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Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss
Obviously. It's linked to Instagram, so it's gonna be a another playground for "influencers" to milk their fans.
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Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss
Obviously. It's linked to Instagram, so it's gonna be a another playground for "influencers" to milk their fans.
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Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others?
What are your thoughts on password managers?
They are mandatory in current digital age.
Do you use one?
Yes. Bitwarden.
Would you recommend it to others?
Already do and most are receptive to it once you show them that every single one of them were caught up in a breach at some point.
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Boost for Lemmy is happening!
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Would darknet market discussion be allowed on Lemmy?
It really depends on the instance and their own rules. Some might allow it, while others wouldn't. It would definetely need to be aggressively moderated to avoid promoting any illegal sales, etc.
Only admins of the various instances can really clarify this.
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Their stance if someone is interested https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/110654590632768079
They basically won't do anything preemptively.
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Elon doesn't want you browsing Twitter
The irony is that Twitter is the one that's causing the performance issues for itself https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723
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Is WeChat safe to use in the US?
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.tencent.mm/latest/
It requires 71 permissions, which is pretty much full access to your device.
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Elon doesn't want you browsing Twitter
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You might want to also replace Discord if you care about your data.
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Is anyone using Google search less than before?
DuckDuckGo uses Bing results. Also DuckDuckGo is not your friend.
I personally use SearXNG for best results. Public instance list.
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Would darknet market discussion be allowed on Lemmy?
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Talking about and actively promoting it are 2 different things. Also not everything sold there is illegal.
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The new version also reduces its reliance on websockete
From my understaind it's not a reduction, but a complete replacement.
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Was I born to be alive?
I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes.
„We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?“ - Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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Should I use Matrix for Messaging?
Signal is great for one on one conversations or small groups. Matrix is better served for communities as federation offers censorship resitance, but they collect some metadata that Signal doesn't. They do have encrypted DMs, but it's less user friendly than Signal and if your partner is not tech savvy, I would go with Signal.
Signal has 2 points of concern:
I use both for different groups of people. E.g. My Matrix account is publically listed on my Lemmy account, but my Signal one is only given to people I trust to some level.
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Does anybody feel like the quality of reddit has already dropped massively?
Wouldn't know, I don't even check it anymore.
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Boost for Lemmy is happening!
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Boost for Reddit wasn't, so I would expect the same here.
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Twitter limits the number of tweets users can read amid extended outage
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Do you think the guys on the titanic submarine will be rescued?
Hard to tell, it's all about luck at this point. Latest news are
"Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area," the U.S. Coast Guard tweeted early Wednesday morning. "As a result, ROV operations were relocated in an attempt to explore the origin of the noises. Those ROV searches have yielded negative results but continue."
The data from the P-3 has been shared with U.S. Navy experts for further analysis, the Coast Guard added.
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What exactly does "Local" filtering do for Lemmy?
Local means it only shows posts that originate from the instance your account is created on. In your case it would be lemmy.world.
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Do you want a discord server or a matrix chat room?
Matrix.
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Why Reddit’s Blind Community went dark for the first time in its history
Could of mentioned that r/blind moderators are working on Lemmy instance.