Which “non-techy people” are we talking about here?
Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.
That’s what https://lemmit.online/ is for reddit to Lemmy, https://sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ for Twitter and apparently also Instagram.
One problem with this is copyright; if it’s OC images or text posts, it could infringe on the original poster’s copyright. Not a problem if it’s merely sharing links.
No, this is false as far as I can tell. I am willing to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable but my understanding is:
Communities are implemented not as hashtags, but as special users who “boost” everything addressed to them. That is why Lemmy sometimes gets posts made on Mastodon that mention a Lemmy community. It doesn’t always look great: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/45785836
So communities and hashtags aren’t the same thing. In particular, communities have moderators who can remove things or ban people. Hashtags don’t.
It is a feature of Lemmy that all new posts (not, AFAIK, comments) also get the community name added as a hashtag. This is what OP was seeing and serves to somewhat increase the reach of Lemmy posts. But you can’t follow microblog hashtags on Lemmy.
such organizations already exist, e.g. Software in the Public Interest (most well known for hosting Debian)
It reminds me more of the AWS outage last month.
It’s probably not half of the Internet, but the fact that it’s so many very visible sites should be a warning sign to everyone that the Internet is nowadays too reliant on a few points of failure (which can cause other problems, e.g. censorship).
both lemmy.world and lemmy.ca are working for me right now? Maybe they’ve come back up.
likely not either (much) better or worse than any other place where you store your files unencrypted on someone else’s computer?
Not sure what exactly you’re asking.
because at the time it was impressive and now it’s not
When I read things like this, I struggle to understand the economic logic behind it.
How much money does Microsoft really expect to get from more people using Edge instead of Chrome? I mean, both of them are provided free of charge anyway. Does the control over the default search engine or the advertising technology or something like that really bring them more money than these “rewards” cost?
wat
*looks at username* oh, I remember that username from a few previous threads…
Reforming the GDPR is in principle a good idea because many of the terms used in it are so vague that it’s completely unclear what it does or doesn’t mean.
Somehow I suspect that improving this isn’t what’s going to happen…
Pretty sure “flora” and “flower” are related words, yeah.
I don’t think I understand the question.
The Internet isn’t supposed to have a “center”, at all. If it ever does, something has gone wrong.
Federation, like what we’re doing here, can make it so that everyone’s personal “center” can be whatever platform they choose to use most of the time. Someone trying to communicate may be using an entirely different one, it will still get federated to whatever you prefer.
thanks, that looks promising, will look into it
I don’t really need a way to scroll with vim keys; when I’m not actively typing something, the arrow and pgup/pgdown keys (and especially the space bar) are easier to reach than hjkl.
What I would really like is to have modal editing in text fields in the browser, e.g. writing Lemmy comments like I would in vim. Is there an extension for that too? :(
What part didn’t work? I use that all the time in IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code.
“Government computing” is way too broad a term for there to be a standard for it. There are many open standards for many aspects of computing, and adopting them is obviously a good thing, but every institution has different needs.
In any case, the IPA above doesn’t seem “unpronounceable” at all to me as a native speaker of German and fluent speaker of English. The pronunciation isn’t intuitive from the spelling, that is quite a different thing from being unpronounceable.
Mia from Need for Speed: Most Wanted
If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).