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Cake day: October 12th, 2021

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  • Hey I’m the coship guy (coshipmate?). I also found out the hard way the lemmy api doesn’t respond if you’re missing some parameters. Actually the most helpful thing was opening up photon and just seeing the network requests it sent.

    I’ve used a few platforms in my life and am currently mainly on Mastodon and Pixelfed, but Reddit, the role model for Lemmy, was never one of them. It seemed very confusing and complex to me and I had the same feeling with Lemmy. It’s all a bit different from Mastodon, but that’s mainly because you have to deal with another level here, the communities.

    Yeah funny how that works. I find twitter, and thus mastodon very confusing. There’s no organization or discoverability except what’s added on by hashtags (very inconsistent) or algorithms (don’t exist on mastodon).

    Lemmy doesn’t care about users, only communities. You can’t even follow them (which can be quite annoying when things like wordpress join the fediverse, but make blogs “users” even though they can have multiple authors, and now you can’t follow them through lemmy)
















  • Here’s the extent of the design constraints by the bill:

    (b) (1) A business shall not develop or maintain a mobile operating system that does not include a setting that enables a consumer to send an opt-out preference signal to businesses with which the consumer interacts through the mobile operating system.

    (2) This subdivision shall become operative six months after the adoption of regulations by the California Privacy Protection Agency that outline the requirements and technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal to be used by a mobile operating system.

    (c) The California Privacy Protection Agency may adopt regulations as necessary to implement and administer this section, including, but not limited to, ensuring that the setting described by subdivision (a) is easy for a reasonable person to locate and configure and updating the definitions of “browser” and “mobile operating system” to address changes in technology, data collection, obstacles to implementation, or privacy concerns.

    It has to:

    1. exist
    2. be a setting
    3. that people interact with through the operating system
    4. Be reasonably easy to locate and change

    idk guys, seems pretty difficult to me /s