moseschrute
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- Comment on My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging 4 weeks ago:
After all the other comments I was thinking randomly auto select one of the instances that meets certain criteria, but you make a good argument. Giving people choice over their server was what I was initially thinking when I came up with this planet analogy.
- Comment on My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging 4 weeks ago:
That’s what I was thinking! But I’m not sure that is better than just randomizing the default instance. Randomizing would have almost the same effect with much less user friction.
- Comment on My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging 4 weeks ago:
I’m so dumb. That literally solves so many problems. I just have to confirm that works with the login endpoint.
- Comment on My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging 4 weeks ago:
I’ll look into it, thanks! Maybe I’ll run it by a non technical friend and see if they get it.
- Comment on My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging 4 weeks ago:
What I could do is pick an instance at random and see if I can write that instance to app storage that persists on reinstall. That way, they don’t lose their account by not remembering what instance. That doesn’t solve the web.
The issue is password managers save username and password, but I need to save instance as a 3rd value. I wonder if I can prepend the instance to the front of their username in a way that the password manager picks it up, then slice it off later when they log in. But that’s kinda hacky.
- Comment on My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging 4 weeks ago:
Ooo yes! But I would like keep it much shorter.
- Comment on My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging 4 weeks ago:
Remember this is an onboarding flow for an app. It has to capture the user and explain things well without losing their attention.
What I want to avoid is “hey, select an instance from this menu”. “Wtf is an instance?”
Voyager gets around this by defaulting to an instance (lemmy.ee I think) before you log in, but my plan was to have them select when they launch the app for the first time.
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- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 1 month ago:
Will it brick the kid?
- Comment on A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry 2 months ago:
The savings arrived just in time to counteract the Trump Elon 100% EV tariff
- Comment on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves to place Google under supervision 2 months ago:
Do we think Trump could put the monopoly lawsuits against google at risk?
- Comment on Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström 2 months ago:
New business ideas: AI executives for your company as a service
- Comment on Tidal is laying off more staff. 2 months ago:
Ahhhh nothing like some good enshitification
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 months ago:
Isn’t the constitution the New New Testament.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t the YouTube creator need to see views for ad revenue? Are they removing them for viewers or creators too?
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
USB-C has been out for years. The only issue IMO is that since USB-C negotiates power delivery, it might not be as easy to split out a USB-C port into multiple USB-C ports. Spitting USB-A ports is easy since they only do 5V, and spitting USB-C into multiple USB-A ports should be fine. But if your peripherals all become USB-C, you might find yourself running out of ports fast.
I am not an expert. I probably got something wrong there, but that’s my understanding.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
I think it’s more about design. Apple is a company that has set a high standard for design and premium looking/feeling products. I understand that it still works, but I also think it’s not the best design. It’s just not the expectation Apple has set as a brand. Same goes for the mouse that charges on the bottom.
On one hand, I’m happy that Apple is breaking away from some of their earlier values (e.g. allowing for more iOS customization) but I do appreciate how well designed their products tend to be. I hope they don’t get sloppy with future products. So yeah, it’s just a silly power button, but it just seems out of character for their brand.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 months ago:
Hold up. Asure runs on Linux? Lol could have guessed that, but still is funny.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 2 months ago:
I’ve heard Costco has a better return policy
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 months ago:
There has to be some way that we could have created the architecture to do everything a phone does without letting a user be triangulated easily.
I know there is no incentive to do that, but it amazes me how far ahead the security of the web is compared to phone tech.
Like maybe if phones could authenticate without broadcasting a unique identifier. And maybe they could open a vpn style encrypted tunnel and perform their auth over that tunnel.
Idk, I know nothing about phones, but it has to be possible.
- Comment on My blog now has Lemmy comments 3 months ago:
In new to lemmy. Curious what the significance of ml and world are? Do you mean those TLDs or just lemmy.ml and lemmy.world specifically
- Comment on Google Will Pause Ads Related To Elections After Polls Close On November 5th. 3 months ago:
…after which, they will remove all search results once and for all in favor of other low quality ads. I ln the process, they are redefining “search engine” as search box that spews only AI generated garbage disguised as search results. And they can get away with this since everyone googles word definitions instead of picking up a dictionary, so technically they are still a “search engine” by their own definition.