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- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 10 hours ago:
I’ll use my 13 mini until I literally can’t anymore. Sadly it seems like maybe Apple will release a clamshell to get back to the pocketable size but never a mini phone again. Wish the 16e used a mini chasis
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 11 hours ago:
At least on the iPhone side the 12 and 13 mini were full flagships in a smaller form factor. I just wish we could go back to that
- Comment on is shadowbanning a thing on lemmy? 18 hours ago:
Every action is public in the mod log so I don’t think shadow bans are possible although you might not know to check the mod logs in the moment
- Comment on Conservative Discussions 1 week ago:
I’ve subscribed. Thanks for posting it despite the chilly reception
- Comment on Best Beige P/S2 keyboard and mouse for retro gaming build? 1 week ago:
I don’t think I can afford a Model M but I was able to find another IBM keyboard from the same era on eBay with some very minor cosmetic defects.
Good call on the intellimouse. Thank you!
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- Comment on Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition. 2 weeks ago:
Yes why do you think they make you pay with your card or Walmart app if they can help it? So they can track your purchases
- Comment on Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition. 2 weeks ago:
And so at small stores ran by local owners who can’t afford surveillance equipment and aren’t obsessed with profit
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 weeks ago:
At least Lemmy is open source and there isn’t any advanced analytics running and telling server operators exactly what you look at and for how long. And if there was, it would be discovered quickly and you could host your own instance and only look at content locally.
Your posts aren’t private. But that’s the whole point so that they can be seen and federated
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 2 weeks ago:
I disagree that Reddit has good content but even bad content is better than no content for communities that haven’t been built here yet
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 2 weeks ago:
Corrupt according to whom? Because if you ask me who is corrupt DJT and Elon Musk top the list of corrupt politicians and business men.
- Comment on My Deep Thoughts 2 weeks ago:
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 weeks ago:
At least the mask is off. Apple, Google, Meta. None of them care about anything but profit and there isn’t a value they aren’t willing to compromise on if it makes the line go up.
- Comment on Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there. 2 weeks ago:
If it weren’t for social media, humanity would find another technology to lie and manipulate people for money and power.
Money and Power are what corrupts, not technology
- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 2 weeks ago:
Apollo was the best Reddit app on iPhone. Voyager continues its legacy
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 weeks ago:
voyager is available as a web app if you’d rather use your browser vger.app
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 weeks ago:
If people can’t understand what federation is then just send them directly to .world or lemm.ee or another big instance. If they have common sense then send them to join-lemmy and let them pick an instance. If someone is unable or unwilling to learn a very basic concept then they probably are not going to be a very good neighbor to have on the fediverse.
I agree that the discoverability of communities needs improvement. I think that most instances should add starter pack like features with the most popular communities for people to choose to subscribe to when onboarding new users.
In my opinion, finding the right and active communities to subscribe to is the biggest onboarding hurdle, not picking an instance. If picking an instance is a hurdle, that person wasn’t willing to try another site in the first place
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
If you are looking for an app, Voyager is the best in my opinion. It’s totally feature complete afaik
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
The people who aren’t here are making excuses to not be here. Otherwise they’d be here.
That being said the feud between world and ml users is pretty noticeable
- Comment on What are some of the non-technical parts of the fediverse that appeal to you? 2 weeks ago:
The fediverse is ran by volunteers. Engagement is organic and isn’t trying to sell you something. Everything you see is there because someone thought it was worth sharing
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Really anything is better than the default UI. The default Lemmy-ui is functional but not elegant.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I can’t tell you how to on-boarding process is these days but the UX of using Lemmy via Voyager is even better than using Reddit. In fact Reddit killing Apollo (the app Voyager is based off of) is the whole reason I’m here
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 2 weeks ago:
Facebook stole from sites without the means to defend themselves. Schwartz stole from an organization with the means to financially ruin him and lock him up.
Sadly lady justice’s scales only tips for the side of money
- Comment on Content curation in the Fediverse is better! 2 weeks ago:
On mastodon I follow a lot of hashtags and so I will mute foreign language accounts so they don’t show up in my home feed. Thankfully I’ve never had to block an entire instance but I chalk that up to troublesome instances already being defederated from my instance
- Comment on PlayStation Says Outage Was An "Operational Issue"; Offers PlayStation Plus Members 5 Extra Days 3 weeks ago:
Glad to find out we aren’t the only fools that push to prod at 5pm on a Friday. Big companies like Sony do too!
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 3 weeks ago:
Haven’t tried self hosting Pixelfed. Just mostly been trying it out on the main instance. I’m really shocked that it’s a mess to deploy with docker if it’s on PHP/Laravel.
I hate PHP these days for dev purposes but I think laravel ought to be able to scale enough to run most Pixelfed instances. Facebook ran PHP when it was much larger than Pixelfed.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
I pay for a YouTube premium family plan. It’s probably a rip off but my kids enjoy content on YouTube more than any other platform but YouTube is not safe for children with ads enabled (and YouTube kids is a joke)
Soggy cereal made a video about how YouTube ads are unsafe a few weeks ago and that was exactly my experience before I started paying for yt premium, look that up if you are curious
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 3 weeks ago:
The Pixelfed app isn’t very good right now compared to instagram was when it wasn’t terrible. Hope that Dan hires an actual UX designer to update the app with his kickstarter money. And that he can integrate loops with it as well.
- Comment on Looking for a free speech Lemmy instance 3 weeks ago:
Instance admins have to take on the responsibility and liability of running a website, I don’t think most would also want to leave it unmoderated as well. For the most part if you aren’t on beehaw, hexbear, or ml/grad. Most instances are fairly “free speech” according to your definition. I don’t think I’ve ever had a comment removed.
If you still don’t think that lemm.ee or .world is “free speech” enough for you, you are free to host your own unmoderated instance. Don’t expect anyone to federate with you though if your free speech is hateful or inflammatory though.
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 3 weeks ago:
If it can purchase alcohol it’s retro