Privacy regulation in the EU has been pretty good so far.

Current plans about chat control on the other hand…

I guess that only applies to paywalls that can also be bypassed by 12ft.io, right? I.e. paywalls that open themselves up for indexing by search engines like Bing or Google.

Incredible indeed!

More people should move their accounts off to smaller instances with less load. You can still interact with communities the same way, but have a user experience that is a lot better.

Yes, ideally you‘d want to have a few large communties on each instance and not all topics with a single userbase on one. This not only decreases the load but also prevents scenarios in which a single admin starts to capsule their instance with a large userbase away from the federation.

I wonder how much of that is open for optimization. I am amazed about the amount of updates wefwef has received over the last few days.

I think the original Bitcoin proposition had some merit in introducing a new concept and a new type of trustless economy. However probelms in scaling the PoW mechanism and transaction fees make it infeasible for daily use.

99.9% of the other stuff? Never understood why people see value in NFTs. Especially given that they mostly link to image files on someones web server that would point to a 404 page if taken offline.

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I really like the default active sorting keeping discussions in older threads alive for longer. The comment sorting also makes it easier to join discussions later on :)

Yes, I guess it would be best to have coloring as a setting, letting each user decide if the entire comment or just the username get‘s colored.

You‘re right that username similarity is also a problem, that needs to be tackeled long term. However I would not see this as something specific to Lemmy bringing together users with the same username on different instances.

Sounds like a good solution. To make the colors less invasive it could only activate once two different users with the same name comment in a single thread.

Just until someone starts vomiting in places other than the toilet. In many cases it‘s better to be invited than to be the host ^^

You might like, wefwef.app if you are used to Apollo for Reddit. Its a progressive web app that you can add to your homescreen. Apart from that several native apps seem to be in development

I read a LPT on here saying to choose a smaller instance for better performance. The most popular instances are overloaded by the influx of users, smaller instances not as much. And using the federated system you can still suscribe to different communities, comment on posts… all while having a more stable user experience :)

Yeah, that‘s true. I guess it would be a grey area that would have to be judged on a case by case basis.

In case of an Instagram profile it would be quite intuitive that the pictures (especially ones containing the users face and other personal information) would fall under personal information. So Facebook could not get away with just anonymising the posts. In the case of reddit that would be more difficult of course…

Some of the posts or comments could include personal information. Wouldn’t Reddit be putting itself at risk of a lawsuit by leaving comments intact while executing a GDPR deletion request?

Definetly good advice! :) Thanks you for recommending discuss.tchncs.de