I’m 100% confident that once elderly people make up a good chunk of the gaming market, games will be made that accommodate whatever reflexes they have. If enough people with Parkinson’s want to play first person shooters, there’ll be first person shooters that people with Parkinson’s can play
tbh from what I’ve seen of her, I’m not sure that she has the temperament for a corporate job. Like, despite having the technical skills, she would probably be wholly unable to function in a typical white collar environment.
And those people can continue to do it for nothing, but there’s no requirement that she should need to. It’s her choice if she want to do it for nothing or not, and it’s everyone else’s choice whether they want to support her with their money
I went to my primary care doctor about it, and I matched every attention/stress criteria on their sheet, but I dodn’t have anger issues so they said I didn’t have ADHD. Yet every time I see a post like this it matches exactly. It’s weird to say I think I have ADHD when a doctor has told me I don’t have it… But I still think I have it, it just matches too well.
So I guess welcome to the undiagnosed gang, good to have you
From a design perspective it still has a lot of friction on signups though, we're asking users to make a server choice before they even remotely understand what that entails. That simple decision made me spend a week understanding the fediverse before settling on Lemm.ee, but the average user won't do that, they'll get confused and then leave.
From a more traditional UX standpoint the general feed is also fairly bad, reddit has built in feeds for the things people care the most about (trending and subscribed) that pop up by default when opening the app or website, and gives the advanced controls off to the side. Lemmy on the other hand defaults to a feed that shows basically nothing, and only gives the advanced controls to fix it. For a new user that isn't tech savvy, the fact that the feed defaults to local is enough to make Lemmy seem completely dead if they happened to join a small instance.
These aren't major issues for us, but they are major issues for widespread adoption. It needs to be so easy that you can use it accidentally, and the UX isn't there yet. I'm sure we can fix issues with the feed and the app, but I do worry that the server choice problem isn't going to get a good solution
Given the tools that we have currently, this seems like the best approach. Still, defederation feels like using a nuke to handle a pest problem, which I think will be especially apparent once bots start appearing on more established instances where defederation will have more apparent consequences. It seems like you're working towards a better solution, can you share anything about what you're planning? (Without giving any tips to bad actors about evasion, obviously)
Personally, I'm wondering if there could be a way for an instance with bot filters to put users on other instances through similar filters before allowing the users to use/post in their communities. Like, for example a user from a tiny instance might have to do a captcha to get post/comment access on a lemm.ee community, while a beehah user could be auto whitelisted since the same thing isn't a problem on their instance. It would obviously take some overhauls to the community filters/join process, but I feel like it could be feasible
Did it have the option to swipe between posts instead of needing to click on each one? It was a basic feature of the official reddit app that I'm surprised more 3rd party apps didn't emulate. Joey was the only android app that I found that had it
Tesla adding CCS as an option at superchargers would have been good, but unless they actually switched connectors on their cars it never would have led to long term consolidation. For better or worse, tesla has 3x the US market share of the rest of the EV manufacturers combined, so no solution could ever be a universal standard without their support. In practical terms, this move means that we're closer to a universal standard than we've ever been, we're going to have 95% of cars and a majority of charging infrastructure all use one plug. Once we get to that point, there's no chance anyone else will use CCS, nobody else has the influence necessary to keep it alive
well that's mostly because the EU required that it become the standard. without similar regulation in the US it's just taken a bit longer for all of the manufacturers to consolidate on one solution
This looks great, I'll definitely be trying it once it's out. It seems like you've got plenty of things to work on, but if I could suggest one extra thing that jerboa is missing, see if you can add the ability to swipe between posts while you're in the comments. Sometimes I just want to swipe through every post in my feed instead of picking the posts I wanted to open
LG had some phones like that in 2016ish, on the G5 the entire bottom of the phone slid out to reveal a big battery slot and on the V20 there was a button that let the metal back of the phone pop off so you could change the battery. I had an external battery charger and a couple of spare batteries for my V20, so I could just pack spare batteries and swap them whenever it got low. I never even bothered to plug my phone in, it was always just faster to pop in a battery that was already fully charged. It didn't have any water resistance, but it was a pretty small price to pay for endless battery life
It's a shame that LG's whole phone division went under, because they were making some of the coolest phones that came out that whole decade
Back when I had a LG V20 I didn't even bother to plug in the phone, I would just swap the batteries once or twice a day and never need to worry about charging. Super useful, especially when you're away from home.
Side note, I wonder if it would be possible to add a second smaller battery to the phone to keep the phone on for the minute or two that you're swapping the battery, so it never needs to turn off. It's not a huge issue, but it would be pretty convenient if possible.
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
Data mining can happen without any of that, everything you post in the fediverse is literally available for anyone to see. Realistically, the most harm they can do is build controlled communities that grow so huge that they drown out all of the fediverse's open communities.
I don't understand why everyone freaks out that wikipedia tries to keep a reserve. Yes, they have enough money on hand to run for a few years... Is that really such a bad thing? Why does everyone think nonprofits should be scrimping by before they do their next donation campaign?
To me, keeping a reserve fund just seems like good money management, and I'd rather donate to an organization that manages their money well than one that doesn't. If there were problems with a large chunk of donations not going to wikipedia upkeep it would be different, but as far as I can tell all of the controversy is just over the fact that they have a reserve at all
Yeah, it is. And I'm not saying that's not a valid reason to resist companies in the fediverse, it totally is. I'm just saying the privacy concerns everyone is mentioning don't really make sense, anything they could get, everyone already has
I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it's because I am limited to using the desktop and can't aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself...
I've quit reddit 100%. I was a little bit addicted, so I used the blackout as a way to quit cold turkey. Lemmy kind of scratches the itch, enough that I don't go back to Reddit, but I don't spend as much time here as I did there. I'm counting that as a good thing
Is it really just because of the fentanyl situation? I know there is a huge disagreement with how the strict rules for prescribing opioids are so tight even for chronic pain patients like myself who can’t participate in life without em struggle to find a provider who is willing to prescribe us them.
In this case it's more that 1% of hundreds of millions is still millions. Opiates get prescribed to basically everyone at some point in their lives, so it's basically just 1% of the population
Why YSK: No sense in making the locals mad unless you mean to. In some Middle Eastern countries, a thumbs-up is comparable to the middle finger. A peace sign in the UK is OK if your palm is facing away from you; otherwise, it's an insult. Pointing with your index finger is offensive in Malaysia. An OK symbol is not OK in Brazil,...
A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it....
Which is essentially what section 230 has given all social media companies. They are absolved from responsibility from what users post, but own it all and can moderate (or fail to) however they want. Companies have all of the control
Same. I'm not putting in a ton, but monthly donations go a long way to help with monthly server costs. We just need 150 people to put in $1 a month and we'll be covered indefinitely
Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there'll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there's no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn't this one
Millennials in retirement (i.postimg.cc)
Empress forgot to take her meds again (lemmy.world)
How untreated ADHD can trap you in depression (i.postimg.cc)
Let's fly extremely close to a mountainside... wcgw? (youtube.com)
FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform (wedistribute.org)
OC UPDATED: There are now multiple iOS / Android apps in development for kbin & lemmy!
The amount of apps being developed for iOS / Android is getting really crazy now and new apps keep popping up every day. Updated list below:...
There is currently a huge wave of automated spambot sign-ups on other Lemmy instances. This post explains how lemm.ee will respond.
Hello, lemmings!...
The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app (www.reddit.com)
New subreddit talking about it here. I'm assuming it will eventually be a Lemmy community...
Rivian is the next automaker to adopt Tesla’s charging plugs | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
I am working on a new lemmy app for iOS and Android, here's my current progress
Hi all, keeping this post short, I am working on a new Lemmy app for iOS and Android, heavily inspired on the Infinity for Reddit app....
EU votes for smartphones having user-replaceable batteries by 2027 (www.pcmag.com)
How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on Lemmy than Reddit?
I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it's because I am limited to using the desktop and can't aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself...
Why is there such a big thing about prescription opioids when the addiction rate in less than 1% for those who have been prescribed for pain?
Is it really just because of the fentanyl situation? I know there is a huge disagreement with how the strict rules for prescribing opioids are so tight even for chronic pain patients like myself who can’t participate in life without em struggle to find a provider who is willing to prescribe us them.
YSK: When traveling abroad, hand gestures can mean different things in different cultures.
Why YSK: No sense in making the locals mad unless you mean to. In some Middle Eastern countries, a thumbs-up is comparable to the middle finger. A peace sign in the UK is OK if your palm is facing away from you; otherwise, it's an insult. Pointing with your index finger is offensive in Malaysia. An OK symbol is not OK in Brazil,...
Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it....
Upcoming 0.18 upgrade, 404 errors and infrastructure costs
Hello, fellow lemmings!...
Almost 5K Pirates migrated to lemmy. We're now 4th in lemmy communities browser! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Incredible growth. just goes to show how little we needed to be in Reddit....
Top comment decides next move, legal or not | day 0: the start (sopuli.xyz)