough for them to support it, or the costs of not supporting it get too high, they might change their minds.

Alternatively: wean yourself and your friends off of snapchat. In my part of the world, snapchat isn’t popular anymore. It doesn’t offer anything new and so barely anyone uses it.

Another side I haven’t seen mentioned

It might be easier to track users in Chrome. If even a few users open it in chrome instead of Firefox, that’s a benefit for them

Anyone dealing with issues: try setting the user agent to chrome to see if this is Google’s doing

Definitely this one, the products are sometimes placed right next to legitimate ones and worse:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-homeopathic-products-1.6254025

Hidden camera reveals some pharmacists recommend homeopathic products to treat kids’ cold and flu

I sometimes come across influencers pushing chrio “treatments” on pets or newborns, saying it makes them “breathe better” or be “more energetic”

It’s infuriating

My guess is that it’s a simpler word that is more memorable and ‘biological’ sounding. So people are more likely to remember it over mutualism

You can also share this in !fediverse@lemmy.world, there are a lot of people there :)

Oops, should be fixed now

Thanks!

Oh I didn’t know there was a new app coming out, is the original one being rebuilt?

I think updates like that would do well on Mastodon, it’s the most popular right now so it has a wider reach / support. Similar to what would have been posted to Twitter before

I like !privacyguides@lemmy.one because the project is behind it

Whenever friends ask about resources, I always link them to the privacyguides website. I should use their community more as well

See if you can find a friend who owns a particular model and is comfortable letting you try it on. How it fits is the most important thing IMO.

Samsung ones seem reliable, but one big downside is that the app (Galaxy Wearable), has a number of required permissions. The app does not function without them, even if you don’t need those features. I’m not sure what the workarounds are, and maybe you can make do without the app, but here is the list:

• Calendar
• Call logs
• Contacts
• Nearby Devices
• Phone
• SMS

You can read more about the privacy aspect of the popular brands here:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/headphones/

Yea it’s really about what people have as the mental model for the platform they are on. It might take time for people to internalize what the network is doing.

Mastodon and Lemmy do mix as it is, but it could be better. Two big areas I’ve heard are

• Lemmy users need the ability to follow mastodon users (kbin has this I believe)

• Mastodon users have a hard time following Lemmy communities and seeing posts, because they end up getting a waterfall of every post/comment at once overwhelming their feeds