njtrafficsignshopper

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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
It's weird that there isn't a US-specific Lemmy instance in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Do you plan on cooking in space?

What's something you wish to bring back from the late 90's/early 00's internet? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
I don't get people that are here in the fediverse and *want to bring over* the content that is on FB, IG, TikTok, etc. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think what it means is that it doesn't add up all the little arrows across all posts and comments, by default. Although, I suppose an instance, external tool, or browser plugin could still do that.

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Account portability (lemmy.world)
 

Some more spitballing from a noob here, but I wonder if much thought has been given to account portability between Lemmy instances, or even Fediverse apps in general.

So far, from what I can see, accounts are pretty much siloed. Two opportunities off the top of my head:

  • Export your account, including all posts, comments, and user metadata and customization. This actually might be legally required by some jurisdictions, although I'm no lawyer. GDPR might not be applicable for one reason or another but I think the spirit of the law is good.

  • Single sign on. This is perhaps a little harder to implement, but it might be nice to be able to participate on another fediverse app without having to research instances and sign up. Also nice to try out different instances of the same app before committing to one.

I don't get people that are here in the fediverse and *want to bring over* the content that is on FB, IG, TikTok, etc. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will defederate with anyone who dares associate with Kevin Bacon

I don't get people that are here in the fediverse and *want to bring over* the content that is on FB, IG, TikTok, etc. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally, I am fresh enough to all this that I feel it's prudent to kind of sit back on the discussion, and am leaning toward the "defederate" option.

However - I deleted my Facebook years ago, and never had Instagram or Twitter. It would be nice to interact with my own family and friends who do most of their online presence in places like that. So I kinda get it. I'm not after the mass-produced content but it would be cool to hear from people I know again that I've lost touch with because I'm stubborn about FB.

Just spitballing - and please consider that I haven't been at Lemmy long enough to know if this is a terrible idea - but what about an instance that hasn't blocked Facebook and other big corpos, but doesn't raise their content by default? Like what if you have to actively connect with people on them? Seems like a decent middle ground, until Facebook decides to break it anyway.

Theming Lemmy.world? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah gotcha. Could you also link me to Lemmy-ui?

Theming Lemmy.world? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanks for the response. Was that update recent? Could swear I didn't see so many options last time I checked...

I wonder whether a pull request would be welcome to allow users to specify a URL for a custom CSS file also.

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Theming Lemmy.world? (lemmy.world)
 

I was just thinking I'd like to make some UI tweaks - I like dark themes but the dark theme is a little hard to parse for me here.

Of course it's always possible to go the user stylesheets route, with something like Tampermonkey or Stylish. But, is there an established best practice already? Do most instances have the same UI, and, if not, how are the differences implemented?

I also think there's probably room for some more niche stuff like RES used to do, but considering Lemmy is open source it might make sense to do some of that against the official repo rather than as another layer on top. Then again that would make adoption less convenient and under user control.

If Lemmy and Mastodon continues to get popular, we will eventually get Instance wars. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, could be because it's something you've had to do often enough that they're trying to rate limit you

joining the fediverse to bitch about reddit is the same as going on a date, and spending the whole night talking about your ex in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta be honest, I am kind of curious to try this.

If Lemmy and Mastodon continues to get popular, we will eventually get Instance wars. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hm I have made at least 3 gmail addresses and didn't have to do this. And in fact their apps support account switching pretty easily, which seems to indicate that they don't really disapprove of making multiple accounts.

In fact the only thing they asked for was a backup email address in case you get locked out or they need to send security alerts, and that was optional.

Mastodon's official stance on Threads in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] njtrafficsignshopper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks.

So not too dissimilar in terms of total numbers of users... however considering the growth of the whole internet's user base...

760 million total worldwide internet users in 2003, vs 4.7 billion today.

Based on these sources, then, 1.3% of all internet users were using XMPP in 2003, and 0.26% of all internet users in the fediverse in 2023. As a proportion of all users, that makes XMPP roughly 5x more popular back then than ActivityPub is now.

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