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I’m interested in linguistics in a linguistic way. Languages tell something about a culture. For examply by what subjects have many words and which don’t. Or how seperated ranks in society are by the amount of (used) formality forms. The level of directness might corolate to the level of pragmatism. What foreign influence there is can be partly seen by loanwords and writing symbols. Etc. Etc.

But computer languages are hardly linguistic, most of them are just English in a specific syntax. I love computers, but they interest me in a technical way. Even the best AI relies on switches turning off and on, yes and no’s, 1’s and 0’s. It’s black and white logical mathmatics. In the end, programming languages are little more than “the creator thought this was a good way to handle which switches should go on and off”, and you just use what’s most practical for your use-case. That is, quantum computers aside, but even those are similar in that really. Just more complex.

Yup. To add more: Brave for searching because it has it’s own crawler. OrganicMaps and OSM for maps. Joplin for notes. AsteroidOS for WearOS. NextCloud for Drive (including some auto-syncing/back-up stuff like mobile contacts). Proton or Tutanota for mail.

Used OpenBoard, but switched to Florisboard because OpenBoard seems abandoned and the developer of FlorisBoard came back with an update of what he’s working on. So far I’m not mad, the lack of autocorrect did make my typing much better. But as a dyslectic person I can’t wait for proper autocorrect to be implemented.

Using FCITX5 for Asian languages.

If I try to stab you to death, but I fail, is it a crime?

Generally, as long as there is proof you attempted a crime, it’s a crime. However, punishment is often lower than when you succeeded, if only because there are is damage done.

Currently own a Sony Xperia 1 IV. Been buying Sony phones for about 10 years now. I can hardly break them even without a case, despite being super clumsy, and Sony actually does interesting innovating things that are useful instead of following trends blindly or relying on marketing.

I run a quite degoogled Android 13 atm. Next phone will be a Pixel however, because I wanna switch to GrapheneOS. Wanting to switch OS is also the only reason I even consider a different brand phone.

I wasn’t a Reddit user really, so I might come from a different angle than others. I wasn’t a big fan of Twitter but I liked Mastodon, so when I heard about Lemmy I figured I’d give it the same chance.

So far I’m liking it. Communities are active in most cases, and stuff works. Maybe not the most easy way when getting started, but it does work. For me that’s generally fine, I’m a functionality over form person (as in, can I do it matters more than is it pretty and easy breasy). But I can see people’s point in wanting a sleeker experience.

Mainly using Lemmy on phone, using Jerboa and again, it works fine. But also here, I never used Reddit so I’m not used to fancy clients yet.

I’m only worried about a few older communities that where inactive for years now coming back to life. Mainly the modding situation, as those mods might not come back to (at least) hand it over to new people, locking the place into a wild west. A way to hand over moderation in those cases where mods have been inactive for years could prove useful…

I don’t think that’s how it works. Based on how federetion/Fediverse/ActivityPup works in general and what the devs have said so far (because I’m honestly been too lazy to check the code of Lemmy myself).

While accounts on lemmy.ml would be wiped, content would still exist trough other servers that federated with it (ever noticed how those servers have their own URL to stuff they federated with under their domain with the community after the /?). If I react to something on lemmy.ml, it doesn’t even cost lemmy.ml much bandwidth. It costs feddit.nl (my home instance) bandwidth.

That’s also the point if decentralisation. Not only if a instance becomes shit can you go to another and continue interacting, also if an instance dissapears it’s content is still available. It stops anyone from having a monopoly on the data, and with no one in ultimate power no one can abuse that power. Even the code is open source, so if the devs add stupid shit, hosters of instances can just not use that code or even edit stuff as they like.

Otherwise, your instance matter for rules and juristriction. Your privacy, and what laws and regulations are covering your Lemmy account, are all determend by thát more than Lemmy as a whole. Technically, Lemmy is just hosting software like NextCloud. What else is running on that server, who owns it, where does it stand physically, and how it’s managed are what matters. And if you trust no one, you can host it yourself.

Also, I think I read somewhere the devs where working on account migration. But don’t pin me on that.

For one, open source solutions tend to be better coded, as there is more passion and less underpaid IT under heavy pressure to release asap.

For seconds, there are many servers, so it’s less reliant on one systems performance.

And third, but not least important. Way less users, meaning way less bandwidth usage. Time will tell if speed stays the same when the amount of users increases significantly.

I think this would be the easiest way honestly. It seems the least extra work or changes. Mods don’t even need to work together, just with their own posts. If they’re too different on their own, they won’t federate anyways.

If people really want a supergroup, it would in this situation only take a new community that does nothing but federate existing ones. But it may not even be needed.

In that case, something like SimpleLogin would secure you from this specific treat model. The whole point of that is to have a unique email for each service.

A catch all on a domain could also, since people don’t need to know it’s a catch all and everything leads to your mailbox. But it would require a domain likely linkable to you.

If you’re worried about your mail provider getting a data breach, then you’re stuck to a free account with bullshit info and trow something like SimpleLogin over that. Most paid accounts require some sort of verifiable info.

There are no doubt more services that do the same aliasing kinda stuff, SimpleLogin simply comes to mind as an example of what kind of service you need. In fact, I dunno if it’s free or payable witbout tracking (ie likely crypto).

A bunch of fake bullshit emails on free accounts are also an option ofc. As in, one fake account per service you use. I guess that would be the hardest to trace, unless a hacker is getting into the providers servers and check logs for login time, IP, cookies, general browser fingerprinting etc. Or easier, into your device. But then, this also matters when visiting anything online including Lemmy instances. Of course, you can also try to secure yourself against this too, but there is always a next step or provider that cóúld be exploited.

Question is really, how far do you wanna go? Assuming everything cán be breached and shouldn’t be trusted without looking at the likeliness of the databreach(es) needed (as in some cases multiple servi es need to be breached to specific levels): does it seem likely you’re new boss (or whatever) will actually take this effort to look for and link al that data and how much effort is it worth. To go with your use-case, I doubt the average bus driver would be screened that harsly.

Not to forget most hacks still happen by social engineering. You could have the most secure set-up ever, then screw it up by saying something stupid once to the wrong person.

In the end, the savest bet against this is to stay of the internet. There is always something that could be a treat, be it difficult to exploit (or not).

I commend you for thinking about privacy like this tho. It’s a fun topic, no matter if it’s overboard for this use-case or not. It’s always good to look into what’s possible. Just don’t forget the “what’s realistic” and “what’s worth it” part (which also depends on the use-case).

This is why you should have an anonymous email for non-proffesional use. Or if you want to take it further, you could use something like SimpleLogin (and similar) that create a new alias for every mail. Or you could get a domain with a catch all.

If you want no email at all. Then why? Just because they’ve got your email doesn’t mean they have all the data your mail provider has. You could just open a free Proton or so if you’re worried about big tech mailservices. Unless you worry about the police getting themselves a court order to get that info, but then whatever you plan to post likely shouldn’t be on a public forum to start with.

Beside, most free email providers don’t require any info that needs to be verified, so you can insert bullshit. Or if you don’t trust any of them, host your own mailserver. But the fact that you’ll need a domain might be more telling than just using a mail provider.

If anything, the fact we use email to verify people in the west is already kinda dumb, as it’s easy to make a fake one to spam or for bots. In most of Asia I’ve been to they use phone numbers which is more secure, but less privacy friendly (altrough you could still get yourself a trow away prepaid sim).

Most of my intrests are there and have some activity. Mainly the computerstuff and all. But others exist but aren’t active. Take for example kpop, japanese music, horses, the elder scrolls. I wouldn’t mind a community for western style RPGs as those are nearly the only games I play, with a few exeptions. General gaming ones seem too general for me, too little I care about.

I am trying to post here, but also don’t want to spam a community with only my posts and make it looks like some kind of echo chamber. Feels like a delicate balance on the (nearly) inactive ones.

Requiring a 10 character password with additional character conditions is going to turn a lot of possible new users OFF. It should be 6 characters, with no conditions. Yes, it’s not secure, but we need sign ups above everything else.

I honestly can’t agree to this. Current “save” standard is at least 12 char 3 complexity, to which already too few adhere.

But let’s take it a bit further, say, you get more sign-ups due to easier passwords (which I kinda doubt matters that much compared yo other things, but let’s roll with it). Imagine Lemmy would suddenly boom with those new users due to changes to make it easier + Reddit acting odd: Lemmy would still be in the initial growth if it suddenly becomes big. Lot of users + no big company/organization/etc to back it up with it’s resources (as suddenly booming things can’t scale resources instantly, it takes time to adapt) creates a seemingly easy target (no matter if true or not). In other words, it’ll create motivation to try and hack it. And with a low password strength, that would mean easy to hack accounts. And what would a large amount of hacks do for the reputation? Especially on a nee service? Probably scare all those new people away as quick as they came…

At home? Manjaro Linux. When I was looking to learn Linux I compared different distro’s and decided that one seemed the nicest combo between ease, stability, and power. Overwrote my Windows on my school laptop and figured “now I have to learn”.

Over the years I tried some others like Ubuntu (and related) Debian (and related), and Kali. But I never found them as nice to use. But to be honest, since I’m quite content I’m not distrohopping too much and most where tried out of necessity.

Been running Manjaro for a few years now as main OS everywhere on my own computers, with only a minimal Windows installation on a separate SSD for the few games that don’t work smoothly on Linux yet. At this moment, only 4 are left, mainly due to mods that don’t run in Linux rather than the games itself.

Still got a Windows laptop for work, as it’s necessarily there. Also got a few Linux servers there as well tho, to which I connect remotely when needed.