It’s still a good resource for stuff like that but I’m not contributing to it.

The devs did a Q&A that answer pretty much every question in this comment section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz2iZwYpgg

Yes. Why bother sharing if you’re not trying to help others?

This public issue on the nut.js repo, where I’m publicly accused of something that’s entirely not true was the final nail in the coffin.

Damn FOSS geeks, they ruin FOSS!

lol fair. Whats good for me is more people educated on the benefits of open source!

I actually think users who click ads are probably the ones who most need to learn about the alternatives!

“Add-ons” is a separate category of thing, and more substantial than integrations/Lovelace stuff. If you haven’t noticed any missing you’re probably fine. But some popular ones are DuckDNS and Mosquitto Broker.

You can’t restore a backed-up config in docker, also no add-ons.

Cory Doctorow is uniquely able to cut straight to the heart of the matter. He is the same person who coined the term “enshittification” last year.

They use “proxigram” which has also never worked for me.

No. Clicking “ask app not to track” prevents apps from collecting your data. It does not prevent Apple from collecting that same data, which they do.

Libredirect is great, but it’s usefulness is waning. The frontends for Twitter and Instagram no longer work which hurt the usefulness. The frontend for TikTok is great when it works, which is only about half the time.

Can you provide any examples of ads someone (maybe you?) received directly due to Apple’s policies and behavior? Totally serious question.

If you use an iPhone and have app tracking transparency enabled then any targeted ads you’re seeing are almost certainly coming from data that Apple has collected from you.

A few years back Apple made a big change to iOS that prevents user data from being sold to data brokers and ran a big ad campaign about how they are the good “privacy option”. But the reason they made the change was not to protect user privacy, but because Apple wanted the money that Facebook was getting from iPhone users. The same data is still being collected and sold, just by Apple now instead of Facebook. That was the crux of Facebook’s big lawsuit against Apple accusing them of anti-competitive practices.

Apple is one of the best Hardware companies out there for not selling your data.

Don’t believe their ads, they are actually one of the worst!

But the threat of Apple turning on its customers isn’t limited to China. While the company has been unwilling to spy on its users on behalf of the US government, it’s proven more than willing to compromise its worldwide users’ privacy to pad its own profits. Remember when Apple let its users opt out of Facebook surveillance with one click? At the very same time, Apple was spinning up its own commercial surveillance program, spying on Ios customers, gathering the very same data as Facebook, and for the very same purpose: to target ads. When it came to its own surveillance, Apple completely ignored its customers’ explicit refusal to consent to spying, spied on them anyway, and lied about it:

Yes absolutely, I just wanted to highlight that that problem has an existing deterrent in place.

That’s what “subscribed” is for, no?

If a server is going so far as to modify their code to better enable harassment, then that is a bad server and should probably be defederated from.

Thanks I think I better understand what you’re proposing now. I’m reminded of how on reddit, mods could be added a-la-carte with only specific duties like the ability to add/remove posts, or respond to modmail.

Speaking as a former Reddit moderator myself, the main problem we faced when adding anyone who didn’t have “full control” was that those people were unlikely to feel a strong sense of independence and autonomy to do much of anything. I learned that without a sense of control over the direction of the community there is not much incentive for people to feel responsible for it’s wellbeing. We found it more sustainable to maintain a “smaller” but more dedicated core team, and swap new members in and out as needed. This also made it easier for us to stay on the same page policy-wise.

We were “only” 400K users by time I left, but I could see a system like what you’re proposing working to a degree once a community gets up into the millions.

I did read the links, and I still strongly feel that no automated mechanical system of weights and measures can outperform humans when it comes to understanding context.

It’s also, as I described, wholly unnecessary on platforms that do not allow themselves grow beyond an ability to monitor themselves.

A system like this rewards frequent shitposting over slower qualityposting. It is also easily gamed by organized bad faith groups. Imagine if this was Reddit and T_D users just gave each other a high trust score, valuing their contributions over more “organic” posts.

Human moderators (and human Admins) who understand context are the only answer. If they’re feeling overworked they need to add mods or stop growing. Big, loosely moderated instances are arguably worse for the overall ecosystem then small, bad faith ones.