StraightArrow

@StraightArrow@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people kept trying to tell me Discord was the new Reddit and a new ultimate messenger type software. I tried it a bit and did not find it lacking on both sides.

  Perhaps it will swallow the rest of the world, but I’m happy with Lemmy and other messengers.

  I’ll give it another go from time to time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+, Hulu Merged App to Launch Next Month, Bob Iger Says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a very reasonable point of view, but couldn’t they still achieve this by creating some filter that says “family” within the Disney+ app so that they can still isolate toons and family movies and series?

  However, it’s also true that my experience with all these sites is that content is poorly arranged and searchable, so keeping them separate might have simplified this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t everyone’s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never used Twitter, nor liked it, but in 2010 I had to observe that it was indeed useful when it became one of the primary ways for people to communicate during the Arab Spring.

  Since then I kept not being into it, but at least I thought it had some important value I had not seen.

  Now it’s all locked up, so it really has become useless (and I haven’t even talked about the ranpant disinformation)

  RIP Twitter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stephen King calls on Elon Musk to change 'X' back to Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, no. I said I informed myself about alternatives to Reddit (as an example) and then dropped it and moved to Lemmy.

  I said jumping ship for King may be hard for various possible reasons which I was trying to guess (and don’t pretend to know).

  Mastodon is further along than Lemmy is, so I hope Stephen King can move there soon, but it might still take time.

  If you have an X account (I never used Twitter/X), you can write King to let him know about Mastodon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s hope it resists!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stephen King calls on Elon Musk to change 'X' back to Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not easy to jump ship (because of the network effect) and possibly not being tech savvy enough to know where to land.

  I jumped ship from Reddit this year after reading some posts about alternatives. I tried Tildes too, which I found interesting, but more of an experiment, than a substitute.

  King (and others like him) may not know alternatives exist and can work just as easily.

  Also, even if King knew of Mastodon, maybe his fans wouldn’t jump ship too even if he had said he’s moving there

  It’s complicated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When someone says this, it’s a recurring joke, but when I’ve read your comment, it’s the first time I actually think it may happen.

  Well, I don’t expect a takeover at all, but perhaps I envision something like this year’s Reddit migration: I imagine some individuals or companies won’t stand for it and switch to Linux.

  So maybe in one year Linux on desktop will go from 2% global installations, to 3% or 4% which would be a colossal uptake!

  (I admit I’ve not checked the current percentage of Linux installations, it was 2% years ago, but maybe it’s already higher)