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Green energy/tech reporter, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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The Lemmy User Experience is Better When Centralized into Fewer Instances

Most people access the Fediverse through one of the large instances: lemmy.world, kbin, or beehaw. New or small instances of Lemmy have no content by default, and can most easily get content by linking to larger Lemmy instances. This is done manually one "Community" at a time (I spent 15 minutes doing this yesterday). Meanwhile,...

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Because people generally want a user experience similar to Reddit

The power Reddit has over these users is they believe that to be what they want. But have you ever run into a longtime Redditor who says it's perfect the way it is? Not just recently, either.

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Spinning up your own solves all these issues. That's not for everyone, myself included thus far, but ultimately, no one is going to build, maintain and host exactly what I want for free forever. That's an unreasonable expectation in any context.

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Quelle surprise.

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Rossman only hit my radar in the past week, but that can be said of a shitton of things at this point. Having no history with his work, I'm currently impressed with the level-headed descriptions of the situation with Reddit he's been posting.

Beehaw has provided the bridge from "I hope something can be a suitable replacement for Reddit" to "Wait, why the fuck would I want to go back to that?" and has made me realize I need to closely examine more defaults in my life.

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None ... yet. Hadn't even looked into the possibility since my Pixel 2XL, and I have no idea what I dug up all those years ago.

I'm now on a Pixel 6 Pro and would love to move to a privacy-focused OS; I'm already on KDE Neon on desktop for both my production machines as of May. Rexxit has motivated me to at least dip my toes in on mobile, but as with desktop Linux, I fully expect my first attempt to bring into specific relief what I'm looking for and then go try things until I find what I like.

Graphene and Lineage seem like the best starting options at this point, but I'd love to hear from anyone else on my hardware on their experiences. My use cases are vanishingly small: Signal for text, voice and video; the local transit app; music app (still haven't found one that makes be forswear any further experimentation) for my commute; mindless games (currently Royal Match) for my commute; 10-15 texts a week; and a phone call or two. I barely even use the camera except for work, and yes, I'm aware I purchased a phone utterly overpowered for my needs, but I'm picky about pixel size.

What recommendations do y'all have, either as a starting point or — perish the thought — an obvious daily driver?

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I'd actually like to move away from Google's aesthetic. I took the demise of Windows Phone/Mobile pretty hard, specifically the live tiles that meant all I usually needed to do at any moment to get the info I wanted was wake my phone. The number of notifications I have on an app is never a question I've found myself asking; the content it denotes is what I'm interested in. Why give me irrelevant information and require further interaction to get that relevance?

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What about the Roomba nebula?

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Loved this comment on the Ars article:

Hopefully this prevents confusion between the electric and internal combustion Intel CPUs.

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Gotta use the Bible as the reason when road-sign theft isn't a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_666

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When I saw the notification on this post, I'd forgotten this happened and initially wondered why I didn't remember hearing about someone getting choked to death at a sandwich place. Seems like there would have been more memes.

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"We don't know what they are until we charge you."

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This is what happens when there's a Raspberry Pi shortage.

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Cartels gonna cartel.

Stoat, to StarTrek

startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they've both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek for all your Trek needs. 🖖 :trek:

#StarTrek

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Hey, if it stars an extra from Enterprise, it's canon.

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The mods DON’T have the right to make the decision for me, restrict the content that I posted to a site they do not own, or otherwise interfere with my right to enjoy the archival content that they did not create.

Source?

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Hard disagree on that. I was called a bigot for criticizing the plots and writing on Disco more than once, usually with a few grafs of explanation and canon reasons.

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That probably came across more snarky than intended. It actually felt softer than "Where'd ya read that?"

Here's the thing: Nowhere is it stated that you have the right to view content you posted in perpetuity, to say nothing about things posted by others. And mods have free reign to do whatever they want despite community wishes even if they rarely exercise that right.

Essentially, this whole situation has exposed a lot of realities with regard to users' rights on corporate platforms that you're in fine company in being aghast at.

Gmail could get the ax tomorrow. Will it? No ... but it's folly to expect it to continue forever because tomorrow's covered. The internet was the starting point of "you'll own nothing and love it" with your data. This is one of the results of the Faustian bargain.

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So ... porn searches?

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Several issues here, but the top one is: no definition of "news."

You might think that's readily apparent, but I guarantee no one else draws the line between news and entertainment exactly where you do. This is unfortunately by design because outlets that make no differentiation get more clicks — and people who have consumed zero news believe they had a Thanksgiving-size portion of it and are well-informed.

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I've elected to hide upvotes in settings, initially as an experiment that stuck because I really didn't feel like I was missing anything without the counters short of prejudging what I was about to read. The area in the center of the Venn diagram of content that's relevant to me and content that's massively upvoted is, well, nonzero. But I'm not exactly going about my life using nonzero chances as my walking stick.

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Are you saying your threshold for ads and empty foreshadowing hype is somehow under 99%? I sure do love me an ad-blocked, sponsor-blocked video that still somehow manages to waste 10 minutes to learn "no" or "I don't know, either."

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This, I did not know:

Details about Reddit’s API-specific costs were not shared, but it is worth noting that an API request is commonly no more burdensome to a server than an HTML request, i.e. visiting or scraping a web page. Having an API just makes it easier for developers to maintain their automated requests.

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The president certainly is recognizable ... thing is, he's a dead ringer for Joe Biden.

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Agree and disagree ... when we say "people shouldn't have to learn anything to use a technology," that shifts any focus on better education to dumber services.

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