jamie_oliver
@jamie_oliver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 days ago:
I think you are missing the point of using an e-ink device… I don’t think anyone would use one because of “how powerful” it is.
I don’t want to read for hours on end on my phone or computer. With this, I can turn backlight off and use a lamp, like a normal book. Better for my eyes and relaxing.
Also, having dedicated devices for certain activities will change how you interact with them when using them. If I read a book on my computer I am tempted to look things up, get some work done or play a game. This is just for leisurely reading, and so when I pick it up that is what I do with it.
If you read a lot (books, not documentation which requires looking things up) then it really is a lot better for your eyes and a better experience to use e-ink.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 days ago:
Been using an Onyx Boox Nova 3 for maybe 8 years now. It runs android, drm free everything. For some android could be a distractiin from reading, but the browser is slow enough to were you use it to hop on annas-archive, get a book and then quickly close it. File transfer via shared wifi or USB, good reader, some nice reading stats without needing any account. Recommend if anyone wants to jump the amazon ship.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
Yes I figured but wasn’t sure if I wasn’t missing something lol. Well at least I learned a new term (defederated).
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
When I say decentralization I refer to the fact that it is federated. Not sure what you mean.
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 1 week ago:
I have never gotten into twitter so I couldn’t say, and I narrowly missed MySpace as well…
It was a lot of fun tho
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
It is a neat place, thank you!
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 1 week ago:
Tumblr was a lot of fun. Yes it is a microblogging platform, but that doesn’t explain what the appeal was. I have no idea what the appeal is today as I left in 2015.
People would share text or image or links of things they liked, and if you reblogged it (shared to your own blog) the comment you added would be retained when someone reblogged your reblog, creating lusicrous chains of conversations that people would build and build on. They evwntually became unreadable because they got squashed into one line. There was no way to comment without reblogging.
Tumblr predates influencer culture, and tumblr celebrities were not really a thing (except for maybe @pizza by accident being tagged everywhere).
You also had a tag system, where you added hashtags to reblogs that were searchable. This way you would find topics you liked, ans blogs.
The blogs had custom CSS, with graphics and music playing but less free for all than MySpace. This made some blogs into minor art pieces, along with the things they reblogged.
For me the initial appeal was high def images. Instagram had not taken off, and so finding consisten high quality images of art, nature, sub culture and pop culture imagery or artists, porn etc. was not as obvious as it is today.
I loved tumblr but eventually got bored. Eventually they killed custom CSS and porn, and basically made tumblr worthless for anyone who wasn’t into fandoms (/s but kind of not. I have no idea what happens on tumblr today).
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
I am very new here, and not as passionate about the fediverse as some of you are (like your average redditor most likely).
Reading the comments here I think that the fact that you notice decentralization as a user can be a problem for many but offering simple instance lists, community lists in the UI can mitigate that and make it more a feature than a nuisance (for those that have trouble navigating it).
On desktop, I don’t mind switching servers with different URLs, especially since I can read them all with the same proton UI. However, on mobile (I spend more time on social media via mobile than desktop, I imagine most people do these days) using the Jerboa app I cannot figure out how to “visit” another server. I can’t enter the URL, I cannot click on the URL, I cannot search for @URL and get a list of the communities hosted on it…
I am sure there is documentation somewhere explaining how I achieve this, but I should not have to look for that just to acces different instances. I use lemmy on breaks mostly and as I said, am not passionate enough about social media to read manpages for it… I imagine some will think “then we don’t need people like you here”, but in the end if close-to mainstream user adoption is a goal, you kind of will need people who just want to look at cats and discover communities as well, and making jumping between instances and finding communities is an important part of making that happen.