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How do y’all handle online dating while balancing privacy concerns? (beehaw.org)
 

This question is especially for those who have used or are using online dating to meet new people, form relationships, hook up, etc. How do y’all balance the (online) dating scene with your own level of concern regarding privacy/security?

For example, some of these concerns may be that many dating apps are owned by a few companies, dating apps sometimes require linking to sensitive information (real phone number, google accounts, pictures, …), or that they can have vary intrusive trackers, etc

What are the steps you have made to address these concerns, if you have them? Or what are the compromises you have made? How successful are these attempts?

Let me start sharing first (in broad-stroke) about my personal experience. I’m mostly concerned with how my data are handled, transferred between, and used by different services. My concerns usually make using these apps much harder, sometimes even impossible, for example I’m hesitant to share my real phone number to sign up, and I’d prefer to limit my gmail use when possible. But that has also limited my opportunity to meet people online. Though honestly, such interactions have not been meaningful.

I’ve stopped for a while now but thinking of getting back. Just want some perspective on whether it’s worth it, and how I should orient myself with the tradeoffs.

Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

Do you know how they recreated his style? I couldn’t find such information or frankly have enough understanding to know how.

But if they either use his works directly or works created by another GAI with his name/style in the prompt, my personal feeling is that would still be unethical, especially if they charge money to generate his style of art without compensating him.

Plus, I find that the opt-out mentality really creepy and disrespectful

“If he contacts me asking for removal, I'll remove this.” Lykon said. “At the moment I believe that having an accurate immortal depiction of his style is in everyone's best interest.”

What federated platform do you use for blogging? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh nice, didn’t know about that! Thanks!

What federated platform do you use for blogging? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool! Do you mind expanding on how you ping it back to the fediverse?

I’ve heard of webmentions before used for comments and interactions with the fediverse, but haven’t heard of microformats. Would you mind explaining what/how you use them for?

What federated platform do you use for blogging? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how’s the text formatting and media attachment? Any limitations or tips for newcomers?

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What federated platform do you use for blogging? (beehaw.org)
 

I’ve heard of plume and writefreely/write.as but never used them. A friend is also asking for blogging platforms that are easy to use - they’re non techy.

Molly v.s. Signal in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

my god, what is your secret to getting people on Signal?

Microsoft moving fully to the cloud, does this mean something to us? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

even proprietary softwares? Not that I like to run them, but some uni workstations have them and sometimes they’re unescapable :(

PSA: Lemmy.world has been compromised! (Edit: Multiple Instances are down) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

my uni is currently still recommending lastpass as of now, tho I’ve heard they might be looking for alternatives …

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did mlem change the tesflight link? I now have 2 mlem app on my phone?

Reddit front-end to not support Reddit (Libreddit) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Additionally, Libredirect also have a list of instances like farside.link, but with other types of services as well. I didnt do a thorough comparison yet. See https://github.com/libredirect/instances/blob/main/data.json. I think they also regularly update it.

Cannot log into beehaw.org in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think it's the length of the password that affects log-in from mlem. I changed my original password to a shorter one and I can now log in. I also did a couple rounds of changing password (1 more long and 1 more short; both only have -, numbers and letters), and I was only able to log in with the short one. I didn't experiment on how long the passwords can be for mlem to be able to take.

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Cannot log into beehaw.org (beehaw.org)
 

I'm having issues connecting to my acc (beehaw.org instance) with mlem. The web log-in is fine.

I had been able to do log in with mlem when I first created the account. But once I changed my password (to a stronger pass), logged out of mlem, I could not log in with mlem again. The error message is Could not connect with beehaw.org.

Also tried uninstalling but didn't work.