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  • I’ve been on Internet too long that I still don’t know which side you stand on. And that’s exactly the issue.

    This is a very complicated problem. Not as straightforward as either side thinks.

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  • Heavily politicised issue though. Imo, the whole trans issue should’ve never been politicised.

  • France orders Apple to halt iPhone 12 sales due to high radiation levels

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  • what do you mean? mini was released alongside all other iPhone 12s

  • How can i know whether a website is a part of the fediverse?

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  • it's up to them tbh. Things like Lemmy are ultimately ways to build your own forums. Whether they want to be part of the federation or keep it hidden is their choice. But I guess there'd be some way to build a browser extension to figure out if the website is using any popular fediverse platforms (mastodon, lemmy, etc.)

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  • Yes you can already do this on older watches. I have this on Series 6

  • Well, fuck you too.

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  • To be fair, the founder of the business, Byju, used to be a very ordinary school teacher and then he built this whole thing. Not family-owned, nor born rich.

    Fuck their business practices though

  • Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies

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  • Hmm. Not really tbh. As long as it doesn’t inject ads on to the web page (like Edge did to Download Chrome page) I’m fine.

  • Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies

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  • Oh I want my web browser to do exactly one thing. Reasonably parse HTML, JS and CSS of the websites I visit

  • Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies

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  • I don’t know if OP had this in mind. But a website and webapp are different. The whole UX ruleset we follow for both are different from the ground up (websites have big buttons, webapps have compact buttons)

    If it should’ve been a website, there’s no need for a webapp or native app.

    If it should’ve been a webapp, a native app makes sense too

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  • Come to think of it, the Apple Ecosystem and Google Ecosystem are somewhat established super apps. But probably the major difference is that they have to play well with their competitors to an extent. iMessage within itself has a third party app ecosystem.

  • What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?

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  • Not really. 1896 was a leap year, but 1900 was not.

    The leap year after 2096 will be 2104.

    Edit: an interesting way to put this is, 2000 was the only year in 4 centuries where the year starting the century was a leap year. Next such occurrence will be in 2400

  • Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website

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  • Here’s is something I don’t see a lot of people mention. Around the release of Pixel 3XL, Google kinda updated lot of their designs to make that hideous notch look intentional. Chrome Tab Headers were changed too. They got bigger with a lot more padding and rounded to look like the “notch”. They got rid of the notch in their phones, but the chrome tab header design somehow stuck

  • Why is the default setting for the startpage's feed "Local" and not "All"

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  • To answer the last part of your question, they don’t need to think of Lemmy at all. “Lemmy” is a framework, not a social network. infosec.pub is the social network I’m on. I don’t need to know about Lemmy at all (most of us don’t know what powers Reddit). Here we discuss information security and I can also communicate with the wider fediverse.

    It doesn’t even have to be lemmy. I can connect to anything that uses activitypub. Mastodon, Kbin, Bookwyrm, Wordpress, etc. using my infosec.pub account.

    The lemmy code provided by lemmy team is cloned and then patched (if needed) by infosec.pub maintainers and then deployed to their servers. The code for all intent and purpose is owned and maintained by infosec.pub. Lemmy doesn’t have any real control at that point.

    Same with the arsenal example. arsenal.club is a social network about Arsenal powered by lemmy framework. If mufc.club uses another activitypub enabled protocol, the arsenal fan on arsenal.club can view that in their subscribed feed too.

  • Why is the default setting for the startpage's feed "Local" and not "All"

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  • The whole conundrum of “choosing an instance” is a phase that early adopters like us go through. People can’t be expected to go through the choosing part, then find communities to follow.

    We expect people to find their specific instances without even knowing what Lemmy is and if needed, grow their fediverse presence from there.

    This decentralised nature is the fundamental idea of fediverse. More generalised communities like lemmy.world means we keep trying to build a centralised alternative to Reddit.

    The ultimate end user doesn’t even need to know what Lemmy is. Much like a blog’s reader doesn’t have to know what Wordpress is. They can create an account at arsenal.club and if needed also subscribe to transfernews@mufc.club. But by default they see their local feed filled with news related to Arsenal. And their subscribed feed full of their interests apart from Arsenal.

    The local feed is what differentiates an instance. The quality of which is a direct indicator of the instance’s quality. Hence the most important feed

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  • This is where we disagree. I have active accounts in 3 instances and none of them are general-purpose. I need local feed in all of them.

    We don’t really need more general-purpose instances. There’s <10 right now and that’s good enough. But there’s >100 content-specific instances. I may be wrong on the numbers, I’ll run some analytics and get back

  • Why is the default setting for the startpage's feed "Local" and not "All"

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  • The subscribed feed would be empty and the All feed would be irrelevant in the Arsenal fan’s case.

    Local would be full of posts from communities inside the Arsenal instance. Why would that be confusing?

  • Four Different Generations Of Hyundai Elantra Were Sold Simultaneously In China In 2016

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  • The car I drive is a Chevy Spark from 2012. I’m in India and they didn’t wanna discontinue the old model which was selling well. So they continued selling the old model as Spark and named the new version Beat!

  • YSK that there are a range of medications that can prevent alcoholics and other addicts from relapsing

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  • How do these work? As a nicotine addict, most prescriptions I get are “more nicotine”. Which is healthier and cleaner but doesn’t really help with my addiction

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  • The ideal flow isn’t people making “lemmy” accounts like reddit accounts. Take an Arsenal fan. When he finds out the lemmy instance called arsenal.club, he doesn’t have to immediately know what lemmy is or what federation is. He can sign up, view and participate in his local feed, which will be full of Arsenal related stuff. And then he can stick with it or find the full capabilities of federation

    If they default to “All”, random news is gonna fill all the default feeds which is weird for a general user