I think he’s literally talking about investing in fediverse companies, which I guess isn’t really any better.

At least in the case I remember it wasn’t a bot network. They would just put them on popular playlists so it’d end up with tons of listens. They were basically fake bands created as a way to get around paying licensing fees. If there’s no real band there’s no royalties to pay.

For android I tend to like Safe Notes. It’s relatively simple, encrypted with either passphrase or biometrics, and stored locally, with a way to back up to a file. Just make sure you memorize/save the passphrase so you don’t lose your entries. It’s android only though, if that matters. I only use it for shorter stuff, so I’m not sure how well it works for longer entries.

I haven’t used Chameleon, but it seems to do some stuff like change the user agent that JShelter doesn’t do. I’d assume it’s more useful to get around a site designed for a specific browser or operating system.

JShelter isn’t mainly for spoofing, it’s about blocking a bunch of potentially harmful advanced javascript features, often used for tracking. Any spoofing is mostly to keep sites working with the missing javascript features.

I have it installed on one of my browsers. I wouldn’t recommend using it unless you’re willing to tweak the settings for new sites you visit, because I’ve had it break sites pretty often with the default settings.

That’s at a very different level. With dot social it’s about a quarter of the active users on the fediverse, whereas bluesky is probably something like 95% centralized in practice. It seems to keep improving, but right now it’s basically impossible to use without mostly interacting with bsky.

There’s been people trying to push ⁂ as a way to represent the fediverse using a unicode symbol. I’m not sure it’s really taken off, but it’s an option.

If you go to the repository settings there’s an option to enable archived apps and outdated versions. Then select the f-droid archive repo for that app.

Often these are disabled for a reason, so you might want to check if there’s any important bug fixes since then.

It happens sometimes. Depending on the details, you can report them as spam, just remove the follow, or ignore it.

In some cases it could also be people that genuinely want to follow you. People often talk about one topic but still care about other stuff.

A lot of instances block it. You can check the moderated servers section on your instance about page to see if it’s blocked.

Meta does a terrible job moderating, so it can be a massive amount of extra work dealing with shitty people from there. They also have policy agreements to collect your data if you federate with them.

They’re still considering starting them back up again after pride month.

It’s an interesting project, but NodeBB and Discourse have been working on adding activitypub support, so people who prefer bb style forums will probably use those. I don’t think they integrate that well with lemmy yet, but I think it’s being worked on.

That’s monthly right? It’s a slight exageration, but that’s close to low end used car payments. And from what I understand it’ll go up as bluesky gets more popular, and the more relays there are.

It’s designed so other relays need to handle every message sent on all of bluesky, so server costs would be way too high for most people. Like car prices for minimal bluesky relay setup, and way more if you want to actually store all the messages you’re processing.

You can make anything terrible with enough money.

Recycling rates are low, but I wouldn’t quite call it a myth. There’s a lot of materials that get lumped together as ‘plastic’, that each have to be handled differently.

Some are relatively non-toxic and easily recycled. More can be, but aren’t profitable without incentives. Some are very toxic, and recycling those are difficult. Then there’s a lot of rarer types that make it hard to collect and sort. There’s also mixed materials, where it’s hard to separate the plastic to recycle.

Generally everyone should be minimizing plastics, but check how they’re handled locally so you know what’s recylable.

There’s also Arity. It isn’t the best interface, but it has functions, variables, and graphs.

I was also using Unitto for unit conversions, but apparently the creator doesn’t want forks or for f-droid to host it, so I’m looking for another one.

Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.

There’s also XMPP. It’s not quite the same as discord, but it’s another federated chat protocol.

It’s not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.

@helloyanis@jlai.lu made a browser addon for this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/lemmy-language-memorizer/

Pixelfed has more than 100,000 active users, about 5 times what it was 6 months ago, so I wouldn’t really call it dead. And with the fediverse, pixelfed and mastodon can talk to each other, so even on less active platforms you can connect with millions of other people. Most of the accounts I follow on pixelfed are from mastodon.