Your story doesn’t drive clicks though…

I was really on-board of the idea of Lemmy in the beginning. It all made a lot of sense, and I felt like a part of the community.

But now it feels like its just an echo chamber of people, who seems to have very extreme beliefs.

It’s starting to be clear that the whole “ML - Leninism Marxism” was actually a big part of Lemmy.

I’m a centrist, slightly leaning towards the left, but I don’t feel like I truly belong in the demographic of Lemmy any longer. Reddit is starting to pull me back, and Boost still works, which only makes it harder to resist…

It seems like the negatives are always highlighted, when it comes to AI.

The obvious positives are always just disregarded.

The internet made it easy for scammers to teick people from across the globe. Internet is bad!

There can be other reasons, and while it saddens me to say, we were forced to keep IE for specific web-panels, which hadn’t been updated since the 90s.

Edge does, after all, allow for compability with such sites, which is a good thing.

Please note that this is work work-related machines only. I dont see how it’s an issue when it has to do with your work account. You shouldn’t be using this for other things than work.

Even “user-provided awards” should be kept out. It provides nothing substantial to the conversation.

It’s like saying “This 👆”, “I agree”, or “Take my upvote!”, all of which can be expressed by simply voting on the comment, which actually has an impact.

I have had the same number for close to 10 years now. Been using it for everything. All sorts of crap. After the big Facebook leak in 2021, I’ve started getting flooded with robo-calls, which is something I’ve never had to deal with before, since it’s not a US number, but a small European one. I also signed up for some Crypto site, long ago, and my number has seemingly been sold over a couple of times, since I’m also getting those “You have an account with us with 9000 dollars worth of Bitcoin” scam calls.

I’ve been meaning to get myself an actual good number for a while, so I purchased one with a lot of repeating digits, which I’ve slowly been transitioning to for family and friends. I keep both numbers though, as I have so many accounts tied to the old one, that it’s very hard to keep track of. Sometimes I still encounter a site, which I used years ago, that asks me to verify the login via my phone.

And that’s why I still have it. Whenever a site asks to verify via phone, I will give the old number, which I already know has been breached multiple times. By doing this, I will keep my new number clean, and never give it out to an online service.

I’m just tired of the endless robo-calls, and as I’ll only need to be able to receive texts, I figured I might as well completely disable inbound calls.

My phone provider knew nothing about “Call Barring”. Bummer. Seems I will have to come up with some other solution to this.

Well, thanks again anyways!

Thanks, I will check it out!

Yep, yep, yep - Cheers!

Seems like I was looking for “Call Barring”, whatever that means. I’m stuck at the part where I have to enter a password (tried 0000), but I will get in touch with my phone company.

Thanks for the quick reply!

To be fair, they are to thank for the internet, so I guess it makes sense…

No worries.

I keep switching between apps, trying to find the right one.

I was using Boost for many years, so I’m looking forward to seeing the new Lemmy client released. Until then, I guess I’ll keep jumping around a bit.

Try the app “Connect for Lemmy”. Links works great in here.

People like this are actually the best ones to have running such a project. For them it’s not just a pet-project to pass time, or a small way to show their skills. It’s a necessary step for them, to be able to keep their online presence.

You’d be surprised at how effective people can be, when they’re doing something out of spite.