ojmcelderry

Who are these people that will fund a social network, with no expectations of a return on that investment, so that people can fill it up with memes and porn for free?

I do think Firefox gets a degraded experience on some websites.

For example, Google Meet supports virtual video backgrounds and 3D face filters for Chromium based browsers.

And Google Search serves up an older results page design with fewer features to Firefox users. Someone has literally had to create a Firefox addon to make it pretend to be Chrome so it gets the modern results page.

I realise these are both Google-owned websites - but I don't think it's accurate to say that the average user isn't going to come up across these differences.

There are several eras of the web.

I think Lemmy feels very much of the "Web 2.0" era, which came about in the mid-to-late naughties. When MySpace and Facebook and blogging were all the rage.

So not the same "old web" era as Windows 98. If that makes sense!

/s

This is where I have to give credit to modern WiFi routers and mesh access points.

The ones I've owned most recently allow you to switch off the LED lights in the admin control panel. I can even set them on a schedule if I want them on during the day (to indicate status) and off at night (so I can sleep).

Much better than old routers which used to flash whenever data was being broadcast.

Really? I've been using it for a while and haven't noticed tracking.

What sorts of tracking have you seen them engage in?

They display ads in search results, which they presumably do need to track clicks for. But you can literally just switch the ads off in the settings. And then you'll never see them again. They're on by default, but not mandatory.

reddit uses a differential for upvotes

ELI5? I'm genuinely interested - just wonder what this means? I'd always assumed +1 on a post meant 1 user clicking the "upvote" button.

I'm pretty sure Virgin Media used to do this until recently

Exactly this. In the same way I expect to be able to email the government, but I wouldn't expect to send them a message on Facebook Messenger.

Open platforms over walled gardens.

If only there was some sort of Reddit API that we could use to retrieve & mirror content from Reddit… 🤔

Oh wait! 😅

Wait a minute.. David Attenborough is a household name 🙊 surely not!?

Out of interest, what's your preferred choice nowadays? I've always preferred to stick with Debian-derived distros so I don't need to learn a different package manager (silly, I know).

I guess I like the comfort/predictably of Ubuntu - I know what to expect, and how to fix it if things go wrong. But maybe I shouldn't be limiting myself.