Is there a good way to sync listening history between platforms? That seems to be a big reason why people have a hard time jumping around between platforms

This was actually an important point in the article, I should have included it in the post

Dror Baron, an NCSU professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, wrote on X, “A professor I know died following various investigations. I know the people mentioned here, and call for a transparent and independent investigation.”

So far, that investigation has not been forthcoming. University spokesperson Mick Kulikowski declined to comment to The Technician about Brain’s death or the allegations. To date, the university has not issued a public statement about Brain’s death.

There was a kurzgesagdt video related to this, discussing a few perspectives

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0

Could it help with internal tasks, like self-hosted services or a business that transfers files around a lot?

Well, there are some things wrong with it though?

It’s possible to criticize both Mastodon and Bluesky for their respective issues

As a follow-up, if you have people on Bluesky you want to follow, go for it :) Community is important

There is also a mastodon bluesky bridge that some people use to access both

https://lemmy.ca/comment/12906744

I talked about it in this comment, which should hopefully still be recent enough to be accurate

It’s still too soon to tell what they will do. It’s totally possible that they will take the necessary steps to be properly decentralized by transferring control of the registry + protocol to an independent non profit.

Right now I feel that they don’t have much of an incentive to do that, since the vast majority of their users won’t care.

I would love to be proven wrong

Cool :)

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3. Privacy - Commit to privacy. Google does track the usage of their fonts and for those who are extremely privacy concerned, self-hosting is an alternative.

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Note, if you have sensitive information in your signal profile, you shouldn’t accept messages you aren’t familiar with

See the “What happens when I …” > “Accept” section

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007459591-Signal-Profiles-and-Message-Requests

I’m not aware of any other privacy issues past that, but I’d worry about getting more spam by engaging with them

It’s not supposed to be since the rules say

Things that don’t fit

• Minor app updates
• Government legislation
• Company news
• Opinion pieces

I’ll report the post and see what the mods do, likely they didn’t see it yet

This seems like an area where there’s demand for a carefully moderated community, even if there is less content over all. That might help with the state of tech news that other comments are mentioning

uBlock Origin is the main one

Search by Image and Web Archives are two others that I like to have on mobile

I’d love to learn some more as well :)

I linked the wrong community earlier and then changed it

If the lemmit one also looks empty, it could be because you are the first person in your instance to come across the community. If you subscribe, it should start pulling the contents so you can see it.

It doesn’t look like lemm.ee blocked it so hopefully the stuff above is the cause

Firefox with a handful of extensions for day to day use

I keep Brave with custom configuration ready for when extra privacy is needed. Firefox based browsers on Android are currently missing site isolation so that’s what privacy guides recommends for the time being.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/

It might be cool to see something like Zen on Android, but I’m not sure what changes I’d like to see aesthetics / features wise. Brave looks fancier, but I find it annoying to use for a number of reasons. Off the top of my head

• when you close a tab, the undo message stays for way too long and can’t be dismissed

• Unable to disable chromecast

While possible, I think it ends up being a bit of a janky setup. The problem is that Lemmy doesn’t let you follow individual users, whether they are on Lemmy or Mastodon.

You could try out mbin. It’s similar to Lemmy, but has a microblogging feed that you can use to follow people

https://joinmbin.org/servers

Personally I keep a separate mastodon account since I find the formats to be separate

Yup, the vast majority of the posts weren’t worth reading even before generative AI was this accessible

I use this community for that: !tech@programming.dev

The rules seem to be aligned with what you’re looking for.

Plus other communities on that instance depending on what you’re interested in.

Then there are feeds like !hackernews@lemmit.online to keep up with content on other sites. There are lots of RSS feed communities through the https://rss.ponder.cat/communities instance

The screenshot:

In a recent court proceeding, WMF’s legal team offered a supposed middle path, proposing it take the unusual step of serving summons to the editors itself, thereby revealing their identities only to the court, not the wider public. Wikipedians, however, do not see this as a compromise—it’s capitulation. Last week, Wikipedia editors published an open letter to the Foundation, urging it to protect its volunteers’ privacy regardless of the outcome. It reads in part

only to the court, not the wider public

Would this really be that much better? Once the information is out, it’s impossible to hide again

And the consequences would not end with this case. Compliance may discourage contributions from editors worldwide, not just those under authoritarian rule. WMF submission could encourage other governments to make similar demands, putting Wikipedia in an untenable position and reducing its influence where free knowledge is needed most

This bit also seemed important

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca is another one!

Otherwise you can also crosspost from the community in related ones as appropriate

There is also OnlyOffice, which has been more palatable for the people I shared it with (mostly students that were graduating and losing access to free MS Word)