Pretty sure they’re talking about the devs, not the users

edit: still kind of weird tho

Not familiar with how piefed handles it specifically but aren’t posts/comments self-upvoted by default?

You could probably figure it out pretty easily just by looking at a user’s posts, no?

(This is unless piefed makes it so the main actor up votes their own posts, and the anonymous actor upvotes others’ posts, but then it would still be possible to do analysis on others’ comments to get a pretty accurate guess)

Try Raccoon, the UI feels very similar to what I remember from liftoff, imo it’s worth trying. It’s still a little bit beta and I’ve run into formatting issues a few times but the UI is so much better than Jerboa’s and has a lot of nice features (like linking cross-posts within the app) that Jerboa doesn’t.

I normally just use Jerboa but I’ve been trying Raccoon recently and it’s been really good. It’s definitely still beta and some formatting doesn’t work but each update has made it significantly better so it’s definitely worth checking out because the UI is the best of any of the apps I’ve tried imo

Jerboa is by dessalines, the same dev as Lemmy and the owner of lemmy.ml so it’s basically just all of the drama inherited from that.

Honestly at this point threads federation probably won’t even be able to get the first 2 E’s because it’s opt-in on the Threads side. Most Threads users don’t know what ActivityPub is and aren’t going to go digging through settings to turn it on. Aside from the POTUS Threads account I legitimately haven’t found a threads account I’d remotely care about that bothered to turn it on, even among some of the more tech-oriented ones

I think the question was meant in terms of Mastodon, not the connected web browser. I.e. are there any apps that let you look at Mastodon posts without signing into Mastodon? Something like Jerboa’s anonymous mode.

Anything that touches the internet can be scraped. Mastodon DMs aren’t encrypted, and public posts are obviously public. There’s nothing stopping someone from using the API or any web crawler to harvest data on mastodon users anyway.

Not arguing for/against threads, tbh I don’t even use mastodon much because I don’t really like the idea of microblogging to begin with

I only played JC3 but the player is basically invincible - the lack of a health bar and the quick recovery lean into the fact that the game isn’t trying to be serious, but instead lets you have fun messing around with stuff. When I played I was mostly just trying to do fun trick shots/find ways to do fun nonsense with the phyisics engine. A few of my friends and I had a fun time trying the max out the random task scores (free falling the longest distance, grappling up the most, etc) without looking at online strategies

Most students have probably used Google drive by now, but it’s still worth adding. Additionally, I personally find Overleaf to be great for LaTeX documents.

Edit: Also worth mentioning Notion for note-taking/studying/planning, and if slack is on the list for study groups, discord might as well be also. This might be because I’m a CS major, but nearly every class I’ve taken has had students make a discord server for studying/working on homework