mojo

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mojo,

It was a really nice Reddit App, and the developer announced a Lemmy version. So if the Lemmy version is anything as good as the Reddit version, it’ll be definitely one of the best apps out there. It’s very needed in a time where all the Lemmy mobile apps are still pretty immature.

Just installed Viewtube. What's your favorite alternative youtube frontend ?

I used a public instance of Piped for a while and thought about selfhosting it, but the installation process was incredibly hard, to the point of being obnoxious, and in the end, it didn’t even work. I liked the features I saw on the public instances and would like to revisit it some time. Until there I’m using Viewtube....

mojo,

I don’t see the point of having an alternative YouTube front end. I just run uBlock Origin with all the filters enabled. Who cares if Google sees your IP requesting a video, they already have it through various means lol.

mojo,

Ah yes, another standard to fix the lack of standards. I’m sure Apple will play nicely, this time.

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/f089cdbe-0dbc-4a93-b39f-21c381569dd9.webp

mojo,

Why do you need to trust a launcher with your data at all? Why does it ever leave your device? This made me very skeptical about them.

mojo,

My AOSP launcher has zero permissions, except one that I optionally enabled to see notifications so it can do the little notification dots on my app icons.

mojo,

I can see it requiring internet for integrating a search bar like it does, but why does their servers need that info instead of directly sending it to the search engine?

mojo,

Damn, I loved his book and had it in audiobook form. What an exciting life he had. I don’t feel as bad knowing that he had been fulfilled and accomplished so much in his life time.

mojo,

$20 is dirt cheap lol. They go up to the hundreds or even thousands. But those domains I do wonder why they cost so much, like a .xxx domain

mojo,

I assume you weren’t being literal about the free domains part, but I agree lol. No reason why one domain should cost $1000 when the other cost $20. It’s the exact same technical setup. Prices should vary if they’re already bought, but that’s about it. That’s why I like my .dev TLD because all of those are a flat $15/yr. Yet something cool for the hip techy youngsters would be like a .io domain, but those are $100+. Like why?

mojo,

A Spanish person lol

I’m for open source, but something like Duolingo doesn’t really bother me if it’s closed source

mojo,

Well you can check your privacy policy to see what they do with that. I doubt they can get much personal data from that. Jk they’re going to clone you with AI and steal your bank info.

mojo,

I think we just call that giving birth

mojo,

I really like the new logo. I thought calckey was some type of speed typing thing lol

mojo,

“The irreverent tech CEO also chimed in on another topic that’s arguably far outside of his wheelhouse”

This article said it much better then I could lol.

mojo,

Damn that’s huge improvements in a relatively short span of time. I’m just waiting for more features on Firefox Android.

mojo,

Yes and they’re awesome, but there’s some QoL features in looking for. Like being able to enter reader mode from custom tabs, and set reader mode color scheme to match system theme, and more colors. Also dynamic color (Material You" support would be sweet.

mojo,

For me, I l’d like to go into reader mode from custom tabs, for reader mode to sync with system color, and more colors on reader mode.

Also Material You/Dynamic Color for the UI would be awesome.

Improved PWA support would be nice, definitely lagging behind Chrome in terms of PWA implementation right now. Fission doesn’t exist on Android yet, only desktop.

Have your collections be synced to your profile, which definitely seems like a design oversight right now.

Also better extension support since right now to add the non supported list it’s a very complicated and convoluted process to do so that feels hacked in.

Regardless, I’m still very happy with the state of the Android browser and it by far beats out the other browsers imo. Stuff like uBlock Origin, much better reader mode then Chrome, and first party bottom toolbar puts it miles above the alternatives for me. Also because Firefox is awesome. I use a fork called Fennec which is just Firefox Stable without telemetry/analytics/proprietary blobs removed, and is available on f-droid.

mojo,

You just kinda listed bad website compatibility like 5 times. That’s not even true lol, it’s very rare there’s a compatibility issue, and it’s also very rare that websites refuse to support it. Can’t think of any right now actually.

Most of the issues is because Chrome actually incorrectly adds something, or has a bug. Then for compatibility sake, Firefox has to actually match that broken buggy implementation so the end result is the same. This is another big reason why a chromium monopoly is bad.

Also the Android UX being bad is just funny to me. I find it by far the best, and you should absolutely not be speaking for other people. Would like to know what actual browser you think has better UX? Considering it’s been so long since they changed the UI, I think you must’ve forgotten how truly bad it was before. Also that they added support back for some missing stuff people wanted, like grid list for tabs.

mojo,

I tried Vivaldi, don’t really even see a difference between the tab drawers. Except Vivaldi does have bigger tab previews and buttons which feel easier to press. The lack of tab reordering in private mode definitely seems like an oversight.

Tabs in tablet mode would definitely be cool too, but I don’t know what the experience is like on tablet.

On Android you can just long press links to open private tab or new tab. Seeing Vivaldi’s feature bloat if a bottom bar with infrequently used buttons that blocks viewing space, and a completely unnecessary tab bar on mobile that wastes space, feels like an ancient outdated design from 5+ years ago.

That’s kind of Vivaldi’s design though, ridiculous feature bloat and cluttering the screen with useless crap instead of trying to preserve screen space when these single press buttons can easily be moved to gestures or condensed. You know, like modern UX design. Like a third of my screen is just gone because of of redundant buttons and UI. Reminds me of Internet Explorer days with Yahoo toolbar.

mojo,

Never heard of that site nor can I test it, I’ll just take your word since I can’t find any examples myself. Clearly a bit toxic against Firefox here lol.

Web market share doesn’t mean anything. Web follows standards decided by w3c that every web renderer follows. None of them get it exactly right because web browsers are extremely complicated and there’s all sorts of edge cases. When Chrome or Firefox have mismatching behavior, the one following w3c is correct, the other one is objectively bugged. This is not opinion, this is following documented and mutually-agreed standards. Which Google and Mozilla are both on the w3c commitiee. I’ll let you look into if you care. This also doesn’t mean that Chrome will fix all their bugs either.

Just going to disagree with you with the UX because it’s clearly subjective, but modern UX design heavily disagrees with you. Having a single visible button for every possible action is not good. It’s a waste of space and clutter if it can be condensed or moved to a more intuitive action/gesture. More screen space the better.

With the way the world's going, is there even a point to anything anymore?

Climate is fucked, animals continue to go extinct even more, our money will be worth nothing the coming years… What motivation do I even have to care to keep going? The world is ran and basically owned by corrupt rich people, there’s poverty, war, etc. It makes me sick to my stomach the way to world is. So I ask, why bother...

mojo,

What else you gonna do, lay down and die? Life is a short amount of time anyways. Just make best with what you got. YOLO

mojo,

Ask if they close their window blinds at night

mojo,

Who could have seen this coming except every single semi informed person.

PSA, you can add subreddits as an RSS to view without supporting Reddit

There’s still some subreddits I’d like to view as their communities haven’t swapped over yet. Like you guys, I obviously don’t want to support Reddit in any way shape or form. Surprisingly, they have not gutted RSS feeds yet. Simply add .rss at the end of the domain. Example...

mojo,

Is life coach just an unlicensed therapist that doesn’t listen to you

mojo,

There’s a “hide read” feature. With smaller communities this tends to be a more common issue. If you’re seeing it on your front page, then I’d recommend changing from Active to Hot sort for newer content.

mojo,

All I’m wishing for on Android is for NewPipe or LibreTube to let me login to get my suggested front page. On desktop, Sponserblock is awesome, and I’ve been liking DeArrow.

uBlock Origin is simply a requirement on every single browser and should always be installed. I’d recommend going into the settings and enabling all the extra filters as well.

mojo,

This is why I’m not worried about rushing features into the fedi. We’re at an usable point right now, a lot obviously can be improved. But the point is that the fedi isn’t going away. A private social media can be nuked over night. If all ActivityPub devs stopped contributing over night, then more people would step up and continue. The fedi isn’t going anywhere and will continue to get better over time. There will be no stopping point where we run out of time. Development and improvements will be eternal until the heat death of the universe!

mojo,

Should do what Reddit did and make a takeover request subreddit. Admins would step in on subs that are clearly abandoned or squatted on and relinquish control to users who requested it. Nothing is lost anyways, since the subreddits were dead to begin with. Same can apply to the Lemmy instances.

A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)

When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....

mojo, (edited )

I haven’t heard a single valid reason why federating with Meta is bad. Only people misunderstanding how technology works.

edit: remember pretty much all objections can be solved by personally blocking the domain, rather then forcing it to be blocked for everyone. Also that all the information Meta could possibly get, they can already get regardless because all of our content is public.

mojo,

What is this terrible gatekeeping mentality? We want more content, and we want more people to have freedom. Everyone deserves privacy and decentralization. This gatekeeping is toxic and conservative in nature.

mojo,

You realize you can just personally block the domain lol. Problem solved. This is what I mean by people don’t understand the technology.

mojo,

They don’t need to. There’s not any more information they’d get that they can’t already get. You realize all our comments are public and scrapable, right? Regardless if they’re federated or not, our content is public for anyone to scrape.

mojo,

Then block their domain. Problem solved. Any other objections that can’t just be resolved by personally blocking the domain? Don’t ban it by default, give users the choice to ban themselves or not. There’s no downside.

mojo,

So you want to take away the choice from others? What’s stopping those same influenced users from being influenced already? They can simply download the app right now, it doesn’t need to appear on their Mastodon or whatever feed.

mojo,

So who determines what’s healthy, and why do you feel the need to take away the choice from others?

mojo,

No

mojo,

I say not federating is influencing the Fediverse in a negative way. Since I obviously don’t agree with that, it’s more content. I don’t like gatekeeping and this sense of toxic superiority that fedi users are above average Meta users. I want to talk to my family. Same can be said with your influence argument, they can sign up there already and use the fedi, which means they’re being influenced already.

I’m extremely against this gatekeeping and want these users. That’s the whole point of social media, to communicate with people. More people is more content, which is the whole point. I don’t want to only communicate with smug users who think they’re superior to a normal person.

mojo,

It’ll definitely add that feature in the near future. I’m confident it’ll land before/if Meta goes ActivityPub.

mojo,

As soon as they start pushing features, it’s no longer ActivityPub, but a fork of ActivityPub. There’s no reason why our fedi clients would be forced to adapt. We already have this weird display issue sometimes, like upvotes and threads on Lemmy not properly showing up on Mastodon for example. It’s not a huge issue if it’s not entirely interoperable.

That just download threads mentality already exists. If you think it’s an issue on the internet, it’s 10x more powerful in person. It already exists, it won’t suddenly appear when Meta federates. If you make a new best friend in threads from Mastodon and Threads defederates, surely that isn’t your only point of contact? If it’s that important to you that alternative means of communication isn’t viable, then maybe just download Threads if they aren’t willing to download Mastodon. That’s more of a social issue which greatly varies per person.

I think you’re speaking for others when you say it’s too hard to defederate for users. For the sake of Mastodon, you just press the three dots and block threads.net. That’s very easy UX, no settings involved. Also I can say the same, if choosing to restrict everybody from threads instead of just yourself is so important, why can’t you simply press that block instance button? That way you aren’t taking choice away from others.

The reasons to federate should be obvious. People. That’s the whole point of social media. I don’t want to be restricted to fedi users who think they’re superior then the average person who uses Facebook. I’m not going to stop using Mastodon either just because I don’t like these people. I want to talk to family and friends. I want to invite the people I actually like because decentralization and growing the fedi is good for all. More content the better. That’s what social media is.

mojo,

It’s that way because of moderation. Trust me when I say, there are some extremely vile servers out there that are significantly worse then anything you’ll find on Facebook. Also I just read this as gatekeeping, assuming that the current users are somehow better to each other then the average person. Also the fedi is one of the least diverse communities I’ve ever seen.

mojo,

Don’t know how many times this needs to be said. All your content on the fedi is public. There’s nothing they can see by federating that they can’t already see. Please understand how the technology and privacy works on fedi.

mojo,

So you want the users, but not them to enshittify it, but you also want them magically to come without federating because you think you have a superior sense of social media. Which reality are you in, and how do you intend for the fedi to magically become mainstream with this zero compromise dream scenario you’re coming up with? I don’t even agree with gatekeeping people you think are shitty, because there’s already a terrible fedi population out there like creepy anime instances, truth social, and kiwifarms, etc. Those are all much worse then what you’ll find on Facebook and are already on fedi. Has it ruined the network?

This is just completely idealistic hoping that wants a situation that will never happen, has already failed to happen, and is ignoring the reality of the situation. For the fedi to grow, it means also shitty people coming. That’s where the proper moderation tools become important.

mojo,

flatpak install steam

mojo,

Hey buddy did u remember

mojo,

I got a 502 error today and I blame u

mojo,

The community here is already 100x better then anyone I’ve communicated with on Reddit

mojo,

Just because they’re fucking up RHEL doesn’t mean they’re not the biggest contributer to Linux there is.

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