Maybe I’ll consider a PieFed account. I might also consider just using neither, given I don’t even get that much out of Lemmy itself. I just browse what’s popular in what is probably an attempt to occupy time, which I guess could be better spent elsewhere. What would you say are the main differences between PieFed and Lemmy?

As for Wikipedia, not sure if they have an rss. You could also look into Wikinews, their ‘news’ sister project under Wikimedia. There’s probably more activity there over Wikipedia

Thing with PieFed is it don’t really have an app. I found Interstellar to be a bit too complicated, or too feature-heavy? Barely used it, though. I like Jerboa’s simplicity. Non-US instances are nice, too. I ended up choosing an American* one, it seems, though I dunno what it got, so I dunno that it’s 'Murica-centric

I get some news via short daily podcasts or Wikipedia’s homepage. Or Lemmy. Though my podcasts have taken to mentioning the US president rather often this year, which goes to show the US influence on the world. But at least it don’t bombard me like Lemmy

Wish Jerboa had that. But I’ve read it is not on their plans, as it is a hack done by others on top of Lemmy, due to a lack of official support from Lemmy itself (not a Lemmy feature, just a workaround by other app developers)

Eh, I don’t have any community I’m particularly interested in so as to subscribe. I just see what’s popular. I guess it’s a way to fill time (or waste it)

Let’em cope.

Seriously, though, they must comprehend that one might not want to be bombarded with their news and politics. I doubt they’d enjoy every other post being about Honduras or wherever, and their president and news and politics, and everything centric to a country they don’t particularly care about

Wish there were topics or categories, such that we could block that instead. Would make it easier

I like Jerboa for its simplicity, but it lacks keyword blocking. I also don’t particularly have any community I’d like to follow. I just see what’s popular. All the more reason to leave Lemmy, take up grass-touching instead

❌ Touchscreen ✅ Touch grass

Indeed. Sometimws I do feel like I just wanna go “fuck technology” and touch some grass instead. Disconnecting more is good, actually. So, yeah, grass is often better than Lemmy (for me at least).

I do be comming back here, though. Addicted to Lemmy, lol. Or to any source of entertainment, I guess. Something to fill my time

I’m more of a Jerboa user, not really web. But thanks anyway!

Unfortunate downside is you will miss other posts from a community, and US is always bound to show up in unrelated communities. I especially remember, albeit in Reddit, a photo of the now-president came out, and was everywhere. The damn gaming community had it posted. Like, wtf? The same one, everywhere. Not Lemmy, of course, but still. If there was a list anywhere of ones I could safely block without much side effects. Not even necessarily politics, but some may be specific to places I do not live in

Seems I have already gotten to that one. Thanks anyway!

The thing about the initialism I find weird is there’s plenty of variation, and people can almost sorta pick and choose, build their own initialism. Sure, some are used more than others, but no apparent standard per se. So which ones get included in the initialism, vs. which ones are hidden behind the + or behind the Q, or perhaps neither the + or the Q gets used. Kinda like the flag. You have the classic, popular one. The colours have their meaning, but not specific to certain “letters” (groups of people). But then you have some with black and brown, for people of colour. Some add trans colours. Some have that purple with ring thing I can’t remember if it’s non-binary or what. Nothing against these variations, though I wonder the need, when the originals were not specific or exclusive. The original colours weren’t about identity, far as I know. Now they make updates with identity-based meaning. If I am someone with less knowledge or something, and I’m gonna make use of an initialism or flag, which one would I choose? Would I just say LGBT and use the traditional six-colour flag? Would that be exclusive? Do I add the QIA+? Do I need black, brown, pink, blue on the flag? Shit, I didn’t add the Pi symbol. Is that a flag variant? Sure seen a flag with Pi on it

Oh, those guys

Minor Attracted People (MAP)?

Interesting that Q essntially fills up for every other character in the initialism, incluing the + which essenially acts as an etc. to said initialism. One can pretty much choose and pick which letters to use when crafting their usage of an initialism, and which letters to hide in the +. One could call it the LBT+ community, or the L+, or T+. Or B+. Or just call it + for maximum efficiency. Or you could just call it the Q community, as Q encompasses everything else. What some otherwise call the Queer community

Edit: I am no expert. Let the gays correct me if needed be

Akschually, Da Rules state t

Depends on how you implement it, innit? If the gob. gives you an official certicate confirming something, for instance, which you then save onto your machine and then upload to the website or service. What could the gob. do? Attach a string on the file to pull it back? Unless a file can call home somehow (assume a non-executable file, with info only). They could change how it works later on, and make it work in their favour maliciously, but they’d have to make quite the big change. Plus people might not have as big of a need later, maybe. Assuming it’s a once-and-done thing.

Website: 18+? Gob.: Yep ???

The ideia is neither party is aware of the other’s info. The website wouldn’t have your data, and the gob. wouldn’t know what the information is for.

Website knows, e.g. is the user 18+?, which the user agrees to share, but not anything else

Gob. knows, e.g. you wanted to confirm being 18+ (better if it just didn’t know at all), but knows not what use you’ll make for that

One side asks a yes or no question, the other gets a question (no source), answers it, the answer makes it back to the first side with no further info.

Unless they can know exactly who you are because you proved to be 18+ or something. Granted, if it were your names, for say a social media profile, that’d be different

You’d have to authenticate yourself with the gob., therefore proving your real identity. The gob. would then, for example, provide proof of you being 18+, if that’s what is relevant, without knowing what your use case is, and the website, without getting any further information about you, can then confirm you are indeed 18+ (gob. confirmed). Said confirmation would need to be temporary, to ensure fresh information (akin to 2FA TOTP, which changes after some time)

I didn’t say “log in to porn via gob.”

I was rather proposing a way to privately and securely confirm age without either party (gob. and adult site) knowing each other’s info (i.e. porn site doesn’t get your info, gob. site doesn’t know you’re seeking adult content)

And it isn’t an idea limited to pornography-related websites, but rather any website that wishes to confirm any information about the user, without directly getting the user’s info

It’d be essentially a temporary certificate of sorts that proves a requirement, such as “18+”