Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand that a fascist is not the same thing as a communist. But they’re equally despicable.

Fascism is inherently anti-democratic, communism isn’t. I know communism is a shorthand for stalinism, maoism and other totalitarian ideologies that use socialist facade (similar to national socialism) but it’s worth to make an effort not to discredit the whole idea.

People half-joke that coming to Fediverse is easy, all you need to do is select a provider like you do with e-mail.

In case of Lemmy this omits the part where you have to block dozens of communities because they shill for genocidal regimes and you can’t block them and their users wholesale using instances. You also have to be on a lookout for trolls that coordinate on those instances and use alts from other instances. If you aren’t careful enough your experience might be akin to a conspiracy Facebook group but obviously it’s users fault.

Mastodon doesn’t have this issue despite using same Activity Pub framework.

Kbin doesn’t have it.

It’s Lemmy developers and instances that somehow ended up with staggering amount of tankie trolls, to the extent that exceeds even alt-right trolls on Reddit.

Telling people to start their own instances is acknowledging that the issue is so widespread that there are no instances with sane policies.

My criticism of that idea is also documented there.

But defederating Threads was fine lol.

We need to stop recommending Lemm.ee to newcomers, it’s hostile to normal folks.

It’s the dishonesty that makes me despise those guys the most. How could you dislike them when they’re so civil in their shilling for genocidal regimes, eh?

Modern day tankies are indistinguishable from fascists since they shill for fascist shitholes like Russia and China. I don’t care about intent, everyone can lie about it. You can’t lie about outcomes.

This client looks interesting but community groups seem to be very WIP at the moment. Posts in those groups are sorted by community (some arbitrary amount is pulled), then requested order (new, hot etc) and it takes ages to load so it’s probably not very threaded. Regardless, this looks promising and I’ll keep my eye on it - thanks!

Look into OpenCore Legacy Patcher. I updated my GFs 2012 Air to Ventura and it’s running okay. A bit clunky around MacOS updates since you have to specifically run patcher again to get graphics acceleration again but otherwise fine. It’s definitely worth it for security updates.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

I’ve heard it’s an issue with PWAs on Android but it’s fixed in the Play Store version (released yesterday/today).

Huh? You can Airplay those. Not sure what do you want to stream there that would be a better experience than downloading it outright from Usenet or torrents.

Chromecast is fine for what it is and a very good value but it does not compete with Apple TV or Nvidia Shield.

Whoa, this looks awesome and I do have always on server for Usenet/Plex and Homebridge.

Thanks!

[edit] Installed and working great but I had to change os.exit() to sys.exit() in one of the files, looks like it’s not compatible with recent Python versions out of the box. Converted into system.d daemon, now working 24/7.

That part is annoying but I generally don’t subscribe to channels that overdo it. My remote has a button to skip 10s forward so I keep pressing it until I see sponsored segment is over.

I’d love to be able to use sponsorblock on ATV but I don’t see how it could be reasoned that it makes morally ok to not pay Google and content creators for the service they provide (with cash, ad views or otherwise). Video hosting ain’t cheap.

You can also use Apple TV which is hands down best streaming box, use ATV remote on your couch without faffing with computers and pay for good service that YouTube and content creators on YouTube provide.

It’s easy to avoid paying but the experience is just worse.

And if you’re really short on cash, subscribe from Argentina or India and pay ~$2.

Can’t reply to kbin accounts due to language bug so I’ll reply to myself:

• Netflix 4k is 60 PLN / mo
• HBO is 30 (but you could lock in 20 if you subscribed early on, which I did)
• Dinsey+ is 29 / mo (24 / mo if yearly, which I did)
• Prime is 49 / year (4 / mo), Amazon tries to fight local competitor on free delivery and for some reason they include streaming with that
• Apple TV+ I’m getting as part of Apple One family sub (45 / mo but that’s Apple Music, TV+, Arcade and iCloud for my whole household)

As a person in charge of shared Netflix subscription for my friends I noped out the moment they started password sharing crackdown. Yeah, they added “small” charge to add more users to subscription but the writing was on the wall and I realized I was the frog being boiled.

2 of my friends went for basic plan separately. The cost of 2 basic subscriptions is about the same as 4k / 4 screens one we were using before. So yeah, subscriber count up, now Netflix needs to do a rug pull on basic plan (which they already do in US and UK).

I don’t even see a need to pirate stuff from Netflix these days, barely anything worth watching. I still pay for HBO, Disney+, Apple TV+ (part of family Apple One) and Prime - which in the country I live in cost together about they same as Netflix did lol.

EU stats:

• In May 2023, the youth unemployment rate was 13.9 % both in the EU and in the euro area,
• Euro area unemployment at 6.5 % in May 2023,
• EU unemployment at 5.9 % in May 2023,

Comparatively, Denmark, the country with unions being core part of economy (70% of the workforce is unionized):

• Youth unemployment in 2022 was 8.78 %
• Unemployment in 2022 was 4.17 %

I was there too and it sucked. I don’t understand how XMPP server operators blacklisting Google and Facebook would have prevented that though.

Threads is already magnitudes bigger than Mastodon. They don’t need Activity Pub to poach users.

Yes, it’s healthy to block scammers. I was asking specifically if there’s an instance of an internet protocol where non-commercial entities decide to block commercial ones like here. Like refuse interoperability with Hotmail / outlook.com because Microsoft is nasty. That’s what’s being proposed by many here.

Threads is already massive, they’re happy with monetising their own users and likely do Activity Pub to appease EU regulators.

I’m for federating with any instance that doesn’t exist explicitly to break this community rules. I turned blind eye to not defederating Exploding Heads because Lemm.ee is a small server that doesn’t host any big communities they could interfere with. I thought it was an indication that it’s an instance that would allow me to curate my experience.

This is a European server, it’s fair to assume most of the users here are protected by GDPR. The talk of scraping data seems like a nonsense, Meta can do it without federating. And as Elon learned, closing your APIs means other entities will do web scraping which puts more stress on your infrastructure.

I don’t understand how most people here are for open standards, interoperability and the moment their protocol of choice gets traction they drop everything and opt to create their walled garden, except with 5 dozens of people. This is it, you’ve literally won. I guess some people will keep fighting big corporations for any reason on principle. That’s ok but not something most people are interested in.

There’s a lot of talk about how XMPP was killed by Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. I’m convinced 99% people posting that same blog post that sells opinions as facts, haven’t actually lived through it. XMPP was embraced, then Google and Facebook got bored, dropped it and moved on. They did not poison the protocol in any way.

If Meta tries to extend Activity Pub in a malicious way then that’s the point you defederate. If they get bored of Activity Pub and move on you have lost nothing, you probably gained more users than you would if you didn’t federate. I don’t believe it will come to this, EU Digital Markets Act means more platforms will have to open up, other commercial platforms will join in to capitalize on that and we’ll end up with consortiums coming up with reasonable changes to standards. If not they’ll get bonked by EU regulators with even more laws.

Finally, it’s a shame that we’ve done this vote via Lemmy post. It has hit “All” view for a lot of people who are not part of this instance and probably irreversibly poisoned this discussion.

I’m here to escape Sillicon Valley, not to cut off contact with anyone who’s chosen not to.