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Missed opportunity to name it “Loogle”

I moved over here a while ago. Doing great so far, loving the community, though I’m doing a lot of lurking at the moment cause I have to keep reinstalling my app for testing.

Currently using thunder, working on contributing to the project cause I liked the early alpha so much. New updates come frequently, looks nice, functions great, cross platform.

Arch has only broken for me because I’m an idiot.

Linux is Linux.

WSL is Bill Gates’ wet fart of an OS running Linux.

Definitely not the same thing.

Word, I guess. I haven’t thought about Facebook for about a decade or more. Glad to see they are still crashing and burning. Although…normally you’d burn up an evaporate by now. Can we get the MySpace treatment for Facebook already?

Did you put a lot of thought into that one?

That’s neat for all those people, but I prefer not to have my comments and posts removed/shadowbanned because they don’t align with the mods or creators beliefs. That’s censorship and is generally considered to be wrong.

Seriously, it’s ridiculous. Why is nobody holding Google accountable for the Holocaust?

I use Thunder. Actively being developed, tons of new features coming every few days. I get an update almost every day. Works great, looks great.

I have yet to go through it all myself but from what I’ve seen of the Lemmy code it seems pretty straight forward. I doubt anything is being tracked other than what is required. Obviously your IP has to be taken down so they can route traffic to you. Username and all info you put on your profile or post. List of liked/disliked posts, subscribed or blocked communities and people, perhaps metadata of any photos or videos you upload, the package name for whatever mobile app you use, etc.

All the code is available on GitHub for you to check out if you’d like, 80% of it is written in Rust. But I am looking through it myself to see what kind of privacy I can expect from Lemmy. It’s already ahead of Reddit though, where I couldn’t view the source code and just had to trust what the company said.