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  • Kind of weird it wasn’t included for awhile.

    A long while starting with the Fenix rewrite in 2020. What’s bizarre is they took a very tightly controlled approach to rolling out extensions instead of developing in the open and giving users the option to choose for themselves whether to use less stable features or untested extensions.

    It was kind of bizarre; the attitude is more what I’d expect from Apple than an open source project. There was very little communication to the public about their reasoning, and what they did offer was pretty unsatisfying.








  • Zak@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemdro.idStop using BeReal
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    2 months ago

    When I read “privacy nightmare”, I think of a system collecting or revealing information without the user’s knowledge. As I understand BeReal, the user understands exactly what information they’re sharing, and with whom. That said, I’m puzzled by why anyone would want to participate on either side.

    Here are some things I might be doing in any random time window in which such an app might prompt me to share a selfie:

    • Eating food, usually not interesting food foodie friends would like to see
    • Walking, usually somewhere pretty boring
    • Sitting on the toilet
    • Writing code at my computer (often code someone is paying me to write and wouldn’t like included in a social media post)
    • Picking dandelions to feed to the goslings at the park

    I don’t want to share any of those activities with my friends. If we’re catching up on life in person, I’m not going to talk about any of that. If any of my friends do want to see those moments, I’d find it weird and voyeuristic.

    The interesting moment I do want to share, and people might actually want to see is the close encounter with the wild gosling taking the dandelion leaf from me.



  • Zak@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldlightweight blog ?
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    3 months ago

    Federation doesn’t inherently require large amounts of memory. Fundamentally, it’s a matter of selecting a list of unique servers (likely tens, maybe hundreds) from a larger set of followers (likely hundreds, maybe thousands) and sending an HTTP request to each when there’s a new post. There’s a speed/size tradeoff for how many to send in parallel, but it’s not a resource-intensive operation.

    Growth beyond a few tens of megabytes was a bug in Writefreely, which is a likely-suitable option several comments here recommended.






  • A larger phone is nicer to sit down and use with both hands, and while that is a primary use case for many people, it isn’t for me. I want my phone to emphasize portability and one-handed use.

    I think there’s a viable market niche for a small phone, bi but I wonder if small phone customers might be unprofitable for other reasons.



  • Fakespot and Firefox are different products. They should stay that way.

    It’s fine that Fakespot needs to collect some data from users to do the thing it does, and probably necessary for it to monetize that data to have a sustainable funding model. I don’t want it to sell a profile about me to advertising partners, so I don’t use it.

    Firefox can function as a web browser without transferring any information about me off my local machine except that which I explicitly tell it to send to specific websites.