Not in favour of this.

I chose Lemmy.world because I wanted an instance that would federate even with people I might disagree with. If it's illegal and abusive, sure. But to defederate on ideological grounds? I was planning a recurring donation but this makes me consider setting up my own instance.

They're welcome to whatever discussions they want to have on their instance. As long as they respect the rules of other instances when they're here, then everybody wins.

As for their point about dismantling western propaganda - if they have documented sources then let's have a conversation. It's not like there isn't western propaganda

I think the point of the post is ain't nobody donating $20 to the Lemmy platform or host or other apps

Yea implying that we don't have propaganda and narratives on our side of the wall is naive

If we want the truth then an open discussion is the path. There will be arguments in bad faith, sure. But that's not limited to "them". It's a human discussion thing.

Reminds me of the statement that you can't dissect a rabbit to find out why it's cute

This is naive. America has all the laws they need to get data from private companies, just the same as China

Yea but does that prevent Google from getting that data via AdMob?

I much prefer a separate server for the simple reason that it makes my desktop somewhat disposable. Reboot whenever, install whatever. If it breaks my server stays up

Basically, the more you isolate the purposes, the less the purposes clash

I don't mind so much that it's not FOSS. Developer needs paying, fair enough

I want an app without an egregious Privacy Policy that doesn't bundle code that shares "Usage Data" with advertisers

I gather aviation fuel isn't taxed at all

My old person trait is that most of these sound like very recent problems

The same EU legal text has in German 22.118 words Vs English 24.698.

That needs a character count really. Words isn't a particularly relevant measure when the language uses compound words

Wait, is this true?

I'm on team nose!

I always say clean smells of nothing. Not chemicals, not lemon. If it's clean, it should smell of nothing.

Yea probably similar to how Lemmy and Kbin are theoretically compatible. ActivityPub doesn't guarantee that, it's only because they happen to use ActivityPub in the same way. If one of them changes their implementation, compatibility breaks.

I do often wonder how much it matters that all these platforms use ActivityPub

Yea just like Catholics don't consider unfertilised human eggs to be humans

The Catholics are consistent this time

The answer is everyone else has to fix climate change. Everyone but me

Seems like OpenAI lobbying the government to pave the way for their technology to become indispensable

No opinion on the accuracy of it, but this is lobbying, not independent opinion

Is there a possibility of it being released on F-Droid?

Or just an apk download?

It's still waiting on a repackaging effort

https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/merge_requests/63

Looks like the latest hurdle is that Firefox is relying on some Google-specific variables being present, which fails on AOSP

One thing that's nice about F-Droid is it guarantees that the APK you run is built from the source code. Does Obtanium have that?