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  • Traditionally, Lemmy users don’t respond well to communities that attempt to completely mirror subreddits. I am not trying to “hate” on your efforts here as that is absolutely counterproductive. Maybe you can tweak your posts a bit?

    I am all for building niche communities, so don’t misunderstand me. When it comes to creator/influencer content, the road is going to be a bit rocky unless you can get the content creators themselves to back these places.

    The biggest issues I have seen is that many Lemmy users hate Reddit and are just more likely to block mirror communities. Constructively, I would say “read the room”: Lemmy isn’t Reddit and we typically don’t care what /u/whoever says









  • If you did, the phone-home beacons are super easy to spot and block. Appliance manufacturers don’t think of their products as computers so they don’t bother to hide anything.

    On the flip side, it seems that laptop manufacturers think of their products as appliances, so they don’t even hide their beacons either.

    Spoiler: Acer ties it’s proprietary fan control drivers to"NitroSense" that loves to beacon home with your geo location and serial numbers. If you insert a random python webserver for it to connect to, it will just blurt out its API keys for the Acer CMS. Connecting back to their CMS manually allows you to inject as much shit data into their CMS as you want.