Honestly, that's fine. Good for Reddit.
It's just not a place for me anymore.
I'd say I slowed down my usage, as I looked for alternatives. But yeah, once Apollo stopped working, I cut out Reddit cold turkey.
I disagree.
Let me give you a thought experiment. Suppose you have an ISP. HTTP is a federated protocol. Should your ISP "take a stand" against Facebook by blocking the domain? I think very few people would think that wise. Should your email provider take the same stand by disallowing you from exchanging emails with fb.com or meta.com? Obviously not.
If only banks had meaningful security themselves.
Ultimately I'm less worried about banks, because all of that stuff can be reversed. Banking is almost designed with the idea that you'll be compromised.
I'm more worried about losing all my important files.
The projects I'm working with are big enough to rule out one process/one file, but I agree. Part of all of this is why things like Heroku, Google App Engine, and fly.io all appeal to me (especially the early Guido-era App Engine). They had all this infrastructure, but using it was no more complex than just using a normal project.
Right now at work I'm banging my head against SQS.
You do need a message queue sometimes. Though I've often found that just inserting into a table works well enough if you plan your indexes right.
I like BitWarden, but I'm not 100% sold on cloud-based solutions. The encryption is probably fine, but is the whole payload? Also, I'm torn between "big" and "small" password managers.
A small one is less likely to be targeted. A big one will probably have more security infrastructure/employees.
One bummer with BitWarden is that the UI just isn't very good. For example, you can't select more than one item in the desktop electron app.
I'm tempted to say it's better, but, unfortunately, in many ways it's not.
What Reddit had, most of the time, was semi-canonical communities. There was /r/python, /r/linux, /r/privacy, etc. The diaspora of Lemmy is a shadow of all of that. Surely, there are a dozen or so (at least) /c/python communities on Lemmy, but is there a single one that's anywhere near as active as the Reddit one? No. Not so far, at least.
And unfortunately, I can say as an instance admin, the lemmy moderation tools are just flat bad. We had to turn off open registration and enable email verification, not because we would otherwise need it, but the Lemmy moderation tools are 100% reactive and only operate on a 1-by-1 basis. If a spambot signs up 100 fake accounts, I have to go and individually ban each and every one of them. There's no shift+select, ban.
Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to be here, and Lemmy's great, and there's far less toxicity (so far). All I'm saying is, (1) there's work to do, (2) don't gloat.
Yes. You’re signing up to be a moderator.
The liability issue is addressed somewhat through the DMCA safe harbor law. But it’s probably not a lawsuit you want.
Either way you’re giving up some space to have a battery that’s easily replaced.
You can certainly make the argument that phones (and computers) are slowing down. It used to be a revolution every year or two, now it’s very incremental.
I would not say though that you can effectively use a 10 year old phone. There are some old networks out there, but major networks shut down 3g.
You might have seen Joanna Stern’s attempt to use an iPhone 4 on YouTube last year (if not watch it for some amusement). Even if the battery on that device were fine, the device was really pretty unusable.
Also: even if the battery were easily replaceable, replacements will only be easy to find for the most popular older phones.
It’s not Apollo. But so far it’s not bad either. 😍