How much of that is true? What did they sell? Is the conclusion even valid, given the (popular) alternatives?

What’s your privacy issues with Firefox? How do they compare to those of the other browsers?

That was overblown drama. They didn’t change anything in practice. They clarified things by writing it down. You disable some defaults and have no issue. Even if you don’t, it’s not nearly as bad as other popular platforms.

I never stopped using Firefox.

If you want I can look for a comment I made quoting the relevant terms a while back. Or you can look for it yourself.

Simple forks still depend on upstream. I’d rather support Mozilla than not, given no better sustainable alternative. They do some good stuff like Firefox, Thunderbird, and mdn.

I meant in that website which seems to be an index of other websites

You ask for a world within a world. I think we already have that.

I still host my own website. And many others do too. You can get individuals perspectives and content there.

Forums still exist. I see Lemmy similarly, in a - for me - better format.

Flash game websites still exist, and javascript-implemented flash-players are not a security risk. There’s various newer technologies as well now, which allows you to play those kinds of games too. And there’s many good and independent titles and kinds of online games out there. Be it individual or on accumulating websites.

https://ucanet.net/

I navigated to a link and clicked it and it was a dead link. :(

Police! Identify yourself!

Sure, just join my paid subscription!

They’re neither mutually exclusive alternatives nor universal.

Germany. For the most part, yes.

More than laws, the main issue is probably the understaffed prosecution and court system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)

I blocked bing.com on my PC (invalid hostname resolution through hosts entry) because despite best efforts to disable any websearch functionality in Windows search, it still showed up.

I opened a PDF today, that was linked on a website. But the PDF opened in Google Docs (displayed there as x.pdf). The first page loaded fast, but I waited like 10 or 15 seconds for the rest of it - confused whether it’s just one page or image or what, and then confused how I change pages if not scrolling, but turned out it just took ages to load.

Just link the damned PDF doc.

On Mastodon it looks like this:

My reply (second screenshot) did not show up here on Lemmy. I assume because lemmy.world blocks replies from mastodon.social.

No, I replied from feddit.org.

On lemmy you can see where the account is from

and you should be able to see Kissaki@feddit.org.

I tried to reply to my long comment from mastodon.social, but it didn’t show up. I assume lemmy.world blocks replies from mastodon.social.

Given the diverse nature, instances can control to what degree they connect to other instances within the Fediverse.

One instance may block another because of spam or extremist or illegal accounts or content. Or they may allow interaction but only for those explicitly seeking it out instead of showing it within their own interface. etc

I’m not an expert, but…

even when doing so wouldn’t necessarily undermine their broader position

Conceding one wrong is proof that you, your view or argumentation, is flawed. Conceding just one minor point puts every point’s validity into question.

Even if you can conclude that it’s irrelevant both factually there’s social and emotional aspects to it.

We are driven not only by reason, but in large part by emotion, and our ingrained social psyche.

Even if it is factually irrelevant, conceding is confirming fault, and may cause anxiety about repercussions in terms of social standing (how you are seen by the others) and for your argument as a whole (will you be trusted when something you said was wrong).

What you describe as building identity is building that identity around a set of beliefs and group of people.

Depending on the group and beliefs, two aspects come into play:

Group dynamics of in-group and out-group. Loyalty may be more important than reason. The own group is likely seen as better than the “others”. Others may be seen as inferior or as enemies.

If you acknowledge just one point integral to the groups beliefs, what does that mean for you as a part of that group? Will you lose all your social standing? Will you lose being part of the group?

Somewhat unrelated and related at the same time, because self-identity is also a construct to build stable group associations; building your confidence and self-identity around a set of values, conceding on some of them means losing stability and confidence in yourself, your worth.

The human psyche is still largely driven by genetics developed in ancient times, and the environment.

As a social create, it was critically important to be able to join groups and stay in them, to have strong and stable bonds. This persists today, in our psyche and behaviors.

The fediverse is a diverse social network that is distributed across multiple platforms.

Going from the basis to the specific services:

• The ActivityPub protocol defines a protocol - data structures and forms of data transfers
• The Fediverse is a collection of different social networks and services hosting these social networks that can and do connect and communicate with each other
• Various social platform software like Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon implement (“speak”) ActivityPub and are part of the Fediverse
• Anyone willing can run (host) their own instance of these, by downloading and running them
• The platforms have difference interfaces and capabilities, but in one form or another, users can connect and use other platforms despite them being “different”

For example:

Lemmy is a social platform like Reddit, but anyone can host their own instance. Users can make accounts and create communities on different instances. Users can then follow and interact with communities from other instances.

For example, my account is on feddit.org, but I am posting this comment to [email protected]. Because I follow the community, feddit.org fetches and copies the data from that community, and any activity from either side gets communicated to the other. As a result, you on lemmy.world and me on feddit.org can both see and interact with the same community.

Mastodon is a social platform like Twitter. Someone may have their account on mastodon.social, which is one such instance running Mastodon. Despite being a different use-case and interface, they can follow, read, and post to Lemmy communities.

I tried replying to this comment from mastodon.social. I was able to view this post and this comment. I don’t know if the comment will show up or not; maybe lemmy.world blocks mastodon.social comments.

The Fediverse is the collection of compatible services and networks that can speak and connect to each other.

If it takes only two minutes, do it right away.

This question implies death is the worst that could happen to you.

Personally, I don’t see it that way. There’s a lot more hurtful things than death.

Death is one occurrence, with no pain in the death itself, and “only” secondary pain in those left behind.

There’s a lot more hurtful and lasting pain you can inflict, physically and psychologically, and without a definite endpoint.

https://tetr.io/

Exceptional multiplayer Tetris.

Good