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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

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It's great news when the social media oligopoly shoots themselves in the foot.

So far I've tried:

  • Facebook = Diaspora
  • Irc = Matrix (Element)
  • Reddit = Lemmy
  • Twitter = Mastodon

Out of all the different federated solutions I've tried, I believe this one has the best chance to hit big. Diaspora didn't work because the network effect is too strong with Facebook. Same with Matrix and Mastodon. But reddit is pseudoanonymous platform, you are not here because of some specific people. It's actually somewhat a benefit when there are less people and you have more room for people to see the content you put out. And the quality of the discussion can be better when there are fewer people.

It's still likely that everyone will just go back to reddit but we have a good chance here. The Lemmy UI is actually better and more snappy for someone who has used old reddit all this time.

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Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down

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Rip RIF, you served us well all these years.

I'm sort of motivated by laziness. When RIF stopped working I thought oh well, guess I just use Lemmy on my phone.

When old.reddit stops working some day I do the same for the desktop. Reddit is literally driving me away. How badly can they fuck up? The modern reddit they are trying to push on us is not the reddit I signed up for 11 years ago.

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Vilhelm Junnila aikoo erota

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Persujen kannattajat eivät välitä natsisympatiasta. Heille se on todennäköisesti vain plussaa. Kokoomus ja Kristilliset sen sijaan päättivät kahmia lokaa niskaansa oikein urakalla. Erityisen kiusallinen tämä on Kokoomuksen liberaalisiivelle, pääministeri mukaanlukien. Ne kolme Kokoomuksen edustajaa jotka jättivät äänestämättä voivat nyt huokaista helpotuksesta kun väistivät tämän luodin.

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Capitalism Kills

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At fundamental level it's capitalism, but with some social policies that make it more friendly to humans.

The crucial thing that defines capitalism is profit. Basically as long as there are leeches that take advantage of the economic upperhand they have to leech of workers income, it's capitalism. This can be frankly pretty complicated and theoretical when you really go into the definitions of work, value, profit, etc. and what it means in practice.

Marxists sometimes make these ideas simpler than they are, and that's how we end up with solutions that don't work in practice. They tend to only focus on the material conditions, power and exploitation, but we need theories based on increased psychological understanding to find novel solutions imo.

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July Humble Bundle Monthly - Tem Tem, Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice, Yakuza 4, Roadwarden, Kraken Academy, Merchant of the Skies, Ozymandias and Shotgun King (9.99EUR)

Actually pretty good value. Might actually pick it up even though I'm not sure if I ever have enough time to play any of these. As a kid I had no money to buy games and as adult I have no time to play games.

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Some trouble

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It's definitely different environment so there are lots of small things that you have to get used to.

In all my years of using Linux I have used about every major distro there is. I still stick to the old and tried advice, if people want hassle free distro, they should use Ubuntu.

I'm not happy with snaps but that's a minor flaw. It still provides the best out of the box experience for people who just want stuff to work.

Dual-boot can be set up at the installation process automatically. Just make sure you have enough space on your NTFS for the installer to make it smaller and stay alert that you pick the correct partitioning scheme on installation "install Ubuntu alongside Windows". Steam, Nvidia drivers all just work on Ubuntu. No need to tinker.