The US government wants to make sure only they can use DataFarming platforms to spy on and influence US citizens. They're following the example set by the CCP, which has been blocking foreign-owned platforms for years, for similar reasons.
The GDPR is as toothless as it gets. Tracking did not stop because of it, it just led to every site pushing even more dark patterns to trick people into giving consent.
If the US does push for something like DMA against Apple and Google, then I'll start believing it.
@maker Would you be interested in a Lemmy instance as well? I registered handmade.cool some months ago and wanted to make a Lemmy instance focused on artisans.
@manualdousuario is Element so difficult to use compared to Signal? I got both my aging parents to use Element, and aside from issues on my server UX is okay. The onboarding needs some handholding, but I guess that it's just a matter of patience and setting the right expectations.
Crazy idea of the day: how could I integrate https://cupid.careers into the Fediverse?
If you don't know, it's a "OkCupid for Jobs" site that I did a couple of years ago. People answer questions and the system tries to find other people who are the most aligned with your professional values and the companies.
@evan , how would one go about it? Make an account that publishes the questions as polls, and internally collect the responses?
In this one, #Gentoo says no to #AI, and Linus Torvalds finds it "hilarious", we also have a flaw in #Flatpak, plus #Cosmic showing off its theming capabilities, at least for GTK apps, plus some good news for Linux gaming!
FYI I like watching the drinker's videos for the same reason I like watching stand up by Jimmy Carr or Ricky Gervais; I want to be used to hearing opinions I disagree with, especially when its ok to laugh at them. Also, I might occasionally learn something (even a stopped clock is right twice a day, as they say).
Come and meet the 41 projects which will receive funding in the latest round of the #NGI0 Entrust and NGI0 Core programs.
We want to thank all the people/teams/communities behind these free and open source projects for their important contribution to a trustworthy, resilient, open internet.
I still believe that the donation-based model for instances is unsustainable and keeps the wrong incentives.
Would you be interested in a system that delegates the fundraising efforts to the members of newsie and journa?This is basically what I am launching now with the Communick Collective: https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/112283779730502178
So, I’m curious: there’s a growing number of hosting platforms specifically for the #Fediverse. For those involved in this, who are comfortable with answering: is there a particular set of tools you use for managing, monitoring, and spinning up instances?
Are those tools open source?
I’m mainly wondering about whether there’s some kind of open platform / dashboard / infra tools that could serve a particular need for hosting / managing / provisioning Fedi servers, and whether the existing hosts in the space would benefit from a shared project of some sort.
Agree that community discovery is not ideal, but I think you are overstating the issue. Yes, communities can be duplicated. But, because instances contain copies of every community that is followed by at least one user there is always a "global" view.
Also, the UI sorts communities by their activity levels, so people naturally flock to the busiest ones.
The idea is not to have "one community for everyone" but a simple onboarding guide for those wishing to leave Reddit. Let them come to the places that they are "used to" at first, and once we got rid of Reddit we can start optimizing the new system.
@Hyolobrika@strypey it was a rhetorical question: the answer is "they failed".
If we know that they failed, what makes you think that emulating their p2p approach is a good idea?
Fully p2p and "trustless" systems makes zero sense when designing social systems. It is costly to operate and you still need to have some form of collaborative filtering / moderation.
Here's how to fix "Open-Source Security": pay every maintainer of critical OSS infrastructure the equivalent of a good Silicon Valley staff-level software engineer, keep them happy, and give them support whenever needed, whether it is testing, fuzzing, security audits, or whatever.
You don't just sit there and complain hobbyists not being able to produce unpaid work that is both always secure and reliable.
But this exists already, and I am not even talking about crypto. SEPA in Europe, Pix in Brazil, FedNow in the US... Most countries are already creating digital payment networks.
@mwfc@onepict thank you, appreciated. The main thing that I need right now is to find a way to reach out to people and get them to see that not all "for profit" operations are morally bad.
@mwfc@onepict the host is in Germany, the company is registered in the US.
But I'll gladly add whatever is required to operate legally. It just feels a bit frustrating to think that no matter what one does, there will always be more barriers that people will place before supporting what seems to be an honest and clear practice. do you really trust a company more or less based on how well they conform to German Bureaucracy?
