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Uhhhhhh, bem vindo a EasyList/uBO – Cookie Notices.

Sorry, can't speak Portuguese beyond the stuff out the front of Nando's. uBlock Origin includes two lists in the settings (both off by default) that also handle bypassing cookie notices. The other one is AdGuard/uBO – Cookie Notices, but I've been getting by with just the first one enabled. Useful if you want to keep your number of extensions down.

EDIT: Also just realizing this is not Portuguese. Told you I can't speak it.

This article is paywalled on my end, here's an archive link if anybody else needs it: https://archive.md/KoTcD

It's kind of complicated. Bluesky doesn't do anything the way the fediverse does, so a PDS isn't a full instance, it's just the way that your personal account interacts with the Bluesky service.

An analogy I used in another thread about Bluesky got way too complicated, but my starting point was that if Bluesky is a swimming pool, then hosting a PDS is bringing your own personal bucket of water from home. Ultimately, you're still feeding it all into the one big pool that Bluesky owns, at least until somebody else builds another swimming pool (puts up the money to host a fully-fledged Bluesky replacement service) and you take your bucket over there.

On its own, the PDS doesn't really do anything without the rest of the infrastructure behind it. You can't go swimming in a bucket.

This is technically incorrect (the best kind of incorrect?). Bluesky is open source, with the exception of the discover feed algorithm, which they claim must remain secret to prevent it being manipulated. There are open-source replacements for that feed available, so it's open enough that it is theoretically possible to spin up a Bluesky replacement, albeit impossibly expensive.

Coming at it from another angle though, the product in any commercial social media product is you, so in that sense you're right: the product is not open source. Either way, open source code is not some panacea that erases all risk of commodifying its users. Bluesky is a great example because while it is open source, that in absolutely no way prevents them from tracking their users.

Operation Clippy.

GPL wouldn't prevent this in any way. It doesn't compel you to provide source unless you're also providing binaries. That's exactly what they're going to do, only show their work upon release. Not defending that choice, just explaining that it would be perfectly GPL-compliant.

Democrat strategists: "You mean win by doing nothing? We're trying!"

It really whips the Lemmy's ass.

We'll just tell your mother that we ate it all.

Which one is the wrong one?

In a way, Discord is to Matrix as Reddit is to Lemmy. Where Discord/Reddit are centrally hosted by the company that owns them (meaning they set the rules, their downtime is your downtime, etc.), Matrix/Lemmy are federated platforms mostly hosted by other users. If you understand Lemmy, you get the basic idea of Matrix, except that it's meant for live chat instead of threaded forum discussions.

Something people get stuck on about Discord is the expression "Discord server", in the sense of "Join my Discord server." This is technically not accurate: Discord servers are more like subreddits are on Reddit, in that Discord is actually hosting all of them and to some degree in charge of them. They're not servers in the Lemmy/Matrix sense, as in "the place where you come from", like lemm.ee or lemmy.world are, they're more like individual communities.

The equivalent of this on Matrix (i.e. a Discord "server"/Reddit subreddit/Lemmy community) is called a space. From there, the analogy follows in a pretty straightforward way. You sign up with a homeserver and join whatever Matrix spaces ("Discord servers") are interesting to you. Like Discord, you can either use Matrix from your web browser or download an app--unlike Discord, there's tons of apps instead of just the one official one.

That's the concept. It works pretty well, sometimes. I've been using it daily for about four years, and when using a PC, it's pretty good. There's several fairly mature web/desktop apps, including the quasi-official one, Element. The problems start when you look to use Matrix from Android/iOS. All of the mobile apps offer a heavily degraded experience compared to desktop or even competing platforms like Discord--and that's including the fact that the official Discord app is awful.

None of the mobile apps are in a complete or stable enough condition to be sensible replacements for Discord unless you heavily temper your expectations. If you want to use Matrix on your phone--and it's 2025, so you probably do--you basically have to be ideologically invested in Matrix to make it your primary live chat platform. If you can deal with the problems because you believe in the ideals of decentralization and end-to-end encryption, then Matrix is workable.

That's funny, what are the odds that his name would be Boycott.