Overshadowed? What was it overshadowed by?
Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
Overshadowed? What was it overshadowed by?
They’re not designed with privacy in mind, but I think one of the best things for video is supporting smaller more independent platforms. Things like Nebula, which is made up of a curated selection of high quality YouTubers who upload their YouTube videos sans advertising, as well as some small amount of unique bonus content. Nebula is owned by its creators, as an added bonus.
Or Dropout, made from the former CollegeHumor YouTube channel, it’s mostly sketch and improv comedy, as well as some D&D play videos.
Neither are privacy focused explicitly, but because of their direct relationship to their customers and lack of interest in advertising, they’re not incentivised to be bad for privacy like the bigger free platforms are.
Oh neat, I’d never thought of that before. Woulda been handy back last time I was working on a PWA!
200 OK (from service worker)
So yeah, getting it from the cache.
If you’re on linux
I’m not, but I do have WSL installed. It returned “Can’t find pathfinder.social: No answer”
Out of interest, I tried the same command in Microsoft PowerShell, I get:
Server: dns9.quad9.net
Address: 9.9.9.9
Name: pathfinder.social
That’s the full output. No actual list of returned addresses.
I’m guessing my system just has pathfinder.social cached.
I’m actually not really clear on what the status of that instance is. Like, for me, when I browse to https://pathfinder.social, I actually see what looks like an empty Lemmy instance running 0.18.2. Some communities show the same for me, while others show a generic error message. So I don’t know whether it’s running in some failed state due to caching, or deregistered, or what.
Yes, that’s the full domain. It used to host communities such as !pf2general@pathfinder.social. Unfortunately it’s been dead for 9–10 months now.
Out of interest, is pathfinder.social among those snatched up by these?
I’m not clear on how this system works, but I would like to know how it’s supposedly better than Google’s Topics. Especially if, as comments elsewhere in the thread suggest, Mozilla’s solution involves potentially exposing your entire browsing history to someone. Topics doesn’t do that, since it’s entirely handled in your own browser and only sends vague categories. (And even fuzzes them by potentially sending a random category you didn’t actually visit.)
On my desktop I’ve currently got 4 windows with 101, 103, 17, and 191 tabs. Think it’s about 60 on my phone, and currently only about 30 on my tablet.