Yeah I thought something was maybe wrong until I saw this post. Massive improvement.

Parasites?

The things you point our are lacking are the reason the grocery stores are so big. When you go to the store it’s not just a small thing you do on your way to do something else, because when you’re in a car nothing is easy. Parking and walking into the store can take a few minutes, so stopping after work every day gets annoying fast because what could have been a 5 minute stop on fklt inevitably turns into a 15-20 minute stop.

So, you make going to the store a once or twice a week thing, and you buy EVERYTHING you think you’ll want or need in that week when you go to handle that the store needs more in stock.

Yes. I have a whole house dns adlock AND iuse a browser adblock as well.

Too many websites are COMPLETE SHIT TO NAVIGATE without adblock. They will be slow to load because of all the ad servers loading in. They fill so much of their space with ads that the main Co tent you’re there to see is obfuscated. They break content up with ads, so you’re forced to scroll past them.

I have never understood why we legally allow advertising at all. Why should we let companies harass literally anyone with advertisements? I know literally nobody who likes seeing ads on any kind of content. It’s an incredibly annoying thing we have normalized, and it needs to get cut back.

Textra for SMSwhich is almost all of my messaging out side of…

Discord. My friends and I constantly use the discord we created and that’s how I communicate with most of them.

I want to get my fiancee/close friends on signal because it’s encrypted but haven’t been able to convince them

Excellent work!

Not a doctor, but here’s a great video about just such an incident: https://youtu.be/J3HivpHP-5I

Transphobes always make the same tired arguments about “biological differences between men and women” and then scream and run away when you bring up actual science, because they don’t care about the science. They care about being bigots, and using science to make their bigotry look legitimate.

If a lot of mods stopped using reddit, it would get absolutely inundated with actual regulatory attacks because it would get flooded with child porn, explicit harrassment, and nazis.

Any of the top 10 communities having enough mods resign would cause absolute havoc for reddit, yet they consistently screw over mods.

This may unironically be the first time I’ve ever suggested this: this may actually be a use case for the block chain.

If the user data from all instances was being saved to a distributed and verified ledger, it would fix the problem of one node going down losing all of those users, and would be a decentralized yet centralized way to go about it.

… I feel dirty, I swear I’m not a cryptobro

Your point #3 is by far my biggest concern with lemmy, and the reason that I made an account on lemmy.ml. It seemed big and populated enough to feel confident it wo t go away. The devs need to find a way to make that happen. Partly because of what you said but also because it’s super confusing to click on a link and suddenly appear to be logged out because it took you to a different instance.

I fully agree that for more casual users these 3 things are BIG turnoffs.

Fully agree about subscribing to communities outside your instance. That’s something that needs to be cleaned up if were aiming for widespread adoption. It’s too confusing for casual users as it is.

I’m using Jeroba on android and I think it’s pretty solid so far, considering how new it is. It has more than I expected it to, it just needs time to get developed more. There’s a few features I want to go make github issues to request, but they’re nothing critical.

And I agree with your last paragraph completely. I think most people using third party apps were not lurkers. Most of them were probably using a 3pa because they had been for years, from the time when the reddit app was either nonexistent or even worse than tosay, or had found the reddit app too annoying to comment and post with. They’re people who use reddit so much on their phone that the official app is too annoying and ugly to tolerate.

And seeing how many mods are ip in arms about the mod tools they use, it seems like reddit is really shooting itself in the foot.

I posted a comment, one of my first, about something I think would vastly improve the user experience. I stand by it 100%, what I describe there was by far the most confusing part for me. I think the new user guide in general could use a pass-over by people who aren’t tech savvy and are going to be more “casual” users, right now it’s quite long and IMO a bit too technical for most people. It’s too much all at once.

Now that I’m past that, I’m finding it quite similar to reddit. The biggest “problem” so far is that it’s so small, so a lot of the small reddit communities I was in are non existant. I’m not comfortable moderating (I don’t really have the time), so I won’t make them myself, but I will miss them. Tbh for some things I’ll probably still use reddit on desktop (until they kill old reddit) but lemmy on mobile.

My biggest concern from the beginning, and the reason I joined a big and established instance, is what will happen to people’s accounts if their instance gets taken down by the creators. To me that seems like a kinda fundamental flaw here. I’m really not sure how or if it could be fixed, either.

It’s my favorite fantasy series. I highly recommend it if you like modern fantasy; you’ll notice that a lot of stuff written in the last 20 years is often heavily influenced by it. It’s also complete, so you don’t need to wait for more books to come out

The hardest part with it, frankly, is that book 1 feels very different from the others because the author hadn’t quite gotten his feet under him. It’s also extremely long at 14 total books, each one over 700 pages. But I think it’s well worth it.

Yes but there’s only 7 subscribers and I’m the only post :(

Then again it’s a niche community about a fantasy series, I’m not surprised it doesn’t have much going on yet.

And also because I grew up using Windows, and it’s the operating system that I am by far the most comfortable with. I’m just used to how everything in Windows works.

I’ve tried to use a couple of different Linux distros- I tried Ubuntu, and Debian, and one other I can’t remember. None of them felt as intuitive, none of them had all of the programs that I use every day, and it was just harder to do stuff on it. I work with linux (headless) every day because I do software development, but for my PC I just don’t want all the hassle of having to do so much manually.

And Mac is just right out (although I do use it for work because I don’t have a choice).