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This. Even the command-line is extremely simple and convenient once you are familiar with it.

It's so much more complex and frustrating to try and come up with words to explain to someone the steps to do anything on a Windows GUI... browsing through menus clicking this thing here, right-clicking here that, going through tabs, dragging this to there... go to "this" -> "that" -> "whatever"... and then to only realize you misremembered the exact location and have to look it up to make sure.

Or maybe they changed the location slightly in the last Windows update because "reasons". More than once I've been searching how to do something on Windows 10 and found outdated instructions with setting panels that don't exist anymore.

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Yeah... I mean it's not so different from things like MAYUS, italics, bold, etc... OR ALL OF THEM!!!

If you are doing it just for calling for attention to your post and farming for "karma".. then you deserve all the downvotes you get.

But if you do it because you actually want to be expressive in your post, and they are relevant, make sense or help even a bit at delivering what you wanna say, then they are a great resource to use.

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Oh! and OpenMoji has a variant that is just black & white line art. It merges well with text.

It would be relatively easy to configure their font in whatever instance decides it prefers that. Or have a userscript or something to inject the CSS adding it.

Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?

I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...

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only now? to me most social media platforms were shitty to begin with, or had become shitty long before.

I feel this is a matter of perspective. The average Joe whose concept of "social media" is Facebook probably has never noticed anything getting any worse. The mainstream users who just want to see funny pics and couldn't care less about 3rd party clients might actually be quicker to side with Reddit than with the protesters.

Twitter has never been attractive to me. Even back when its API was public (ancient history). Not only is their feed noisy and of poor quality, constantly swayed by "trending" stuff I don't care about, it also has always had you depend on a privative and closed source walled guarden. Things were much more open before twitter, when people used blogs to post their stuff instead.

Reddit might have been a bit more open once.. but it stopped being so long ago, this is not a change in behavior. Maybe this is an unpopular thing to say, but I'm actually glad this is happening. I think the API fiasco might be an overall good thing if it helps people get away from Reddit, and if so I hope Reddit does not backtrack.

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Things straying from his vision could also be a good sign. Change doesn't necessarily equates to bad.

It's not like his vision was without flaws. He's had disagreements with the people from Matrix, for example.

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It's a pitty there aren't many (any?) subreddits that are "officially" endorsing a specific community in lemmy (or magazine in kbin) for migration.

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This. And also, converselly, there's a use case for instances meant to not allow any users to sign up directly to them, and that could be used just to host a community forum for users coming from other instances.

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I mean, if you consider cyber-augmentations, and spice it up with some futuristic assumptions of how technology would advance, then a lot of things become possible.

Both Batman and Ironman could technically be plausible superheroes in a sufficiently advanced world.

Having a mobile device that fits in your hand with the power of communicating with computer networks wirelessly and access all kinds of information like we do today would have been considered a super power 30 years ago.

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Personally I'd rather there were methods for people to access content across instances without the instances having to federate. So that the repercussions of defederation can be minimized. Then it would not be a big deal at all even if an instance didn't federate with anyone else.

I feel that it's actually a big ask to expect the owners of an instance to host/proxy whatever content all other third party instances provide. If I was hosting my own instance I would actually rather prefer to not federate with anyone, because I would not want to be liable / responsible for hosting content that I don't even have control over. Specially if the fediverse ever becomes as big and mainstream as massive social networks like reddit.

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Yes, but then I'd need a whole new account to keep a list of subscriptions, and completely switch to a different website / feed.

The interesting thing would be if the same frontend could make the requests to the the API from multiple instances directly (cross-site) to fetch subscriptions for each instance and aggregate the content in the same feed, even across instances that do not federate.

Ideally you'd get the content from those instances without server-to-server communication, and you wouldn't need instances to proxy/cache the content from each other's. Each instance would just serve the content they host when they do not federate. So they wouldn't be held responsible for 3rd party content while still giving you the freedom to chose to connect with those other instances if you really want.

Of course it would still require some level of coordination for all instances to use the same standards, and be able to authenticate the user consistently (maybe using a cryptographic key). But I expect it would alleviate the inter-instance drama by removing friction.

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I think people are just getting excited.

I don't think it's an issue as long as people don't start demanding things as if the software were trash just because is missing this or that. If something being missing affects you so personally that much.. then spend the work yourself to implement it or pay some devs to do it for you. It's free and open source software after all, anyone can make their own fork.

stormageddon, to kbinMeta

I feel like kbin has the most Reddit-like feel in terms of browsing, although Lemmy has the advantage in terms of robustness and stability. Who else is hanging out in both spaces?

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It's also nice to be able to easily follow Mastodon accounts across the whole Fediverse.

Even though I've always liked more to read news / blog posts and never found much appeal to Twitter-like services, I feel that maybe some specific accounts might be worth following, and having it integrated as part of the same service is very convenient.

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If the Monkey Island story is anything like the previous one (Pirates of the Caribbean), then it'd essentially be a singleplayer (or coop if you are with friends) adventure.

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