whiskers

joined 1 year ago
[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This link is from a reddit thread

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Care to explain more?

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Firefox with Bypass Paywall Clean D extension

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which distro did you use? I have a win 10 laptop and I might switch over to a Linux distro

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 1 points 9 months ago

I have EasyList as well but recently added ConsentOMatic. That's working without hiccups if you'd like to install it

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 0 points 9 months ago

Sure they are unethical. But the millions of users who have joined them are not and they are not that tech savvy to have even heard of Fediverse. Federating with them opens 2 avenues: Possibly decrease the influence of X/Twitter as it gets more toxic and introduce general people to the concept of Fediverse and give them an option to easily migrate to one of the better Mastodon instances in future from Threads.

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I believe defederating should be a user choice rather than an instance unless done for spammy/toxic instances. If instances starts to be too liberal with defederation, you create silos and introduce more hurdles for the growth of fediverse. This creates a broken up network that may not be social for everyone.

Obviously, you can be on an instance that defederates Threads.net if that's your preference.

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Why have a social network if an instance is not social and not a network? He makes pretty good points on why he wants to federate with Threads. I'd personally also like to follow people who are on Threads but not on Mastodon (without joining Threads)

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why choose this over DuckDuckGo? Genuine question as it has minimal tracking and is free.

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Umm, I'm not sure as I didn't use Sync for Reddit, if it was an app specific feature.

In the current Lemmy app if we hide read posts, they are kinda lost. I'd like to visit a community and even see the read posts that were hidden from the frontpage. It could be an option for the user to decide if they want the current method or let the hidden "read" posts be hidden only from the All/Subscribed/Local frontpage (and not from the community page itself)

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@ljdawson@lemmy.world my request is a bit different. I actually use Sync. When we hide posts from the frontpage using "Hide Read Posts" toggle, it hides the post from both the frontpage and the community where the post was posted. I'd like to have a setting where it only hides read posts from the frontpage.

Sometimes I like to go back to a community (like Starfield for e.g.) to read posts that I hid previously from frontpage to see newer discussions or just look back at things after a couple of days.

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