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Hello everyone,

As the title says, I need to use Google Classroom for a class I'm taking with my local school. I didn't get a choice in tooling unfortunately. I have in my private life cut google out, not having used Gmail in over a decade, using Youtube through invidious, OSM instead of Google Maps, etc.

I'm already planning on using either Firefox multiple account containers or a different dedicated browser for school stuff entirely. Is there any other advice you have to protect my privacy as much as possible?

I'm in the EU and I know Google is more limited in the data they can collect from educational uses, but obviously I don't trust Google.

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[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

Reddit is nothing without users posting and upvoting posts and comments. If all, or a large proportion of the users stopped using the site, reddit would have to listen or they'd stop being useful. I think there are two problems:

  1. As you said, users don't realize the power they have. It's a bit more nuanced than that, they do realize the power of the collective, but don't think the collective will exercise that power, and thus won't act individually. It's the same as "my vote doesn't matter, it's just one vote". This is obviously a self-fulfilling prophecy because they are making it happen, they simply need to follow what they think is right.

  2. A lot of users don't care. Again, a bit more nuanced than that, most users probably have a preference reddit listens to their users, keeps the 3rd party app access, etc. But they don't care enough to do anything about it, which in effect means in any practical way, they don't care. I'm guessing that to them this feels a bit of a "niche" problem and will use the official app. There are a small amount of users, like me and probably you reading this who've left reddit and won't go back.

The protests have worked. They've moved a motivated minority over to lemmy and we're creating communities, posts and comments, contributing to apps and running instances. We'll spend our time and effort improving the tools and communities for the fediverse ready. Hopefully, with enough of reddit being reddit causing more waves of people in the future to seek another platform, the fediverse will grow and reddit will dwindle. That's my hope anyway.

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KDE Itinerary gained the option to share locations via the Matrix protocol, so making sure NeoChat can actually properly handle this as well.

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

I think I disagree. I have heard this a lot on Reddit and I've heard it about Twitter, Google Plus and a bunch of other social networks and I've been on small ones and huge ones alike. Honestly, to me, when a social network is large it includes both nuanced discussion and there more casual posting. I don't see why both can't exist on the same site and I feel like it often does exist on the same site.

I also think people have a huge range of interests, some of which might be quite niche and having a large user base means these niche communities can thrive. When I've used smaller social networks, this typically has been the problem. They often have their tech communities covered and they often have other large common hobbies and interests covered, but if you take for example learning welsh or theremin music or something else, then you typically only get communities about those things on larger networks.

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I have noticed that over the last few years more and more soda makers are putting sweeteners in their drinks, originally it used it just be in their "diet" or "zero" offerings, but I've noticed they are making their way into their regular recopies too.

I usually immediately know if that's the case on the first sip because they often have a rather strong flavour, which isn't really pleasant. It seems to depend on what sweetener(s) they've chosen to use, but they can taste bitter, astringent or just... not good. I usually end up having to throw away the drink.

I don't drink soda very often, so I'm wondering if this is something you have to acquire a taste for?

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Note: these are not my first impressions, that's just the blog's title. I came across the post and thought it was interesting and you all might too :)

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[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate it.

Usually I'm online but what if I'm not, or what if they have server problems, or what if in 5 years they feel done with the game and remove the servers. If I pay for a game, I want to be able to play that game on my terms

It just leads to a worse player experience now, and limited likely an inability to play later

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow, I am surprised they would go this far if I'm honest.

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From the Lemmy Github:

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering if there's anything motivated users of Lemmy can do to help out and make the transition for folks easy.

I want Lemmy to succeed and fir people trying it out to like it and stay.

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

To some degree, you're right, reddit probably won't change regardless of what mods do. If they really are feeling the blackout, as you'd say they'll probably just replace the moderators and open the community back up, rather than reverse their decision.

However, I feel like it's reddit doing the disservice to their users, not mods who are taking action by protesting. Ultimately, and if reddit do replace the mods and try and continue as normal, then it sends a stronger message to the community that reddit doesn't care about or respect them and it's not a not a good place to continue being.

In the dynamic between reddit the company running the site and the users, there is limited power users have against reddit which holds a lot of power, but protesting like what's happening now one of the main tools users have.

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Another good link to follow the blackout is: https://reddark.untone.uk/

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Nothing. I don't like how they treat their users and I dont trust them. It's not like they were great and this came from nowhere. Reddit has been getting progressively worse for a long time.

fortunately, we have alternatives and don't need reddit.

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Lemmy calls them "communities" but since Lemmy federates over ActivityPub which can have lots of different implementations and Lemmy can speak to them, they can have different names. For example there is kbin which calls them "magazines", another implementation might call them something else.

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here are some I find really useful:

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Yep. Fuck him and reddit. I hope they realise their mistake and also realise it's too late and they've fucked up.

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