carbotect

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Have mercy on my soul. Pray for me and I will pray for you

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Threads Launch Fails to Prioritize Accessibility. - Centre For Accessibility Australia (www.accessibility.org.au)

With Meta’s claim that Threads will “focus on kindness,” it remains unclear how accessibility aligns with the platform’s definition of inclusivity. As CEO and founder of web accessibility company UserWay, Allon Mason, stressed, social media should be accessible to everyone, including the 1 in 5 individuals living with...

carbotect,

Threads seems to be a half-done, half-assed platform in many aspects really.

How to make subscribed feed more diversed?

Hi guys, I’m on lemmy since the reddit api announcement and am subscribed to tens of communities. When I’m setting my feed to watch topics only from Subscribed communities (hot/active), I see a lot of topics from the same communities, like 10 topics in a row from 1 community then 3 from a different one and again from the...

carbotect,

You could make seperate accounts for different topics. Like make one account for memes, one for technology, one for news/politics, one for educational purposes etc etc.

Pretty much every Lemmy app lets you login with multiple accounts at once. Wefwef does that too, if you prefer websites over native apps.

That makes seperating your feeds a more clean experience. That’s how I do it for Youtube example.

If I open Youtube, because I want to listen to music in the background, I don’t want to get distracted by memes, news, vlogs, gaming stuff etc. That’s why I log in with my Music account where I only subscribe to musicians. This gives me a clean feed and the algorithm works in my favor to keep me at the topic at hand.

carbotect,

My taste in music mostly stayed the same since childhood. I just like more genres now.

I am really into EDM, old EDM songs from popular subgenres oftentimes feel “outdated” in a sense.

For non-EDM enjoyers, its all beeps and boops anyways tho.

carbotect,

It’s hard to remember song names, because most EDM tracks are non-lyrical.

For example in dubstep, most trends age poorly.

Skrillex- inspired stuff or “Zomboy - Terror Squad” copycats sound really oversaturated nowadays. Even “hip and cool” commercials made some bootleg versions of “Ruffneck Bass” and “Equinox” from Skrillex.

Also samples and sound design from many EDM tracks 10+ years ago feel really unoriginal from a modern listener’s perspective.

There are obviously also a lot of exeptions. Old stuff from “Tha Trickaz”, “Savant”, “Xilent” etc etc all still hold up imo.

How are you able to cook while working full time through the week? Do you have some kind of strategy? How do you plan your food?

We want to break out of this cycle of ordering delivery but at the same time, cooking everyday has been a challenge. We also have been trying to develop some sort of routine where we meal prep on the weekends but we live in an apartment with a really small kitchen so cooking and storing food for 5 days doesn’t seem doable....

carbotect,

I do meal prep with some nicer meals on Sunday for three days.

On Wednesday I make some low-effort mealprep again, but with simpler recipes (mostly stir-fry noodles).

This means no boney meat here for protein. Only stuff like canned tuna or chicken breast. Tofu is also an easy protein source. For vegetables I only use the food processor, because cutting with knives is too slow. For carbs I use noodles.

If I am too exhausted on Wednesday for even that, I just eat some oats with milk with a protein shake on the side and some vitamin pills.

carbotect,

Yeah blocking words like reddit, lemmy, fediverse and threads could probably give you more original content.

Blocking political buzzwords would be probably great for mental health reasons.

carbotect,

Horror never really faced me, but the Lavender Town urban legend, Squidward’s Suicide and Sonic.exe all scared me shitless to the point, that these made more religious.

carbotect,

Exactly. The fear-mongering against Threads here on Lemmy is just insane.

People just spread some vague memes about XMPP, EEE, general facebook controversies and misinformation on how ActivityPub really works.

People list so many reasons here about how threads will destroy Lemmy, but most of these are just wrong or misrepresented.

Clarifications of everyone, including the ones by the Mastodon creator himself just get ignored here.

I mean I get it. We are an alt-platform. The mainstream is stinky and scary, but just don’t spread wrong information.

carbotect,

Google dropping XMPP leading to the death of the protocol is a distortion of truth. Sure it hurted the XMPP federation back then, but this is just one aspect.

For one, XMPP had many competitors since the beginning including other open federated ones like IRC. XMPP was just a new standard with new interesting features. Most people used propietary messenger like AIM back then.

Imo the most critical reason why XMPP did not become mainstream, was because they slept through the early smartphone phase. iOS for a long time had no client compatible with XMPP servers. Smartphones nowadays dominate the global messenger market tho, which made federated XMPP helpless against the rise of WhatsApp, iMessage and so on.

In the desktop space XMPP never really overshadowed IRC significantly. IRC kept all the old tech nerds, while Discord now swallows all the younger nerds. Skype, Microsoft Teams and Zoom took the rest.

XMPP again slept through all of this. Jitsi and Matrix/Element rose up as new open standards because of that as well.

Google Talk was never that big in comparison. Even if Google had kept their XMPP implementation on life support to this day, I would doubt, that federated XMPP would be a big player even then.

Also towards the end, Google Talk had less XMPP extensions then the rest of the XMPP federation. That’s the opposite of “Extend”.

carbotect,

Especially older online only games will probably disappear forever.

Most offline games will probably always be available to some degree. Games for exotic hardware like old phones or weirdo consoles are likely going to the dustbin of history.

Maybe some future advanced AI or some schizo madman blessed by the heavens will develop emulators even for those tho.

carbotect,

I wonder if Nintendo even has all the ROMs for their old games still saved somewhere.

It would be funny, if Nintendo would be forced one day to download a ROM from an illegal ROM site for a future re-release

carbotect,

Damn I did not know that. This is just awesome lol

carbotect,

Would be funny, if major instances are choosing option 5, making many communities divided and useless, right before Meta announces, that they don’t plan on federating with Lemmy instances. And that Threads will only federate with Tumblr lol

Seriously tho, how will Threads impact Lemmy anyways? They don’t have communities there, right? Their posts will probably not show up here regardless of federated or defederated, if I understand correctly.

carbotect,

They can get the same information even if defederated. Your profile info is completely public regardless.

carbotect,

Sad honestly. These women are the definition of being based tho. They know exactly what stepping out of line will do them, but do it anyways.

carbotect,

Japan seems to be a hellscape of mental health problems honestly.

I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?

To my knowledge there’s no stagnant water on my property, I’ve run water through all my ptraps, and I’m careful to not leave doors open. Yet at any given time there’s at least 3 in my house. I can’t sleep, i can’t sit on the couch, i can’t exist in the fear of being sucked dry....

carbotect,

indoctrinate her with cute spider propaganda

carbotect,

spiders usually avoid humans anyways, so that’s good enough for me. also they don’t fly at high speeds or make buzzing sounds, which turns them into top tier animals, that don’t have spines, in my book

carbotect,

RCS is still a downgrade to whatever propietary protocol Apple is using. Last time I checked, Google Messages was the only publicly available app that implemented RCS 100% correctly. I don’t think RCS will be the future, RCS for me seems to be some elaborate attempt from Google to troll Apple epicly.

Honestly whenever it comes to messaging, Google seems to revert from a world-leading tech company to some schizophrenic crackhouse without any plans for the future. They have published at least 30 messaging apps that are all shitty in their own unique way.

carbotect, (edited )

Switching platforms to something more convenient for everyone makes sense.

Breaking your friendship, because your friend does not use the same messaging solution as you seems like some weirdass reality tv tier plot line.

That being said, even I as a filthy Android user can not imagine to ever use these “green bubble” SMS texts. If someone were to send me a SMS, I would rather call them and claim that these SMS/iMessage texts cost a lot of money to send and to receive with my data plan and make them change to some other messenger app.

Signal, Discord, WhatsApp, fucking Yahoo Messenger, I do not care.

I would even consider to get some AirMessage setup for this, just to avoid to ever being forced to send some goofy ass SMS.

carbotect, (edited )

Does your friend group have no group chat? SMS does not have a group chat feature I think, right?

Usually group chats and media sharing are the features that bring people over to messengers.

carbotect,

I am devastated. At least MSN Messenger will never disappear.

carbotect,

Problem are the Android users as well that refuse to adopt messaging apps just as much.

Standard protocol on Android is SMS as well. RCS behaves differently from carrier to carrier and many Android phones still don’t support it by default.

Even if RCS worked perfectly fine, if Apple doesn’t want to use it, than RCS is just as worthless as iMessage, when it comes to cross-platform communication.

carbotect,

RCS is also a walled garden. Embrace a messenger app that everyone could use today like Signal or Whatsapp

carbotect,

WhatsApp is more secure than SMS, but that is not a huge achievement. Signal probably is the best messenger that is both very secure and easy to use.

Some people prefer messenger platforms to SMS, because the default SMS apps on Apple and Android intentionally make cross-platform communication worse.

Messenger platforms on the other hand are more consistent and behave the same on every device.

carbotect,

American Android users are part of the problem, because they refuse to use messenger apps and cling onto SMS as well

carbotect,

Was Signal a bad experience for you?

carbotect,

iMessage also runs on data/wifi. So I don’t think, this is really about affordable data and more just stubborness from the Android side.

carbotect,

It would be worse than the burning of the library of Alexandria. So much data stored on Youtube, Gdrive, Google Photos, Gmail etc etc etc would be lost forever, without backups for probably most of it.

The Internet Archive and some US agency (I think it was the NSA) have backups for a lot of the public-facing data. But lots of data would simply be lost media forever as well.

I wonder tho, if some artworks that have been saved only on Google servers, will live on solely through AI algorithms, that have included these in their datasets.

Google will never die, at least not all at once. If Google were to die sometime in the future, it would die a very slow death, with all there side-businesses being slowly sold off one by one. Plenty of time to switch to alternatives and to save all your important data (which you should probably do always regardless)

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@fediverse Vlemmy refugees logging in from elsewhere, how's it working?

carbotect,

I think cheeseburger.social/c/<community>@vlemmy.com would just be a cached copy in this case. Communities founded on dead instances don’t get updated across instances anymore (maybe I am wrong tho)

What do you think is the best solution to having the same named communities on different instances? (kbin.social)

We should implement this as whenever I wish to browse (for example) [email protected] I have to go to there, and whenever I wish to browse [email protected] I have to go there. Would it be possible to implement it in kbin/lemmy's code to make it easier to browse all?

carbotect,

It would be cool, if communities about similar topics could decide to “federate” among each other, thus creating a combined feed of all these combined.

carbotect,

The search function typically lists the biggest communities first, so the likelihood that a user will encounter a barren community first, is probably not that high.

carbotect, (edited )

Theoretically it shows the communities with the highest subscriber count first.

Right now tho it seems, that Lemmy is bad at fetching the real subscriber counts of other instances. For example I get this result, when searching for Linux on this account right now.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/dd9502c1-6066-43c1-9315-1bd96e658705.png

Every sub-count besides the one of my home-instance is terribly outdated, thus it favors the home-instance community. This is probably not the intent of the developers tho.

carbotect,

Ich bin ein Amerikaner

carbotect,

The Swiss Alps will protect his online data.

carbotect,

It’s true tho. Every person speaking American online is a spiritual immigrant of the US.

carbotect,

I think the admin pyarra mentioned, that they had to restart the server at least once a day, otherwise the RAM would get too full. Maybe they had no time to do that?

Maybe they have faced some kind of mental health crisis, that made them abandon everything? Maybe they faced huge financial problems or the Irish IRS flatlined all his bank accounts? They seemed fine yesterday, so who knows.

It is weird tho, that the vlemmy site still kind of works, even if the connection is extremely slow and unstable.

carbotect,

Why would the admin close the donation platform accounts immediately after this supposed attack?

Why did they not create a second account to clarify right here, what happened?

I personally could (after many tries) load the site with my account logged in and saved my list of subscriptions.

Can you replicate the PrinceHabib screenshot in incognito mode?

Maybe this is some Lemmy glitch that randomly gives you access to other users’ accounts under very specific circumstances?

I personally think that the admin got busted by the IRS or got involved with law enforcement for a reason unrelated to Lemmy, which is why their payment accounts got flatlined.

Vlemmy maybe is just running on their homeserver, but the server has some issues, that the admin can not fix right because they are in prison/in a hospital/dead or something similar.

carbotect,

As long as you point towards the easiest way to join the fediverse first, while only “selling” federation as a feature for power users and people who are genuinely interested, then it doesn’t really matter how complicated the fediverse really is.

If your mom wants you to make her an email account, you don’t explain her how the entire mail system works, along with its history and while reciting a Richard Stallman manifesto about FOSS philosophy. You also don’t send her a link with 100 different email service providers, that all have their own small advantages or disadvantages, while also explaining her how to create her own mail service.

No, you just make her a Gmail account.

I think the official Mastodon app does a great job at simplifying on how to join mastodon. You have a big blue button that lets you join mastodon.social by default, while a smaller grey button is for users, that want another instance. I’m sure you could simplify this even more, but this is a great beginning.

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