I agree, what are some of them that are known by users of Lemmy? In particular when you compare larger search engines to each other.
rob299
joined 1 year ago
as you say this big companies in recent times have been working on making the web less wide, and less accessible mostly for independent sites. search engines hide sites, sometimes Playstore will take down apps. I think this is a small issue slowly turning into a big issue. and a small handful that own a bunch of the sites you commonly see will take advantage of the changing landscape.
In other words, these older extentions work just fine, no one wants the new limited features, and google is force disabling older extentions despite any outcries from its users because it can.
seems interesting, a news source from Germany. I'l bookmark it and check it out.
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also feel free to comment your own suggestions for news sites for tech updates that don't pay wall on the web page.
New York times - https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology abc - https://abcnews.go.com/technology
the hill - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/ BBC news - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology
while nonprofit Npr doesn't pay wall, they have a new pop up that says something along the likes of "expected a paywall not our style please donate" that the user can dismiss and continue browsing the site. https://www.npr.org/sections/technology/
Reuters use to be a good source for me untill they started pay walling after a small amount of news article reads.
I'm glad you actually said that scrolling down the comment I was like, wait people are ok with this? and they don't see that it's a trap?
It's a trap, this is all bad. standerlise the internet, and then they'l be able to charge you for Xbox live ons team and more
This is not a good thing for Linux users, but it is for Windows users. It'l make using the internet for basic tasks more seamless. and I think this is generally what this is going for. Not to make it seamless, but to restrict, but make it seem seamless.
If I wanted to see ads I would go on youtube or like kotaku or something.
ok, but what about the fact that most of the instances have policies meant to protect these groups, which happens to be most of them if not all of them? Since it is a federated service alot of the instance most users use, will usually defederate from other instances not moderating to their standards once they are aware, but sadly not all of them. That's the point of federation so that one person can't control every single detail of what happens for their own gains. That's why the users on Mastodon broke away from Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.
Sure there are going to be instances that just so happen to exist that might not moderate for or even, appreciate these groups as much, at that point if you were to sign up to such an instance, you might want to switch instances to avoid such content.
Would I go as far as to say, that it is unsafe by design? No i'd say that the fediverse is meant to be safer by design for all people from all sorts of backgrounds with different viewpoints. and depending on where you join, then that will determine how safe the fediverse is for you as a person.
Did you know that if you find an instance that's not within your local instance while prowsing and searching say Mastodon, that you can block that instance from showing up entirely?
also that marginalized groups of people had even had better experiences on the fediverse than on Twitter and other places as some seem to even claimed on your own post here.
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The best way to bookmark Lemmy communities in your web browser (don't make these mistakes.)
(lemmy.world)
If you're like me, you would join one Lemmy instance, and then join a community by one of the following ways,
- through a 3rd party search
- on the server you are on
- a link to the community
Let's say you find a community you like hosted from a different Lemmy instance, you bookmark it and find out that you have to make another account, which you don't, in order to post, interact and save settings.
We can fix this by modifying or editing the URL in the bookmark.
say my main account is in Lemmy world, I click a link to another community and it acts as if I should have an account on there and I can't log into my account through new instance! How do I make it just work with just my original account?
using https://lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming as example (not in the screenshot but same concept)
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at the beginning of the url, I would want to change the lemmy.ml to lemmy.world this tells "them" i'm on the instance that I signed up on.
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at the end of the url right after the name of the instance lastly I would want to add @lemmy.ml. This is useful with communities with double names in different instances! Sometimes what will happen without that included in the url is "they'l" will take to the community you asked for but only if it's from that community at the start of the url, so be sure to have that in the bookmarked URL.
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the bookmarked URL in my case should end up looking like this, https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
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Interesting. Is this happening in the u.s? If not there might be a law for those countries making them hide it there. If you can, try searching for sepia search, its a sesrch engine for almost all peertube intances basically its as if peertube was youtube, do those countries show that?