Slight difference is that Zuck has had control from the start, whereas other companies might have had “don’t be evil” leadership that was… optimized away for financial reasons.

Not that it really matters nowadays. Just an observation.

Issue #3580: Make Show Read Posts More Relevant
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3580

State authorities aren’t bound by GDPR. That’s something that’s explicitly stated in it.

Oh wow, this is great news. I expect there will still be uncomfortably many dubious black boxes left there. But it’s certainly a step in the right direction. For me the sticking point with AMD was always shoddy SW/FW/drivers shipped with superior (compared to their biggest competitor anyway) hardware design. It’s good to see them conceding that and outsourcing to open source community rather than some dubious third party.

Though for the time being if you want truly open firmware get a POWER chip instead. If you can afford it.

I feel like both of these are extremely location dependent. From my friends across North America I know that network connectivity can be very very poor if you aren’t living close to a big city.

And as far your example with school goes, I’ve seen the polar opposite happen where all kids got a mandatory Teams or Google account (depending on school) fairly early into the lockdowns.

Maybe subcontinents are still too big to generalize about from one person’s experience. :-)

Enter https://yourinstance.example.com/c/[email protected] into your URL bar and it should come up after a bit and let you subscribe. Some instances have blacklists you can find under the “Instances” link down bottom, but usually this should do the trick.

If you submit a request under GDPR “right to be forgotten” they are mandated to comply. (As long you are EU citizen)

Not that GDPR violations are uncommon, but at least it seems the regulators are capable of slapping companies with hefty fines.

XMPP actually has that right now, as you can restrict publish-subscribe nodes to contacts. Which is different from private groupchats in that you have unified timeline interface rather than separate chats in the few clients that support it right now.

Personally I strongly dislike this context-less mode of communication and very much prefer topical chatrooms and fora, but to each their own. I just wanted to note this exists and encourage people to try Movim and/or Libveria (both are web based) if that is something people are interested in.

This does sound like something that would work much better with Lemmy.

Partly it is my personal preference for structured threaded discussion as found on on classic blog comment systems and public fora ever since the Usenet.

But also: you get WebMentions so you know where links were posted, you get the entire discussion not just a fragment, and much more useful moderation both thanks to the vote system and thanks to being able to filter specific communities should you want to, in addition to the rather loose instance-based or very specific user-based filtering.

As far as I know the XMPP-AP gateway is pretty much here already, so XMPP should move to the right and be connected with much of the networking platforms. Perhaps highlighting the specific client software (Libervia & Movim) that currently support pub/sub blogging on XMPP, as opposed to just direct and group chat the protocol started with.

I’m also missing RSS/Atom protocols being highlighted in the diagram. While they aren’t bidirectional (or maybe because of it) they still create an immensely useful way to subscribe to content on the social web.

I’m probably missing something, but wouldn’t it be far easier to redirect people to install page of extension for their respective browser? Such extension could then transform the button as needed to point to whichever social web instance.