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Top 50 defederated instances
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You're looking for this: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/censured. Us instance admin can also endorse other instances.
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Top 50 defederated instances
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You're looking for this: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/censured. Us instance admin can also endorse other instances.
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Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day
There's some interesting context:
In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline. Engadget, June 11, 2023
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Is it just me or did Lemmy suddenly became more active now that Sync for Lemmy is released?
ljdawson's decision to develop a Lemmy app played a significant part in locking down our decision to bring /r/android to [email protected].
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Birds are cool.
Relatable. Birds are suddenly really interesting in your 30s.
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Alberta woman dies after being denied transplant for refusing to get COVID vaccine
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It's definitely sad, but not discriminatory. Organ transplant recipients generally need to take a lot of immunosuppressive medications. Getting fully vaccinated is a bare minimum for improving the likelihood of a successful transplant.
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EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian
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As a Canadian, I appreciate a lot of what the EU does when it comes to consumer protections. Hopefully this one also ends up impacting the rest of us!
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r/Android is now on the Fediverse!
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We didn't post this one up! I posted on /r/android shortly before bed and felt it would've been in bad taste if we had posted here without discussing with you folks first (I also admittedly slept in, as it's a holiday today for Canada Day Weekend).
I was actually hoping to reach out to you and Mike to see if you're interested in joining our mod team on [email protected]. We hope to carry forward the same kind of content philosophy from /r/android prior to our lockdowns, namely discussions and items of collective interest, and avoiding specific, technical support questions that can overtake large communities - and think you both align pretty well with our overall emphasis on keeping it civil and cordial.
For a bit of background on the instance, @[email protected] has been spending quite some time getting lemdro.id setup and optimized for us with a focus on ensuring backend scalability to handle load. The hope was to have an instance where major tech and other subreddits could feel comfortable moving to, without the significant performance issues that could leave folks with bad first impressions (a number of us were around for the waves of migration from Digg to Reddit).
Folks are currently reaching out to their respective mod teams at other large tech subreddits to see if there's interest in joining Lemmy as well. We also have a number of developers with us exploring opportunities to contribute code improvements and fill gaps within the Lemmy ecosystem (e.g., accessibility improvements, moderator tools, fighting spam), with at least one bug fix already contributed to the Lemmy Github!
If you and Mike are interested, please do reach out! It would be great to have you both. Given Lemmy doesn't support group PMs or Modmail, let me know if you want to connect somewhere else - I'm on Telegram, Discord, and Element but would be happy to chat anywhere.
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Infinity for Lemmy is now available on the Izzysoft F-Droid Repo
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I say keep them coming!
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North Korea
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Reddit is taking control of large subreddits that are still protesting its API changes
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It's worth noting that protests are a fundamental part of Reddit culture and a large part of how the site became successful in the first place (waves of activism and migration from Digg over several years).
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Elon refusing to pay google for hosting could be behind the instability issues.
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It's too early to tell but I'm spending more time on Lemmy.
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Sync for Lemmy is now available for everyone
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Although there was the option to purchase Pro as a one-time fee. This one unfortunately only has a subscription option (which I'm not too keen on).
Edit: ljdawson has confirmed there will be an one-time payment options for both Ultra and ad removal!
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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
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I honestly don't know how people can tolerate it.
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kamila 🌸: Google has recently released the source code for the Pixel 8 and Pixel Watch 2 and I found some things I found interesting: here's a quick and messy thread 🧵👇
Can I just take a moment to appreciate nitter once again?
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Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up
You're right. Reddit was the same way during the Digg migrations. The first wave took place with the HD DVD code fiasco migration when some people setup their first accounts. It was a couple years later when Digg upset users again that the final big wave occurred. This is a great place for Lemmy as growing pains get worked out and development catches up to much needed moderation functionality.
As Cole and I say in reference to lemdro.id, it's a marathon not a sprint! ![email protected] has also been steadily increasing in active and subscribed users.
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‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma
I've heard this is also the case for civilians and officers working for police departments who are responsible for handling evidence related to child abuse. Takes a lot of psychological support, which I'm not sure can ever be enough.
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US Embassy in Beirut telling Americans to leave Lebanon "as soon as possible while commercial options are still available."
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Hezbollah has been involved from South Lebanon since the initial attacks by Hamas. They were launching rockets from Lebanon.
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Elon doesn't want you browsing Twitter
It seems they're just trying to make it seem intentional when really, they're just struggling now that their Google Cloud contract has expired.
In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline. Engadget, June 11, 2023
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Apple's called Android a "massive tracking device" in an internal presentation
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Ideally you shouldn't have to compromise. GrapheneOS without Google is an option.
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Google removes photo sphere mode from the new Pixel
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They also notably ended their dedicated Street View app: https://9to5google.com/2022/11/01/google-street-view-app-shutting-down/.