I see everything on Lemmy already being converted to webm…?

The main takeaway is don’t let discharge fully. Every couple of months, check charge level and if it’s under 20%, charge to about 60 for more storage.

If it’s just every few weeks, it should be fine as long as you don’t fully discharge and keep enough charge to be useful.

You can always just put your card inside your phone case.

It shows that these are the communities of geeks, doesn’t it

It sure does. Maybe they’ve made some improvements in 0.18.x, but I don’t know about it.

Someone who is a member of another instance needs to search for the url of your community. Only then it becomes visible.

Best you can do is to announce it in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and hope people from other instances will notice.

Or make accounts everywhere and use them to search for it…

I’m also finding myself out of the loop. Civil war? A coup? What?

I hate gamification of… Everything, but if it’s just “oh hey I’ve been here for X years and at some point I got 5000 upvotes / 800 downvotes, that’s cool I guess”, I’m kinda for it actually.

It’s like with videogame achievements. They’re not super important for most people, but sometimes it’s nice to look back at the stuff you’ve played or what you had to overcome. Some are addicted to it too. Real life doesn’t give you much satisfaction in this way.

For real, ask on some aviation community or Reddit. You’ll find real pilots with very specific experience.

My guess would still be beef jerky, plus it’s light and doesn’t spoil. Also I’d start asap, so you can still get empty before the “trip” and not have much inside left.

High protein, low fiber diet.

It’s a real thing, pilots of U2 spy planes that needed to fly for ~18 hours straight without any possibility of pooping, needed to be on a special diet for a few days before a mission.

What exactly it consisted of I don’t know, but this is the internet, so I’m sure it can be found. I suspect mainly beef. Maybe jerky?

90% of the content has been made in like, the last 4 days. Search engines probably weren’t even aware of Lemmy before. Give it time.

That said, the federated nature may cause results to always be deprioritized, as the exact same thing may be available on dozens to hundreds of servers with different domains and policies. Search engines don’t like that.

There have been MySpace -> FB, Digg -> Reddit, Viber -> WhatsApp, Hotmail -> Gmail, BlackBerry -> iPhone. Neither was 100% conversion, some kept their relevancy in certain markets, but those were quite some waves.

Also, Tumblr completely kicked the bucket with its users dispersing, and while OF managed to save itself by backtracking, people were already migrating to other services.

It may be true that the likes of FB, Twitter and Reddit are too big to fail right now, but people also keep finding alternatives.

So, we’ll see.

I don’t think the kind of people who are willing to try out some geeky experiment of a social network are totally dependent on Reddit culture.

Exodus from one network to another (or to nowhere) is a thing that’s happened in the past, and if anything, people aren’t willing to go back once they finally take the effort.

Tho I’m guessing lots of people have multiple accounts such as alts for r34, and may keep using those until Reddit finally shuts off all nsfw.

You’ll notice that it’s really only the big tech that lean towards simplification. Small indie devs want to cram in as many features as they can. If an indie project is labeled as “simple”, then a) it’s often already more feature-rich than the big names, b) only at the beginning of development, or c) if it’s designed to be simple, you have a lot of alternative options (see Android launchers).

The big tech doesn’t want you to think. They don’t want you to have options. They want you to consume.

If you’re missing something, they want you to buy their solution: the next generation product, the accessory, or addon, the microtransaction, the subscription.

If you start wondering why your brand new device or operating system is slower than the stuff 1 or 5 or 10 generations before, it’s probably because of all the tracking and advertising systems in the background. But you’re not supposed to think about that. You’re only meant to click at the shiny buttons and consume the app.

Speaking of shiny buttons, I kinda believe the simplification and corporatification of design elements such as icons and logos is part of this. If someone makes a bunch of nice elaborate 3D icons… Well that’s art. Art makes you feel and think. The less art is around you, and the more it’s replaced by lifeless lines and the simplest of design elements, the more likely you are to just follow the leader and behave. Pretty much the idea of brutalism, frankly.

Sub to all of them and wait for all but one to die out.

Seen some accounts that are 2 years old, and topics 3 years old.

Must have been lonely…

That’s programmer logic. What we need is that mods of example.com/c/community and instance.xyz/c/realcommunity can agree on connecting, and from then on, everything from either would show up on the other as well.

No need to make things too complex.

I don’t know how to tell you this…

It’s not a direct replacement. It’s a toy for geeks that may or may not blow up in popularity. Look up the history of Linux, how it started, from what philosophy it stemmed, and what it is now.

I think most generally agree that it’s quite a mess, but there’s no reason it can’t be smoothed over time.

We especially need communities over different instances cooperating so that posts in one appear in the others. And some logical signup process so that users would know what to do.

Or maybe they just didn’t enter the name at all so it defaults to the identifier.