I miss forums so much. A federated backend for forums would be nice. I’m so tired of having these giant communities of angry strangers if I want to talk about anything

Agreed on the sleeping better. There are things it had that Lemmy doesn’t but honestly I never want this site to catch all the way up. Reddit had become bad for me.

Well, that’s their point. With a smaller population we want a smaller canvas.

Oh we totally agree, I was just agreeing with you in a slightly tongue in cheek manner.

I’m loving joplin

There are some seeds there. Llms show that automation will eventually destroy all jobs, and at any time even things we think are unassailable for decades could suddenly find themselves at risk.

That plants a lot of seeds. Just not the ones the average longtermist wants planted.

Jeez you seem like you have some personal vendetta against this lab

All I’ve got to offer are unionisation pamphlets and a brick.

Won’t someone please think of the children?!

True, but not new. It’s been this since before “fight terror” in fact.

What better way to show how much you don’t care about Reddit than to spend all your time talking about it?

Wouldn’t work for most of my use cases but a good point nonetheless

I highly doubt Reddit is doing it intentionally. You’re talking to people who have chosen not to switch platforms, and so they’re giving you their rationalisations for it. The conspiracy theories aren’t necessary to explain the behaviour, people will find all sorts of excuses for resistance to change.

I use Lemmy to talk to strangers, but I use discord to talk to specific people. Unless I can convince the vast majority of them to switch to matrix it doesn’t matter how much I prefer the foss service, it’s useless to me. I still have an account, sure, but I don’t use discord out of laziness. I use it because matrix literally can’t provide that service.

It’s strange to note that if Google had just casually worked on the feature, started gradually integrating it with YouTube etc, they might have beat insta to the punch and also really capitalized on Facebook hate. Instead they made one massive marketing blunder after another.

All matrix is to me is a classic late nineties action sci fi movie.

IRC is hugely flawed but also, I miss it. Could we have a federated discord? It’d basically be irc but easier to find stuff right?

For myself, I’ve already just assumed this stuff is public. I don’t know why I’d assume it was private, in fact. I have a few different accounts and I use them for different things, but anything I want to keep off the public internet doesn’t go on the public internet, on Lemmy or Reddit or Facebook or anywhere. It’s 2023, I think most people have some understanding of this already. Threatening to out data I already assumed no privacy on is not terribly threatening.

What surprises me is that no one has made a phone case that integrates a flip or slide keyboard. It would be an easy way to add an aftermarket physical board to a phone, and from these threads it’s clear there’s at least some demand. I understand it’s probably not enough demand for a whole phone line, but surely something like that would be possible.

When I lived in Japan I had a lovely flip phone with a nice big screen (for the time), no thicker than my cased pixel phone now when closed. The only clamshells that are left have comically tiny screens and are thicker than a fully loaded wallet. They’re substantially less functional than what I used in 2007. It’s bizarre.

Despite having used a touchscreen keyboard far more, I could still type about four times faster on a T9. It frustrates me no end that I can’t have an android phone with a physical keypad unless I carry a full keyboard around.