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Didn’t even know this was a thing, and since I live by multiple monitors, this makes me glad I’ve held off.

I believe programming.dev is the main instance for all programming related communities that left reddit.

After Google approval, what is the size of the tester pool?

Had the same thought. Glad it’s not just me.

Claiming there’s savings just isn’t true in reality. If they came out and said it’s to help reduce energy consumption to save the planet I’d be all in, and I’m still in for this, but it just makes it hard to fully support with the gaslighting as you aptly put.

Coming in hot with the real answer as to why it feels that way on the fediverse relative to the rest of the internet.

Where do you think is a reasonable price? Search is something most folks use daily, multiple times per day. If the quality of results is good, that seems like a small price to pay. Netflix is pushing 20 a month, and many other streaming services are in the 10—15 range.

Sad thing is, plenty of people will lap this up as a good thing and see it as a benefit. At least at first, until they realize they have to watch some TV based ads before they watch the ad roll on their YouTube video, followed by the second screen showing some banner ad the whole time. Yick.

Unifi has good equipment, works very well with a small self hosed cloud key or dream machine.

Could still get hacked, but the point stands that is an extra level of verification.

Not a huge surprise there is a large anti-capitalist faction on lemmy, so this isn’t terribly surprising.

I’m no meta apologist, they’ve done enough to warrant skepticism. The reality is they can harvest the data even if you defederate their main instance, by setting up shadow instances or just scraping other instances, so that argument doesn’t really hold water for defederation. The bigger one is content vs spam coming from their instances and possible EEE measures, but immediate defederation only serves to keep them siloed off and does not let them function as an offramp to better instances for regular users.

The difference is here you can manage your own feed and pick and choose. Many folks don’t want metas apps on their device but wouldn’t mind some of the content. Folks that don’t want it don’t have to sub but those that do can benefit second hand.

While true, they can still give you a hard time. If you simply don’t have one they can’t do much about that.

Seems like a strange way to enforce it, at the user level vs the api client level, unless they’re trying to guard against screen scraper types.