Can someone explain to me the google API and DRM situation in stupid people terms? I’m stupidly tech illiterate but I know that this is a big deal and I would like to understand

Unbelievable. Are they actively trying to get as many people as possible to leave their platform all together?

Wait wait wait Reddit is going r/place right now??? Why on earth would they do that

When the blackouts started, I decided to leave reddit permanently for Lemmy, a decision that I don't regret. I checked back in briefly today and it seems like reddit is currently tearing itself apart. There's definitely a lot more people vocally disagreeing with the blackout now.

Funnily, the couple of times I do remember my dreams, my mind likes to use the changing time against me to turn them into nightmares

I had a very similar thought process when choosing my instance. lemmy.world seemed like it would be more open to new users than an instance named sh.itjust.works. Idk why that was my thought process but I’m here now

Oh.

Russian does in the past tense but I find it to be a really simple change

Example: He/She/It/They were reading

Он читал

Она читала

Они читали

Like everyone else here, I'm a reddit refugee but I'm quite excited for this instance

Thanks so much, I understand now. God, is that a shitty move for Google to pull

1. In the middle of midterm season rn and I think that’s the exact face I make whenever I take one

I have a similar thing but with celery. I cannot stand celery because to me it smells extremely bad. Like, the worst thing I have ever smelled or will smell bad. If there’s even a tiny bit of celery somewhere, I can smell it. I don’t even know how celery tasted because I can’t get it close enough to my mouth to try.

I just saw a lot of threads with people arguing over -2 day blackout didn't do shit -I don't care, why should you -Where's all the content, I want the content back -A blackout was really inconvenient

I would give my life in service of the burgadeir general

I love it!

I do see a lot of potential but there are some issues I'm facing. For some reason, I'm unable to login to lemmy.world from my phone. There's not a whole lot of content but I'm expecting that to change. It's very nice here, overall.

I think the vast majority of people just want to browse without any disruptions, tbh. A lot of people are calling them bots but I think many of them are probably real people.

Yeah, I’m in Russian level 2 so it’s definitely going to be wonky. I’m getting there slowly, though

Ding ding ding you are in fact correct

Congratulations to your brother! I’m class of 2022 so I graduated hs last year and also had my hs experience turned upside down because of Covid. I wish you all the best during your high school experience. My advice, get really involved in one or two clubs and try to find friends that you know you can rely on. You’re at the age where there’s a lot of weird social pressure so find friends that will not judge you for who you are but will also tell you if they think you’re being stupid. And I know it’s a long way off, but start preparing to live on your own in college. Know how to cook healthy meals, balance a budget, do laundry, talk to people, etc. This is your time to figure stuff out while you still have your parents watching you closely to make sure that you’re okay. My favorite part of high school was being on the robotics team. Think, competitive sports but it’s robots competing against each other. I made some amazing friends there, many of which I still talk to over a year after we graduated. Best of luck to you.