blog.mattcen.com Stop Using Discord for Your Open source Communities | mattcen's mumblings
Words from a queer, neurodivergent, feminist, Linux sysadmin/dev/advocate and geek.
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substantial price hike
it’s €50 more expensive than the FP4 with the same RAM/storage configuration on its release (€650 fot 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage).
ProtonMail exposing Threads user data harvesting posting the same screenshot from Apple's App Store that multiple other accounts on Fedi have posted, often in comparison with several Mastodon clients' app listings.
Murena comes with microG and its own Play Store front-end so you can still install Play Store apps if you really want to.
it's called Embrace-Extend-Extinguish and yes, that's what people are concerned about.
Recently I accidentally made a Fediverse post which went viral:
stop using discord for your open source communities
That post is short, punchy, opinionated, and prescriptive, which I suspect is the cause for its virality.
Unfortunately, like many micro-blog posts, it lacks nuance, which many replies highlighted. I made the post to vent my frustration at needing to join a Discord server to interact with a community, so it is far from a measured critique of the subject.
This blog post is an attempt to address those nuances in greater detail. This is not an exhaustive analysis, and I’ve resolved to not let “perfect” be the enemy of “done”.
but... you're already in here.
Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps
not everything needs a mobile app, sheesh. both kbin and Lemmy have great mobile websites.
but no one uses Mastodon and also it's so haaaaaaaaaaaaaard
man, I wish. my bank's app used to have its own built-in contactless payment option (and it would even appear in Android's "default apps" section as a payment handler!) but then they moved to Google Pay "due to a popular demand" :/
or use Consent-O-Matic to automatically reject all the non-essential cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
I like Piped. made an account so that I can keep track my subscriptions on desktop and phone (with LibreTube on the latter). funny how I've reached the point where I trust a random hacker hosting a front-end more than a huge-ass corporation.
I'm still using the mobile website until the apps mature a little bit. it's surprisingly functional.
no, just pretty yucky, given how their CEO is a homophobe and how they're trying to push crypto and everything.
but then you have to use Brave.
I use gesture navigation and the back button works without reloading.
like I've said, it works fine for me: https://streamable.com/fb300o
from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:
uBO, of course. note: you guys don't need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google
also make sure to check the "do not bother" list here: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
the back button works fine when I use Firefox and install a PWA with it.
because it gained popularity back when mobile plans didn't include free SMS, back in the feature phone era.
www.gamingonlinux.com Overkill drops Linux support for PAYDAY 2
PAYDAY 2 came to Linux officially back in 2016 but as of today they've removed support for it, so it will no longer see updates on the Native Linux version.
It does, however, still work quite well with the Windows version via Steam Play Proton on desktop Linux and is Steam Deck Verified against the Windows version in Proton. So while it's a loss of support for their Native build, it's still fully playable on Linux.
Invidious: "YouTube legal team contacted us"
github.com YouTube legal team contacted us · Issue #3872 · iv-org/invidious
They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. What now? Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. Assume ...
They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API.
What now?
Things will continue normally until they can't anymore.
Assume it's just the start.
Assume they'll ask GitHub to takedown the repos (if so go to our Gitea https://gitea.invidious.io/iv-org ).
Assume the team wont be able to work on Invidious.
You know what you have to do.
May Invidious live and prosper, with, or without us.
PS: We won't do anything unless we have to.
PS-2: If we are forced to quit, any funds remaining will go to Framasoft (and maybe some other organization working on FOSS/privacy)
"Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year "
...to keep running as is.
creator of Apollo, a popular Reddit client for iOS, relays his talks with Reddit about upcoming ridiculous API pricing.