The bar is pretty low.

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The "never obsolete" refers to a subscription service, where they would periodically send you updates somehow. LGR has a good video on this.

Aside from the "moral" argument, can someone ELI5 what harm can a federated threads.net do on other users (like me) and/or instances?

I can understand. After the initial excitement, the content is lacuster and scarse compared to reddit (due to lack of large userbase)

And what's the way to reinstate those communities? They might have very valuable names.

They probably want to monetize on podcasts too, in the same way they do on videos and music. At the moment, Google Podcast is completely free and ad-free.

Still can't uninstall it

Adobe are awful. I hope they go soon and bring their shitty Reader in the same way Flash went.

I came here to say exactly this. IG and all the others are private companies, with their own terms and conditions one agrees on, and also agrees those terms can be changed by them at any time. Moderation of content is part of it. Deal with it, or don't use them at all.

I don't think so, because forcing users to post means shitposting.

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Agree, and I think hashtags (or similar) are very important unless you are literally just interested in the current toots only, or you check Mastodon every minute.

I totally get it and I agree, however this phenomenon is also exacerbated by the way they phrase the emails encouraging you to answer such questions. "Can you help xxx?" Of course I can... and if I can't, I would still try...

Up to a point. I played Cuphead and it was too hard and gave in.

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Thanks for your story. I used both MATLAB and Octave, and while the language syntax is the same and most of the built in functions and basic toolbox functions are similar, Octave come short as soon as you start using graphics and more advanced toolboxes.

Few "big bicycling" inspires a lot of "small bicycling"

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The people app has been an abomination since the start and was barely updated since.

Did they not try to bake in a digital assistant in Windows previously?

I think I do understand it. One of my points above is one community decided to merge into the other to prevent fragmentation. Not my own words, sticky post on android@lemmy.world.

Merging multiple communities like in a Reddit multisub would not solve the issue of duplicated posts in one's feed.

Explain?

Cowards

Most are twitter mirroring bots, which means it's OK to follow but there will not be much engagement.

The "old" community was frozen.

https://lemmy.world/post/1117612

"Our feeling, and our decision, is that while having multiple communities for the same topic is a key strength of the fediverse, we’re keen to avoid unnecessary fragmentation for existing members and confusion for any newcomers."

Well said, I agree with this too.

That's precisely why Reddit and Lemmy exist, they are content aggregators and people sort out the best content and comments by voting. If you are trying to make the point that I should deal with multiple duplicates posts on Lemmy in the same way I deal with multiple news outlets, then your point is equivalent to say that Lemmy is useless.

The way I use multis in Reddit is to create bigger topics, and I rarely see duplicated posts. For example, in Reddit I do not have a multi for subs /r/android1, /r/android2, /r/android3. However, I have a multi for mobile OSs, grouping /r/android and /r/iOS. Rarely do I see duplication.

I got a number of answers that sound very weak to me, and basically point to a "fail" of the fediverse in its own nature if threads joins. Kind of disappointing.

To me, the key idea of the fediverse is that it's federated and should work as a whole, no matter who joins. Most of the answers below support the opposite. They are basically saying that the fediverse should stay within the "fediverse", which is exactly what non-federated social media are doing. Meh.

Thanks, yes, I agree

The multi does not solve the fact that we're going to see multiple similar posts on the same trending topic, with comments/discussions distributed among them. One of the things mods do on reddit is to exactly prevent this in each sub. Here, mods can prevent this in each community, but not solving the duplication in multiple communities of different servers.

I know the web based app require login to MS, always online, etc., but the current Mail & Calendar app is really really bad.

I get your points. Thanks.

Thanks!

It's not just that: it is made worse by the fact that, being "free", resources are limited. For example, Lemmy.world has been experiencing several hiccups and it's bloody slow at the moment. I get it, it runs on small servers. But the QoS is bad nevertheless; how can you expect the average Joe coming from Reddit to stay here?

I flew Delta and they offered free internet for WhatsApp, iMessage and Facebook Messenger text-only messages. Better than nothing, but I suppose some of you here would have been able to access the full WAN through that.

The problem is that posts may be exactly on the same trending topic, but not exactly the same. They could link to two different news sources for essentially the same news item. Or they could be a text or an image post about the same. Reddit mods would usually remove this kind of soft duplication within the same sub, and instead encourage to comment to one single post.