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Didn’t even know this was a thing, and since I live by multiple monitors, this makes me glad I’ve held off.

I believe programming.dev is the main instance for all programming related communities that left reddit.

Which is why all browsers cross identify as other browsers. This would make it easier for sites to block and harder for browsers to work around.

After Google approval, what is the size of the tester pool?

Had the same thought. Glad it’s not just me.

You can install the kbin interface as a PWA on mobile, and it works pretty well. There are some kinks for sure, but it’s 100% usable and better than lemmy.

Coming in hot with the real answer as to why it feels that way on the fediverse relative to the rest of the internet.

Power Toys Run (from the paper toys suite) is a fantastic launcher that’s better than the start menu.

Stack exchange is CC licensed, and they host a lot of user content.

Where do you think is a reasonable price? Search is something most folks use daily, multiple times per day. If the quality of results is good, that seems like a small price to pay. Netflix is pushing 20 a month, and many other streaming services are in the 10—15 range.

Sad thing is, plenty of people will lap this up as a good thing and see it as a benefit. At least at first, until they realize they have to watch some TV based ads before they watch the ad roll on their YouTube video, followed by the second screen showing some banner ad the whole time. Yick.

Could still get hacked, but the point stands that is an extra level of verification.

Classic Kohl’s strategy, not sure if they did it first, but its the first place I saw it used in early 2000s.

Not a huge surprise there is a large anti-capitalist faction on lemmy, so this isn’t terribly surprising.

I’m no meta apologist, they’ve done enough to warrant skepticism. The reality is they can harvest the data even if you defederate their main instance, by setting up shadow instances or just scraping other instances, so that argument doesn’t really hold water for defederation. The bigger one is content vs spam coming from their instances and possible EEE measures, but immediate defederation only serves to keep them siloed off and does not let them function as an offramp to better instances for regular users.

The difference is here you can manage your own feed and pick and choose. Many folks don’t want metas apps on their device but wouldn’t mind some of the content. Folks that don’t want it don’t have to sub but those that do can benefit second hand.

While true, they can still give you a hard time. If you simply don’t have one they can’t do much about that.

Seems like a strange way to enforce it, at the user level vs the api client level, unless they’re trying to guard against screen scraper types.

This is by design. They’ve got us arguing about the api price, when their goal was to kill off third party apps and get all users on their app so they can data mine us. And the ridiculous api price is a secondary bonus for them, since AI and LLM companies will gladly pay it to sick up the content on the platform.