It's kinda cool to go to pretty much any post and go "hey! I know almost everyone in the comment section!", but that's a bit of a double edged sword

That's a reddit moment right there

Even worse: when you have to call to cancel a subscription.

I subscribed online, I should be able to cancel online.

Of course, it's also hidden deep in the terms of service that you can't cancel online. They know what they're doing.

Not OP but I have 0 faith in companies to not pull the plug when they decide something isn't making them enough money. Just look at all the old games online games that have been rendered near useless thanks to the company that made it deciding that it's not profitable to support anymore. Sure, the same could happen to steam workshop too, but I have more faith that the steam workshop will be around in a decade than whatever proprietary knockoff paradox is using for CS II

Oh, I must've missed that in the very thorough onboarding process I was subjected to

Why you got beef with Mozi? They chill

Oh well thank fuck there's at least some people with at least half a brain left. Now who drafted the legislation in the first place? Cause you guys need to sack them...

Be the change! There was a community dedicated to rail enthusiasts in my city that I really liked on Reddit, and it's not super active here but I'm doing my bit and trying to get something posted everyday. It's taken a bit, but the people have come!

Also I think it's one of those things where there are actually people there but nobody knows what to post, or is worried they won't get any engagement. My experience is that there's actually a lot of people that just subbed to the communities here that are similar to subs they liked and then either forgot about it or again, don't want to be the only one talking

My first reaction was mamba, and I actually thought that I was going to be in the majority. I don't know much of black mambas, but most of the snakes I've encountered first hand tend to not want to be anywhere near you and will almost always try to avoid biting you. But on further research it seems they are rather territorial. Even so, I do think they'd be more likely to want to hide than stay in open spaces. But that's a double edged sword, since they'll probably end up in the most random nooks and crannies then bite your head off (or at least try) if you stumble upon them.

Realistically though, regardless of which one I choose, I'm going to try and stay as far away as possible. If it's snakes, I'll probably climb onto a table or something, maybe up on top of some shelves in a grocery store. If it's a gorilla, I'd probably try to hide somewhere hard to access. On top of a lift or in a walk in fridge as others have suggested seem like good bets. I don't really trust either to not try and kill me given the right circumstances

Even then it'd hardly be my problem

Looking at all you guys with your gigabit connections, meanwhile I'm in Aus and lucky to get 30 down and 15 up

Not so much saying it, but I personally know several people who'll argue that Tiktok is a privacy invading god awful website that should be banned then 5 minutes later proceed to doomscroll Facebook

It can be. Once you get to hyper specific niches, you'll start seeing communities where it's more or less only a single person posting, if anyone's around at all. In more general communities it depends what's going on. There's a few people in the memes and shit posting communities who I swear make just about every post that ends up high up on top/day, and are in half the comment sections too. In communities like ask Lemmy it's usually different people posting, but the same few people replying

They meant America and a few of the other undeveloped countries

NO, MONEY DOWN

It made me laugh when I saw it pop up in my news feed

There's also TubeArchivist which is sort of like a self hosted YouTube. It can pull videos automatically from channels you subscribe to and download them through yt-dlp and has some organisational capabilities too

Yeah it's honestly not really an article, more like a summarised and paraphrased version of the Reddit post it came from. But I thought the headline was pretty funny

I'm a man. Sometimes I just want people to listen. So I guess based on that alone, it can't be exclusively women

There's also Mastodon, a Twitter-like service that currently Kbin users can interact with (but not Lemmy).

They can interact with us though, and then we can interact back. We can't really "post" there, but if a mastodonian makes a post in a Lemmy community, us lemmings can see it, and then we can reply to them. But we can't do twitter style posts on their forum

The biggest telltale sign you're talking to a mastodonian rather than a lemming is that you'll see them @ everybody in the entire thread in every single reply, since that's how replies start on twitter and mastodon. I've never actually received a notification for the @'s, I think it's functionally closer to just linking to your user profile than an actual mention, but once you get deep in a thread you'll see every comment starting with 60 different @'s.

God that pissed me right off. When I first started working in my first 'proper' job (fast food) I always liked to be 5 minutes early and not head to clock out until after my shift finished. We could clock in or out up to 5 minutes before or after our scheduled start/finish times.

One day I clocked in 2 minutes early and out a whole 3 minutes after I was meant to. then that night I got a notification my shift start and end times had been adjusted. Apparently that day the big manager was reviewing all clock times and decided the 5 minutes of overtime was too much. It's not like I wasn't working or anything either, I started serving people as soon as I'd clocked on and I was only clocking out late because I was busy making people's food (because for some funny reason you can't just up and leave in the middle of assembling a burger)

From then on I wouldn't walk in until 1 minute before my shift was due to start and would stop working 5 minutes before my shift was due to finish to walk to the break room, grab my bag and leisurely stroll around to say goodbye to everyone before clicking out the exact minute I was due to finish, because fuck you. What kind of stinge bag removes 5 minutes of overtime? What kind of stinge bag even tracks 5 minutes of overtime??

Just a heads up you posted this 3 times

It's OUR intellectual property, comrade.

(My money though)

Sincerely,

Dropbox

these discussions tend to spiral off into bad faith arguments and whataboutism

Yeah, that's a large part of the reason I haven't asked before. But I'm asking in good faith, and I hope I'll receive answers made in good faith

Both are bad and privacy invading

This is my sentiment too, and why I get annoyed when people claim one is worse than the other

Because TikTok is newer, it's also easier to restrict it. I think if Facebook tried to enter today, we'd push it away much harder

This is a really good point - thank you!

I take it what OP meant is that a lot of the top results are ads - even if they aren't shown as such. Like how half the crap uploaded by large youtubers these days is pretty much an ad for a specific product, although there's no way to tell until you click onto it (unless you use sponsorblock)

Why's it a static gif

It's an instance that automatically reposts every post made in certain Reddit subs.

I don't like it, and blocked the entire instance because I don't like the whole automatic repost thing, especially when the OP probably won't even see any responses

For something cheap, my vote goes to name cheap. Their support was actually better than I expected too. For something private njalla is really good. Not sure what's a good mix of both though, maybe CloudFlare? I know you can move your domain to them, so I presume they also let you register directly through them.

How does that work for people with non US/UK accents? I ask because all of the transcription software I've seen will work absolutely fantastically on even the most garbled and redneck American accents, and the vast majority of British ones too, but as soon as you get to Scottish/Welsh/German/Australian/really anywhere elses accents, it has a complete breakdown and you can't make sense of it at all

You missed a 0

Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?

It looks like Lemmy has shrunk overall since our peak of 68k active users in July last year to our low point (since rexxit anyways) of 32k, but we seem to be attracting more MAUs now and have climbed back up to 51k.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by diversity, or at least what measure of it you're seeking, but if you mean instances, there's currently ~770 instances online, a bit over half of our peak in July. I'm not aware of any major instances that have closed down yet though, so I assume it's mainly small, single user instances that have shit down, as well as a few hyper niche ones with very few members.

Average users per instance has also been increasing and is getting close to the levels we were at in june when everybody was joining the same few instances. That peak was 690 users per instance, that dropped to a low of 321 in July, presumably because there was more of an emphasis on getting people spread out after initial influx of people who just needed to go somewhere.

There was something interesting I noticed in the stats, in Feb there was a major drop in total posts of almost 5 million. I don't know what exactly happened, but our total posts halved, so perhaps that's why nobody's been posting updates.

It's even more obvious on the 120 day graph

Overall, it appears we have shrunk compared to our peak during rexxit, but we have been steadily increasing in both active users and posts (excluding the major drop in Feb) since our low point a couple of months after rexxit. That's about what I'd expect, and quite good compared to most popular corpo sites which lose a lot more percentage of their MAUs after they've peaked. Threads lost something like 80% of their userbase a week after it launched. Also I don't think that peak during rexxit will be our biggest peak. We'll probably continue steadily gaining users until Reddit fuck up again and we get another influx, like what happened with mastodon.

FYI all these stats are fairly easy to find. I like FediDB because it's got a more friendly UI, but Fediverse Observer has a more plain UI, so is better for posting graphs and such. But that's the beauty of the fediverse, we can all access the same things through all sorts of UIs

America moment

Sorry to break it to you, but that's probably the future

Sure but this seems to be a thing in many countries, not just the US. I live in Australia, so both of them are involved with "foreign" governments. In fact, most of the social media people here use is owned by foreign companies

I can confirm it's the same for me. I was actually trying to avoid lemmy for a while and would only hope on for 5 minutes or so a day, but now that boost is here it feels really natural to want to participate, and even just scroll top for a while

Why the ""?

My mum used to refuse to subscribe to anybody on YouTube because she thought it would charge money

Tbf, calling it "subscribing" in a time subscribing is synonymous with overpriced magazines, rip off cable TV and dodgy power companies was probably a silly idea

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There's also TubeArchivist which is sort of like a self hosted YouTube. It can pull videos automatically from channels you subscribe to and download them through yt-dlp and has some organisational capabilities too

I used to work at a KFC and I think one of my favourite memories was during a very busy Friday night dinner rush I was up front service and older couple, maybe around 60ish. Someone in the drive through had apparently ordered 5 pieces of chicken breast, and one of the girls in drive through yelled very loudly WE NEED MORE TITS

The old people were not happy, but everyone else found it rather funny