Joël de Bruijn

Ouch … I hope I smell them from a mile away … and change course.

As a #2 person, when my level-of-current-knowledge hits a ceiling and I ask for technical advice in forums or lemmy or even social media, it often comes from a #1 person.

Assuming its specialized knowledge few other #2 have.

Half the time I get an answer (about what and how) AND background explanation (giving context and WHY).

But half the other time a #1 doesnt realize easy things for them are hard for me. When they are miles ahead their answer assumes I have a host of other skills already in place. But I dont know what I don’t know so I dont ask for them.

But … every answer from a helpfull stranger is appreciated. Just bridging knowledge is hard.

Is “choosing which files and folders” an upfront configuration thing, or does it happen “on the fly” when opening a file?

It’s a type of integration with local file handling:

• you see every folder and file in explorer / finder.
• they are just filenames but without the data
• they act normal and can be copy pasted renamed etc
• the moment a file is opened the first time, the data gets synced locally.

I use it to connect to rather large folders (bigger then my SSD) because it only takes up space of the files in use.

I deleted my comments seeing the ending side note about NC.

Does the MacOS NC app do files-on-demand?

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To illustrate even more: I follow a Lemmy privacy “group” with an Akkoma account.

You were right:

https://edri.org/our-work/delay-depress-destroy-how-tech-corporations-subvert-the-eus-new-digital-laws/

True! One of the main building blocks, sadly.

Trusting other peoples identification and authorizattion isnt about sharing accounts and passwords. If user A of server X want to log in at server Y, server Y asks server X if it knows this user A. If so server X handles the password/mfa check and just gives the green light to server Y.

Maybe good old blogosphere with comments pingbacks and pubsubhub(?) was a sort of simpler proto version of the fediverse.

Sorry but I fail to understand the relation between your question and the additional text.

Are the bulletpoints requirements for a less over-engineered attempt ?

Or are they examples of the current situation?

And just software without protocol seems. … oversimplification.

AFAIK its “by design” meaning an inherent property of the fediverse.

If I dont follow someone or my instance isnt federated with those of other followers we cant see each others comments or likes etc

Companies small and big are used to have hosting managed for them. Websites cms-es etc, why would selecting a Mastodon provider be any different?

As for defederation:

• Would I defederate/block brands I dont like preemptively? Only a few. Would I care if CocaCola has an instance? No.
• Would mastodon.social defederate Nike? Cant speak for Eugen but I dont think they have a defederate policy against brands?
• Would FediBlock maintain a branding blocklist just for the sake of being a brand instance? Doubt it.

Depends on your definition of tolerant.

If it implies adtech and trackers, then no. If it implies joining a random instance and spamming it, then no.

But any organisation is free to manage their own fediverse instance or get managed Mastodon hosting on their own domain.

So fans of their products can follow them and their webcare team can respond to questions.

The big deal is I help others make money of me without my consent or getting something back in return. At least not usefull to me. On top of that they track the hell out of me with surveillance.

That would require blocking their servers/domains/IP adresses at the firewall level I guess? Preferably taken from a curated list like NextDNS does?

They correlate the content of your posts with all the other data they have about you, taken from every app (besides WhatsApp, FB etc) that has FB trackers built in. Then that aggregated profile will be used with AdTech to serve ads and make money. I personally object to Meta making money with my personal data without me using their products.