So we spent like what, 20 years saying China censorship bad and finding sneaky ways to get them in the global Internet via VPNs and Tor and Tor bridges, and now we want to make our own?

That’ll go well.

Just looks like this for me

Just need a well lit room for light mode and at least the white of the background bleeds into black text making it grey rather than the blurry mess of white on black.

Unless you have astigmatism, dark mode is a nightmare to read when your vision is not good.

Our cured FIP boy

The only USB-C cable that has failed me is the one for Android Auto in the car and it’s never worked quite right in the first place. That’s what I get for being impatient and buying overpriced cheap cables from Microcenter.

At least they’re transparent about it, unlike american companies that hide behind convoluted terms of services and then sell the data behind your back but it’s technically legal.

China’s like “yeah we collect everything”. I can appreciate the honesty.

Paste the URL in the search bar, it’ll fetch it locally on your instance and get you there. No need for link guesswork to find it on a particular instance.

It doesn’t forget requests, but NGINX will drop them after it times out if it takes too long.

FPM uses a request queue, so when all workers are busy they wait in line until a worker frees up to process it. With just 1 worker, this can take a long time to catch up, but with a reasonable number of workers you’ll only wait a few seconds or even milliseconds depending on the app and how fast it can process requests.

The setting for that is listen.backlog which defaults to 511 on Linux.

If it’s spam it should have been deleted anyway by the admins as well, but sometimes this doesn’t federate correctly.

With great power comes great responsibility.

Nobody’s ever gonna trust the US ever again after Trump. Guy just thinks he can bully entire countries to his will.

It’s a showing of everything that’s wrong with american exceptionalism…

Half my Facebook timeline is relatives sharing Temu referals hoping to get a free 5 bucks worth of stuff on Temu.

I’d say it targets people that are easy to scam and likes cheap stuff that’s too good to be true but they’re gonna buy it anyway.

This being lemmy.ca, I could see some value having a community focused on privacy and privacy laws in Canada given the others are mostly US centric. The laws are different and your rights and adversaries to protect against are all different.

A pinned post suggesting that community would make sense however!

I don’t believe censorship is the solution there. It can be used for good, but more often than not it’s the kind of system that can be massively misused to silence inconvenient information.

The best solution is teaching people to think critically early on so they learn to question information and seek both sides of the story before drawing conclusions and avoid confirmation bias. Don’t silence misinformation, teach the tools to render misinformation worthless.

I’m aware of that one but it’s not that active especially compared to the big reddit communities like TalesFromRetail, AITAH, MaliciousCompliance, TalesFromTechSupport, etc which is where all the good stories come out of on Reddit.

I’d say more likely just:

• Not enough users to see that many stories being posted
• Not that many users to make it worth sharing detailled stories
• Lack of communities for that kind of content

You’re just not gonna see a lot of tales from retail in a place dominated by chronically online people, engineers, nerds and somewhat older userbase.

I found the setting to turn that off in the settings so that checks out with what you said. Good to know!

Why is this always the argument that comes up? It’s like if foreign people came by thousands to post the 9/11 attacks on american media to test the free speech. Most would take it down, some might stay up, but it’s ultimately still very disrespectful and upsetting for a lot of people.

You can enjoy a heavily moderated platform for what it’s good at. I use rednote for my cat, food and art content and enjoy the cultural exchange. There are better suited apps in general for free speech and political debate. I’m tired of politics invading every platform, so it’s been rather nice in that aspect. For what I want to use that app for, I’m perfectly fine with the CCP’s rules, even if I disagree with some aspects of the CCP.

Free speech is important, but we don’t need it literally everywhere.

No FOSS clients, nobody’s got time to reverse engineer it as it happened so fast.

As for privacy, well, it uses plain HTTP for at least all the media, so, not very private. It requests less permissions than Meta’s apps however, and only asks when the feature is needed (for example, the Nearby page requests GPS which makes sense). It does seem to like to paste my clipboard which is not very cool, no idea what it’s doing with it. I use a VPN for it.

It’s still a chinese app under the control of the CCP. Personally, I’d rather China have my data than the US, because at least for China it’s useless whereas with the current administration in the US, who knows what they do with that data.

As for the app itself, it’s pretty nice. Don’t expect free speech, but the rules also make it for a rather respectful and positive experience overall. For what it’s intended to be (share cats, recipes, makeup, and other entertainment content) it’s pretty good and a breath of fresh air compared to the non-stop political fighting on other platforms. That said it’s not as censored as some assume it is: if it’s presented tastefully you can usually get away with it. Respect and honesty gets you far on there whereas lies and aggression gets you banned. I’ve seen guns, LGBTQ, cars, religion, politics, comparing capitalism and communism. They’re talking about Elon’s nazi salute on there and all.

The massive cultural exchange going on there is quite enjoyable. People from all sorts of countries are trying out new recipes and adapting them to their local taste. Turns out mandarin isn’t so bad to learn either. Very welcoming community. Rumors are it made the chinese government consider relaxing the great firewall. The sentiment is very anti-war as people from enemy countries are building online friendships.

I approach it with caution, but I’ve been rather please with what I see.