Na, there really have been issues lately where the sheer mass of data accumulated is adding up to some pretty massive bills for the data giants like Google. I think they just realised that a lot of dead accounts are giving them no value whatsoever, and so many of them have piled up that deleting them probably saves them a nice pile of money in infrastructure costs.

Same, but tbh if you haven’t touched one of your accounts in >2 years then you’re probably fine to just make a new account next time you need it.

IIRC when I first heard about this, it was clarified by Google that any accounts with YouTube videos on them will not be deleted. Can’t risk deleting abandoned channels that are still bringing in views.

Damn, I kind of hate that this would absolutely work on me.

There are apps you can install to manage it for you on android, automatically cutting off charging when a given percentage is reached.

IPhone maybe? I know they restrict your battery capacity with software as your phone ages, so the short lifespan has nothing to do with the actual condition of the battery. Iirc some other brands do it to, but I don’t know which ones.

I’m pretty certain it’s not a rule there, everyone just kind of assumes it’s what you’re meant to do when they post, because they see every other post.

Kind of a self enforcing unofficial rule, I guess?

I would argue trying to find news on social media is the big mistake. It’s absolutely bad on Lemmy, but it’s not that much better on other platforms. Any story that isn’t a “win” for the larger portion of people on the platform will naturally struggle to get attention.

There’s a whole rabbit hole to go down in trying to find a way to get a solid, rounded and accurate view of current events, but imo step one should be to throw away social media as a news source. It’s only popular because the algorithms on other platforms will tell people what they want to hear.

Let’s be fair here, they’re probably talking about the properly far extremes. The Nazis and the communists both killed millions and caused a lot of suffering last century. Horseshoe theory and all that.

Obviously the far left you typically encounter online doesn’t tend to be authoritarian-communist-regime levels of far left, but I feel like people are being a little to hostile to the idea that extreme in general are pretty bad things.

Oh sorry, I totally replied to the wrong comment lol

Was gonna go refind the right parent and reply, but tbh I’m in bed right now and too lazy for that, so I’m just leaving the non-sequitur there for anyone interested

No need if it was JWT token. After you use your password to log in, the server send your browser/app a JWT token. It uses this token whenever it requests anything from the server, to show that your logged in for this session, and the server can look at the token and tell who it gave the token to, show it knows you’re logged in.

All that is to say, logging out will mark any leaked token as no longer valid, and when you log back in you’ll have a new, non-hacked login token.

Unfortunately it seems really common for any new social media platform to lean way too hard into wither the far left or right, instead of finding a middle ground where a wider range of political views can coexist.

But hey, if we had to pick one extreme, then far left is a lot better than the far right nazi apps that crop up a lot.

This seems to be a big issue with the general fediverse community attitude to me. It reminds me a lot of the Linux community 10+ years ago, constantly downplaying some pretty huge technical hurdles that new people need to climb, and then wondering why it struggle so much to gain traction.

Imo there is, but it’s solvable. Personally, I almost always browse specific communities/subs and almost never scroll through my home feed. So multiple communities is annoying because it means jumping between each one on the list. Could be solved though, by just implementing a Lemmy equivalent to multireddits.

A lot of those apps are only a couple of Weeks old, so give them a little while and you might be surprised.

Love the link, but that analogy got a little too complicated halfway through haha

First I’ve heard that from a lemmy.world user lol

I’m enjoying the site overall, but I feel like a lot of people are way too die-hard into the philosophy here, to the point where everything seems to come back around to endless circle jerks about how cool and awesome we are for using the superior open platform.

I like it because it’s open, but it really isn’t THAT big of a thing, and I’m getting pretty burned out only the endless talks about what is and isn’t the best pure way to implement the perfect utopia of federation.

Might depend on who you talk to. Everyone I spoke to about it was under the same understanding that it’s integrated deeply with your Instagram account.

I spun up my old burner Instagram account to check the platform out. They tell you that you can only change things like your name from Instagram, the app let’s you import all other profile info from Instagram, and when you login for the first time it shows you the thread profiles of everyone you follow on Instagram and gives you a button to add them all.

It’s not just an Auth method, it’s the same account with the ability to change a few things between apps. Plenty of reasons to hate Threads, but this ain’t it.

…do you not? To delete the data I mean, not just to make it appear deleted to everyone without access to the Google/Meta user database.