Worst case scenario, what you suggest is no worse than what we currently have.

On the reverse side, enforcing underage users can be done with device-level parental controls (and if they can circumvent that, well maybe it’s time for them to experience the real Internet).

Voluntarily separating adult material is a no-brainer. If nothing else, this eases the volume of moderation.

What we don’t need is shitty government id programs tapped by shady websites.

https://turbo.hotwired.dev/

While it’s a new trend, it’s not that new.

1. Download your user data. https://lemmy.ca/post/1292268

2. in case of emergency, upload your user data on another instance.

3. …

4. profit anxiety cured

I was having a reddit-free Lemmy experience today until I ran into this post. You are only contributing to the problem.

To compare that to being a refugee speaks volumes about your entitlement and privilege.

Obviously the term is being used in a wholly different context. Comments like these make me think you are just trying to pick a fight instead of listening to the grievances.

Some of us are here because we believe in community-driven projects, and reddit is shutting those down, so yeah, we are being kicked out against our will. So no, this isn’t just about favourite meme factory.

Political refugees are a serious issue. Feel free to disagree with me, but I don’t think gatekeeping the word “Refugee” as used in a totally different context is particularly productive. It is no more of armchair effort than what you decry.

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As for the complaints about defederation… This is just noise. If you don’t like it or want to stay small, why not just… defederate? Isn’t that the point?

It’s just software. And it’s open source. That’s about it. Don’t like the software? Fork it, or just don’t upgrade.

The Lemmy devs get no say in administration, other than the instance they run. Don’t like Lemmy.ml? Run your own. They actively encourage other communities with competing world views to do so.

The fact is that despite being openly supporting communism, the Lemmy devs have done more for the online free market in two years than the tech giants have done in decades. This speaks volumes.

Yes and no. Society has always been fractured in ways that limit discourse. Prisons, psychiatric institutes, universities, bourgeoisie, NCO/CO, private dwellings, municipailities, nation states. So a bit of separation is okay.

Arguably the digital space magnifies this effect. And fair enough. But then I would argue:

The internet is already defederated by default. Extremists already congregate on forums that are completely isolated. Facebook users are walled off from YouTube users, etc.

The Fediverse doesn’t exacerbate the separation that already exists. The opposite is true. The Fediverse is the one technology that is providing technical means for interconnection across groups.

I noticed in the web client used on mobile, there would often be new posts flooding in at the top of the page. Maybe a page’s worth at a time. I’m still using web client on mobile on lemmy.ml and haven’t noticed this since the deployment of 0.18 yesterday.

Hard disagree, and in fact this was one of my early complaints, and a pretty serious usability issue: because some accounts had an avatar and some didnt, the justification was all over the place, making the scanning of usernames and community names a real chore and tiresome.

Wether you like the default picture or not, well I guess that’s a matter of personal preference. You could always upload a black box for yourself (or even a transparent PNG?).

But that aside this is objectively better UX.

The good news is, there are so many front ends in development, we’ll all quickly find a UX tailored to our needs.

Unsurprising considering we are in uncharted territory here.

The last paragraph you quoted is in reference to individual responsability and how they access the data. It’s equivalent to saying “don’t look at at this Fediverse post: you are GDPR compliant!”. This only helps you in litigation. We both know that says nothing of where the data can exist. And this is true for any federated system, including email.

It’s also completely asinine. Suddenly we need to burn snail mail after reading it? Why receive any mail at all if everything is a giant piece of liability? There’s a social contract in communication: a certain assumption that if you give someone a piece of informtion, you are doing just that: giving, not lending. “Lending information” upsets the social structure. GDPR has to be tempered in reality, and this starts even before the fediverse.

Like I said, GDPR is imperfect. It was written in the context of and solves a problem created by centralized institutions and large beaurocracies. It is also completely unenforceable in a decentralized system. It hardly seems relevant anyway.

Realisticalpy speaking, those tempered interpretations are probably already existant, and there is already enough precedent for this to be a nothing burger.

If what you say is true, then… Email is illegal in the EU. EMAIL.

Yeah, no, GDPR, although well intentioned against large corporate entities that have all the power in centralized system, is a relic in the context of federated technology. It is both completely unenforceable, and also not really relevant.

What’s wrong with notepad.exe?

The moiré on that thumbnail though…

I say that as a diehard Firefox user myself, who’s been pushing back against Chrome hedgemony ever since it’s market share dominance. Not just for ideological reasons, but I happen to think the interface is slicker and the features are better…

But let’s remember the topic at hand though: reaching out to people for whom technical reasons such as why Firefox is superior to Chrome either go over their head or they just don’t care. And that’s most people. That’s just a reality check.

Choosing a Lemmy instance is a bit like choosing a browser. They all look and feel more or less the same, and they’ll all let you see the same sites the same way. It only really matters in the details.