danie10
@danie10@lemmy.ml
Website https://gadgeteer.co.za and Mastodon danie10@mastodon.social
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Good points. Yes, I do prefer to give an instance at least the benefit of the doubt. Difference tho really with Fediverse is you have to search and follow stuff to see it. It does not get inserted into your feed through ads or people playing the algorithms. So generally I’m only seeing what I follow. I suppose we do need to choose our instances wisely. Certainly, if an instance (not just a user on it) is really spamming or impacting on other instances, I suppose there can be grounds to block it. But we have not all been spammed yet by Threads. I don’t like Threads (cancelled all my accounts years ago) but I left a few good friends and family there that I would like to reconnect with, and follow them. I also like that my metadata stays on the Fediverse side, so I don’t need a Threads account or their app tracking me.
I just would not like to be denied the option to even reconnect with my family and friends. Same goes for WhatsApp interoperating on Signal protocol - I have many friends and colleagues I left behind on WhatsApp, and would like to reconnect again with them.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Especially when any individual can decide themselves to block Threads or Lemmy.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I agree 100%. I don’t need someone else overriding my existing right to decide whether I want to block or not (where is that going to stop). Anyway, I connect and follow individuals, not their whole instance. I’m not going to see anything from Threads unless I choose to follow someone. And if any friend reboosts stuff I don’t like (from Threads or anywhere else) I block that “friend”.
- Comment on In a further blow users are increasingly opting to delete Facebook 2 years ago:
Yep the youth market is not there, and advertisers are beginning to realise there is more market in the TikTok influencers etc... FB MarketPlace is a reason why many still login to sell / buy stuff so alternatives are needed for that, where a sufficient volume of people can be.
- FLOSS alternatives to Visual Basic - Notable that many non-Windows specific apps run across Windows, Linux and macOSwww.ubuntubuzz.com ↗Submitted 2 years ago to opensource@lemmy.ml | 3 comments
- Comment on Have you ever pooped outside? 2 years ago:
That's what leaves and stones are for ;-)
- Comment on Show, don't tell, with Asciinema, an open source terminal session recorder - Viewers can copy-and-paste the text 2 years ago:
Thanks, good to know!
- Show, don't tell, with Asciinema, an open source terminal session recorder - Viewers can copy-and-paste the textopensource.com ↗Submitted 2 years ago to opensource@lemmy.ml | 2 comments
- Comment on 2 years ago:
I've had "Learn Python" on my bucket list for two years. Decided to tackle it a few days before end of 2021 (so I don't delay again). Got it done and published it on Github. Just felt so good, and I really enjoyed it.