ginerel

ginerel OP , 20 days ago

Email providers also have oauth

ginerel OP , 20 days ago

To do so, there would need to be a centralized or federated list of all accounts

Why would there be? The app would just search for the domain name first (let's say "aussie.zone") and then your username (in your case "hitmyspot"). That's kinda how email works as well. What centralized database would you need to interrogate a server on login? It's no different than the current implementation, only that you do not need to remember the website first, just enter the whole username in one go.

ginerel OP , 20 days ago

Perhaps you are interpreting their request to not use username and site name and instead use email, to instead use a long form Lemmy username?

No, I was saying to use their Fediverse username and their Fediverse password. Sorry if I got misunderstood. Nothing to do with the actual email address used at signup.

ginerel OP , 20 days ago

It's not really hard to type a website, it's rather hard to remember it. You remember your username. Okay. But where were you? mastodon dot what?

When you use your full address, it's not that hard to remember it.

ginerel , 29 days ago

SMTube still seems to exist

ginerel , 3 months ago

Probably they just want to use the same app they're using for listening to music. Although I also have them both. And I love AntennaPod more for podcasts, plus there's no tracking, and it's just a different experience overall.

ginerel , 3 months ago

I kinda get all the Threads worries and the fact that some people might not be comfortable with Meta collecting their data for advertising. But this is just insane. It just makes me think people are just irrationally angry at everything, and they like being that, instead of informing themselves about what everything does.

ginerel OP , 3 months ago

So the OPML file does handle the read status as well? isn't it just a format to export and import feeds inside a reader?

ginerel , 3 months ago

I immediately thought about ChatGPT or some other AI assistant with GPT in its name as an alternative to Copilot, lol.

ginerel , 4 months ago

lemmy.ml
first time [...] a mod didn't like the viewpoint expressed.

Haha, wow, first time?

Welcome to this place. Lemmy.ml is notorious for being run by the actual tankies that created this project. See what they support, what they don't, and have an opposite opinion on that. You will get the boys telling you how it acchually it is not and call you a glowie CIA agent or whatnot for not siding with them. The Reddit migration probably made them more accepting of opposite opinions, but probably because things have calmed down more a bit lately, they started aggressively moderating stances like yours and probably anti-Kremlin takes as well (seriously, before that, if you were against the Russian invasion in Ukraine or against China's politics you would have been accused of being racist towards them - but hey, you can say whatever you want against the USA, or The West, you can't be racist against these, can you?).

Anyway, here's a longer take by FediTips that explains the issues with Lemmy:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

ginerel , 5 months ago

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ginerel , 5 months ago

I cannot reach nor the profile, nor the post from Kbin

ginerel , 6 months ago

You can also use Friendica if you enjoy Tumblr. It has a wider degree of customization in regard to its interface, and you can also cross post or get your Tumblr feed in Friendica (provided the server you're using has the appropriate tumblr addon).

ginerel , 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

It's already down, omg. I hope it's just temporary :(

Edit: seems like there's just too much activity on it. I briefly reached the login page, but after entering my credentials, I got the same error. Guess we're safe for now.

ginerel , 7 months ago

This was a Romanian tracker, and it was pretty much the most popular one (or at least that I know of), so I am pretty sure there was a lot of local content as well. Movies also always had Romanian subtitles IIRC, so it was a great source for anyone not having a really good English comprehension to fiddle around.

There surely are other trackers as well that I'm not aware of or there's Romanian content on other international ones, but the community there was quite impressive - you always knew you could source some good quality stuff.

For me, personally, FL was pretty much my go-to whenever I wanted to get something that I couldn't source for free.

ginerel , 8 months ago

Pretty much any game made by Valve. I have a bunch of friends that are really fans of them and I gradually started enjoying them as well.

ginerel , 8 months ago

From what I understood, the gardens were, like, their headquarters. Bombing them would be their Achile's heel.

Indeed, as @FunderPants said, Metro Last Light should answer some of your questions :D

ginerel , 8 months ago

Pretty cool. Dashy seems pretty much a start.me on steroids.

There's also a kbin magazine for this (you can also post from Lemmy):

!startpages (https://kbin.social/m/startpages)

(L.E.: It didn't render the handle as a hyperlink. I guess it was pretty clever for me to paste the link as well. You can copy and paste it in the search bar of beehaw, and you should find it)

ginerel , 5 months ago

This looks rather like a discovery issue and is quite common with newly created instances on the Fediverse. You have to search for everything you want for a couple of times before you make your instance aware of the content or other instances aware of yours.

You can more easily overcome this by connecting your instance to an ActivityPub Relay, but I don't know how this is done on a Kbin instance.

ginerel , 10 months ago

I was a RedReader user for quite a while (as in years). While being a bit spartan, I found it to be the best Reddit app for my preferences. Period.

But indeed, nowadays, there is actual (great) content on Lemmy and Kbin, and I am willing to get to it. Not much time left for Reddit. Sorry, spez, fuck you!

ginerel , 10 months ago

I hate tankies myself as well, but I also hate that some communities are only created on lemmy.ml. Plus some official subreddits moved over there as well (and no - no far-left ones).

ginerel , 10 months ago

It was all in my face for all this time!!!

ginerel , 10 months ago

Guess you'll simply no longer see posts from kbin.social

ginerel , 10 months ago

I don't think it's a case of a personal ego here. I think it's something different, that has to go with the main devs' ideology. I feel like @feditips 's concerns are quite valid.

ginerel , 10 months ago

I didn't quit. I still have an account with roughly, 19000 karma, where I posted and commented some interesting stuff, as well as shitposts. It became quite personal to me, as it wasn't Facebook and discussions were more genuine and clever.

I'm still under the shock of the entire thing. I still enter periodically. However, this whole thing feels so foreign. Foreign, yet so familiar. Since I had my account. And the discussions are kinda the same. The same I went in, the same discussions that I enjoyed. Yet I feel I no longer belong in that place. That is no longer representing me. And I kinda find it weird.

However, I love this place. I love Kbin. I love the fediverse. I love the fact that I no longer need x accounts and x apps for all my social needs. With one account, I can follow stuff from everywhere. And I do not get ads. I get the content. I am not the product of a social network. :D