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Mullem - a Firefox Add On for Lemmy.
- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 5 weeks ago:
Being old does the trick for me.
- Comment on Am I in lemmy.world or in lemmy.zionistworld? 3 months ago:
Embrace your hope - you are wrong about this.
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 4 months ago:
You’re right, anyone can scrape Lemmy. But that’s not the issue (to me anyway) - Reddit have sold user data - user generated content. None of what they’re profiting from was generated or created by them. Are Reddit users who did generate all this content getting a slice of the profits?
When I post on here I know it’s all open for anyone to access but that’s true of any non walled garden space. I’ve accepted the fact that it’s going to get fed into the hungry maw of some AI behemoth or two.
What Reddit have done is make money for doing absolutely nothing based on content others have created like some sort of technological tapeworm feeding second hand. And along the way they killed off a lot of tools that users loved, moderators found made their jobs easier and people with a visual disability found vital. And all this so u/spez can live out his mini-Musk fantasies.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I’d just like to reassure Lemmy that there are a lot of us (Brits) who are fully aware of the shitness of our Imperial past and its negative (and still felt) effects on people all over the world.
The only excuse I can offer for this persons stunning lack of tact and knowledge is that the Empire is not really taught in any meaningful way in British schools. It’s not unless one chooses to discover for oneself what our ancestors did that you can find out the true horrors of it all.
- Comment on How do I brew this brick of tea? 4 months ago:
Great. Now I have to turn my passport in.
- Comment on How do I brew this brick of tea? 4 months ago:
Best way:
- Break a chunk off x4 teaspoons sized
- Put it in a teapot
- Boil a kettle
- Pour about 2 mugs/cups worth of boiled water into the teapot
- Let the tea mash for a few mins
- Pour it through a tea strainer into a mug/cup
- Add sugar and milk if you’re an uncultured heathen
Source: am British.
- Comment on Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform 4 months ago:
How is this surreal? Journalists critical of Musk/Twitter have been being banned since he bought it.
Is this journalist really so self involved he thought it was OK they all got nuked as long as he didn’t?
- Comment on Jewish theatregoers felt 'unsafe' at comedy show - BBC News 4 months ago:
Surely the fact some audience members are ethnically and/or religiously Jewish is irrelevant. According to the article, they weren’t targeted because of their ethnicity or religion but because they refused to support the idea of a ceasefire.
- Comment on What happens to my Corpse if I die in a Forest? 5 months ago:
Don’t think it’d even take weeks. It wouldn’t be just be a couple of foxes or badgers, it’d be all of them for miles around. Scent travels a long way. Then on top of the larger (by European standards) animals, lots of birds eat carrion.
- Comment on What happens to my Corpse if I die in a Forest? 5 months ago:
You’ll start to decay, flies and maggots will infest you. When the smell reaches animals, they’ll eat the meat. During that process the bones will get scattered. Insects will pick the bones clean and anything organic left (the bone fragments themselves) will eventually break down.
- Comment on Would magically turning all trans people into the gender they want to be be unethical? 5 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Would magically turning all trans people into the gender they want to be be unethical? 5 months ago:
But its still not your decision to make. Would 100% of people use it? Probably. What do you lose by asking them first?
- Comment on Would magically turning all trans people into the gender they want to be be unethical? 5 months ago:
So you tell them, preferably ask them, first. That’s why surgeons make you sign consent forms.
- Comment on Would magically turning all trans people into the gender they want to be be unethical? 5 months ago:
I mean, doing anything to anybody without either their knowledge or permission is about as unethical as it gets.
- Comment on how can I develop a thick skin? 5 months ago:
If she’s a good therapist she’ll be feeling awful she couldn’t make it. I’d wait to hear her out before making any judgement on either her no-show or her as a therapist/person. It’s highly unlikely to be a personal slight, whatever it is, and if it’s not personal then there’s no need to develop a thick skin.
- Comment on Why did Adobe open source Magento? 5 months ago:
Magento was open source before Adobe bought it, Flash wasn’t.
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 5 months ago:
Only in a milk float driven by a priest.
- Comment on How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. 5 months ago:
Markets are greedy and never satisfied. A fracturing of services has led to situation where it’s impossible for the average person to be able to afford all the streaming services they need in order to watch their stuff. And even if they could, they now have to pay extra to exclude adverts - the lack of which was a major selling point for streaming services. Pay extra to watch in high quality and no matter what service you use and what content you’ve bought - music, TV, books, movies. games - it’s all stuffed full of DRM that can literally remove the media from your devices. You don’t even really own the stuff you’ve bought.
- Comment on Is there a term for someone that likes other people to smell their farts? 5 months ago:
Bit weird.
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 5 months ago:
In my own personal experience,
- Needs constant attention to prevent falling over
- Administration is a mess
- Takes far too long to get used to its 'little ways’
- Basics like E2EE don’t work
- Sync works when it feels like it
- Updating feels like russian roulette
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 5 months ago:
I’m not suggesting hateful content wasn’t edited or removed, I’m saying when I went back there was a lot of it that had obviously just been posted. I’ve no doubt it’s mostly gone now if I went back and looked (which I really don’t want to do unless I absolutely have to) but my point is that it happens so much and so often that its often there for awhile if a mod or mod team is a bit slow off the mark. It’s indicative of the type of user on there.
I also don’t understand this infatuation with “old reddit” when that allowed subreddits like coontown to exist.
I guess when I think about ‘old reddit’ I mean reddit as it was before there were even subs or when subs first launched. Reddit was created by Digg users who were annoyed with Digg’s direction. There was a lot of hope and effort put in to it being ‘better’ - not just technically but also in terms of ethos. I’m the first to admit I stupidly just ignored the influx of bad subs like the one you mention or jailbait etc. But it’s become impossible to ignore to the point where it feels like its a constant drip-drip of hate content that mods are barely on top of.
And even without that outright race (or gender, or sex, or sexuality etc) based hate, reddit just feels to me like there’s a constant undercurrent of aggression and sneering. Maybe, like I said before, it’s always been there and I was just so used to it I became inured to it but revisiting it after several months away it was impossible to not notice.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 5 months ago:
It is different. I had cause to go back a week or two ago to look for an old post of mine and I did have a bit of a poke about in my old subs too. It was like a war zone. Blatant no fucks given racism, incel level women hating, transphobia and ableism of the most vitriolic kind. And these weren’t just the massive general subs, some of them were niche interest subs where I felt I belonged at the time. Has it changed to become like that since June or I was just so used to it before that that I’d never noticed how toxic it was? Did I just used to shrug and say to myself ‘well, that’s just reddit’. Literally everyone seemed angry and hateful.
I’m not claiming the fediverse is perfect or free from that sort of shit but either through the practicalities of federation, or better moderation or a smaller userbase or a more mature userbase or a mix of oneor more of those things it doesn’t feel exclusionary to me. I often see on posts like this some people calling Lemmy a left-wing echo chamber and whilst I do agree there’s more people of a left-wing bent on here I think echo chamber is a bit much and is a phrase maybe used by those who live in a country without a functioning left-wing political party. I’ve not encountered a communist or tankie since Hexbear fucked off back to their kindergarten.
As for the Guardian article, they’ve fallen into the same trap as I’m concerned the fediverse might fall into by federating with Meta - assuming high numbers equal success or victory. If you have corporate/economics based mindset I can see how that works, but to me success equals a popular, useful community site entirely free from algorithms and other forms of manipulative control. One that isn’t gathering data via ads and tracking on its userbase to sell on (lets remember that reddit weren’t upset that AI were scraping reddit, they were upset that the company weren’t seeing any money from that). A community that grows organically, with all that that implies - sometimes growth might be very slow, it might stop entirely for awhile, maybe even reverse - but the emphasis should be on the people making the community better.
Reddit forgot somewhere along the way that it was the users who made reddit what it was. Look at the stats for r/askreddit - in particular the posts per day and comments per day - look at the trend since 2020. There may well be the same amount of users on reddit, but we all know a certain percentage of them are bots and even if they weren’t, just looking at those two graphs tells you everything about people’s level of interest in participating on reddit.
The only thing high user numbers guarantee sites like reddit is ad revenue. Nothing else.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 5 months ago:
I miss some of the communities I used on reddit that are still either quiet or very quiet over here, but I also recognise that unless I ramp up my participation in them, I haven’t really got grounds to feel negative about that. Besides, using social media less is a plus to me.
I love there’s no ads, tracking and ‘suggestions’ - in short, no algorithm. The apps are (mostly) open source and the community are appreciative of that.
I used to get news from reddit and can get it here too, there’s no difference in quality or quantity. Politically, I appreciate the de-emphasis on hateful content and it helps I’m on an instance where the Admin is on top of their game in that respect. It is noticeably more left-wing on here but since I am too I guess that’s not an issue for me. It’s certainly way better than Reddit in that respect where I’d stumble across fairly extreme right-wing opinions in (supposedly) non political subs every day.
People seem, by and large, much calmer and more reasonable here and less inclined to attack en masse. I’ve noticed a distinct improvement in my overall mental health but I think that might have more to do with not being on reddit than being on here.
Lemmy is what we make it. For those of us who came over in the Summer, Lemmy/KBin is less than 6 months old. Let’s not paint it into being one thing or another just yet.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 6 months ago:
I think ignorant might be more accurate than stupid. That crosses into stupidity if the ignorance is wilful eg they refuse to accept facts or refuse to even investigate if someone tries to present evidence.
People these days seem exhausted and angry and for some there’s comfort in the ‘certainty’ of their wrong beliefs. I read a piece recently about an ex qanon guy who said a large part of the appeal was being part of a community and encouraged to be angry about everything.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
No more than me criticising Rishi Sunak for being a shit Prime Minister is anti-Hindu.
- Comment on just bung it in the corner 6 months ago:
Surprise, surprise!
- Comment on Does the "Redirector" add-on affect your browser fingerprint in any way? 6 months ago:
I speak under correction, but I believe that whilst yes adding any add-on can potentially alter your fingerprint, it’s also true that a site has to test for the presence of that particular add-on you’ve added. I don’t believe there’s a way to test generally for the presence of add-ons and report back which add-ons a visitor is using.
- Comment on Filen.io not on the list privacyguides.org 6 months ago:
I may be being overly pedantic here but that statement, whilst I don’t doubt its good intent, always reads to me like a bit of a get out of jail free card.
I’m not sure how much weight you can place on a recommendation when the full criteria isn’t know and can be changed on a whim. And yes, I’m aware I can browse the forum, ask and see for myself but I’m not sure your average user is going to feel confident enough to do that.
- Comment on Filen.io not on the list privacyguides.org 6 months ago:
Disclaimer: not a security expert at all, just a working knowledge. However, what I read 18 months or so after reading that github thread was enough to reassure me.
- Comment on Filen.io not on the list privacyguides.org 6 months ago:
That’s the discussion that’s approaching 3 years old.