The Quuuuuill

Hadn’t heard of it before this thread. I’m assessing it. Seems interesting

None of the messaging metadata is encrypted. They use that metadata to build profiles of people who aren’t Facebook or Instagram users that interact with Facebook and Instagram users. If you care about profiling for the sake of avoiding social engineering attacks, it’s one of your worst choices. If all you care about is protecting the contents of your messages, yeah, it’s pretty okay

Discord has some shady shit in its privacy policy, and one of their largest investors is Tencent. Discord is one of my top targets for replacement, but none of my friends are all that interested in trying Matrix

By most definitions Ukraine is definitively not part of Asia. The only line that would intersect with Ukraine at all is “A” which only the Soviets ever claimed to be the line between Europe and Asia

That’s what I use. I find it quite good

Like that our entire economic system is broken in such a way that this is a thing that happens? Yes. At the restaurant is not the time to get on your soapbox, and the exploited service provider you’re refusing the tip is not the person to be taking it out on

You enter a social compact when you enter an establishment that does tipping. When you don’t tip, you’re not making it better, your making sure someone goes hungry

I’ve set that, but a bunch of them have their language set as undefined. That’s fine. I don’t mind it. It’s just nice to be able to easily and quickly filter out my feed to the set of posts that I can literally make sense of and that my brain doesn’t register as impossible to read mystery language

Furthermore, it’s great that you can block someone without reporting them here. You can just kinda look at a comment history and be like “None of this is rule breaking, but you’re just a jerkass, and I do not care to associate with you.” Further, you can block communities without that being a damnation of that community. Don’t know German? Just block the German communities and they won’t show in your feed. It’s not because they’re bad subs, and you want them to go away. You just don’t care about them

Reddit gamified participation, and the result was an addiction to trying to say things that people would click the updoot for. Here, the comment / post score is used purely to determine the relevance and value of the individual comments and posts. I think the result is clear: people feel less compelled to post the meme, the shitpost, the expected something and are more likely to express a thought they have, or think is valuable to the conversation.

The result is less stuff, but the stuff is more nuanced, interesting, and engaging (even if the engagement metrics are lower). It’s also a less stressful environment to interact with, and is just kinda all around better since no one is trying to profit

There also seems to be a deeper sense of community, at least in a few instances and communities, than I’ve experienced in a long time, excluding some of the more niche-er subs