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I love this in principle.
I just wish Mastodon instances were viewable without JavaScript. Opening the door to many types of browser exploit and fingerprinting shouldn’t be necessary just for reading.
Mastodon has RSS built-in. Just add “.rss” to the URL to get the RSS feed.
I love the paranoia of you nerds. It’s valid but idk how you spare the effort.
It’s simple, when you understand how shaky the foundation of all digital infrastructure is it’s impossible to not be paranoid.
The Polyfill incident is bad (that seems to be how the hackers got into the internet archive), and the OpenSSH one could have been really nasty, if it wasn’t caught both early, and by chance (a performance engineer at a major software company noticed).
idk how you spare the effort.
When you’ve been building networked systems for longer than JavaScript has existed, it no longer takes effort to spot design choices that put users at risk. When you’ve watched endless vulnerabilities be exploited over the years, it’s not paranoia, but a real-world problem that impacts real people. At that point, the flaws are impossible to responsibly ignore.
Spreading awareness and showing people how to build safer systems does sometimes get tiring, but I think it’s important.
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It’s not paranoid to complain about the unnecessity of javascript when all you want to do is read a public text post on a social media platform. I have javascript disabled on some browsers, and it’s annoying to have to whitelist a site that really shouldn’t need it.
Isn’t it basically a fundamental underlying technology of the web I don’t understand how you can have it disabled and still be able to access modern websites.
it isn’t. that is html and css, some would argue it’s html only.
javascript is not needed to load a website. It’s useful for interaction, and needed to load content separately and dynamically. without it you get a mostly (but not totally) static document like in Office Word
I actually gave up recently for my mental health of all things. Turns out accepting being tracked in just about everything I do but also getting all the benefits of living in the future, without the effort spent on mitigation, is a huge relief. Does Google know my daily routine? Yes. Did they when I had the tin foil hat on? Probably also yes.
I find the negatives detract from the benefits too much, usually. Like having your arm cut off and then receiving lovemaking: I am no longer in the mood.
Have you been watching Bad Monkey? Because that’s literally about half the plot.
Same it’s much nicer to enjoy the tech/tools. I still ad block on all devices tho
Probably to avoid linking to kid diddler instances.
Steam loves to minimize moderation so you’re probably correct
Given that half the games are anime waifu sims these days, I can only imagine what horrors you’d unleash letting people link to their profiles on anime waifu mastodon instances.
Actually no, I don’t have to imagine it since I’ve seen the horrors with my own eyes.
That’s disgusting!
Where?
Having gone to Tokyo’s Akihabara and gone to the depths of anime waifu hell…
I mean have you seen gamers?
They should use fediseer to accept the top 100 most reputable mastodons
I don’t think their devs are having a hard time figuring out how to support different instance names…
Then why don’t they accept any instance? Fediseer has an api where they can see the most reputable instances and limit to only allowing those reputable instances.
Because of what everyone else here is saying. If you’re a company like Valve, you don’t want to open a portal to undesirable content that isn’t moderated. They chose the biggest instances with the most users because those are generally going to be the safest ones.
which is why im saying use fediseer so they dont have to hand pick 5 instances
You’re missing the point. They chose those instances INTENTIONALLY. They don’t need your solution because there is no problem. 🤦
Fediseer chooses instances INTENTIONALLY
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Might have been a temporary issue. It’s working for me.
I doubt that’s the case since you can freely link to external sites elsewhere?
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I think you would love 4chan.
I said cultural clashes, not pedo and MAGA circlejerks.
Wait, do you not realize what an echo chamber is…?
Because that’s exactly what I don’t want in my Twitter-like experience.
I want to watch the opposing groups of internet brained waterheads, who view posting as combat, flail, whine, and throw hissy fits at each other, while on the same platform.
That’s literally what you’re doing rn lmao you aren’t a spectator you’re in the gladiator pit
And you’re the Cesar’s centurion. In armor and with the crowd cheering for you.
What a sight.
… gladiator pit?
First off, no, this isn’t combat and I don’t suffer from that delusion…
Secondly, I’m talking about crazy vs. crazy. I want QANON nuts, antivax moms, liberals that accuse everyone they don’t like of being a Russian bot, etc.
Finally… I’m having a hard time moving past you calling this a gladiator pit, and implying that I’m a gladiator… Actually, what’s your Twitter handle. You sound like someone I should follow.
Not sure how to respond to this tbh
Unfortunately I don’t use Twitter so I don’t have a handle
The limitations are annoying but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
Absolutely! It’s representation!
That is so bad. They clearly don’t understand the appeal of decentralized systems…
At the same time people on here are defending the centralization of PC gaming on Steam so even fediverse users don’t understand decentralization
How do you imagine decentralized gaming? Every game comes with it’s own launcher?
The idea is for games to be launcher independent/compatible with many launchers. If I wanna play a game I got on gog I could use the official launcher, heroic, mini galaxy, or I could even use no launcher and just download the game installers directly
Every game tied to it’s own console.
Unironically I would buy a UFO 50 console
My friend down the street had an LX back in '83. It was an amazing device but sadly way too ahead of its time.
My fantasy is that PC games become similar to roms, where it’s a single file. Maybe encoded is the system specs, OS, etc.
Then the “emulator” just works.
Of course, no financial incentives and a lot of work just to exist. Not to mention, it’ll be impossible to do for modern games. But maybe every game that’s older than 10 years old gets this treatment.
Also I’m not a OS engineer and maybe this is what Proton is doing with Linux.
Then pure decentralized gaming on any OS - computer, browser, raspberry pi, “smart Fridge”, whatever has the specs. And the game just works.
I think will be something more like gog or itch io
What makes either of those decentralized?
I think people just prefer Steam to Epic or EA’s store fronts. Whenever GoG gets brought up, the only major complaint is is that there’s no official Linux launcher, even when there are Linux binaries for the games.
GOG’s Windows launcher is bad so it’s not really a big loss. Heroic Launcher is excellent and supports more than just GOG
It’s not very good, but does the job. I mainly used the Mac version before jumping ship entirely. I was surprised that they made a Mac version, but no lINUX version. If you ever wanted to know true pain though, the Mac version of the Epic launch was true trash. Nothing worth playing on that anyway though since they discontinued Unreal Tournament.
Heroic launch has been pretty good for any of the modern games I’ve tried it it. Eventually, I want to get some of the old Star Wars games running though.
The instance I’m on isn’t federated with every other instance. Why would you expect steam to effectively federate with every instance?
What? I’m not following. Steam isn’t federating with anyone. This is about having a link to an external site. Nothing more. Has nothing to do with federation directly.
