How many times have 23andMe or Ancestry been hacked now?

It’s not that they just found out, but more that they have combed through and prepared all of the information they could legally release.

Genuine question: If the network is decentralized, how are they able to determine the amount of users on the system?

The article mentions opt-in usage reporting, but that would only indicate there’s around 115 million users actively reporting that they’re using it, right?

Unfortunately this.

Not only would companies not want to use it because of no incentives like what they get from the internet with monetary gains, it’ll likely only exist as an incredibly niche thing because not many people will hear about it due to the first part.

That said, maybe that’s the best part of the whole thing. With less things to exploit, it wards off companies and “influencers” just using it to make money and it becomes more focused around hobbies like the internet once was.

Checking this out based on your recommendation and I already like it. Simple, no bullshit, and is similar to use to something like NewPipe but for desktops.

Agreed. And in a way, it is also a contributing factor to how polarizing internet-based discussion has become. Rather than show you the most cited websites for answering a political question, it’s going to use its profile of “you” to show you something you’re more likely to engage with.

Ah yes, it needs my political or religious beliefs for fraud prevention.

I think it moreso has to do with the fact that as soon as Fediverse networking became more popular, Meta immediately comes along and creates another social media platform that uses Fediverse as more of a flashy buzzword.

The point of the Fediverse seems to be “content where you want to see it, how you want to see it, when you want to see it”. Promoting a more open ecosystem of specially tailored instances for what an individual user wants as their content.

Meta comes along with Threads, the nearly perfect antithesis of what the Fediverse is. Immediately gobbling up users due to both brand recognition and by seizing a customer base fleeing Reddit trying to figure out what the Fediverse is and not wanting to “miss out” on their communities and content as it migrates here.

You can absolutely start a community about rabbits. I don’t think that would count as “going off the deep end” at all. I think Reddit having its large, singular community for certain things ended up dissuading a lot of people from making communities based around things they enjoy.

The vibe I’ve been getting while here is that things are a lot more open. You can create a community that already exists, even with the same name, the only caveat being they cannot be located on the same instance. While I can see that possibly leading to a bit of fragmenting of some communities, It’ll let people create their own little pocket of the internet and have it exactly how they want it.

Either way, you should absolutely 100% make that community!

I’ve never seen this site before but wow this is going to be super helpful to new users.

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I’ve been having constant issues connecting to lemmy.world for around a week now. Normally its “webpage is unresponsive” errors. Others like lemmy.ml have been loading fast and easily for me.

I’m still learning the ins and outs of this place and the others, but part of me thought that was the feature of being federated. User accounts could seamlessly transfer from one instance to another.

Looking further into it, it looks like that feature exists for content, but not so much for accounts.

Exactly this. MECM even has this sort of feature built-in with Orchestration Groups. You can set group 1 to perform updates and reboot at a certain time, then group 2 will only begin its update/reboot cycle when group 1 has completed or crossed a certain threshold.

One thing I’m wondering about is how people moving from Reddit to one of these Fediverse sites are going to end up finding their “home”. Like, would we need some sort of sharing bot to work between here, sysadmin@lemmy.world, sysadmin@sh.itjust.works, etc. or are we going to end up in a situation where they’re all fragmented from one another?

The thing that helps Kbin the most is that it is, by far, the easiest to understand. Googling “Lemmy fediverse” gives a bunch of various links to other Lemmy instances, which are presented in a way as if they are separated from one another. Kbin appears as one site, one location for content aggregation. Although that “goes against the idea” of decentralization, most users are currently looking for their “one home to replace their old one home”. The more users flock to one area and learn how it works, the more things will begin to take their proper shape, so to speak.