Notices by Sim (0xsim@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs I'm not really sure that "Mastodon user" == "average consumer", and even then, telling users (aka "your audience") it's their fault for using features that are heavily advertised is condescending.

After your "you’re all happily granting access ¯\_(ツ)_/¯", I can almost hear "you dumb plebeians". Dunk on Apple and Google, not on the average consumer that's being duped.

@thomasfuchs

> And you’re all happily granting access so you can summarize emails.

Way to shift the blame on most consumers who probably don't know better.

Make backups.

https://mastodon.world/@vsp/112889425220284675

A European Citizens' Initiative calling for publishers to protect video game preservation and force them to provide ways to keep playing video games even after their official support ends. Please sign and share with others if you're an EU citizen!

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

#gaming #preservation #europe

@aral Dear users, we developers are truly sorry but we're often not the ones who decide to implement obtuse or dark pattern features :(

@aral @homegrown "but my business can't work if I have to respect people and laws!"

@marcan @kitsastro @babouille "you can't call it planned obsolescence because there isn't a killswitch timer whose only goal is to kill your battery after 24 months"

You don't need to explicitly and actively sabotage R2R to be very much against R2R. When 99.99% people can't replace a cracked screen because "something something vertical integration and security and complex tech", it IS anti R2R.

@jupiter_rowland

> Mastodon users tend to demand the whole rest of the Fediverse cut down on its features

No? Different apps have different UIs to fit their different features and ways to communicate.

> So you want to only log into hachyderm.io, then go to hub.netzgemeinde.eu (...) Is that what you want?

I want to use my Mastodon creds to login into any #Lemmy or #kbin instance. That's all I want. Not jump through hoops. I don't know if ActivityPub protocol permits this, but it should.

@jupiter_rowland

Also:

> (Deliberately used the quote feature here.)

> (Another quote which Mastodon can't display. Blame Mastodon. #Hubzilla here works perfectly well.)

> Mastodon users tend to demand the whole rest of the Fediverse cut down on its features

That's now how you'll get newcomers feel welcome and try your oh-so-superior hubzilla. Touch some grass.

@jupiter_rowland @maegul

> but who don't know that they can use their already existing Mastodon accounts to join Lemmy communities and /kbin magazines.

How? By using your mastodon account to follow lemmy/kbin communities, and have a messy and subpar experience?

You can't use your credentials from instance X to login on instance Y, so if you want to correctly participate on lemmy/kbin, you need an account on one of these instances.

@youronlyone https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/karabin@karab.in works but https://sh.itjust.works/c/karabin@karab.in doesn't

So it's not "lemmy can't see kbin, but kbin can see lemmy", I think it's more "both apps are not mature enough, instances and new users are popping non-stop since yesterday, and the fediverse isn't super straightforward"

@youronlyone I replied in a Lemmy (beehaw) thread from a kbin (fedia) instance, and got replies back from beehaw users.

Edit: though I didn't get any notification in kbin from the replies

@nova "I don't understand why Mastodon requires more hardware than HN."