I've been playing around with themes a bit, and also with the new user interfaces we just got on Lemmy.today, but I still think the default web theme is the best.

I'm on mobile apps most of the time but when I use the web version, I prefer the default.

Am I alone with this opinion? There seemed to be so much hype for the optional user interfaces. They look kind of cool at first but they are a bit too messy for me.

The Enshittification may have begun of this service too.

I'm actually a paying customer myself of Chat Gpt, and I havent personally seen any ads. But it's bad enough if this is something that will start to appear in people's answers.

Anyone else experienced this?

Update: The reason for this was found and it wasn't the service itself that started doing this.

Just a few new communities i wanted to spread the word about.

Maybe you are tired of all the tech news and memes and want something spiritual for a change.

Animism

This community is about the belief that spirit is in everything: trees, rocks, places. It is a space for discussing strategies for environmental activism from the perspective that all things have basic rights, from people to animals, to forests to rivers and mountains.

It is about seeking to find deeper gratitude in our lives by understanding that everything is just being what they intend to be.

Subscribe: !animism@lemmy.today

Primal Lifestyle

For those living their own Primal Lifestyle for a stronger mind, body and being.

Subscribe: !primallifestyle@lemmy.today

Thanks!

Its nice to see more and more people talking about Lemmy, and Sync is one of the big reasons I think.

So whatever we think about that pricing, it puts Lemmy on the map like never before, and we should be grateful and happy for that.

Im one of those die hard firefox users and have been using it for over a decade.

It's quite worrying that it relies on Google to exist. This article details the finances behind it, and it's an interesting read.

• Mozilla have tons of money, and the donations are tiny in comparison to their real revenue stream.

• 70% of revenue comes from Google, by having Google Search as a default search engine.

• Its not clear where the revenue is being spent. There are no large costs.

Veilid is “an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first networked application framework, with a flagship secure messaging application named VeilidChat.” Application frameworks of this sort are flexible software packages that can be iterated on and changed by infusing new code into them. Developers who want to create new programs with the same privacy protections will be able to build off of Veilid’s open source structures.

Cult members say their protocol is built from the same digital DNA as the Tor browser and the chat app Signal and will be used to create new ways for folks to communicate, share files, and generally surf the web while simultaneously protecting their privacy. The idea is to offer users an escape from the constant data collection and monetization that undergirds most web interactions (also commonly referred to as “surveillance capitalism”).

Veilid is written in Rust (just like Lemmy btw) and the group will talk about it on the next Defcon conference.

• https://forum.defcon.org/node/246124

It's quite interesting watching what domains Kagi users are creating personalizations for in the search engine.

You can block, raise, lower or pin selected websites. I noticed that reddit is one of the top raisers because people simply don't find unbiased results otherwise.

More info here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/#personalize-results

If you can read a few paragraphs of this article without wanting to punch someone, congrats.

I'm so sick of Google...

Every image and video result in Brave Search is now served by Brave. Users no longer need to choose between Bing and Google for image and video search.

This is pretty cool, no matter if you like Brave or not. Slowly and surely, many companies are helping to chip away at the monopoly of Google.

Another example of how big tech is just corrupted to the core.

Actually sounds like a good book to read!

Linux going where noone has gone before. :)