FarraigePlaisteach
@FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 6 days ago:
That would be so good if they had a competent author.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
USA are searching people’s phones for signs of criticism of government policy. They are detaining and deporting people (even citizens). China is not the sole bogeyman you think it is.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
I never knew what it was because I’m a bit desensitised to knew apps / app names.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. That’s kind of you and I appreciate it. I was being humorous but I did start to wonder if would make a comically gruesome feature for a funeral.
We decided not to get a pet taxidermied in the past for the same reason you mentioned.
Thanks again for being so decent.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 4 weeks ago:
I like that one, thanks. I could probably enlist an apprentice serial killer to help with that. Although I’m not sure how I’ll issue him with his certificate.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 4 weeks ago:
I could die with those glasses that have the nose and moustache attached. Nobody world recognise me.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 4 weeks ago:
I do have a Roomba.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 4 weeks ago:
Never thought of that. We segregate our waste here so there is a bin for compostables.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 4 weeks ago:
Are your thinking in the bath tub or more like a human sized glass jar?
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 4 weeks ago:
I’m doing my post-life worrying in advance.
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- Comment on How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet? 5 weeks ago:
I use www.sendbig.com I haven’t read their privacy policy, though.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 1 month ago:
Because it isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough and my favourite now. And they are the only consumer tech company I know of having such a positive impact on the environment worldwide.
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- Comment on Invidious has added an color indicator to make it easier to determine if an instance is fully working 1 month ago:
I had stopped using it for the same reason. I think this new initiative is a way to make it easier, but as you say, consistency is the other issue.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
But doesn’t Leta use Bing as it’s backend also?
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
It seems like a good alternative so some of the most popular engines. I think I’ll stick with Ecosia, since on top of being EU based, they also make the world a better place.
- Invidious has added an color indicator to make it easier to determine if an instance is fully workingnadeko.net ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Dumbware.io - Stupid Simple Software 1 month ago:
I could really use some of these. There’s a video showing what they look like for anyone interested www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxcMQ4MKK4&pp=ygULRHVtYn…
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
He’s old and doesn’t have much time left. The really problematic people are all around him and they are many.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
If I understand you right, you’re saying that you support making software like Lemmy accessible for users of all types. I agree completely.
A little unrelated, but “intelligence” is not a singular thing and nobody is “intelligent” or “not intelligent”. Also, because we each have our own limitations, we’re not really qualified to evaluate the abilities of another person since we tend to reference ourselves in doing so. IQ is now increasingly seen as not fit for purpose by academics and professionals of education. And all this without mentioning IQ’s history is in the support of eugenics. So if the experts are abandoning the idea of IQ, we can do the same and stop beating each other over the heads with it. Then we can get on with focussing on accessibility, which as you say is where our priorities should be.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
The whole process was a massive time and energy drain in the end with no benefit. I don’t think anyone with a life would pursue something like this any further. I trialled-and-errored my way to Lemmy.world while I was out of work. Otherwise I’d still be on Reddit.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Championing for accessibility is the opposite of gatekeeping, no? And coding doesn’t solve everything. At the moment, the perfect Lemmy instance could be coded and nobody might find it given the plethora of existing ones. Anyway, we disagree and that’s okay.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
In the EU there is some amount of data protection and privacy rights, so that matters to quite a few people. Commercial outfits handle those distinctions behind the scenes (eg, US users vs EU users get different amounts of privacy). On the fediverse, the user has to figure this out themselves.
Beyond that, I agree with everything you say. Some of the instances don’t even have the name “Lemmy” in the domain or brand which makes it confusing. Or maybe they’re not Lemmy but just ActivityPub compatible. I have no idea. You can also get unlucky picking a “bad” server. I first joined Kbin.social because it had the best UI at the time but man, it rarely worked and totally put me off.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
“If somebody gave up on the registration, how would you know?” Because although I have an account here on Lemmy I can still see discussions on comparable sites.
“If you gave up on the registration, then how are you here?” Because I came back a year later after coming across a good explainer for how the fediverse works.
I’m not going to look at that link.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
If any of that were true there wouldn’t be posts and comments here and elsewhere from professional programmers who gave up on the registration process because of bad UX. I was one of them. People don’t give up on registering here because it’s “scary”.
If you’re one of the many people here happy for this to remain a niche for tech people then that’s different.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
I’m not trying to say that marketing is empathetic. I’m saying that meeting people where they are at is.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Biodiversity is great. Abandoning confused users isn’t. Those options can still exist without baffling the user.
“Marketing programming” understands the human condition and tries to facilitate people. That part - for all its other failings - is more empathetic than telling people who struggle that we refuse to “dumb down” the process for them.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
“I cannot fathom how the idea of having choices could be considered, let alone by so many people to even make this into a controversy, to be bad design. That’s the very thing that makes federation great.”
Because for every choice presented, people want to know the consequences of each one before proceeding. It’s a well understood problem in sales and marketing. People do not want to put themselves in a position where they have to undo. Companies like Apple do this very well. In computer shops, the reason staff are hired is to help get the customer from “wanting a laptop” to “choosing one laptop”, rather than walk away feeling that they need to think about it more.
“Just look at a few of the most populated sites, and pick one that looks good. The choice makes 95% no difference in practice”.
Maybe if they said that on the signup page it would help. I think it would have helped me. But just because you have a sense of what “looks good” doesn’t mean the average person does. It’s the average person that I want to interact with on the internet.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Maybe you’re right, but I think that the issue isn’t that everyone was on one server, but there was nowhere for them to go without loosing touch with the people they connect with there. The fediverse can easily give people an out and they can still stay in touch with the people they want.
“I started out on .world but didn’t like their moderation and defederation practices, so I moved.”
That works for me. But most of us here have been running linux boxes on ARM devices for so long that we have trouble relating to the average user. I met someone recently who makes great contributions to Reddit posts like fact checking and providing digestible research. They’re not tech savvy and I doubt we’ll ever have the value of their contribution here while things are as complicated as they are up front.