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I tried it out but I didn't really like it that much. It seems to be good for most people though.

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Oh it's perfectly functional and has plenty of features, I just don't like how it's basically as if Firefox was an email client and prefer the functionality I get in my existing one.

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Because for a lot of people there is a difference between "their" kid and "somebody else's" kid they adopted.

I get to witness this all the time between my father who was adopted and his brother who is biologically his parents kid. The difference in the level of support for the two families and bias shown with everything blows me away.

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No. My time is worth more than 10k and I'd rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.

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Go to the doc and get checked out. It could be anything from cancer to an anal fissure.

Even if it's not life threatening it will slowly get worse and the surgery to fix it if it does is one of the most painful experiences you can have. Better to address a hemorrhoid or fissure now using the various creams you can apply yourself rather than that.

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Most people won't gel with the free version though as it uses ASCII.

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The challenge will be finding an actual traditional conservative instance that isn't also a pro-Nazi fascist shithole.

Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

Hot take incoming. Just some thoughts I’ve been having recently as I experience Linux at work for several years now. To clarify, I mean Linux on the desktop as a consumer. As in, what our lord and savior Richard M. Stallman would call “GNU/Linux”; pick your favorite distro here. I’m leaving out Linux on the server,...

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People are paid to work on it tho.

Paying people doesn't necessarily translate to what you might want from it.

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No no no it's just China doing you a solid and backing up your sensitive information just in case you lose your phone. It uses Blockchain technology where if you ever need it back they just block you.

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They can keep their 60 million threads, most of that is complete trash anyway.

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Personally I don't care about the soccer moms, my main concern is all the problems that come with being a mainstream social media platform. Threads threatens to overwhelm the content being generated with all those problems where your Lemmy feed is just going to represent Instagram etc again. Screw that.

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I don't hate anybody but I do hate their random bad takes and opinions on things and I don't care about their families either.

Are lots of websites really going downhill and/or closing or does it just seem like it to me?

Like many people I'm here because of reddit going to shit. Twitter has increasingly been shit. gycat is shutting down in September. To me it seems like lots of bastions of social media are crumpling, but as a previous active reddit user, I've been personally effected. Is this just a frequency illusion or has something changed...

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With interest rates going up it's costing more and more to have borrowed money sitting in the likes of Reddit hoping for a nice payday one day.

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Interesting read.

The likes of Spez were just not that intelligent enough to figure out how to make Reddit pay before the VCs called in the investments. Not that it's an easy problem to solve, but if you're going to take on money like Reddit did you sure as hell needed a better plan then leaving it up to later to figure out. Amazon had a plan clearly, Reddit did not.

Also, what Reddit is now doing mimics a little of what Facebook did too, the enshitification of your feeds (just look at the app). They're just hoping Reddit is as addictive as Facebook is and you'll stick around regardless. I wonder if they recent;y hired some new advisers that told them to make these recent changes too?

OC Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery.

It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....

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On their own instance, that they run. So again, who cares?

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We're not even using their software now. It shows the power of open source that all of this can coexist peacefully despite differing opinions.

Hot take: 18 years of user contributions to reddit will serve as a base model for an AI that generates content and conversations. the reddit experience continues as a simulation, to harvest clicks, sales and ad revenue.

most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate...

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I see something similar in a lot of tech-related threads too.

Just check out posts and comments about Corsair and AMD in particular. There is often no room for logic, facts or debate around their products on Reddit. Rather, threads feel like you're stuck in a marketing promo event where everyone feels the products are great and fantastic and can do no wrong. It's eerily like you're seeing a bunch of bots or paid shill accounts all talking to each other.

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Extremely rich man who is surrounded by yes-men and a society believing wealth equals success believes he doesn't do things wrong.

At least he genuinely believes that and it isn't a lie I guess.

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I'm happy with the amount of users and activity Lemmy currently has. It doesn't really need go grow though any means other than organically imo.

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It's debatable whether a lot of these smaller communities really provided much value outside the tiny userbase they have.

Besides, if someone wants to pick up the mantle on Lenny they are more than welcome to as well.

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What I'm saying is that while tiny communities are great, the fact that they haven't moved to a federated platform yet doesn't really matter. Anybody, including yourself, can start up those communities on the Fediverse and curate them if there is enough of a reason to do so or just continue to engage them on Reddit too.

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Yeah indeed, discoverability is lacking in Lemmy at the moment.

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What you need is medication, not food.

Get a bunch of laxatives, stool softener (if you need it juicy) and even some lactaose and senna if you're real keen.

Then eat a shitload of greasy food and you're set.

Do You Think There Would Have Been a Large Protest if Steve Huffman Just Said We're Charging to Use the API to Increase Revenue?

I've been a long time Redditor and an Apollo user for about a year. I even paid for it. The main draw for me was the lack of advertising. In the back of my head I kept thinking that it couldn't last. Reddit is losing revenue from the lack of advertising views. It didn't...

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The fact that this approach was the sensible, default logical one any rational person would attempt first and they didn't do it highly suggests ad revenue wasn't the motive at all. Otherwise, Spez is so out of touch with the community he's orbiting a planet in a distant galaxy.

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