17 year old Tech enthusiast and Cat lover from Germany.

You can also find me on Mastodon at @Rush

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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Popular pieces of software that’s part of the fediverse usually give you either:

    1. Export options - manual export options intended for GDPR-Compliance and peace of mind
    2. Account Move options - Mastodon is best known for this, as you can migrate your profile (but not your posts and followers) to another instance. Anyone which then visits your old page will have it blurred out, linking to your new one.

    #2 could be expanded in the case of Kbin and Lemmy to also include subscribed communities/magazines, settings and some other things where Federation allows for it.






  • Let’s paraphrase to “CLI applications are quite cumbersome to use under Flatpak as per the current implementation”.

    Unless you set up your own aliases, you’ll have to write out commands like flatpak run ..., and if you don’t know the package name yet you’ll need to run flatpak list --app first as well

    I hope that in the future, Flatpak gets some improvements for exporting CLI utilities into the user’s environment.





  • That would mean that many of the people which make up the community, but physically do not have the money to donate to these services (no matter how much you wanted to) would be completely left out of the equation on an important part of the community.

    It would eventually lead to all the content on this instance or the threadiverse as a whole to be dominated by people richer than you which are able to afford this, which can then shift the content which they would like to see to the top of magazines.

    Additionally, a sub-culture would likely form which would shame users for not being able to vote due to afford donating.

    TL;DR:
    Making votes donor-only poses a threat to the neutrality that comes by default on these platforms and incentivises hostile subcultures which would make the experience worse for a big part of this instance and potentially the threadiverse as a whole.