Article author seems to have completely fabricated the “10 more”. There are no quotes from anyone even hinting at more whistleblowers existing, let alone ten more.

You’d see posts in a community/group/etc based on your trust of the community, unless you’ve explicitly de-trusted the poster or you trust someone who de-trusts them (and you haven’t broken that chain).

As a long time Pandora user… I never want to select individual songs. I want stations, vibes, playlists, etc.

For the simplest users, my initial idea is just a binary “do you trust them?” for each person (aka “friends”) and non-person (aka “follow”), and maybe one global binary of “do you trust who they trust?” that defaults to yes. anything more complex than that can be optional.

I am sad that the current generation of federated social media/networks still doesn’t have much, if any, implementation of web of trust functionality. I believe that’s the only solution to bots/AI/etc content in the future. Show me content from people/accounts/profiles I trust, and accounts they trust, etc. When I see spam or scams or other misbehavior, show me the trust chain connecting me to it so I can sever it at the appropriate level instead of having to block individual accounts. (e.g. “sorry mom, you’ve trusted too many political frauds, I’m going to stop trusting people you trust”)

Mastodon has timed muting, but only permanent blocking.

It’s extremely unlikely … YOU, sure. But it’s absolutely certain that legit people will be blocked from contacting from those numbers to hundreds or thousands of other people.

I switched to Arch[-based distros] when I realized I had been getting 90% of my support from the Arch wiki for years

most applications on Linux are design / depend on [GNOME’s] components

[[citation needed]]

Would you spend an hour fixing a problem that will only save you ten minutes total in the rest of your lifetime using the software?

How did you get from “People often ask” to “having recurring conversations with everyone you know”?

And, since we don’t own or use any Haier appliances, we aren’t subject to their TOS.

Most of my motivation here was recurring conversations with friends and colleagues and strangers about how much time I put into making small contributions to open source projects.

I’m going to click the [-] thread collapse button on Lemmy 50 times in the next ten minutes.

That area of the chart is for people with really repetitive jobs/hobbies. There are MANY jobs where you do the same 5-10 minute thing 50x a day.

It’s not just about openid/identity/authentication. It’s also about syndication and subscription. For forums to fill the niche reddit fills, we would have needed much better tooling around things like RSS/Atom, to allow people to see and interact with content from many forums in a consolidated interface.

I think many of those people are conflating subreddit moderators with reddit site moderators/admins. On many platforms, “mods” refers to the top level people.

They can’t afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.

upset that it needs you to login to a specific server before it will let you stream music from other unrelated servers

FTFY

• “I don’t want to see content from this person”, legit
• “I don’t want to get notifications about this person’s content”, legit
• “I don’t want this person’s content to be able to link to my profile or use my name”, dubious
• “I want this person to have to log out to see my content”, nonsense