Likely related

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.

Microsoft has since denied this, but they haven’t released much info on what they say happened instead.

https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-services-international-criminal-court-president-american-sanctions-trump-tech-icc-amazon-google/

A Microsoft spokesperson said that it had been in contact with the court since February “throughout the process that resulted in the disconnection of its sanctioned official from Microsoft services.” The spokesperson added that “at no point did Microsoft cease or suspend its services to the ICC.”

Khan’s email disconnection has sparked Europe’s fears that Trump could flip a “kill switch” to cut digital services through American tech giants, as the continent seeks to become less dependent on U.S. technology. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others dominate Europe’s cloud and digital services sectors.

Microsoft declined to comment further in response to questions regarding the exact process that led to Khan’s email disconnection, and exactly what it meant by “disconnection.” The ICC declined to comment.

They also said that they’ll be adding legal clauses that would stop them from doing that, but I’m not sure how much that actually helps in practice.

Cellebrite builds the forensic tools law enforcement uses to get data from locked phones. As reported by 404 Media, the leak came from someone who managed to join a private Microsoft Teams call between Cellebrite staff and a prospective customer. During the meeting, the uninvited participant took screenshots of what appears to be an internal ‘Android OS Access Support Matrix’ and then shared them on the GrapheneOS discussion forum.

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Snack compartment

There actually is a TUI client for Lemmy

https://github.com/threadiverse/temi

I can confirm, we banned that user and set it to remove their content from lemmy.ca

You were one of the 7 users that got messaged when we were looking into a report about it

It’s very similar to Lemmy, and probably the closest to Lemmy out of the other platforms that follow this format.

We tried to describe the differences here

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/fedecan/our-platforms#forum-style

These platforms follow a forum format, similar to platforms like Reddit or Hacker News. You can share and discuss links, text, and images, and upvote/downvote content to decide on what content rises to the top.

These platforms use one of two projects under the hood:

• Lemmy - Lemmy is an established and stable project. It was designed to be very fast and reliable, and it makes up a large part of the forum side of the Fediverse
• Piefed - Piefed is a relatively new project that is growing in popularity. It offers new ways to organize content, such as topic lists, feeds, flairs, and additional moderation tools.

As they’re both federated, you can use any of them to connect to the wider Fediverse!

Thank you for creating it and maintaining it!

I’ve been trying it out and it’s nice :)

Neat!

[email protected]

While I don’t quite understand it myself, there is also supposed to be a time-of-day component to the system. Something about sun/moon/house?

It’s possible that their accounts were grandfathered in and already marked as “different people”. During the next little while (the exact period is unknown, but let’s say 6 months), any new accounts from that IP may get banned, but especially those that are deemed “suspicious”.

We don’t know the exact details because Reddit doesn’t release the details. You might find someone here who can tell you about workarounds, but most likely you’ll get the advice to move on and find something new. Most people are here because they no longer want to use Reddit, and I’d say the vast majority is here because they chose to leave and not because of bans

Your device has an ID, and there are various other metrics that they can use

A demonstration:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

How does tracking technology follow your trail around the web, even if you’ve taken protective measures? Cover Your Tracks shows you how trackers see your browser. It provides you with an overview of your browser’s most unique and identifying characteristics.

Is the only way to evade the ban to dodge your online fingerprint? (new phone, new email, new ph number. Etc)

Not easily. If Reddit isn’t getting enough data from you, and they can’t figure out who you are, they will often just ban you again

I’m happy participating as a community member, and stepping up as a mod later on if the team could use some extra help. I don’t mind either way :)

Oh on that note, would it be helpful to lock and redirect [email protected] to that community?

I would say the main thing is being nice and letting people explore, and providing spaces/communities for people to come back and ask questions when they have them. When people bring up issues or suggest things that they want to see, we shouldn’t crap on what they prefer their online experience to be (ex. preferred algorithms, content they want to block, etc.)

Resources wise, we created this guide and I like to link these two particular pages for fediverse/lemmy. I feel that they help give a high level overview of how things work:

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

That is possible

To get a link post with a custom thumbnail, you add the link and put the image in the thumbnail field.

To get an image post with a link, you make an image post and put the link in the post body.

I think since hobbies are nebulous and hard to compare against each other, you would need to find a study specifically looking at that. Even then, you would only get information on the specific hobbies they looked at.

Maybe you can try looking for data for specific hobbies instead of comparing them against each other? You can probably find rates of books, music, etc.

KRunner, Plasma’s search/launch/unit converter/calculator/“but wait, there’s more” tool, uses fuzzy matching to look up applications. This means that even if you misspell an app’s name, KRunner will probably still find it for you. How search results are ordered has also been improved, and KRunner will start to provide those results after the first character is typed.

Oh nice!

I also didn’t know it could do unit conversions lol

There are exceptions to all of the points below, but generally:

What do you like better here than on Reddit?

Everyone is here trying to build something better. The developers are actually prioritizing transparency and user choice when making the software. Since the instances aren’t after profit, there’s no financial conflict of interest. It’s actually possible for instance admins to prioritize user experience and a healthy community instead of making a profit.

I love seeing all the different organizational structures emerging; some instances are nonprofits, some are co-ops, some are benevolent dictatorships. I think in the long run this will produce a fairer and more representative online platform.

Also my interactions feel human. If I get 5 upvotes on Lemmy or 5 likes on Pixelfed, it feels like I connected with 5 real people. On Reddit, I just can’t tell anymore.

What do you miss from Reddit?

Activity in niche communities, but that’s changing slowly.

Also, as a mod, we could still use better moderation tooling.

Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

I think over time it will become more like Reddit. As the user base grows, the average will shift closer to what Reddit is like. Also, at the end of the day, a number of the issues are because of how groups of humans interact and not the platform itself.

However, the reason I’m here instead of the many other Reddit alternatives is because of federation. I believe that as long as we maintain a healthy balance in the fediverse (and not let one entity control too much), we can avoid the enshitification while centralized social media becomes unbearable for more and more people.

It’s working on my end as well!

I have Jellyfin, but I haven’t tried it with music. How does it compare to Navidrome?

For chat, I was thinking something super simple for the weird situations like this. Alternatively, Briar if you’re near the person you want to contact