Jackthelad

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Jackthelad,

FOMO leads people to join a thing, thing turns out to be meh, people stop using the thing.

Jackthelad,

Could be worse.

You could be able to login.

Jackthelad,

As spez also shows on Reddit, the owners of the site don’t give a flying shit about the users and what they want.

Jackthelad,

You’d assume there will be an increase in users once all the former Reddit app developers launch their Lemmy apps.

Hopefully it’s the better former Redditors as opposed to the trolls. 😂

Jackthelad,

I sort by Hot if I haven’t logged in for a while. Then when I’ve read through them and looked at everything I want to there, then I sort by New.

Jackthelad,

Well, it hasn’t improved my life in any way because it’s just a website I’ve stopped using.

But most of the threads on Reddit degenerated into shitslinging and just general unpleasantness. I’ve not come across any of that here (yet) and it is refreshing. Not to mention the lack of ads and algorithms pushing stuff at me is like the old days.

Jackthelad,

“Of course we have to spy on you, there’s terrorists out there”.

Jackthelad,

The Ken Burns documentary series on the Vietnam War is excellent. Probably the best documentary I’ve seen.

Jackthelad,

I quite like it not being as busy. Everything feels a bit calmer.

Jackthelad,

I have social anxiety, so this is never happening. 😂

Jackthelad,

The problem with Mastodon is that I couldn’t make any sense of it. 😂

Jackthelad,

Not in terms of the interface, but I couldn’t get the timeline to not be a complete mess of all sorts of topics.

Jackthelad,

I’ll have to make a new account and give it a go.

Jackthelad,

Capitalism causes poverty?

History would suggest otherwise.

Jackthelad,

Nothing is free.

Jackthelad,

The only cheerleaders for communism are people who have never lived under it.

Jackthelad,

North Korea is available to you.

Jackthelad,

Let’s use China as an example.

In 1990, there were 750 million people in poverty. Then the pro-market reforms kicked in, and in 2016 the number of people in poverty has fallen to 7 million.

Jackthelad,

Do you think China is still a communist country?

Jackthelad,

Why don’t politicians just fuck off?

Nothing they ever do about anything leads to an improvement.

Jackthelad,

I switch my phone off every night.

Jackthelad,

If you don’t want to be tracked, you shouldn’t own a smartphone.

Because let’s face it, you’re never going to be able to stop it unless you get rid of all your tech.

Jackthelad,

Ooh, I love a good book app.

I’ve been using Storygraph more than GoodReads lately, but I’ll have to check this out too.

Jackthelad,

Storygraph has this too, but they helpfully provide an “editions” button on each book and you can then select the exact one that you’re reading.

Could be a solution for this app too.

Jackthelad,

Currently reading the Chronicles of St Mary’s series. I’m on book 10, which is the last one that I own, but I’ve really enjoyed the series so will definitely pick up the rest at some point.

It’s a series about historians who time travel to document historical events, so there’s an accurate telling of the story rather than things being disputed. It often ends up going wrong though. It’s rather light-hearted (apart from book 8 where everything goes a bit serious), and the humour is great. Similar humour to Terry Pratchett’s books, I would say, though I haven’t read loads of his work.

Jackthelad,

Yeah, I thought verification was specifically NOT required on Mastodon?

Jackthelad,

Tbh, I tried Mastodon when everyone was raving about it, and even with a guide I couldn’t make sense of it.

Lemmy is a little bit confusing to begin with as I’m not overly familiar with the fediverse, but at least it’s easy to get the hang of if you’ve ever used Reddit. Mastodon seemed like a nightmare to navigate, but maybe it’s easier now, I don’t know.

Jackthelad,

Can’t you sign up to communities in other instances without signing up to that instance?

That’s what I’ve done, but I’m also new so not sure if I’m doing anything right at the moment. 😂

Jackthelad,

Another one using Thunder here.

Purely because it looks and works a lot like Relay for Reddit. Which is the only app that made Reddit usable for me.

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