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Cake day: April 19th, 2023

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  • Usually, your consent is a simple yes/no flag, no and saving that in a cookie is enough.

    I have seen this “processing” before. My assumption was that it sets cookies on third parties websites instead of only the one you visit. The basis for that assumption being that some ad network and tracker websites have/offer “opt out cookies”.

    I haven’t checked whether that’s actually the case.

    There is no other reasonably valid explanation for it. Setting a few cookies doesn’t take that much time. It would then be either intentionally slow and lying to you, or has horrendous unacceptable implementation (which could be seen as unlikely given how obviously customer facing it is).




  • Thoth was more than a messenger of a single message. Quoting Wikipedia:

    He was the god of the Moon, wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and judgment.

    Thoth played many vital and prominent roles in Egyptian mythology, such as maintaining the universe, and being one of the two deities (the other being Ma’at) who stood on either side of Ra’s solar barque. In the later history of ancient Egypt, Thoth became heavily associated with the arbitration of godly disputes,[6] the arts of magic, the system of writing, and the judgment of the dead.










    • You can choose an instance that gives you like-minded people and an intentional community (like feddit.de for a German instance, or programming.dev for all things development and programming related, or ani.social for anime communities, or beehaw.org for a more vetted signup and member approach for a more social and healthy userbase)
    • Lemmy is federated meaning despite this separation into instances users can read and participate in communities and posts of other instances
    • Instances can choose to not federate or to block other instances according to their choices (another reason to choose your instance according to your intentions and expectations or usage pattern)
    • You can link posts, add text to the post, and edit post titles after posting

    Those are probably the most obvious and usage facing differences. Additionally:

    • Lemmy is a platform of free and open source software, open to customizations and collaboration
    • Lemmy instances are run by groups and individuals, it’s open to people and groups joining with their own instances
    • As such, both in software source and platform, Lemmy is a community project whereas Reddit is a private company (soon a public company owned by shareholders)
    • Lemmy has an open API allowing for custom client, bot, and other integrations
    • Lemmy uses the open ActivityPub protocol, so it can interact with many other platforms like Mastodon, KBin, etc

    In many other ways, it is similar to Reddit. Like having upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy is still young, so it will improve in terms of functionality and annoyances.