Flelk

joined 3 years ago
[–] Flelk@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Flelk@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 years ago

Because mods might conceivably be bad actors. This could lead to various forms of harassment.

[–] Flelk@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (8 children)

You can add !canada@lemmy.ca as a subscription to your account on lemmy.ml and it will be treated more or less as if it was a (!) community on lemmy.ml.

Sure, but again I come back to the question of, what's the point of being federated then? I may as well just be using a local client to present me with a set of RSS feeds from different websites or something.

What the OP is suggesting is more like distributed communities, a bit similar to matrix.org chat rooms.

And that's how I'd assumed Lemmy was going to work until I saw this post. It seems intuitive to me that subs of the same name would at least have the option to "sync" across servers.

[–] Flelk@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (10 children)

Makes sense not to do it by default, but I think the option to form a single coherent community across servers is crucial to avoiding platform-killing fragmentation. Otherwise what's even the point of being "federated?" It's just a bunch of separate servers.

[–] Flelk@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (12 children)

Shit, is this not how Lemmy is intended to work already? I'd assumed this was part of it being "federated." Clearly I have some things to learn.

[–] Flelk@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Just for the record, I'm very much against this. I consider it a serious privacy problem if mods can see a list of subscribers.

[–] Flelk@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Same. I'm starting the transition in earnest as of today.