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Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by blakewatson »

smsm42 wrote: post #228

Opened the front page of the "community of the nicest, most interesting people". Here's what I found, omitting some jokes, "dear diary", etc (profanity omitted, light rephrasing to keep it short): AI is taking our jobs Trump is a liar MAGA republicans are plotting against democracy and Trump is Putin's puppet Trump is bad AOC is cool, she's showing that evil GOP Twitter is dying Christians are hateful bigots Republic…

Yeah unfortunately that’s Mastodon pulling from other instances. Here’s the local timeline: https://social.lol/public/local

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Post by JohnFen »

footlose_3815 wrote: post #164
httpsterio wrote: post #147

I just joined after reading the post. This wasn't the first time I've heard of Omg.lol but I wasn't entirely convinced earlier. For a long while, I've felt kinda lonely online as all of the communities and little corners online I've been part off have slowly died. I guess I've sort of been digitally homeless. I really enjoy the latest trends when it comes to indieweb and digital gardens, people creating their own spa…

> Section 6.3 We may share personal information in connection with a corporate transaction, like a merger or sale of our company, the sale of most of our assets, or a bankruptcy. >Section 6.5 Except where explicitly stated to the contrary in this Policy, in some cases, particularly given the limited amount and type of information and data collected through omg.lol, we have not restricted contractors’ own use or discl…

I love the idea of the service, but yes, those terms (and the commentary about the GDPR) are very strong showstoppers for me.

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Post by qmarchi »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #296
Towaway69 wrote: post #272

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Hangon, if go to another country I most certainly have to follow the laws that apply there. If I surf over to another (Internet surfing) country because the server is physically located in that country, I again am forced to follow the laws that apply there. It does seem illogical to have such setup especially since physical I haven't moved. Now it seems that I can take my laws with me when I visit a server in another…

>If I surf over to another (Internet surfing) country because the server is physically located in that country, I again am forced to follow the laws that apply there. on the other hand if you go set up a business that sells to citizens of that other country do you have to follow rules to be allowed to sell stuff there? You see how the analogy is a little closer aligned?

Not really. For Example, I setup a business on the Oregon side of the Portland, Oregon / Vancouver, Washington border. Oregon doesn't have a sales tax, should I have to pay Washington sales tax because I had someone buy something from my shop in Oregon?

Same kind of deal, omg.lol have my servers located in the United States, payment processing happens in the United States, in United States Dollars. In no way is omg.lol making a special usecase to handle European customers.

Now, Europe is free to attempt to excise their laws againt omg.lol, however they wouldn't get much further than "you're blocked in the EU" and having to get ISPs and transit networks to blocke their traffic, and payment networks to stop serving EU customers for that particular merchant ID.

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Post by TylerE »

Towaway69 wrote: post #272
amne wrote: post #268

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And how would the owner go about that? Implement expensive geo-fences and KYC processes for a market they are not interested in? If they (EU people) want to use it .. they should be able to without expecting the same protections as if the business operates in EEA. How did we get here? To where If I spin up a webserver and charge for access now I'm suddenly forced to lick your middle finger because you have laws in yo…

Hangon, if go to another country I most certainly have to follow the laws that apply there. If I surf over to another (Internet surfing) country because the server is physically located in that country, I again am forced to follow the laws that apply there. It does seem illogical to have such setup especially since physical I haven't moved. Now it seems that I can take my laws with me when I visit a server in another…

If you run a site in the US targeting a primarily US user base, should you be forced to abide by the laws of Saudi Arabia?

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Post by reddalo »

jay-barronville wrote: post #95
reddalo wrote: post #31

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I agree about Laravel and Taylor Otwell. Moreover, I'd like to point out that even if the vast majority of PHP-backed websites are based on WordPress, WordPress is not an example of good PHP practices at all. Its code-base and coding standards are old and horrible.

Agreed re WordPress, although I haven’t seen their code in YEARS, so maybe their codebase has evolved too. Re Taylor, if I was a billionaire (or at the very least, extremely wealthy), he’s one of those folks I’d write a no-strings-attached blank check to go build anything he wants—just a brilliant and overall great human. I used to be very active in the Laravel community many years ago, and even way back then, before…

> so maybe their codebase has evolved too.

Unfortunately, not so much. They still follow PHP 5-days style, for example they still haven't adopted the short array syntax [], they always use array() which is horrible in my opinion.

The code base is horrible, but the front-facing experience is not so bad (unless you start installing lots of plugins, which tend to add different interface styles and lots of banners everywhere in the admin panel).

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Post by krick »

I never figured out how to use Mastodon and the likes. Can somebody explain? I mean, I would know how to use it if my goal was self-indulgent shitposting or very questionable marketing strategy, but these services are always mentioned as an alternative to Twitter, and Twitter is primarily a news-feed (which probably works because some other famous people are engaged in shitposting and marketing strategies, but this is none of my concern — for me it's just a news-feed).

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Post by joquarky »

rtpg wrote: post #165
lacrimacida wrote: post #120

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It’s just hard to find. Google returns trash

It's wild to think about how anybody found info back in the day. Forums were probably the big one I guess? There was always something magical about being linked to forum and finding a wealth of info there, and entire domains of knowledge. FWIW stuff linked from HN & friends is not always the best, but I am pretty agressive about sticking RSS feeds from blogs that get linked here. That gives an inflow of interesting s…

Yahoo was originally a text file small enough to fit on a 1.44 floppy disk

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

proxyon wrote: post #241
shusaku wrote: post #131

That’s a fun set of features, but I don’t see the connection with the community. You can browse their mastodon feed and it’s just a bunch of vaguely liberal vaguely tech posts? I’d like to see which accounts are using the services for a better community

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This is the exact reason I refuse to touch Mastodon - the people who are Really Mad about Elon's purchase of Twitter are the exact people who made Twitter so toxic that I avoided it like the plague. I guess I'm happy that they are self sorting onto their own platform, but I'm going to stay far away from it.

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Post by proxyon »

Spivak wrote: post #309
proxyon wrote: post #241

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Dude old Twitter was conservative west-coast brand libertarians and it's silly that people keep confusing them with liberals for seemingly no other reason than the NAP "as long as you're not hurting anyone I don't give a shit" means they're tolerant on social issues when they have basically nothing else in common with liberals.

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