I love technology, but I'm sad to see what it has lead to. What used to be something fun and enjoyable to engage in, now presents itself as an intrusion and attack upon personal privacy and security.
These days, I'm more focused on protecting my privacy/security.
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Am I making up fediverse drama? No... it's the Beehaw admins that are wrong (i.postimg.cc)
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Majority of Americans Would Like to Return to Time Before Cell Phones, Internet, According to New Poll (www.thewrap.com)
Seventy-seven percent of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was “plugged in,” meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell phone usage. As told by a new Harris Poll (via Fast Company), 63% of younger folks (18-34 years old) were also keen on returning to a...
should we be discussing reddit less?
Seems like a good portion of the activity in the communities is reddit oriented. If the goal is leaving/hurting reddit, it seems we should be continuing on like it doesn't exist, instead of continuing to drive interest to the site. Thoughts?
Do you prefer new books or used books?
When you’re getting books do you prefer to get new ones or secondhand ones?...
soliciting a new round of community suggestions
update: we're compiling them now, new suggestions have about 4 hours to come in before i call it and lock the thread. thank you for all of your suggestions...
What is the most disturbing book you have ever read?
Comment what books have caused you to become distressed, traumatized, or unsettled in any way. Please elaborate as to why.
CISA is analyzing cyber attacks against the US government and other organizations. (youtu.be)
ANNOUNCEMENT: defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
hey folks, we'll be quick and to the point with this one:...
What time of day/night were you born?
My birthday is coming up, and it got me to thinking about the time of day/night that I was born. It was 10:30 p.m....
Donald Trump is not being treated fairly by the DOJ... .. (i.imgur.com)
Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)
From the article:...
Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com)
new Beehaw community icons!
hey folks, quick update to say you've probably noticed our new community icons....
What's Lemmy reading?
There's a thread about how people find new books, and one of my favorite ways to find things to read was browsing comments from the weekly 'What are you reading' threads in r/truelit and r/books. So what is Lemmy reading?...
Discord vs Matrix - What’s Your Preference?
Hi all, I’m new here on Lemmy and had never even heard of Matrix until I logged into Beehaw. I see frequent references to the “enshitification” of Discord, but I’m a bit OOTL on that....
what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back
I'm not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all...
Ruin My Search History | The anti-google tool - ProPrivacy (proprivacy.com)
A few thoughts on Beehaw's design
We've been fielding a lot of questions about the design and layout of the site, and like the previous philosophy posts, I think it's time again to detail our thoughts and explain why we do some things a bit differently than the rest of Lemmy....
where are you from?
Don't dox yourself. Try to limit your information to a Maidenhead locator or general area of at least a few kilometers in an urban area and a few dozen in rural areas....
Any Dostoevsky fans?
I started reading his works late last year, and I've had a hard time putting them down. I've finished his 5 major works and have read a few of his lesser known stories....
what're some of your favorite games of all time? (beehaw.org)