All of Duty - you work in a company which, after several waves of layoffs, has been severely understaffed.

Lemmy needs two things to be successful:

1. users
2. users

and it's already getting more and more of each of those.

apparently some Mastodon admins got contacted by Meta and met with them after signing an NDA. I'm quite surprised how many Masto admins want to "just wait and see, maybe it's not gonna be that bad".

it used to be the same on Mastodon back in November during the great migration. everyone was talking about Twitter and Elon. just give it some time.

how about a number of crying laughing emoji per thread?

trans youth gender-affirming treatment doesn't use hormones. it uses puberty blockers, so that the child doesn't go through puberty, and when they turn 18 they can state HRT with a better outcome. the therapy is reversible, so when the child stops taking puberty blockers, they undergo normal puberty process, and it's a recommended treatment for trans youth by multiple pediatrician and psychiatrist societies and associations.

reminder that Invidious and Piped (and LibreTube on Android and Yattee on iOS) are a thing.

maybe use a third party image hosting service instead (like vgy.me), and link to those in your posts? that used to be the norm on reddit for years before they've introduced image upload.

they're both parts of the Fediverse and are both link aggregators. similar to how, as a Lemmy user, you can subscribe to a community from a Lemmy instance ("server") different that you're on, you can subscribe to kbin communities the same way. I'm posting this comment from my kbin account.

Artemis is a third party app.

friendly reminder that Luddites weren't opposed to technology, just wary of its misuse and how it was going to benefit the people higher up rather than the workers.

I started buying legitimate copies of games when I was finally able to afford it a few years ago. I love how GOG lets you actually keep the games forever and that's where I was getting games from at first, but then moved to Steam because of how much good they've done to Linux gaming. meanwhile GOG Galaxy for Linux has been a most requested and most ignored request for years.

probably not, since kbin isn't Lemmy.

Thanks, I Hate It

a "search engine" that hallucinates results, including but not limited to non-existent court cases.

it's not "an anonymous Google search", just a regular Google search results page. they got rid of encrypted.google years ago.

only their patches are. it still uses a closed source Youtube app as the base.

NO TAKE, ONLY THROW

Basedonia

Google actually pulls results from web pages.

you know how some smartphone keyboards predict the next word that you're going to use, and you can form a comprehensible sentence that sometimes even makes sense? that's what those language models do. they don't actually search for anything, they just create sequences of words that sound probable.

considering how its been working for years

so were third party reddit clients.

https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues

some people might want to avoid Feedly due to their approach to protests: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110113208809822962

as the very title says - creator of Pixelfed. it's Fediverse's reply to Instagram.

https://pixelfed.org/

I did have that thought pop up for a few seconds every now and then during the huge Twitter migration, but Space Karen is nowhere near smart enough to plan something like that.

you'd have to create another account with the same name over there. there's not much point though, if you see a community over there that you'd want to subscribe, you can do that from your current account.

people kept saying similar stuff about Mastodon, and yet, miraculously, its user base somehow keeps growing.

I've clocked over 660 hours in Apex Legends. recently finished Psychonauts 2. currently playing Valheim with some friends and Witcher 2 on my own. all of that exclusively on Linux.

I prefer to stick to open source solutions. LibreTube lets me keep track of channels I'm interested in without a Google account.

ChatGPT only jumbles words together in a way that is statistically likely to resemble a coherent sentence based on the bits and pieces it's been fed, without checking whether or not they're factual. asking them anything doesn't prove or disprove anything. it says it's got an account because someone on the internet mentioned once that they've made an account to check it out and that they're excited to see where it's going.

let's check.

@dansup

yes it is, which shouldn't be that surprising since it federates with Mastodon as well.

now if only they could give up on Chat Control :/

I usually find that adding a website/blog that I visit frequently (i.e. find interesting) to my RSS reader works pretty well.

Any Nintendo fans

looks like there are:

!nintendoSwitch@kbin.social
!nintendo@kbin.social
!nintendo@lemmy.world

to choose from.
wait, .world is one that Beehaw has defederated from, hasn't it?

https://xkcd.com/1102/

https://kbin.social/magazines

so, bananas?

there's a browser addon that lets you solve Recaptcha with one click:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/

it automatically switches to the alternative accessibility option, which is based on typing in words that you hear, and uses speech recognition software to solve it. I'm fairly sure it could be automated quite easily.

prepare for a ton of instances defederating from yours on day 1.

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