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elephantintheroom ElephantInTheRoom @vlemmy.net

Passionate about cooking, traveling, nature photography, animals, technology and privacy.

Addicted to coffee and spicy food.

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Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
  • Any admin from any instance can as long as both instances are federated with each other.

    Say I upvote something on lemmy.ml, then the admins of every instance federated with lemmy.ml can see it in their logs.

    Doesn't seem bad? It can be if someone collects this data en masse to feed some ad-algorithm with it. Or much worse, an adversary gets this data to target people based on their opinions, to dox them, etcetera.

  • Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
  • True. Still worth fighting.

  • Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
  • That's the last, worst step... Installing any Meta app on your device, making it a de facto telescreen.

  • Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
  • It's public data to some degree.

    It's a whole other thing when they can see what an admin of an instance can see.

  • Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
  • Yep. My only concern about Meta joining the Fediverse through ActivityPub is privacy related.

    Any federated instance can read any other federated instance, their users and what they do or what they talk about. A perfect victim for Meta's ad-targeting data siphon.

  • Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
  • Still using heavily encrypted, self-hosted XMPP to talk to my family without META.

    Even if they somehow manage to drag the majority of users over to their platform, we'll still have our little free haven.

  • Does the idea of this concern anyone else? Why is no one talking about it?
  • Pretty sure it's possible or there are other options. But you'd probably have to invest a lot of work and time to make it work.

    For most people it isn't worth the effort, which I understand.

  • Does the idea of this concern anyone else? Why is no one talking about it?
  • Would've done so earlier, but didn't see it before.

    Also: What are the downvotes about?

  • Ahoy maties, I've got a confession to make...
  • No way, it's definitely video games. Much easier to blame than to actually change stuff. /s

  • Who is this dude?
  • Uma-uma?

  • Does the idea of this concern anyone else? Why is no one talking about it?
  • Meh... just another reason added to a looong list about why I never looked back after switching to Linux, back when Vista was introduced.

  • Unable to block some communities, bug?
  • Other than this workaround, I don't know. Maybe contact the admins of your instance and see if they know a way of fixing it.

  • Unable to block some communities, bug?
  • It's a known bug or at least it happens often.

    Interacting with the community like upvoting something, clicking "create a post" and returning can fix this most of the time. I'd assume it will be fixed with the next update.

  • What lemmy android app do you recommend? I have too many problems with jerboa.
  • Yeah, devs like these have the perfect kind of experience considering UI/UX developement to get this done well.

  • What lemmy android app do you recommend? I have too many problems with jerboa.
  • I think it'll take some time until these apps become that andvanced. Most lemmy apps are in a pretty early stage of developement and still highly WIP.

    Some third party reddit apps seem to be planning on moving to lemmy, so maybe we'll see something better coming around the corner in the near future.

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  • You're welcome. Hope you'll find a fix!

  • Is thi$ what I think it is about?
  • Better a weak filter than none at all, I guess. They're not some multi-billion dollar corporation with the means to assign a lot of funds for spam mitigation.

  • Can't change Avatar
  • Okay, maybe try a chromium based browser (like brave, vivaldi or chrome). If that still doesn't work, you might want to post something on the support community or use the search function to find a fix or something.

    Hopefully, you'll get faster/better answers there.