So I did some… “research”… and this might be the source image
So I did some… “research”… and this might be the source image
This would make great copypasta
I refuse to use my brain to remember things and thus Bitwarden it is
My understanding is that you will only be able to see new posts from after you follow the user on Mastodon because mastodon doesn’t pull older posts and only pulls posts once you follow the community. I may be wrong though.
So imagine Lemmy is outlook.com and Mastodon in gmail.com. When you want to send an email to someone on outlook.com, you send them on gmail.com to their outlook address.
Lemmy and Mastodon work similarly. From Mastodon, you can follow Lemmy communities and interact with posts and comments directly from within Mastodon. Your login information on Mastodon is separate from Lemmy, they’re different accounts on different instances.
What you’ll want to do is log into Mastodon on Mastodon and follow Lemmy communities. You’ll be able from there to interact with Lemmy like you’re interacting with Toots. Granted it only works if the instance you’re following federates with mastodon.
It’s like he suddenly became conscious and realized something. I wanna know what he’s got to say let him speak
Would make sense. They probably rushed the launch with the whole Twitter drama going on
Sadly not. I was under the impression you could, but maybe it’s only inside the same instance? Or not at all and I’m delusional.
I don’t know about everyone else but my timeline (?) on Threads is all men posting their ass on main. Not sure how strong the guidelines are being enforced at this point, but I’m not complaining.
Have you tried using this instead?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding XMPP but does it not federate? Does it not mean that on top of trusting my home server I have to trust the choice other people made with theirs?
I think that’s where I’m icky about it. I don’t know that I trust other servers more than I trust Signal. Which, I mean, is not great to say given that in a perfect world I would rather not rely on one organization to keep my “data” private - but hey.
I don’t mind so much on Lemmy or Mastodon because I’m not looking for privacy but if encryption is the main selling point of something, a random XMPP instance doesn’t really inspire confidence at the moment. But hey maybe that’ll change in the future and XMPP will require less metadata to work.
How do I trust a random XMPP server more or as much as I trust Signal to protect my data? You’re telling me if the government comes knocking for metadata on some user on a small server that the owner isn’t going to just give it away? What about anyone else on other connected servers?
You’re asking me to trust someone who hasn’t shown that they’re actively working towards privacy goals vs a centralized solution from a company that’s shown they care about privacy?
Either way, you have to trust someone to take care of your data and I do not trust a small server owner more than an entity that’s proven they do not give information to governments. Gotta pick one of two evils, I guess.
Doesn’t XMPP collect hella metadata unlike Signal?
Meta doesn’t need threads.net to harvest data from ActivityPub instances. In fact, literally anyone can do it without much effort. You’re not protecting your data by being here. It’s as public as old phpbb forums used to be even more so. That bit is a non issue (well, it is an issue…)
My issue is just with the quality of content from meta owned instances and what it’ll bring to other federated instances.
They can - but everyone else can choose to defederate from them. It gives others choice of whether or not they want their instance to participate (or let another instance) participate in their activities.
Found its way here as well wee
Oh wow yes! That unlocked a memory
It’s what struck me when I switched to Android… the play store is awful. Good on Apple, hopefully Google will follow suit.