@phillycodehound I cry inside every time I do a search on The Internet and the top results are filled with #Reddit links...
...but if they were Lemmy links...
Cory Doctorow
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@pluralistic While my experience pales in the scale to your (as usual, amazing) article, I experienced #solar #enshittification firsthand:
My installer bolted a third party #Sunpower charging monitor to my house, which worked great to see what my hourly/daily/yearly output was until Sunpower went bankrupt and was bought out by Enphase, who, you guessed it, wants me to pay a subscription fee to see the same monitoring data. Fuck that.
Fortunately, (#Reddit to the rescue): The data from the microinverters goes through my router, and someone found a hack:
https://github.com/krbaker/hass-sunpower
All I need to do is implement the hack and I get my data back, then reconfigure the router to cut off Enphase! Its like #UnauthorizedBread but for solar.
Tech companies including WhatsApp and streaming giant Twitch could be among more than a dozen sites added to Australia's social media ban for under-16s, the country's regulator said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/24/tech/whatsapp-twitch-australia-ban/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #whatsapp #twitch #australia #socialmedia #apps #reddit #roblox
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/
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@pluralistic While my experience pales in the scale to your (as usual, amazing) article, I experienced #solar #enshittification firsthand:
My installer bolted a third party #Sunpower charging monitor to my house, which worked great to see what my hourly/daily/yearly output was until Sunpower went bankrupt and was bought out by Enphase, who, you guessed it, wants me to pay a subscription fee to see the same monitoring data. Fuck that.
Fortunately, (#Reddit to the rescue): The data from the microinverters goes through my router, and someone found a hack:
https://github.com/krbaker/hass-sunpower
All I need to do is implement the hack and I get my data back, then reconfigure the router to cut off Enphase! Its like #UnauthorizedBread but for solar.
@span strypey Because they are used to it. It's for most people difficult to change. Why do foss communies use Discord or Reddit. Why Telegram?
@span os_sci
> Why do foss communies use Discord or Reddit. Why Telegram?
> Why do foss communies use Discord or Reddit. Why Telegram?
All equally good questions. Not only do these too have perfectly usable Free Code replacements, they're also decentralised.
For Discorpse/ Telegrim there's XMPP and Matrix apps, and public rooms can be made available via both (and IRC). For dReddit, there's Lemmy and PieFed, which federate over ActivityPub, making them part of the fediverse.
informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:
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"Anche su #Reddit c’è un problema di foto condivise senza consenso
È un caso ancora diverso da #Facebook e da #Telegram, e ha introdotto delle misure per evitarlo, ma non è facile"
Leggi tutto: https://ilpost.link/nVj43Q9Vcg
"Anche su #Reddit c’è un problema di foto condivise senza consenso
È un caso ancora diverso da #Facebook e da #Telegram, e ha introdotto delle misure per evitarlo, ma non è facile"
Leggi tutto: https://ilpost.link/nVj43Q9Vcg
Frage an die Menschen die sich mit dem #österreichischen #IFG (besser) auskennen: gibt es irgendwelche Bestimmungen im Gesetz selbst dass die Anwendung nur auf neu erfasste Informationen anwendbar wäre? Grund ist dieser "Experte" auf #Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Austria/comments/1n5kbfa/comment/nbt8ybt/
Ich wäre überrascht wenns so wäre, aber ne Bestätigung aus der #Schwarmintelligenz wäre schon nett.
Darius Kazemi
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reports that Comer and Mace sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation asking for information about organized efforts to bias Wikipedia “Republicans inestigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias” https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5473331-wikipedia-bias-probe-republicans/ #reddit #bias
reports that Comer and Mace sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation asking for information about organized efforts to bias Wikipedia “Republicans inestigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias” https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5473331-wikipedia-bias-probe-republicans/ #reddit #bias
ajuvo ✔
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Looking for a VW mechanic in Orange County, Ca #rBeetle#Beetle#AirCooled#TootBot#Reddit#RedditBothttps://reddit.com/r/beetle/comments/1n0x34j/looking_for_a_vw_mechanic_in_orange_county_ca/
Looking for a VW mechanic in Orange County, Ca #rBeetle#Beetle#AirCooled#TootBot#Reddit#RedditBothttps://reddit.com/r/beetle/comments/1n0x34j/looking_for_a_vw_mechanic_in_orange_county_ca/
Pedro Piñera
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Reddit is already spamming me full of notifications about stuff I really don’t care about. I don't care if someone wrote something in a subreddit I subscribed to.
Is it already on the path to entshittifications? IPO, more ads, annoying growth hacks? Is Lemmy already an alternative?
#reddit #entshittification #lemmy
Reddit is already spamming me full of notifications about stuff I really don’t care about. I don't care if someone wrote something in a subreddit I subscribed to.
Is it already on the path to entshittifications? IPO, more ads, annoying growth hacks? Is Lemmy already an alternative?
#reddit #entshittification #lemmy
Bon article très détaillé sur #Reddit (qui, contrairement à ce qu'indique le titre, est un réseau social). Malheureusement derrière un paywall.
https://www.lexpress.fr/economie/high-tech/reddit-rescape-du-web-davant-comment-ce-forum-a-survecu-aux-reseaux-sociaux-BZBPMG3QUBHDTPSZL3XYXWHGHU/
[Mastodon est très vite mentionné.]
Black Aziz Anansi :vm:
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So, what lemmy/kbin (or similar software, I don't keep up with popular fediverse software) servers would you recommend to join?
I haven't actively used Reddit in a long time and sometimes I just miss the message board feel. I know I could use this account for that, but I think I'd like to keep it separated by context.
My main concern is how well is the server moderated. Of course a nerdy server would be preferred, but as long as the server is federated, I think I am fine with any place that would have me (and again, is well moderated)
So, what lemmy/kbin (or similar software, I don't keep up with popular fediverse software) servers would you recommend to join?
I haven't actively used Reddit in a long time and sometimes I just miss the message board feel. I know I could use this account for that, but I think I'd like to keep it separated by context.
My main concern is how well is the server moderated. Of course a nerdy server would be preferred, but as long as the server is federated, I think I am fine with any place that would have me (and again, is well moderated)
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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My Firefox addon got approved! It ensures i.imgur.com, preview.redd.it, i.reddit.com and media.tumblr.com actually send you an image when visiting links instead of redirecting to a page with a bunch of proprietary javascript!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fucking-jpeg/
#firefox #addons #firefoxaddons #reddit #imgur #tumblr