stefanlaser

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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] stefanlaser@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tools help, and because the Fediverse API is completely accessible, folks have already come up with awesome stuff.

  • Populate your following list by finding friends, the Fedifinder still appears to work and helps find friends from Twitter on Masto: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
  • Now find friends of friends, the wider social graph. Followgraph works wonders: https://followgraph.vercel.app/
  • Now you will likely miss posts, so try following updates of people if you really enjoy their content, plus of course pinning hashtags. PLUS. Up your game with an algorithm, either in the dedicated Mastodon app (trending posts) or with more customisation through the app Fediview: https://fediview.com/ Using Mastodon Digest (GitHub), you could also set up your own automation script.
  • Folks have created lists and groups you can mass subscribe. The most successful one I know is from and for academics, perhaps there is a field for you in there. Journalists have similar stuff. See https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
  • There are many awesome apps out there to access your content, improving the experience. I recommend Phanpy because of its unique and sleek design, see https://phanpy.social/. If you miss Quote Tweets and other stuff, try an app like Elk.
  • Mastodon is only one option, if you want all of Twitter's tools and more cool stuff, try Firefish. You can migrate followers and posts. This way, you can skip many external tools.

And that's just the beginning.

What's a good alternative to Gmail? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] stefanlaser@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Underrated comment. Posteo is awesome, cheap, and has all the tools you need for mail and calendar things. Proton may give you more, but that's a different query.

If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] stefanlaser@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, a while back, but it appears to be lacking key features, see here. This comes from the GrapheneOS circles. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html

Not an expert though, updates or critique highly welcome.

If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] stefanlaser@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And, crucially, security. It is far behind, on desktop and especially mobile. Process isolation aka sandboxing is superior on Chrome platforms. Unfortunately.

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Resource-efficient fork of Mastodon—or go for other Fediverse packages instead? (social.tchncs.de)
 

I'm looking for a customizable, resource-efficient Mastodon fork. Bonfire? Rebased? Or go non-Ruby, like Pleroma (nah), Misskey Calckey, indeed, Lemmy (hui)? Any experiences?

This is part of an endeavour to host w/ a RaspberryPi & solar power. It will be a device to mess around, test, and share experiences.

Potential features:

  • tweaking network traffic in various ways
  • media options: off, auto compression, auto delete
  • monitoring server metrics, energy flow, sharing data through a bot
  • auto-off when battery low, sad emoji

Re-posting this from Mastodon w/ minor edits, because Fediverse and potential cross-interaction. I probably should have posted here first and then shared the link on Mastodon, but it's a Mastodon question, so I did it the other way around. Still not sure what's the best way to do this though.

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Vietnam: Coal supply for thermal power plants to increase (slrpnk.net)
 

Following a call to share more non-Western themes, here is an article from local Vietnamese newspaper Viet Nam News, Saturday's edition. Reading between the lines is always key here, so I thought you might appreciate this piece.

Vietnam faces a power shortage this spring and summer. The solution is coal and more coal. There is indeed a new power development plan (PDP8) that puts a focus on green energy, but only relatively speaking, coal will grow until 2030. It's growth that matters. The G7 wants green growth, but that's only a side-hustle for the government, it seems. Wind and solar energy have a hard time, enforcement on the ground is falling behind.

So the question for this sub might be how to make green energy the only alternative.

Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] stefanlaser@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, and apparently it's called Voyager now. Merci

Vietnam to get billions for climate change while jailing environmentalists in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] stefanlaser@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Informative and unfortunate. Economic growth is the single goal of the CPV and guarantees its power. Climate and ecological claims endanger the social order, so 👨‍⚖️