I am a Software Engineer by trade, and I'm right now trying to learn and contribute to their code base but unfortunately, it takes a lot of time to get used to someone else's code. Hopefully, contributions will pick up once we've all had some time to look at it.

The quality of the posts being worse makes sense, I'm guessing some of the Reddit power users moved here and they were generating the majority of quality OC on Reddit.

Yeah, it's honestly really disappointing how back to normal everything is. There are still subs that are down, but Reddit's atmosphere feels somewhere between unchanged and more aggressive. That's something else I've noticed. A lot of people have been talking about it, but I don't think it's just from being in Lemmy, the Redditors that are still there seem to be more toxic, and the site's atmosphere feels worse.

If this goes through, I think it would be really good news. Battery failure is one of the leading things that force people to replace their smartphones, and having them be replaceable would go a long way towards making smartphones last longer.

During the final days I spent on the platform, Reddit was starting to become very generic. Many subreddits, despite being about theoretically different topics, devolved into a generic Reddit frontpage community. Even if Lemmy becomes a lot more popular, my hope is that the communities here will stay somewhat distinct and won't become as much of circlejerks.

Honestly I'm just waiting to see if short story communities move over. I liked to pass the time reading things like nosleep stories, and if those communities move over here I'll delete Boost and only use Lemmy, but so far I haven't seen much.

It's good to see the rapid development. Lemmy is very quickly developing a thriving ecosystem.

It's been amazing to see how fast this has all grown. There are seem real, sizeable communities here now!

A Reddit is when you destroy a social media platform because you're angry with its users. It's a common billionaire or wannabe billionaire move.

I think that will improve over time. A lot of people here are fresh off Reddit's burning ship. I think given a couple weeks people will settle in and Reddit will fade into the background.

I use Bitwarden, and pay for their premium services. I really like it, it helps me keep track of all of my accounts, I'm able to keep all of my individual account passwords secure and unique, and I'm able to autofill my login credentials on all of my devices.

It is true, and it is good.

I think this entire issue is showing a critical issue with Lemmy's maturity, which is honestly the number one thing blocking people from sites like Reddit from joining. All of Lemmy's tools for dealing with moderation are currently a bit underdeveloped. From the Admin tools of an instance to the moderator tools for each community, there just isn't very much granularity. That means right now Lemmy can't handle large communities, and with one as large as lemmy.world some trolls filter in. Even worse, right now if a lemmy.world user goes and posts a homophobic rant on a queer instance, like Blahaj, and people proceeded to report it, those reports would only go to Blahaj when they should probably go to both Blahaj and lemmy.world, meaning that those toxic users are only banned within the instance they offended in and can retreat to the refuge of their main instance, and proceed to attack other communities. One of the issues is less so with the tooling and moreso with just how fast Lemmy has grown, for example beehaw has 5 admins but over 12 thousand users, plus the users from the other communities they are still federating with. That means that every admin is managing thousands of people, which is not sustainable. Until these critical issues with the tooling are solved, Lemmy is going to be staunched in its growth, and we are going to end up with instances defederating to try and take control.

Edit: The report thing might be incorrect, and if so I apologize for not verifying that information before spreading it.

Yeah, I can tell why this is from adhddd.com, it's all about assertiveness. People with ADHD in general (including myself, to an extent) have trouble with being assertive, so most of the phrases in this chart try to change a meek or mild-mannered response to a more assertive one. I think part of the struggle of life is finding balance because while some of these are generally improvements, others are generally worse, and the difference will depend on the tone you're going for and the person that you're sending the email.

I use Mullvad. They have you buy time upfront at a fixed price, have lots of payment options, and at one point were subpoenaed and proved to the Swedish government they don't store any user data and therefore have nothing to turn over. They have a nice app too, I like them.

I'll be honest, I own so many games from the last sale that I'm probably going to sit this one out. I have something like 140 games, and of those the majority are on my backlog, so I won't be running out any time soon.

The Verge's coverage of this so far has been really good. It's probably because they think drama like this will get a lot of clicks, but even still I've enjoyed their articles.

This is great news. People are correct when they say it too long, but even still I'm a lot happier to see news of things getting better rather than things getting worse.

Indeed. It makes sense it was laggy during the upscaling, but it's stabilized now and it's great to see how well Lemmy has grown. The other thing I've notes is development is currently proceeding at a frenzied pace, it feels like every few days a new feature is added, either in the main service or in the multitude of apps being developed.

Yeah, honestly he seems to have some personal beef with third party apps, like he's personally offended and hurt they're profitable when the main app isn't. I think that all of this has just served to demonstrate two things clearly: CEOs, though incredibly out of touch are still human, and you don't need to be above average intelligence in order to be rich.

I've been having a good time on vlemmy.net. It's small, has a fairly active admin, and seems to be fostering a healthy community with a reasonable number of restrictions.

The vibrant ecosystem of third party apps is what made Reddit, from what I've heard even the official app is a reskin of what used to be a third party apps. Pushing that ecosystem to Lemmy (I have 7 actively developing Lemmy apps installed on my phone) could spell eventual death for Reddit, and was a very unwise long term decision.

That's a great idea. We could get them from a local comet, I'm sure it would never run out.

Nah, they'll ban leftism and trans people either way. It's not like the Weimar Republic banned Nazism, and yet Hitler still banned every other political party and did the Holocaust. Fascist ideologies must be strangled in the cradle, so punching Nazis is fine.

I completely understand this decision, though I personally enjoy the freedom of being able to go to multiple instances. Hopefully, as the mod tools develop further and more limited forms of defederation are created, lemmy.world and beehaw.org may be able to come together again, at least slightly. For now though, I understand isolating your community to preserve its culture and community.

I'm on another instance, but here's some federated activity for you.

Indeed. The growth here seems organic to me, so hopefully that's a good sign for our future.

Yes, here's a link for you: https://lemmy.world/post/872278. /c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world is the new community for it.

I have some clothes that fit well enough that I don't need a belt in order for them to stay up. I do use a belt for some of my clothes though.

Oh yeah, the app is a monster that will eat all of your data. I thought we were talking about federated data they would get from the other instances, which is more or less public. My data as shown in that image is not public and I have no plans to hand it over to Meta.

Ah yes, femboy and cop, the two genders.

If they do both-ways federation (I've heard rumors of it being one-way only) it should theoretically be both Lemmy and Mastodon, but it will work better with Mastodon because they're both for the same purpose (i.e. Twitter-like apps).

Most of that traffic is probably lurkers and content consumers. Reddit will continue chugging along for a bit, but the loss of power users and mods is about guaranteed to wither the platform over time.

So far I haven't gotten any mod reports from this community. While we are a wonderful community full of great people, with as many posts and comments as we have it feels likely to me that bad behavior may be slipping through the cracks.

People disagreeing with you isn't what an echo chamber is.

No, it wouldn't be. The first step is honestly to get it running locally, then make sure debugging and breakpoints work, and then pick a feature you want to add or improve, use the debugger to see what code currently executes, and then hook your feature into it. Make sure to familiarize yourself with Rust syntax if you're not already, but I think you could do it.

I wash my coat from time to time because I consider and have considered it to be part of my wardrobe. For my belt, I suppose I kinda just considered it as an accessory and it never occurred to me to clean it.

Not at all. The admins here are doing great work and their updates are often informative and helpful, it makes sense you'd look forward to them.

Partly because of discrimination, partly because she lacks charisma. There are a substantial number of people that dislike her because she's a black woman and they have biases against both, sometimes without even knowing it. There are also some people on the left that dislike her because she's a moderate liberal that used to be a prosecutor. Honestly she's about standard as vice presidents come, so though I'm farther to the left than her I don't have any strong feelings on her.

I follow a similar philosophy, except I do downvote the mean but not rule breaking content. While it's not bad enough to justify removal, I do still want to discourage people being mean on this platform. For most disagreeable opinions, I'll either move on or reply with my point of view.