Fun fact, did you know that google deliberately makes their products run worse on browsers like Firefox so users will think the browsers are slow? Please support Firefox, it's the only real browser not based on Googles technology (like Brave is), and it's actively fighting Google's monopoly on web browsing.

It's about time that people understood that "Everything on the internet lasts forever" is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset. Now those big Web 2.0 sites everyone thought would dominate the internet forever are dying, and the only thing saving what was on those websites (the internet archive) is being constantly sued by greedy publishers.

This is exactly why I never pick iphones, because a good chunk of the time you miss out on all the niche things you can do on a smartphone.

Would be wonderful if the FCC did their fucking job for once and banned data caps. Companies like Mediacom abuse the fuck out of them

One thing i love about lemmy and kbin is that up votes and down votes are separate and visible. The only other semi successful reddit clone that did this was voat, and I'm glad that shithole site is dead. Rest in racist peices.

No, bird 2 then screams at bird 1 for using Ubuntu and recommends distro that will totally work and is totally easy to use despite the lack of documentation. It's then bird 1's fault if they can't get their niche hipster distro to work.

I gave it a try when I was going through my "absolute free speech" phase. I thought it was alright for a couple weeks, but after the people from "/r/coontown" came, i started to question my beliefs. Place immediately went to shit.

Bootlickers, of the communist variety. Not very nuanced people. The type of people who deny the atrocities of Soviet era countries, and some are even dumb enough to support North Korea and the current regimes of China and Russia. Some are from troll farms sponsored by those countries.

TL;DR: The lead dev is German and had no idea at the time that toot was American slang for farting, he thought it was just an elephant/mastodon noise.

What we want is our shit in one place, without one asshole controlling what we see. Is that really such an impossible dream?

Why use this over .7z? I'm legit curious.

To a small extent, yes. I kindof felt that when I discovered mastodon 5 years back, but it's still not quite the same. Back then, the internet was a new adventure. Every website was kindof shitty, but they all had their own unique personalities based on who made them. The internet's potential was unknown. The fediverse just feels like more of the same bland social media, but everything is messier and hard to find.

I say that, but Lemmy just makes me realize how much I took reddit for granted. Forums are nice, but it was great to have a place where at least 1/5th of the english speaking population congregated to discuss the issues of our time. I don't think we will get that on the fediverse.

I want to believe in the fediverse, but it REALLY needs to be ironed out and made easier to use.

The worst part is that they kind of do. From my past experience from using imageboards, a good chunk of the moronic beliefs that you see these people posting outside of 4chan/8chan/Whatever are saner than some of the absolute crackpot shit they will say when they are under the complete guise of anonymity.

Who would believe a story like this?

Better yet, add "fediverse".

Obligatory "Adam Something" video on this topic: https://youtu.be/vyWaax07_ks

What the hell, is this spam I'm looking at?

I'm platform agnostic and will use whatever works best, is cross compatible, ethical, and open source.

This is usually the source of people's annoyance with me. I also struggle to comprehend what people say half the time.

The constitution is not the bible.