[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's not. They tricked some MEV-Boost bots into doing bad trades.

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 42 points 6 months ago

Yep. It's e2e encrypted, and you can even self-host the sync server, if you don't want to rely on an external service. Pretty much a no-brainer.

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 48 points 8 months ago

Please try to request the source code with that screenshot!

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 51 points 9 months ago

“If [the] digital Euro can also be used for tax payments etc and general acceptance is mandated, a significant amount of their clients could do their full finances with the digital Euro and won’t need an account with a commercial bank anymore,” German cooperative bank lobbyists warned the Commission in one of the documents.

Imagine "warning" them that their idea could have the desired effect!

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 50 points 9 months ago

You forgot Firefox, you absolute monster!

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Being able to create issues and discuss merge requests on various source hosting sites without having to create an account on each would be a huge step forward! Especially since M$ has taken over Github and is well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My opinion on it is pretty simple:

  • I'm here to read posts by and talk to humans, and a post made by a human somewhere else and copied over by a bot without said human's knowledge or consent is not "made by a human" anymore as far as I'm concerned.
  • I don't f*cking care about the size of the Fediverse above a certain threshold, and we have reached that imo. There are great posts and discussions here already, so it's fine if it attracts more people and it's fine if it doesn't. The important bit imo is that the people who join do so because they understand and care about the platform's goals and ethos, not just because it has the biggest potential audience.
  • Communities mainly populated by bots feel like grotesque ghost towns. Answering a post and later realizing it was made by a bot makes you feel tricked and deceived. Your posts being copied to another social network by a bot impersonating you feels cheap and desperate, and like your rights are being seriously violated (which is probably the case)! This all could very well give Lemmy the bad rep of being the "fake bot social network".
  • On the big plan behind it, who the hell would want to or should take over a Lemmy account from an instance that's widely known to be populated by bots, maybe even blocked or defederated for that reason?! That's pretty much the worst entrance to the Fediverse you could have, almost guaranteeing a bad experience from the get go!

So by all means advertise Lemmy outside of the Fediverse, but don't fill it with bot content just to make it look like one of the big social networks on first glance. Imo it will do much more harm than good, because you alienate the people already here and you give it a bad rep in the outside world.

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

If testing continues to progress well, we anticipate unveiling a fully open Firefox for Android extension ecosystem sometime in December. Stay tuned for details.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/11/01/is-your-extension-ready-for-firefox-for-android/

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

German here, I'm pretty sure I've never seen a gun irl, except when used by the police or military. They are just not really a thing here. Nobody I've ever met owns one, nobody wants or needs one, nobody even talks about them.

There are legal ways to get a gun, but I never had to care about the details. That's pretty amazing imo, if you consider how big of a topic and problem they are in the US.

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm happy to buy an app, but I will not pay a $3 subscription for just an app and access to a repository of user generated content. I know the Infinity devs don't really have a choice, but this pricing model is ridiculous!

[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago
[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why do they just mention absolute numbers, instead of comparing them to similar platforms? All they said was that there is CSAM on the Fediverse, but that's also true for centralized services and the internet as a whole. The important question is whether there is more or less CSAM on the Fediverse, no?

This makes it look very unscientific to me. The Fediverse might have a CSAM problem, but you wouldn't know it from this study.

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