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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Maybe we need an extremely strong and centralized non-profit with their own Reddit/Twitter/etc. clone. As long as it’s open data and open source, I don’t really care that it’s centralized. We need some entity with enough resources and trust so they can fend of corporate takeover. My vote is Wikipedia, Mozilla, or Linus Torvalds (I want the man himself, not the Linux Foundation).


  • Third party apps present a username and password field to log into a Lemmy instance. They can easily just steal your credentials. There are standard auth flows to solve this problem. The fact that Lemmy devs have willfully ignored this issue for years, and that they aren’t warning users not to trust third party apps, lead me to believe they don’t really care about security, which is the biggest red flag. There’s finally an open github issue that seems to be acknowledged, but it’ll be some time before this feature (if ever) ever gets implemented.

    -Posted from a third-party app; yea, i gave them my password blindly.