Is that a positive or native opinion of PieFed? I’m genuinely curious since I’ve never really scrolled through PieFed

I guess I’m in a very narrow window of people who are gen z but born last century

Just to make some of you feel older, I’m gen z and I’m 26

It has taken off exponentially. It’s exponentially annoying that’s it’s being added to literally everything

I’m not a bot, but this derpgon seems like they might be

There are always going to be bad people, but Lemmy will always be decentralized unlike Reddit. Technically you could spin up a new instance that doesn’t federate with the instances you are trying to avoid.

I’m not a bot

We you like me to generate more responses to the original post?

Maybe it’s time for a new app 👀

Ohhh I did see that but the name threw me. Didn’t realize that’s the official app

Oops I must have misread the price. Tbh it’s the subscription fatigue, but I’m a developer myself $12.99/year is very reasonable.

I looked at Infuse, but as soon as I saw it was a subscription I decided no. They have a lifetime option but I don’t trust those anymore. If it’s good software with a one time fee of $40 or less, I’m there, but anything $10/month or $100 lifetime is a dealbreaker for me.

Edit: I totally misread the price. It’s a way more reasonable $12.99/year not what I said above

Yeah. I love open source, but people kinda assume you have unlimited time to sink until this stuff. Apple has done a great job selling an intuitive experience that I need for the non technical people in my household. That being said, I don’t understand why AirPlay doesn’t just fucking work. Siri is also garbage.

And if I have to listen to one more person try and explain to me why I have the wrong router, mdns, multicast, IPv6 settings, etc, I’m gonna lose it. One person is like, “buy Uniquiti, that plays nice with Apple Home and never use your ISP router”. The next person is like “you idiot, why would you think Ubiquiti + Apple would ever work stick with your IPS router”. Even if they’re right, it’s a failure of Apple to design a system that requires an IT person to setup.

Thank you for listening to my rant.

Really it comes down to I distrust Google more than Apple. But I recognize there are a lot of issues with Apple, and I get the cognitive dissonance on my part combining open source with Apple. But I’m happy Apple has Android as competition.

…I also may have purchased HomePods and I do use the Apple TV + HomePod audio setup. Not messily the best value but it’s decent audio with minimal clutter/wires. I’m pretty happy with the Apple TV experience so far, but if Apple starts enshitifying (especially if they ever plaster their devices with ads the way Roku has) I’m gone immediately.

I’ve been a Plex user. Honestly it was mostly because I chose Plex years ago before a lot of the recent controversy. Plex always seemed like it had a nicer interface, though I never really gave Jellyfin a try. As of late, Plex has started to add a lot of bloat to their interface, so at this point Jellyfin’s UI might actually be a pro.

Just downloaded Jellyfin! Been a Plex user for years. Noticed they’ve stated to add a lot of crap to the Plex interface. I just want to stream my media library. I’m a little disappointed that Jellyfin doesn’t have a native Apple TV app, but SenPlayer looks really nice and their price model is a one time fee. So no subscriptions!

Hot take, today’s AI videos are cursed. Bring back will smith spaghetti. Those were the good old days

What was the quote?

Check out https://fingerprint.com/. I’m not saying Reddit does this, but there are tons of datapoints they can use to fingerprint you. From what I remember, you can instruct HTML canvas to draw something and you can uniquely identify the person based on micro differences in the drawing. These differences are due to the users unique graphics rendering pipeline (e.g. browsers graphics APIs, operating system, graphics drivers, GPU). Ok so you turn off JavaScript. You can still fingerprint someone using a bunch of CSS tricks.

There are captchas but I suppose you could work around that easily by having a human sign up and offloading the account to a bot. If it really became a problem I’m sure Lemmy could adapt, but it could involve similar fingerprinting techniques to Reddit. Lemmy being petty privacy conscious would likely hate that. But I say we solve one problem at a time. Bots aren’t an issue yet.

Interesting. I wonder if it’s as simple as deleting one cookie. Someone else suggested Reddit does more sophisticated finger printing. I suspect that cookie is only one component of your digital fingerprint. It’s really just a question of how badly Reddit wants to keep people banned and how much resources they’re willing to pour into enforcing the ban.