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stux, to random
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She has a real good example of how algorithms on platforms like Instagram not only try to make you addicted but also divide us even more

I real LOVE the fact Mastodon and most of the Fediverse software avoids this all together

A girl explaining comments shown on an example Instagram posts. It looks at your age, gender, interests and serves comments based on that.

shadowwwind,
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@LevelUp @stux fedi also has a massive hivemind.
Look at the hate the dude got for building the bluesky bridge or there was a even better example where somebody build their own activitypub server and people thought its a crawler and harassed them till they entirely quit fedi

shadowwwind,
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@stux @mekkaokereke and if someone from my instance is following or boosting the comments. That's probably a pretty big factor too.
Unless you use a client like moshiodon that fetches comments from the origin instance as well

MissingThePt, to random
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I take it back, Google Search does still work.

shadowwwind,
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@MissingThePt at the same time Wikipedia is also profitable lul

gael, to random French
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Nothing to add.

shadowwwind,
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@jnthnkl @MichelPatrice are you developing it? Do you post about updates?
I personally would also like a rating for GrapheneOS sandboxed Google play

shadowwwind,
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@jnthnkl @MichelPatrice awesome, didn't know about that one. Did they fork plexus or whole own data?

shadowwwind, (edited )
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@MichelPatrice @gael most apps work fine with it, you can check https://plexus.techlore.tech for compatibility.
Usually only some banking apps have issues.
You probably want to use microG so the right rating is the one you care about.

shadowwwind,
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@jnthnkl @MichelPatrice its pretty limeted in the fact that you cant say which features don't work. And I don't find it perfect in the rating. Somebody marked Discord as working, I would say that notifications are a vital feature to discord and because of that would only give it yellow. I can't find rules for that.

shadowwwind, (edited ) to internet
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I installed #Orbot by @torproject roughly two weeks ago on my phone to help people circumvent #censorship. In that short time I already helped almost 400 people reach the #internet. You can learn how it works and how to help (it's a click of a button) here: https://snowflake.torproject.org/

protonprivacy, to android
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The new app is now available for everyone!

💬 Easily follow email threads with the new conversation mode
🛠️ Enjoy major stability and performance improvements

Download the app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.protonmail.android

This provides a solid foundation for delivering new features faster in the future.

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shadowwwind,
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@karma @thorcik @protonprivacy strange, same for me

shadowwwind,
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@IzzyOnDroid did protonmail get removed?

shadowwwind, (edited )
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@thorcik @protonprivacy its available on Protons github https://github.com/ProtonMail/android-mail/releases

shadowwwind,
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@IzzyOnDroid thank you!

kuketzblog, to firefox German
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Welchen Browser benutzt ihr auf dem Desktop und mobil? Bitte kurz erklären, warum.

Nachfolgend eine Tabelle mit Browser-Empfehlungen, die demnächst in einem Beitrag über Browser erscheint.

shadowwwind,
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@kuketzblog Auf Android benutze ich Vivaldi. Ich hatte performance und Akku Probleme mit Firefox, darum hab ich Vivaldi ausprobiert und dann gemerkt, dass das UI/UX von Vivaldi unfassbar viel besser ist, als alles andere was ich bisher am Handy probiert habe.
Des weiteren finde ich gut, dass sie keine telemtrics einsetzen und eine Norwegische Firma sind die den Angestellten gehört.

shadowwwind,
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@kuketzblog am Desktop nutze ich aktuell Firefox, ich mag das UI und hab selten Probleme mit irgendwas. FF wird weiter manifest v2 unterstützten und wird von einem non-profit entwickelt.

privacytests, to random
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Issue 87 of https://PrivacyTests.org is out today!

shadowwwind,
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@privacytests oh wow, all chromium browsers isolate cross session cookies now?

mike, to random
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I've been using DuckDuckGo as my main search engine for a while now. Lately, DDG seems to "correct" my searches. A LOT. I don't know if it's just me or if it's a universal thing, but when I type in a search sometimes not only the results aren't what I was looking for, but I see the query itself has been changed to something I didn't actually search for. It's INCREDIBLY frustrating. I just might have to find a new search engine if this keeps up.

shadowwwind,
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@bitterblossom @mike what? Do you have a source for that?

shadowwwind,
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@thefossguy @mike also @Mojeek , awesome crawler search engine. They are pretty active on the fediverse, privacy respecting and don't dabble in blockchain

wongmjane, to random

Lately I found myself to be swiping to hide lots of feed posts on this app (Ran into too many diaspora content that’s geographically irrelevant to me)

And it finally pushed me to actually use the hidden words feature to hide them once and for all. The experience is more pleasant now 😌

shadowwwind,
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@wongmjane does threads federate both ways now?

shadowwwind, to random
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@Vivaldi with Bing being down today, it would be really helpful if I could choose @Mojeek to search on android!

shadowwwind,
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@mingu apparently it can be done https://social.vivaldi.net/@heronheart/112490582109480803
I believe its more of a chromium thing, the setting has to be extra implemented.
Also I did not ask for advice, I asked Vivaldi to either add the option for custom engines or to add Mojeek.

kerfuffle, to SVMetaSearch
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I found #Kagi too expensive, but seeing how every alternative has just proven to just be #Bing is making me reconsider. #Startpage and #Peekr / #SVMetaSearch are also down. #search

shadowwwind,
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@babu101 @kerfuffle @Mojeek what do you mean by services?

shadowwwind,
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@babu101 @kerfuffle @Mojeek is that a bad thing?

shadowwwind, to fediverse
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The #fediverse is probably better at building filter bubbles (showing you content you agree with) than traditional social media.
Your home feed really only shows you opinions from people you follow. Who follows people they don't like?

For sites like Twitter somebody suggested the term "filterclash", they serve content you don't agree with to increase engagement like commenting or quote posting to dunk on people.

The Fediverse is probably more similar how discussions are held in offline...
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shadowwwind,
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Where you mostly hear opinions of people you know and probably like as we don't tend to hangout with people we don't like.
The local and federated timelines could be equivalent to a place like work, where you have to engage with other people but one probably only does this very limited.

These filter bubbles probably are better for mental health and might be better for discussions than the filter clash. But they have the serious down turn, that people are less aware of other opinions and...
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shadowwwind,
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Supposedly there are a lot of extremest and conspiracy believes. Telegram up until very recently had no algorithm at all. (Now just small, pretty hidden recommendations for similar channels) You just follow channels and groups you are interested in and they might refer your to more.
This filter bubble behavior is probably what makes this possible.

shadowwwind,
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How popular other opinions are. I Germany very very recently and a really big protest wave against racism and fat right oriented people were pretty confused on how many people attended these, how many people have a different opinion to them. In their bubble the opinion that racism is bad is just not prevalent so they expected its not.
And tbh same for me, every time their is an election I wonder who would vote for AFD or CDU. I personally know just a single person.

Telegram often because...
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