I know that, and I hate it. Yet, I do not know any other way to meet hot singles in my area (or not in my area).

It’s not really hard to type a website, it’s rather hard to remember it. You remember your username. Okay. But where were you? mastodon dot what?

When you use your full address, it’s not that hard to remember it.

SMTube still seems to exist

No, I don’t think it will go like that.

But if piracy would go away, then it would mean we live in a great world:

• Software: FOSS/Freeware/Donationware software prevails. People want to use this kind of software, and this is the go-to for any appliance. People would be deeply affected if they could not use free (as both in freedom and/or money, as mentioned before) software - gone will be the days of everyone needing Adobe products or MS Office for their professional work, and the year of the Linux desktop would be in the history books.
• Movies and TV shows: They would be available anywhere, on demand, in any format. Or there would be this website where you would go to and watch whatever you would, without ads. It would kinda be the same with music.
• p0rn: I don’t have enough knowledge in this field, I just go to certain websites when I need. Guess it would be like on the previous point? idk.

As long as those points are not achieved, there will always be a need for piracy, and people will always find new ways to get their content. So far, I do not see us being somewhere even close to that ideal world, so there are plenty of reasons for piracy to exist.

I personally try to pirate things more ethically, for example I try to buy music and games whenever I can, but I know several people that pirate stuff just because they can.

If only those apps could have the ability to use an open protocol they were actually built on, that would allow this exact interoperability needed instead of a proprietary half-assed solution, what was its name again…?

I kinda get all the Threads worries and the fact that some people might not be comfortable with Meta collecting their data for advertising. But this is just insane. It just makes me think people are just irrationally angry at everything, and they like being that, instead of informing themselves about what everything does.

So the OPML file does handle the read status as well? isn’t it just a format to export and import feeds inside a reader?

I immediately thought about ChatGPT or some other AI assistant with GPT in its name as an alternative to Copilot, lol.

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first time […] a mod didn’t like the viewpoint expressed.

Haha, wow, first time?

Welcome to this place. Lemmy.ml is notorious for being run by the actual tankies that created this project. See what they support, what they don’t, and have an opposite opinion on that. You will get the boys telling you how it acchually it is not and call you a glowie CIA agent or whatnot for not siding with them. The Reddit migration probably made them more accepting of opposite opinions, but probably because things have calmed down more a bit lately, they started aggressively moderating stances like yours and probably anti-Kremlin takes as well (seriously, before that, if you were against the Russian invasion in Ukraine or against China’s politics you would have been accused of being racist towards them - but hey, you can say whatever you want against the USA, or The West, you can’t be racist against these, can you?).

Anyway, here’s a longer take by FediTips that explains the issues with Lemmy:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

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I cannot reach nor the profile, nor the post from Kbin

This might be subjective, but imo, while Mastodon has the most feature complete apps, it’s not the most feature complete platform out there. Hell, even Kbin is more feature complete than Mastodon. I recommend trying Friendica, Hubzilla or Streams for a larger feature set.

Friendica should fit the bill right there for you. Or if you don’t want ActivityPub, check out diaspora*. There’s also Hubzilla which uses AP as well, but internally it uses its own Zot protocol.

Don’t know about you, but I feel the Fediverse has been flooded by actual news rn though. I’m probably already following too many publications, but I feel like my feed is flooded by them lately.

You can also use Friendica if you enjoy Tumblr. It has a wider degree of customization in regard to its interface, and you can also cross post or get your Tumblr feed in Friendica (provided the server you’re using has the appropriate tumblr addon).

Pretty cool. Dashy seems pretty much a start.me on steroids.

There’s also a kbin magazine for this (you can also post from Lemmy):

!startpages (https://kbin.social/m/startpages)

(L.E.: It didn’t render the handle as a hyperlink. I guess it was pretty clever for me to paste the link as well. You can copy and paste it in the search bar of beehaw, and you should find it)