Straw men, straw men everywhere. Thanks for making the decision to leave your crazy echo chamber easier.

This is absolutely fucking idiotic. Or is “idiotic” an ableist slur because it degrades stupid people?

This kind of blatantly ideologically-motivated behavior is why your platform will die.

It doesn’t make sense to use such a young platform that way. New communities and even new servers are popping up regularly, and I’d like to see what’s happening on the platform as a whole. I want a blacklist, not a whitelist. Until I can block users, communities, and whole servers from my feed, this place just isn’t worth the amount of effort it takes to scroll through all the wingnut political agitprop.

Agreed. Over the last couple of months, it’s become clear that Lemmy is shaping up to be Voat for the Left. Maybe I’ll come back once blocking functionality has been implemented, but until then, I’m just not interested in wading through the sea of political loony toons to sift out the interesting privacy and open-source content.

I said it doesn’t surprise me that a researcher believes it is. I’m not really appealing to anyone or anything if I don’t make an assertion.

You endorsed the conclusion, whether you’re willing to admit it or not, and the fact that you would even advance this argument is proof that you’re not interested in good-faith dialog (as is this completely unhinged rant in this thread).

I’m not going to play sophistry with you. Bye.

Why is the government funding sports at all?

https://ses.edu/logical-fallacies-101-appeal-to-authority-ad-verecundiam/

“Endlessly inventive”

What do you need encryption for? You trust the government, don’t you?

The ACLU is a pale shadow of the organization it once was, and watching it fall has been one of my great sorrows.

Agreed, I don’t like the idea of mods being able to edit posts or comments to make it look like a user said something they didn’t actually say.

Here’s the full list of supported devices:

ASUS MeMo Pad 7
BQ Aquaris X5
Motorola Moto G4 Play
Nokia N900
PINE64 PinePhone
PINE64 PineTab
Purism Librem 5
Samsung Galaxy A3 (2015)
Samsung Galaxy A5 (2015)
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Value Edition
Wileyfox Swift

I love how the “fake” is in quotes, as though they’re only technically fake.

I had a Note 4 for the longest time, and the stylus was handy for fine control when I wanted to draw something. You could also set the phone to show a notepad on the lock screen whenever you pulled the stylus out of its slot, which was convenient for quick note-taking. Other than that, I almost never used it, and I don’t miss it at all now.

People at sopuli.xyz are allowed to post to !technology@lemmy.ml.

Oh sure, I don’t mean I have any objection to their participation. I’m just trying to understand how Lemmy works, and I’m confused by the differing instance identifiers for this post, user, and community.

In fact I don’t see a !technology@sopuli.xyz community

Curiouser and curiouser! It does look like !suomi is on sopuli.xyz, though. The one on Lemmy was deleted.

Yep, that’s the post. OP appears to be registered @sopuli.xyz if you hover over their name on that post, and their profile here on @lemmy.ml indicates that they’re registered on @sopuli.xyz as well.

Also one of their communities, !suomi, is listed on @lemmy.ml, but appears as !suomi@sopuli.xyz.

It doesn’t look to me like a Lemmur issue, but obviously I’m no expert!

But even within Lemmur (which is quite good, btw), I would still have to manually go and switch between my accounts to see content from each instance. There’s not a way for me, as a single user, to simultaneously look at two instances which are not federated with each other. The instance where my account exists is acting as a “gatekeeper” to the rest of the Lemmy-verse.

I say this with full awareness that it isn’t a problem at the current scale. I’m just thinking about network coherence as the user base expands and the federative complexity grows. I’m eventually going to want a tool that combines multiple instances into a single feed, even if those instances don’t talk to each other for some reason.

As a lifelong grammarian, I’ve always hate hate hated that English lacks a technically “correct” gender-neutral third person singular pronoun, and I’m frankly rather relieved to see an emerging consensus forming around “they.” It may seem awkward for now, but this is how languages evolve - a grammatical “error” gets wedged into a niche to serve a linguistic need. The change is already happening, and in fifty years no one will remember or care that it used to be wrong.

Interesting. I don’t love the idea of my “home” instance dictating what I can choose to see, but I understand why the architecture is structured that way. It’s sounding increasingly as though if I want full visibility into the Lemmy-verse, the best way to use Lemmy is via a client on my own local machine, connecting directly to the instances I want to see.

Is that being contemplated? It sounds like I could create my own instance and federate with whoever I like, but is there a way to accomplish the same goal without maintaining my own instance?

Given the above I find it to be no surprise that many (the majority) of PinePhone buyers/fans/onlookers have no interest or skill to improve the device or service: they’re here because they’re fedup by some part of the current status quo and don’t want to wait for a more mature offering (which by the way would negate a lot of Martin’s initial complaints).

This is 100% where I am. I’m sick to death of everything I own trying to suck up personal data and then use it to manipulate me for profit. It’s like having a sociopathic lover who knows everything about you and is hell-bent on ruthlessly exploiting you. I will not stand for it; I demand control of my data and my hardware.

The mobile space is where this is the worst. I run a custom Android ROM, but as a “mere” superuser who’s not a professional coder, there’s only so much I can do in an environment that’s fundamentally structured against me. I fervently want open source mobile hardware to succeed, and I don’t have any relevant technical skills to contribute.

I don’t know what to do other than buy the hardware to show that there’s support for this. Do you have suggestions?