unalivejoy

If they want to be anonymous, sure. But they should at minimum change their display name to “Anonymous”

While neat, it isn’t very useful without automatic redirects and opengraph support. Both are not optimal to do as a vue app. Doable if nuxt and the nuxt-og-image module is used.

I am a 30 year old socialist furry Linux user on the fedi. But that’s just the exception that proves the rule.

I’m calling the police.

lemmy.com does appear to work though (redirects to lemm.ee, not sure who hosts it)

Everything is just a skin of either Chrome or Firefox. Until recently, all browser on iPhone were a skin of Safari. Ladybird is the exception.

Lemmy even has great web apps (not including the vanilla site).

• https://phtn.app/ (great desktop ui)
• https://alexandrite.app/ (vanilla-like, flyout posts)
• https://vger.app/ (mobile focused)

It’s just missing secure OAuth based logins.

feels like old reddit

They obviously haven’t visited https://old.lemmy.world/

I’ve been using phtn.app, which defaults to lemm.ee.

Though I think a big difference between the fediverse/activitypub and bluesky/atproto is authentication. If you want a centralized app, you gotta have a centralized identity server. Otherwise you’re freely giving your login credentials to a random server, which we as a society decided was a bad idea.

I can see a possible solution involving OAuth, which I believe Mastodon is able to support. See the relevant GitHub issue at LemmyNet/lemmy#1368

decentralized ai bot

Sounds awfully similar to a botnet. I hope the compute is sourced ethically.

I would suggest something like https://phtn.app/ as an alternative desktop frontend (also has mobile view support)

Nothing you can really do about preventing someone from looking at your posts unless you make your profile private, and I don’t think Lemmy has that concept.

And when you do go to their ai chat, it even asks you which model to use.

So “Open Source” to AI is just releasing a .psd file used to export a jpeg, and you need some other proprietary software like Photoshop in order to use it.

I wonder how many of those users are the same person with multiple accounts on different platforms.

Sadly. It is still in beta though, so it’s still possible for a mobile version in the future. There’s a few discussions on the github asking about mobile support (no responses).

If you’re gonna get a browser with a brave-like experience, might as well get a Firefox based one like Zen.

old.reddit.com always works for me, even for posts or communities which they force you to log in and/or use the app to view.

The only reason I even have an instagram account is because my apartment did virtual tours with it during COVID. No big deal for me to archive all my non-existent posts :)