should also make it a gif

i already had made another account there. Now i deleted it. The ui was already kind of dumb there, this was the last straw. Or last haybale rather.

Trying to do something about bots is okay. “attitude” is iffy but still kind of understandable, though already a step in worrying direction. But surely its implemented in transparent and fair way… right? Actively lying to users so they cant use images that MIGHT have content coder doesnt like? What else are they lying about? What else WILL they lie about? And that it reduces your reputation while not even informing you about it?

It doesnt matter if your ideals are noble and intentions good, if you dont act with integrity you are no better than the ones who are making world shitty place.

It just makes it more annoying to search for anything lemmy related

Someone in here already said it, but ‘Lemmy’ is a horrendous name. That alone was the reason why I didn’t bother to try it at all for a long time. Only recent events pushed me towards it but tbh I’m not sure I’ll stay.

You can say that again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy

Really muddles up the search results about lemmy.

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ah, then hopefully it wont get any worse

yes, but what about annas archive itself? Decentralization is good and resilient, but the authoritans will attack the website and its maintainers directly. Maybe they will try blocking it, or demonize it and its users or maybe they will even start uploading malware there to make it worse to use. In general, as long as things stay out of general public’s view they are somewhat safe, but I bet this will have at least some news organizations mention it.

Each day we have less and less rights and protections so we(as in the piracy community in general) have to make sure we will survive despite of that. Not just for ourselves but to preserve things for everyone.

why must every good site draw attention to themselves like this? Make alternative site for music if you must make such a spectacle out of it, so when the hammer falls it doesnt take out the books too. Or at least have some kind of plan on how to survive it, which i really hope they do.

same reason i wonder why some anime/movie websites i use urge their users to share stuff about it to others. Just keep your head down damn it, so I dont have to constantly search for new decent websites.

only malware i have read about on android have came from google’s oh so safe store.

Might want to consider switching the camera application too. On my fairphone the default one started making every photo just black. Fortunately i noticed it soon enough. Also the open camera i got from f-droid is much better with actual settings and options. Now i can do even exposure bracketing or panorama pictures.

They feel they can afford incompetence because they know so many people dont have a choice anyway. Any microsoft locked institution for example. If that isnt at least a little evil I dont know what is.

it would feel less evil if win11 wasnt so full of awful and downgraded features.

can’t tell such things nowdays at all. that is why i use /j or /s to clarify if needed

but why? more users for linux means better linux support for everything

I thought they specifically planned to end the security updates to force people to use win11

well, the degree of that is also up to other people and how much effort they want to go through

There must still be some way to defend oneself against oppressive authorities in such way it doesn’t cause problems to yourself. Though on second thought it might not be good idea to post detailed ideas on public spaces where those hypothetical authorities can also read them. Its like we are living in beginning of boring cyberpunk dystopia.

What if we “comply” and give them their damn records if they come demanding them.

Gigabytes of data that is just red herrings and stuff that doesn’t lead anywhere but still has to be checked. And in formatted in such way it has to be done manually and can’t be automated without even bigger effort and cost. If you give it to ai it will just start spouting nonesense or preferrably accusing obviously wrong people. It is likely not possible to make something like that, but it would be great if it was.