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vonbaronhans,

People like to be angry at Google. I mean, fair game, I dislike them a lot myself. But yeah, it’s voicing “yeah I hate that too”, would be my interpretation.

vonbaronhans,

They started putting ads in the mobile app a while ago. I think I first noticed a couple years ago? I had been using Inbox until that got shut down, then used the web UI for the most part. I’ve tried a few other app options, but the only one I like is $10/mo just for the UI. Not even a full email address, just a UI for Gmail.

vonbaronhans,

I suppose community building, detached from geography, is bound to be done primarily by highly motivated advocates.

Maybe that’s pessimistic, I dunno.

vonbaronhans,

Maybe it’s just the circles I run in, but I understand “tankie” to mean leftists who think Soviet/Maoist/vanguard-party styles of Communist revolution/rule were good, actually, to the point of denying any bad things they did/do as “Western propaganda”.

Given the red scare in the US, our ability as a whole to use any sort of leftist political labels accurately across the population is basically non-existent, so I do understand the frustration by both tankies and non-tankie leftists about how the term gets used lately, especially in produce circles on social media.

But again maybe that’s just me. I don’t know if I would consider myself a communist, but I do consider myself as a yet undetermined variety of socialist, if that helps at all.

vonbaronhans,

Yeah, go for it.

America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion (apnews.com)

Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled....

vonbaronhans,

I think their point is that the pilgrims set the cultural precedents for what would later become America, to which later immigrants would be beholden.

I don’t know how true that is, but I think “protestant work ethic” is at least one example of that sort of thing.

vonbaronhans,

The only thing that applies to me here is the new SAVE IDR plan. But hey, it still lowers my monthly payment a little bit AND let’s payments actually go to principal instead of just shaving off interest. It’s not nothing.

I would still like to see full debt relief, but I think that has to be a matter of legislation if I understand correctly. And I’ll take baby steps over nothing at all.

vonbaronhans,

To be fair I was primarily a lurker on Reddit, too. Occasional commenter. Same here, lol.

vonbaronhans,

“no algorithms” I’ve always interpreted as “no algorithm tailored to you based on your behavior on the platform and whatever other information we can obtain about you, with the intent to keep you scrolling and interacting as much as possible” but maybe that’s just me.

vonbaronhans,

Words are redefined all the time. Keep up and ask for clarification when needed.

vonbaronhans,

I’ve used pixel phones for a long time, but I’ll eat my hat if Google actually honors more than 5 years of updates for the pixel 8.

vonbaronhans,

“I saw one post. Most agreed. 100% extreme.”

I ain’t saying you’re wrong, but the route you’re taking there is not exactly valid.

vonbaronhans,

Is that considered tankie? I know it’s pro revolutionary socialism, which is typically what the countries tankies like did to start out.

When I think ‘tankie’ I usually think people who are still pro those countries to the point of denial about genocides and other bad things those countries are doing.

vonbaronhans,

yeah, fair enough.

vonbaronhans,

Okay?

vonbaronhans,

Oof, hard disagree there. It’s a subjective preference, of course, but you are objectively wrong and I will die on this hill.

vonbaronhans,

I wouldn’t call either of these particularly secret, but whatever, they’re fun.

Excess material = a very large shit, often multiple shits.

Trip insurance = using the bathroom before getting in the car, whether it’s needed or not. I came up with this one as a child, and it’s now in widespread use in my extended family, especially with the nieces and nephews.

vonbaronhans,

There have been plenty of phones and tablets with 3D camera systems. It’s just not something that most consumers really want or need, so it tends not to become mainstream.

It still comes up every now and then. The iPhone 15 has a computational 3D camera thing it can do, but I’ve seen virtually no buzz about the feature.

vonbaronhans,

Pixels are definitely a small slice of the market, but by golly, it’s still my favorite line.

But I am a nerd, so. No argument there.

vonbaronhans,

On the first point, I can’t speak to the overall volume, but I can definitely say that people willfully misinterpreting me was a pretty common occurrence over on Reddit and definitely pushed me to comment less over time, just for the sake of my mental health. I don’t think I’ve been on Lemmy long enough to make a meaningful comparison though.

To add to your second point, Lemmy definitely feels very stale very quickly. Reddit, for all its faults, has a much larger user base with thousands of active communities. On Lemmy, even browsing the everything feed, I only see maybe a couple dozen new and interesting posts a day, and it only takes about 10 minutes of scrolling before I’m looking at stuff from days or weeks ago. Most communities I’ve tried to explore have one, maybe two posters. Subbing to a community often feels like subbing to one person and hoping it becomes a real community in the future.

I dunno if any of that will push me back to Reddit. If Lemmy doesn’t really fit me… I’ll probably just give up this last little bit of social media and just browse Imgur for memes when I want.

vonbaronhans,

Isn’t that what communities and subreddits are for?

vonbaronhans,

You can patent a specific implementation of a technology, but not usually the principles behind that tech. Nintendo had patented this, too, but that likely has little to no effect on other hall effect joystick manufacturers.

Where are all the Positive, Wholesome Communities gone, and where are all the hugs, where is my wholesome memes, to help me fight, the politics

Hey, I’ve been looking at what I’m subscribed to on Lemmy and it really grim, and not really what I want from a social media. I’m into tech, but the tech subs talk about evil things companies do, a lot of linux meme and programmer humor, and it’s all cool and all, piracy talking about how it’s bad what certain company...

vonbaronhans,

Yeah, for most people it’s “God it’s terrible out here. I’d like to do things that make me feel better.” And some folks hear that and go, “yeah you’re SUPPOSED to feel bad because the world is bad and you should actually be MORE angry and upset so that you’ll join my political project.”

Which, like, has some truth to it. Capitalism is bad, true enough.

But if someone is just looking for connection, entertainment, and some good times to carry us through the bad… probably not the best time to recruit them into a political cause. Well, you could, if your political project has a big component of joy to it.

But I get it. I also get burned out just trying to stay informed. And maybe I just wanna talk about the new jazz album I found yesterday (black classical music by Yussuf Dayes) or the new game I’m stoked about (Sea of Stars). Good art would exist under any political system, after all!

vonbaronhans,

I mean, swap out the implied “protecting your own (opinion)” with “protecting your own (place on the Internet where we can live largely free from well-meaning but ignorant people, actual bigots, and sea lions)” and I do think that was OP’s point, yes.

vonbaronhans,

I just paid the one time fee for no ads. Works for me.

Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord

This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won’t tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole...

vonbaronhans,

Must be server specific. I’ve used Discord for years and never had to add a phone number.

vonbaronhans,

Nissan cars bad? Is that a common US complaint? The others I hear all the time (as an American myself).

vonbaronhans,

Yeah, I’ve never had an ad like that on a work laptop, ever. A good IT dept will lock down the experience to minimize distractions for business purposes, and lock down features that aren’t appropriate for work.

vonbaronhans,

I may not be any of those things… but turns out I enjoy the humor of all of them greatly!

vonbaronhans,

While this is true, I’ll add that a huge swathe of the same people are huge hypocrites. All it takes is one of their own children to be inconveniently pregnant, and then it’s all “rules for thee but not for me”.

I don’t think it’s possible to know the proportion of evangelicals who are hypocrites in this way with confidence, but if you look for examples you’ll find plenty. The most recent one I saw was a BYU student who was paid 500 bucks to prank called his mother and say he got a prostitute pregnant (for the filmer’s tiktok or whatever), and after a couple exasperated questions, the mother told him to make the fictional prostitute get an abortion.

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