No worries :)

But it says in the OP that this thread should be used for posting questions for the AMA?

What are the plans around admin tools?

Instance owners currently gets notified when someone has reported a user for spamming or trolling, but frequently it’s a user that is not on his instance, so he can’t do anything about it. Wouldn’t it be better if instance owners got notified only when they can take actual action (like the user being registered on their instance)?

Yeah that’s what we are having here too, huge cpu usage and issues with outgoing federation. Sounds spot on.

What we are seeing is that outgoing federation of posts and comments works after a restart, but new posts and comments made on the local instance are not federating to other instances until the next restart. This is with version 0.19.1.

Also after a restart, the server eats a lot of cpu for several minutes. Im guessing this is normal with the federation queue being processed but cant be sure.

Why are these companies the worst? It’s a honest question since I actually don’t know much about them.

I can’t wait personally and will install it as soon as I can :) If it has some severe flaws, I just log out and log into Gnome or Plasma instead. It’s so simple.

Pop OS is awesome. You should like it a lot. Even the way it looks by default is much better then Ubuntu for sure.

No I was just being stupid.

The default settings didnt have a redirect so you were getting the default nginx web page since you went to the http version.

Now you should be redirected. Thanks for taking the time to bounce a few pixels back and forth. :)

You dont bother me, this is very interesting actually…

You still get this default nginx page?

Edit: It didnt do a redirect by default. :) Will fix that.

Nah, i just forgot the s in https in the link i posted. :)

Fixed it now, thank you.

I updated https://lemmy.today this morning and no problems at all.

We are a small instance but still wanted to post this. Maybe it calms the nerves for some instance owners. :)

Kagi is really, really good.

America is almost the last country in the world that doesn’t have free healthcare, except for Africa.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-universal-healthcare

Nvidia is bad and also Ubuntu is using a very old kernel.

I think you should try installing Pop OS instead.

Nothing is free. How would they make money as a company to pay employees and pay hosting bills?

All these big tech companies are free exactly because they are preditory on users.

Pay for good email like Fastmail or Proton.

Cost of doing business.

It was a while ago… Not sure when. But I remember the news about it. :)

Meta and Twitter are social media companies. They have access to peoples tweets. It’s similar to having access to these messages you and me are typing, except many people use their own names there.

It’s not too bad privacy wise, just social messages.

Google on the other hand has the private searches of billions of people. Everything you put into a search engine because you are worried, afraid, sick, or curious about something.

Google records all this private activity and saves it under your personal profile, and then uses cookies to track every web site you are visiting on the web (using not only Google search but Google analytics cookies that exists on almost every website).

They also combine this data with whatever you are doing on your android phone, or what places you go to using Google maps, or what video meetings you are having with Google meets, what emails you have in Google Mail, what video you watch on YouTube, what calendar events you are having with Google calendar… And so on.

Then they feed all this data into algorithms designed to figure out what you are likely to do next. They sell this data to advertisers so they can target you with ads. They also send this data to American agencies like nsa to be stored and analyzed.

There is a giant difference here between Google and the other companies you mentioned. Google is literally watching moments from people’s entire lives, while the others only see your social media messages.

This is why Google is completely absurdly in it’s own class of anti-privacy. No other company has this amount of data about people’s every moment awake.

Now they use their dominant position to try and take over the entire web, so it’s not possible to escape them anymore using a different browser, blocking cookies and tracking, or using another search engine.

If everyone is forced to use their browser, we have lost everything good about the web.

They should be treated like the cancer to a free web they really are.