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My particular instance (sdf.org) is a pretty old-school nerdy place. So I like our local discussions. But I do like having the addition of what you propose too.
My particular instance (sdf.org) is a pretty old-school nerdy place. So I like our local discussions. But I do like having the addition of what you propose too.
This was the original premise of app.net - a social service from years back. They built a “social backbone”. They offered you a single place where your identity and friends were housed. Other people could build apps on top of the backbone.
So you would join say a clone of Instagram and all your friends were still there. And your account still worked. Or they had a Twitter clone. Same deal. It was a single sign-on social account/identity/social graph that was separate from the apps. So things could just plug in.
Worked great. But it was a paid service. And came out right at peak Facebook so it died off.
Come visit us over at !bbs@lemmy.sdf.org ! Would love to build up a community around this.
It’s all good. I only know because I’ve been a paying customer since pretty much the beginning.
I get the sentiment, but Flickr hasn’t been owned by Yahoo for a while. They were purchased by the folks that run SmugMug.
I work at a top 10 US financial institution. All devs/engineers and ux folks get issued macbooks as standard. Probably been two years now that this has been the case. Being able to use all the unix command line stuff, along with more reliable machines, longer expected life, and higher productivity (those M series processors rock) make it a no-brainer. HP zbooks only go out to the people that specifically request them or are reliant on the few apps that do not have either a web based option or macos equivalent (its going to be the web based option that solves this over time I expect. Prob not a lot of incoming ports).
non-technical people looking to use an alternative operating system
Umm, you don’t see the oxymoron there?
Sponsorblock for YouTube was a game changer for me. Highly recommend it to everyone.
I’m using the ivory app on iOS to interact with Mastodon so I can’t say for sure. But performance has been great for me. I even pay for extra SDF services.
something tech-centric.
Might I suggest SDF? They are a long running tech community that started as public UNIX access.
Family group chat and shared albums in iOS. Solve 90% of the needs.
AppFlowy isn’t web based?
Interesting, I feel exactly the opposite. I’m far less inclined to use a web based tool. For a backend sync/storage or admin interface to a server? Sure. But for the user interface/business logic? Let me run it locally as a native program. To each their own I guess.
Well, that’s good to know. Thanks!
Since 1999 I’m only on my second Brother Laser printer. They are champs and 3rd party toner is inexpensive.
I took a peek, and it looks great!
Would be curious in the article if you can turn up a link to it.
Anything involving crypto needs to be nuked from orbit, just to be sure.
Knowing what a jerk Jack Dorsey is though, I’m steering clear.
PiHole blocks by preventing certain domains from loading (the ones you specify on your blocklist). It’s not examining any content. It simply sees a request for say examplespamdomain.com and blocks it when something on your network requests it. Youtube serves ads and videos from the same domain, so this approach doesn’t work.
On iOS at least, you can just tap the translate button.
The article is basically just a long unsubstantiated rant though.