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sabreW4K3

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Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.

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Is it a fork of LibRedirect?

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Nice. What are the benefits over LibRedirect?

Does PreDirect also have instance discovery built in along with the ability to ping services?

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So basically tighter permissions and using newer APIs. As for the Chrome stuff, as a Firefox user posting in a Firefox community, it’s of little consequence to me. But I look forward to trying out this extension.

Edit: Tried it and it kinda falls over at the first hurdle. I installed it and then tried to follow links to Tiktok and Instagram only to end up on the official sites.

Also the UI is kinda unstyled. It feels like when you first learn Java.

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This has the potential to completely upend how Google licenses GMS and distributes Android, but we’ll have to wait and see exactly what remedies the judge in this case decides to levy.

From The Verge: "Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

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Is it possible you’re being overly sensitive? Your community doesn’t have a lot of content or discussion, in fact prior to your last post, the previous was 4 months ago.

In regards to downvotes, there’s pricks on here that think that All is a curated feed and vote accordingly. Sadly there’s nothing no one can do to fix that. All you can do, as a community leader is to post regular good content and engage with the members you do get. Building a community is always more about the people than the numbers.

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Can you recommend an alternative?

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I already have a Pixel Watch that I actually like quite a lot and enjoy the information summaries available via Fitbit. I guess what I’m asking for are open source alternatives to Fitbit that can collate the data and present it back to me in a beautiful fashion rather than new hardware?

My watch is very much an extension of my phone experience rather than an individual thing like fitness or sleep tracking. Being able to read notifications, answer phone calls and control my music are imperative to my user experience and the sleep and fitness tracking for me are just bonuses.

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Yep. Can actually install quite a lot on it.

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I would say that voting isn’t actually different from posting/commenting. It’s a process whereby a user takes part in a discussion/topic/post. In an ideal world, everyone would post, but we shouldn’t act like active people who don’t feel like they have anything to say explicitly, aren’t here.

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!52weeksofbaking

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  1. Please learn how to link communities, even if only your own! 🥺
  2. https://lemmy.tf/pictrs/image/334f62fe-b53e-4fe7-98ed-e7777376b679.png all appears to be working for me.
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It’s a normal exclamation mark

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Tried to use this the other day. Seems like it doesn’t work on Android 14?

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What phone?

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So Spoutible is now a spam tool and not even a good fediverse citizen, choosing to only support a single instance. Gross!

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Is this good?

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Thank you, you’re awesome!

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Does that mean that the OS would have to handle version booting?

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Thank you

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Just been reading up on this, they’re basically using the push device ID to see when certain devices are receiving data and from what apps. It sounds like more work than its worth, but it’s clearly something that’s being used widely.

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Yup

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Is there a method to see which apps are using Firebase?

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Thanks

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Juan is that really you? 🤩

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You’ve just made my day!

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That’s my combo too.

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That’s such a shame. From what I can gather, Izzy really cares about FOSS software. This will be a massive loss. But if we’re honest, how can two thirds of the board quit rather than just the one person that’s causing problems?

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I hate all these modern big and colorful trainers, but they sell well. Horses for courses. If you like something, get it and enjoy it. Life’s too short to live it for the opinion of strangers.

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I’m using Google (English UK, voice 5) at an accelerated speed rate, but if there’s better, I’m definitely interested.

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Gallery looks to have some potential.

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Notification History should be tabbed. It’s absurd that I need to scroll down three quarters of a long page just to figure out what the latest notification was from.

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I’m certainly rooting for Naveen and wishing him the best of luck. Hopefully he can make the apps his own and take them to new heights, it helps that they’re all pretty much feature complete.

masimatutu, to fediverse en-gb

Mastodon has the responsibility to promote diversity in the Fediverse

I love the Threadiverse. Compared to the microblogging Fediverse’s sea of random thoughts, Lemmy and kbin are so much easier to navigate with the options to sort posts by subscribed, from local instances or everything federated. You can also sort by individual community, and then there are the countless ways to order the posts and comments (which are stored neatly under the main post, by the way). That people can more easily find the right discussions and see where they can contribute also means that the discussions tend to be more focused and productive than elsewhere. Decentralisation also makes a lot of sense, since it is built around different communities. All that’s needed is users.

Things were going quite well for a while when Reddit killed third-party apps, prompting many to leave and find the Threadiverse. However, it is quite difficult to entertain a crowd that has grown accustomed to a constant bombardment of dopamine-inducing or interesting content by tens of millions of users, if you only have a couple hundred thousand people. This is causing some to leave, which of course increases this effect. The active users have more than halved since July, according to FediDB. The mood is also becoming more tense. Maybe the lack of engagement drives some to cause it through hostility, I’m not quite sure. Either way, the Threadiverse becoming a less enjoyable place to be, which is quite sad considering how promising it is.

But what is really frustrating is that we could easily have that userbase. The entire Fediverse has over ten million users, and many Mastodonians clearly want to engage in group-based discussion, looking at Guppe groups. The focused discussions should also be quite attractive. Technically we are federated, so why do Mastodonians interact so little with the Threadiverse? The main reason is that Mastodon simply doesn’t federate post content. I really can’t see why the platform that federates entire Wordpress blogs refuses to federate thread content just because it has a title, and instead just replaces the body with a link to the post. Very unhelpful.

The same goes with PeerTube. There are plenty of videos on there that I am quite sure a lot of Mastodonians would appreciate, yet both views and likes there stay consistently in the tens. Yes, Mastodon’s web interface has a local video player, but in most clients it is the same link shenanigans, may may partly explain the small amount of engagement. This is also quite sad, because Google’s YouTube is one of the worst social network monopolies out there, if not the worst.

And I know some might say that Mastodon is a microblogging platform and that it makes sense only to have microblogging content, but the problem is that Mastodon is the dominant platform on the Fediverse, its users making up close to 80% of all Fedizens. It has gone so far that several Friendica and Hubzilla users have been complaining about complaints from Mastodonians that their posts do not live up to Mastodon customs, and of course, that people frequently use “Mastodon” to refer to the entire Fediverse. This, of course, goes entirely against the idea of the Fediverse, that many diverse platforms live in harmony with and awareness of each other.

The very least that Mastodon could do is to support the content of other platforms. Then I’d wish that they’d improve discoverability, by for instance adding a videos tab in the explore section, improving federation of favourites since it is the dominant sorting mechanism on many other platforms, and making a clear distinction between people (@person) and groups (!group), but I know that that is quite much to ask.

P.S. @feditips , @FediFollows , I know that you are reluctant to promote Lemmy and its communities because of the ideology of its founders, but the fact is firstly that it’s open source and there aren't any individual people who control the entire project, and that the software itself is very apolitical. In fact, most Lemmy users both oppose and are on instances that have rules against such beliefs, so I highly encourage you to at least help raise awareness on the communities. Then, of course, there’s kbin, which isn’t associated with any extremism at all. As a bonus, it has much better integration with the microblogging Fediverse, but it is a lot smaller and younger, and still very much under development.

Anyways, that was a ramble. Thanks for hearing me out.

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I hear you, kinda, but… Is it Mastodon’s job to promote other services? Mastodon doesn’t even implement ActivityPub to specification, so why would you expect them to hold hands and sing kumbaya?

I will say this though, a.gup.pe and chirp.social both should’ve probably switched and became Lemmy instances. As someone that follows !Firefox from my mastodon, I can tell you the user experience for the two kinds of groups wouldn’t get worse, but only better. Especially with 0.19.x and the changes made to Markdown support. Users would be able to access the groups via both Mastodon and Lemmy and not be limited to the Mastodon UI seems a no brainer to me, especially since it’s a drop in replacement.

Edit: I will add that dickheads are dickheads. That has nothing to do with how active somewhere is. Also it takes time for a community to grow. Things will go up and down, but the general direction remains that there’s more users here than a year ago.

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Threadiverse was around from before Meta named their fork of Mastodon.

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I don’t know the specifics of it, but I was reading some of the Lemmy pull requests conversations and it was mentioned there

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The artists tag is a by-product of the streaming era whereby in order to try and get as much money as possible, artists needed to elevate their prominence and so the artists tag was born, an easy way for streaming service to cash in on users searching for featured artists.

Of course the artists tacitly agreed to this, as this meant they could get more money and more exposure, even though services like Spotify should’ve been indexing features anyway.

Ultimately, this is aimed at eroding the position of artists in the music industry and in particular in hip-hop and rap where the artists generally collaborate more than in any other genre of music, because in order to try and get a fair payday, you have to undermine the actual work of the primary artist.

Put it like this, you wouldn’t see a film advertised as a Scorsese and DiCaprio film. It’s always a Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and for good reason. But in music, they diminish the role of the primary artist as much as possible in order to ensure that things stay the same and the streaming services and labels get the lion’s share of the revenue.

Even the fact that the composer tag exists rather than the producer tag shows how skewed things are and how little respect hip-hop garners, despite generating so much culturally and economically.

To go back to the film analogy, the artists tag is essentially a cast tag and I won’t deny it has its place, but the director, producer, writer far outside the role of someone who is just making a cameo and thus they shouldn’t be on the poster outside of a gimmick.

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So I’ve been looking up Navidrome and it turns out it runs on everything except my NAS, an original Western Digital My Cloud EX2. So now I’m considering how to get around that, I’m planning to get a RaspberryPi 5, so maybe I can run it on there and point it to my storage.

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It seems nothing runs on my antiquated NAS. I really am going to have to look to upgrade it.

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Love seeing other Clementine users in the wild. Basically I was loving Clementine, but Android broke the remote and so that basically ruined it for me.

As for Jellyfin, like Navidrome, I can’t get in installed on my NAS.

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I didn’t, basically it keeps hanging in addition to the abortion that is the mangled tags support on my NAS and so I turned it off.

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This reply lead me down this rabbit hole!

Thank you!

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The artist tag (singular) has rightfully been around forever, the artists tag (plural) is relatively new. You’ll see it as “Artist 1;Artist 2” or similar.

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Different to album artists, which is good for compilations and producer lead albums.

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Exactly. The only reason this was added was to confuse our music libraries.

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Not sure why this was voted down. It’s a great contribution and a reasonable point of discussion.

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