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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I guess it might help with some sites, where kids just scrolled into it but don't care about it. In cases where they want to see the feed/'for you' page, then yep agreed.

If it works out the way I'm hoping for, this might help a lot of OTHER people avoid the algorithms/feeds/suggested posts when they intentionally want to avoid them. I'd love to have a filter like this where I can toggle it off.

  • YouTube's recent change has been really nice, I like only seeing content from subscriptions
  • I'd love to remove suggested posts in Instagram, I don't like random suggested posts mixed in with content from friends/family, and I snooze it every 30 days. If this also blocks the suggested reels page, I'll probably save a lot more time.
  • I don't use Facebook/Snapchat that much anymore, but it would probably help there too

So honestly, don't even need to focus on the kid aspect. Make it mandatory to include a toggle to turn off suggested posts. That way, we also don't have to worry about this turning into a "link your government ID to your social media" situation

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

org.thoughtcrimes.securesms

It actually might not be, googling "org.thoughtcrimes.securesms" doesn't get results.

thoughtcrimes vs. thoughtcrime


My question though is how this popped up in droidify, would someone need to manually add some special repo?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Then later on there's also [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yea I don't think it's bad for privacy, just there are better options out there which get you the same privacy while also addressing other issues? Issues like Chromium, history of controversies and shady behaviour (crypto, replacing ads with their own), the business model, and issues with the CEO.

Instead, why not just use standard Firefox? The only downside I've heard is that the default settings don't do what Brave does when you first install each browser, but that's a weak argument considering we all modify the settings anyway. Someone should just outline which Firefox settings should be flipped to match default Brave, and we can be done with the weekly 'Why not Brave' discussions

I use Firefox as my daily browser, and run Mullvad browser when I need to be cautious with a task.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We really could get the [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. communities going

From what I remember, the subreddits got taken from the original mods and the community is fragmented. Even before that, the communities were having issues (which I don't know as much about)

edit:

Looks like [email protected] could use a new mod, the other two have active mods and are rolling so just add more users/content

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you need it for media that has subtitles available somewhere, then there are plugins for that (ex. Jellyfin/Plex/Kodi)

If you're looking for something to automatically transcribe audio locally, I'm not as sure but others already suggested some

Which are you looking for?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yea that's the first thing that came to mind when I read that headline

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Contributing content to the few smaller communities I'm interested in and know more about, mostly from RSS feeds that I am using for my own use.

Commenting more often than I would have otherwise, especially on discussions about how Lemmy can be improved. The site is still young and has lots of room to improve, so it's worth helping with that guidance

For a few particular communities that are split between Reddit and Lemmy, I'm trying to work with a few others to help ease the migration. It won't happen all at once, and instead it's better to make the community here useful for that particular topic. Setting up an official parallel community and bringing over some moderators from the other community should go a long way :)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It annoys me more than it should every time I read that. Like one person gets to sit down every day and make some proclamation, and now everyone else has to go along with it.

I'm not sure what is better, but even something like "X/Twitter" might be easier than repeatedly saying "X, formerly known as Twitter"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

For some people, it's because not enough of a particular community has moved... somehow

Some academic / research / medical communities for example. For others it's the journalists that have yet to move

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Those ads don't even look like they're useful to anyone, they're like the "He figured out how to download a car. Doctors hate him!" ads from a decade ago

just why

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