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  • if anything people are probably gonna jump to some platform like https://skylight.social/ (not endorsement it actually looks pretty awful in its current state). ATProto platforms tend to get astronomically higher user counts even if in practice ending up rather centralized. if i tell an ex-twitter user to check out Mastodon and just Federate an ActivityPub Instance Decentralize Free Open Source Interconnected they’re gonna zone out. versus telling them to join bluesky @ bsky.app. to everyone who mentions Loops, do you actually use it? there are a TOTAL of ~700 posts on the main instance currently, and half of them are posts about “we should post more”.





  • Xylight‮@lemdro.idtoLinux@lemmy.mlDrag and Drop is an absolute mess
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    10 days ago

    Nativoids desperately trying to install a broken dependency for a package by compiling the dependency from source, but it itself needs 2 another dependency versions not in the package manager repos, so you finally dump a random prebuilt binary from sourceforge that secretly will beam all of your login tokens straight to netanyahu himself







  • If Firefox used a more modern Material UI and fixed some of the gestures (the expanding website menu makes no sense, it doesn’t follow your finger) it would be much more appealing. As it stands now chromium based browsers naturally use standard material components and feel a lot nicer to use on my phone.

    When I scroll in Firefox, there’s quite a lot of stutter and it struggles to maintain 120 fps.

    If any 1 of these 2 issues were fixed I’d switch to Firefox in a heartbeat, ublock origin is great


  • Xylight‮@lemdro.idtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlYou need to stop using Brave
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    17 days ago

    I already use librewolf on desktop which is a great experience. But Firefox on mobile is just so horribly laggy and has a dated UI, the only offering it has is ublock origin and reader mode. Brave is the only real mobile browser choice I have since it has pretty good tracker blocking and I can disable nearly all of the problems you’ve mentioned here.


  • This does sound like it was written by an off the shelf LLM. You can’t just rely on em dashes anymore, most LLMs don’t spam those anymore.

    When you tell a modern LLM to write a post like this, it’ll use a very LinkedIn-esque tone. It’ll spam short, active sentences, often preceded by a colon:

    Document your setup. Write guides. Make it easier for the next person. Run services for friends and family, not just yourself. Contribute to projects that build this infrastructure. Support municipal and community network alternatives.

    “Not this, but that” and the “rule of 3” are getting less useful as tells, but they are absolutely littered everywhere in this post.

    When you run Nextcloud, you’re not just protecting your files from Google - you’re creating a node in a network they can’t access.

    I quote this formatting as a joke for obvious LLM writing. I’ve never seen human writing with more than 3 of these in a single post.

    My guess is that this was written by Claude since it stays rather personally neutral if you don’t guide it that way.

    I made Claude generate a post like this and it’s a very similar tone.

    https://claude.ai/share/1d27b5eb-dd85-43a1-bddf-1289d8a77b0f