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  • I’m of the opinion fantasy is fantasy. Its something I think about from time to time. Most fantasies are accepted, some are questioned, and some are rejected. Its interesting where each person draws the line and why.

    With regards to some more extreme NC play, one artist wanted to move away form it… sort of. So they made art with those themes part of a “video” series. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55604059/ (this link is mostly SFW and enplanes what I said)

    All that being said, I might like to be in the position those ponies are in. good amount of restraints, chastity, suits, harnesses, they got it all.





  • Another dumb thing. If you’re using a password manager, are the username and password correct/updated?

    Are there any other popups that come at the same/similar time?

    The only place I can find the error text “incorrect_login” is in lemmy-js-client-main. I’ll have to do a bit more digging to find what all the causes are. At least one cause is bad username password combo.

    Though, consistent errors on lots of pages makes me think some extension might be interfering with the javascript.











  • I understand your point of view, but whether you like it or not, your title will be viewed as the framing. “What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?” At a surface reading, it seems to me what that means to you is very different from what that means to others.

    I assume you probably wrote it along the lines of “What does it mean for an E2E encrypted protocol to compete with Signal on a technical level”

    Others read it as “what does it mean to compete with the signal app” and there is no additional depth to security.


  • I understand, but its all about framing. “What does it Mean to be A Signal Competitor”, well that is chat apps as that is the space signal occupies. That might not be what space it occupies to you, but that is the space it occupies. “What does it take to compete with Signal’s Security” frames the argument to one component, and I would probably have a very different response to that framing. Because of the framing, your argument comes across as “don’t talk about use case, its not worth my time.” I understand this is because your focus is the cryptographic security, but threat modeling and Human factors has to be a consideration of an overall security posture. Congratulations, you have the best cryptography, but if its not usable, the cryptography doesn’t matter, if the users are the weakness, the cryptography doesn’t matter, if nobody is willing to use it because its missing a key user feature, the cryptography doesn’t matter.

    I know enough about cryptography to know to leave it to the experts. I know about hardware power side channels, I know several exploits have been implementation based and not cryptography based, and I know vulnerability does not always mean an exploit



  • From a “don’t care” position, Elon is probably the only one who has impacted them. For Spez a majority of users probably just use the desktop site, or official app and would be more annoyed with the mods impacting their experience than Spez for making changes. Zuck did a bunch of behind the scenes manipulations, but again the don’t cares wouldn’t have noticed.

    The fediverse itself might be resistant to overall control, but you are still tied to an instance, so a rouge admin, or some spam in activity pub could still cause uprooting.


  • This is a very technology focused view. In any user system, the users themselves have to be a consideration too. I don’t use most of them for the fact I don’t have a smartphone. So for my use case, any chat application that requires one might as well not exist, so read the rest of this with that in mind.

    People fall into a few categories:

    • The don’t cares. They use whatever everyone else uses, because that’s what they need to use to talk to who they want to talk to.
    • The open and defederated. If they can’t self host, it fails.
    • The anti-corporate. If it is run by a big organization, regardless of technology its a no.
    • The technological illiterate. Basically the same as the first group, but if its not really user friendly they can’t figure it out.

    I’m sure there are others, but these are what comes to mind first. While signal might be the one that has the best technology for many that doesn’t mean, and will never mean it is the “best” because their decision matrix doesn’t weigh technology as highly as you, and their knowledge doesn’t allow them to understand the nuances you talk about.