Better yet, check out NewPipe on F-Droid. :^)

Just as dangerous to connect a random number generator to nukes. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I also use xattrs, too, actually. I generally take care to make sure they’re copied over during backups etc., and when I’m sending files to other people I either tell them about the xattrs or copy them into a text-file that I archive with the file. It’s the nicest way of keeping metadata imo, even if it is a bit opaque.

but that would be a huge pain to keep in sync since both files have to be moved together.

It’s only a pain if you’re moving them by hand, btw. :^)

Not torrenting really limits your grasp, but for books Library Genesis is fantastic.

Missed the chance for the title “There will never be a second Second Life,” real shame.

Your redirect idea would probably work excellently as a browser extension — there are are redirect extensions like that for Mastodon already, actually.

As for the domain… the only thing I can think of would be, like you said, a Lemmy instance.

From what I understand, opening a port isn’t a risk in and of itself — it’s only a risk if the software using the port is insecure! So long as you use reliable software and take care to configure things properly (following through with instructions from a site like ArchWiki or the official documentation helps), you’re good.

CloudFlare is more for DDOS protection, which you almost certainly don’t need . You could always set up DDOS protection later on, if the need ever arises.

I reckon that people become leftists out of compassion, but the dehumanizing rhetoric seems cool and edgy; so they slide into it, thinking it’s OK.

Hate systems, not people. Don’t eat the rich, eat their money.

Yea, output’ll vary widly based on context. Heck, even if you start from scratch with identical prompts, output’ll still be randomized.

Jesus, this is just about as blatant as you can get. I honestly can’t imagine how people can eat up such clearly dehumanizing politics and not get a bad taste in their mouth…

Here’s how you can tell if you’re the baddy: Do you support policies to spite or “own” others? Do you think, “fuck ‘em, I don’t care,” “they’re disgusting,” or “they’ve gotta be taught a lesson?”

Then you’re probably the baddy, stop it! Dehumanization, even casually, is the root of all evil.

It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wrong, obviously — you might’ve stumbled into being right for the wrong reasons — but wow, is it a huge red flag!

Consolidation on the net definitely is a market failure, can’t argue that.

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Yeaa, that sounds pretty likely. If that ends up being the case, then defederation might make sense.

I hope it very much doesn’t get defederated. Meta’s service would have less of a lock-in effect if it couldn’t communicate with other servers. The primary reason people stick to platforms like Facebook & co. is that their friends and family are on it; but if they can keep talking to them on a different platform, they’re suddenly much more susceptible to ditching Meta and ditching apathy in regards to privacy.

Be seemingly friendly to Meta and any other social media company that starts using ActivityPub — so that we can get normies to ditch them and join the libre side. :)

(ofc, this position is on a case-by-case basis and hinges on how exactly federation is handled by the service at hand. We’ll see!)

It doesn’t look half-bad, actually! :o

Lemmy isn’t a site, it’s a piece of server-software. The software is written by a couple of people with bad political opinions, who also run a popular site using that software, Lemmy.ml.

You can skip using Lemmy.ml and just use another server using this software. The software itself isn’t magically poisoned or anything!

From what I understand, one of the core devs (Dessalines) is a Marxist-Lenninist; they later founded the second Lemmy instance, Lemmygrad.ml.

Recently, there was some discussion on Lemmy.ml’s (the first and official-ish instance) policy of banning any crticisms of China’s government (e.g., even mentioning the Uyghur genocide) on their own servers.

I’m not too worried about DeSantis, honestly. He’s a horrible orator with no charisma. With any luck, he won’t energize people in nearly the same way.

Sorry to the rest of the world that uses a more sensible date formatting.

Counter-point: If you view 6/9 as a shortened form for 2023/6/9 instead of for 6/9/23, then it’s a perfectly sensible format. Year > month > day, it’s perfect! God loves it! It’s standard!

If you make your playlists in M3U format and put them somewhere in your music directory, they’ll work on anything.

For example, I’ve got files like music/playlists/12-steps.m3u in mine, and they work flawlessly on VLC, MPD, and Jellyfin.