I think a lot of people start on Lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but then overtime switch to other instances they made alts on. I think it’s a cool way that things work and centralisation gets avoided.

I’m going to reinforce the pedantic french person stereotype, but I think this is useful for you to know since you’re Canadian, it’s “le” Québec (not la).

Anyways — happy jlai.lu is getting more users.

Fuck that.

blahaj is an instance that federates with lemmy.world. So you have access to the content on there.

Check out !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone for example.

BeeHaw does not federate with lemmy.word due to moderation issues. If you want to access beehaw, I recommend making an alt account of a server like https://discuss.online/ or https://sopuli.xyz/

!comicstrips@lemmy.world

is blocked on my instance (lemmy.blahaj.zone). Because the lead mod was banned from blahaj for posting a (non-political) comic strip made by a nazi sympathiser and not apologising.

Wooden straws ftw

Sorry I’ll let someone more knowledgeable answer about metadata, but signal does allow you to set a username and hide your phone number (so people add you with username instead if f number)

Are you using an app, or a website UI, if so the default one or one of the many others?

I’ve honestly found signal better than matrix.

Matrix is just not there yet in terms of features UI etc and is less private than signal because it collects way more metadata and stuff. I know the idea of federation is cool, but Signal works better for the privacy aspect.

Putain c’est presque comme si toutes les entreprises étaient maléfiques

I know someone who deliberately misanlysed data in a study that led to an entire patient group getting denied disability benefits because his study showed the condition is “curable” (it isn’t). (His study was funded by the government department paying disability benefits and private disability insurances, of course).

Did he get what he deserved? No, he got knighted by the Queen, is serving on the board of the NHS, and is an insider with the ruling class.

Could we make these fines proportional to the income?

That’s the most Swiss german thing ever. MSG galore.

As a swiss person “Hershey” is not choclate — it is a candy.

Agreed. Fuck amazon.

Nah they used a leeching client. No upload at all.

To be fair — I wouldn’t mind an open source AI model that works decently well and isn’t made and selectively propagandised by China or Meta.

Obviously I’m sick of all the LLM enshittification — but there’s a couple tasks I wouldn’t mind having a FOSS LLM for.