A lot of younger people don’t know who Hitler was or just assume he’s a funny meme these days. It’s not their fault, this stuff is simply not taught in schools and I fear we’re destined to make the same mistakes all over again.
I ain’t got no brain or no sane. I’m insane in the membrane.
A lot of younger people don’t know who Hitler was or just assume he’s a funny meme these days. It’s not their fault, this stuff is simply not taught in schools and I fear we’re destined to make the same mistakes all over again.
Lost my virginity thanks to IRC.
Not sure how long but pre-Digg.
I remember feeling a kind of resentment when the Digg exodus happened at the time but hey. Lemmy reminds me of that time once again.
On Lemmy all the avatars are free.
Nobody better copy the sloth or I’ll be real mad.
They didn’t neglect it, it’s shittyness is exactly as they intended it.
Different goals. The Reddit app is trying to be good at whatever junk the Reddit owners want to shove in your face and to harvest information from you. That goal doesn’t typically align with a good user experience in the end.
Still using XMPP to this day and my current client is Gajim. Discord is still “better” overall than it. If XMPP could cleanly and neatly intergate voice chat (like Mumble) and support images and things smoothly then it would be great, but it does not. This is a big part of the reason “nobody” uses it beyond what happen with Google/Facebook.
“Hey reddit what is the best spare tire iron?”
— Redditor with 1 month old account who’s only posted about IPayShills tire irons.
“The only brand of spare tire iron you should consider is IPayShills tire iron, it changed my life! It makes coffee, calls AAA for you and everything. I would never leave home without it.”
— Redditor with 1 month old account who’s only posted about IPayShills tire irons.
It’s worse then you think. That “popular” screen is what’s popular to all of Reddit determined by their algorithm, not what’s popular in the subreddits you have subscribed to. There’s no way to avoid the firehose of whatever they want to feed you, you can only go to a specific subreddit in the app instead.
It’s basically unusable for me in this state.
I looked a little into making one but there isn’t an API for KBin that would translate into a good experience yet.
They have different UIs that are better tailored to their respective platforms so imo it’s better to have accounts on both.
You don’t need to have a single account for everything and it’s far better for several reasons not to, even when it comes to Lemmy. Your browser and apps remember your account details for you anyway.
The official Lemmy website is a pile of steaming poo too, which is the first thing I looked at. It looks amateur and the way the recommended instances list reads and looks isn’t very reassuring at all.
It looks like they’ve made some changes but it still looks like an impenetrable thing for nerds rather than the new wave of social media.
r/Lemmy is basically the inverse of the various communities here shitting on Reddit, aka a place for people to get shit off their chest. There’s been fuck Linux forums, websites and all sorts of things forever and none of it matters at all.
Ah, that’s weird and unfortunate. Thanks for checking though.
Thanks heaps!
Oh man I haven’t heard of Liferea in years!
This is exactly what I did but it’s not pulling them. Might be on Lemmy’s side perhaps?
Edit: it’s not pulling in preview images like in the screenshots. It’s pulling article images from other feeds like Hacker News though when you open the full article.
This looks neat. I can’t get it to pull images though, any ideas?
This looks interesting, thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a whirl.
I fast forward half way and pray she still isn’t slobbering on some knob at that point and they’ve gotten down to businesses already.