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Kind of split on this, one one hand more spying is bad, but on the other canada is already part of 5 eyes, so this is a lateral move that enhances sovereignty.

idk

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    How is somebody using discord "contributing to fascism" to any meaningful degree? At that point you might as well kill yourself since buying food also contributes, since in most places the only options are all shitty companies that are way worse than discord.

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    The new one opens faster and has a better UI, but it feels so bad to use, every resize and interaction causes elements to shift around weirdly, the scrolling feels horrible somehow, there's a random sidebar (pictured) that is empty and that i can't hide. Also, although, to it's credit, the app opens fast and responds instantly to clicks, every async load (store page, game banner) is incredibly sluggish.

    And on Linux it's only available as an app-image, doesn't support Server Side Decorations and somehow reverts my cursor the default X one, which I have never seen an app-image do.

    Basically it kinda sucks, although the UX team did a good job, the UI looks nice enough and is easy to navigate, if only because there's like no features.

    Edit: apparently the sidebar is meant to be a social panel, but it broke as soon as I resized the window, lmao.

     

    An interesting blog post about how the AT protocol has it's own cool little ecosystem next to the fediverse.

    It's really interesting how the way ATproto is both more and less as every service must follow a strict format to interact with others using the same format.

    Like, ATproto has more variety than the fediverse, but the way they interact is a bit more strict, which means that a post from a lemmy analogue wouldn't show up on bluesky, but it also means that each platform often seems more polished.

     

    Polling shows that social media bans are overwhelmingly popular. This article is for canada but it holds true for the US. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/07/01/majority-of-americans-support-banning-social-media-for-kids-under-16/

    Just wanted to share because I've seen people act like it's some anti-democratic conspiracy that these (bad) laws are going into place.

     

    Middle click paste is a very useful feature for a lot of people, but new linux users are not those people.

    I personally switched two years ago, and got several people I know to switch too. Everyone I know who switched (including me) was confused by middle click paste.

    It's a hard to intuitively understand action (took me several months until I understood it took the selection for some reason) that is very easy to trigger accidentally, and that duplicates existing functionality.

    The people who like it already know it exists, and could just toggle it on.

    Of course, on distros not aimed at beginners, like say, debian, it should remain the default.

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