Matt

Isn’t this literally what Waistline is for Android? You create your own local food database (which you can automatically fetch info from Open Food Facts or USDA if desired, but not required) which lets you put in as many nutriments to track as you wish, all with graphs and information with different timelines.

No clue if there’s anything like this for desktop.

Definitely Phantasy Star Online - even today I still play and work on it because it’s just the perfect type of game for myself.

Hard to say exactly what Mastodon does, but mastodon.social’s privacy policy should give you some direction in how they handle data: https://mastodon.social/privacy-policy

As mastodon.social is based in Germany, they will know about GDPR and have to follow it to the letter.

It’s on Codeberg, here’s the link: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases

It’s specifically on the IzzyOnDroid repo, instructions here:

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/

I tried Sync for a little bit, but I didn’t really vibe with it to be honest, Infinity is still by far my favourite phone client.

Really, you should just download it anyway and try it, you’ll find out quickly if it’s for you or not.

Technically the idea is that if Chrome has barely any market share (will never happen, but let’s pretend), they cannot implement this as it will anger and lock too many users out of day to day life.

However…

With Google Search and YouTube being by far the most 2 popular websites in the world, I think they still could. The vast majority of people would never give those up and if they’re told to use another program to access them, they absolutely will, meaning in an ideal world with a browser competition, they can easily destroy it immediately.

The one thing Musk and Spez have successfully done is make themselves scapegoats that leave people believing that everything will be resolved once they leave, so people have hope since there’s a “clear solution.”

These issues run much deeper than the individual owners and CEOs though, it’s the rot of the companies and platforms themselves, and getting rid of those people will solve absolutely nothing.

What needs to happen is for people to just switch off and help grow alternative platforms away from corporate meddling. Will it ever become mainstream? Maybe not, but it will never happen if people never try and just give up.

I only self-host a MediaWiki website at the moment, along with a PPSSPP adhoc server for said game that the wiki is related to. I want to self-host a lot more stuff, but storage space is expensive, and I don’t really want to leave things running at home all the time either as it will eat into my electricity bill.

Nextcloud and OnlyOffice are what I’m interested in next, and perhaps a Fediverse platform.

There’s been a few comments on here talking about Firefox on Android being laggy compared to Chrome on Android.

Nobody seems to have mentioned this, but the main reason this is and/or appears to be the case is because Firefox is capped at 60Hz, whereas Chrome will display at 90Hz, making it feel much smoother.

No, I have no idea why.

Edit: The above is misinformation after I did some research - it appears that resisting fingerprinting causes the browser to set itself to 60Hz, but this can be disabled to get your screen’s refresh rate, but of course this means throwing away a privacy protection…

That’s because ublock.org is not related to uBO. uBlock is the original project that got compromised.

Debian 12 with KDE Plasma, works perfectly on every system I have thrown at it.

It’s weird right? After the 48 hour blackout, the community was just filled with “well, that was completely pointless, I missed my content!”, when you think they’d understand the issues considering what’s happened with RuneLite in the past.

Sports is definitely hard to have take off in these sorts of spaces, since sports are generally talked about much more amongst regular/casual users, than the more tech-savvy crowd who are willing to try these things out.

It’s the same on the biggest ActivityPub platform (Mastodon) - the really popular regular subjects such as sports and cars just don’t have a presence there.

Haha, this is how fast-moving open source projects work, things change constantly as they believe it’s better to just get (perceived) improvements out of the door when they’re cooked up, instead of waiting in any capacity.

“Against” isn’t really the right word, as you don’t really compete on the fediverse.

All the platforms on the fediverse work together by design, the introduction of more micro blogs is good for Mastodon and the rest; there’s already so many of them and you can talk to them through Mastodon, which is the way it should be.

Also chipping in to give my appreciation, really enjoying Lemmy through lemmy.world!

Your account only works where you registered it. You browse other communities through your lemmy.world instance. Use the search function or the All tab and you’ll see what I mean.

Imagine you’re on a forum with your account, but then you can use the search feature to search posts on another forum and reply to them from there.

All users and communities have names like e-mail addresses, like user@instance or community@instance, anything that doesn’t have the middle @ is on the same instance as you.

It’ll make sense after some browsing.

Basically do you like the administration policies of the instance. All instances can speak to all other instances, unless instances block each other.

Lemmy isn’t one website, it’s a bunch of websites talking to each other and people choose to moderate in their own manner, and can also choose to stop talking to other websites if they deem them to be a problem.

It’s less obvious when picking between big general ones, but here’s some examples:

• beehaw.org: A curated instance with extremely heavy moderation. Leans centre-left.
• lemmynsfw.com: It’s in the name - allows NSFW (porn) posts, which other instances tend not to like hosting.
• lemmy.dbzer0.com: Primarily focused around Piracy, something other instances wouldn’t be comfortable hosting.
• exploding-heads.com: “Free speech” instance (you know what that means)
• lemmygrad.ml: Extreme-left instance, labelled as “tankies” by most people.

Then other than that, you have the big general ones such as lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works, and so on. Each of those will have their own rules, but tend to be about anything and everything, but it’s still important to learn how they moderate their instances!

Don’t forget though, no matter which instance you pick, you can still interact with all the other instances unless they are blocked (which they are in some cases for various reasons).

I can only answer a couple.

3. This is by design, due to how federation works. Federation is literally just:

• Instance A requests information from Instance B
• Instance B responds to the request and sends it back
• Instance A follows Instance B
• Instance B now federates all future posts to Instance A

There’s nothing more complicated to it, but it does mean that instances cannot know about other instances without being told, as there is no central location that instances connect to in order to find out about all other instances.

4. Only posts after subscribing are federated to an instance, it doesn’t backfill. An option for admins of an instance to request a backfill would not be a bad option though, but as time goes on, backfilling an entire community could take too much data on instances.

5. Issue with Lemmy.ml, although when you see Subscribe Pending, you tend to still see things in your feed.