Great this means I have to use Garuda or Endeavor 😮‍💨

Interesting solution 👍 Curious to see how this plays out!

Fair points. I’m warming up to the idea of making votes public so that people don’t have a false sense of privacy. I wish votes were actually private, but maybe it’s not a big deal if your account can’t be easily traced back to you in real life.

ActivityPub can’t evolve? Is there some insurmountable technical blocker?

I suspected this would be an issue and have avoided voting on controversial posts. But if everyone did as I do, there would be no open discussions about pressing topics.

It’s confusing enough understanding how federation works for the less technically inclined. I don’t think we should also expect them to figure out which instance is privacy-conscious. Privacy of votes should be baked into Lemmy. Even kbin users shouldn’t be able to see it.

If users want to advertise their approval/disapproval of posts they can use public comments in tandem with private votes.

Dual booting is also an option.

Isn’t chromium open source? How are the APIs a secret?

Amazing!! Thanks for sharing!

The Giving Tree

What if they kept the green color just to troll…

You could have just said, “Why not both?” 😜

That makes them a humongous database

I understand why you’re saying that, but I personally don’t agree. As AIs face legal challenges, maybe your opinion will be adopted, we’ll see.

I really do not believe midjourney is storing all the files on the Internet in a humongous database. They are just exposing the AI to them for training just like you expose your computer to them when you visit with your web browser. I’m happy to be wrong about this, but I’m just not convinced. Please try to keep your temper.

When you look at a picture of the joker online, your browser is caching an image file of the joker on your computer. Is that not an illegal copy?

The framebuffer on your computer copies the data to display the font to you. That’s my point. Not every form of copying infringes on copyright.

Looking at a copyrighted font with your computer means the font is in your computer’s memory. Do I go to jail for every site I visit that uses a fancy font?

Font files ≠ framebuffer

Images ≠ neural network weights

I don’t really know the details of how “log in with your Google/Facebook account” works on other sites, but I imagine it’d work the same way. I’m no expert on this stuff tho.

It wouldn’t be centralized. There would be multiple instances and you’d choose which one to use to host your account.

I like your idea, though. It doesn’t solve the problem of moving your account from one Lemmy instance to another, for example, but it does reduce barriers to entry for other fediverse platforms.