Hey, you should be careful around Ubuntu fans. They might just snap.

If that train stops suddenly, they’re a gonner.

… You know you can just create a community and post stuff there, right?

Thank you! Could this be permanent? People can use an AskLemmyPolitics community if they really need to.

A lot of these machine learning models have been trained on art without their consent.

The entire AI art industry is basically rich megacorps exploiting small artists (who usually don’t make much income) to fuel their ever growing profit machines.

Great, it’s so close they’ll have to do a few recounts…

Why should we meddle in the affairs of dolphins? By suggesting or mandating a particular style of democracy, are we not undermining their right to self governance?

If we were asked for advice on how best to do it (since it should be plain to see that we know what not to do), I’d maybe propose the AMS system we use here. There’s a stv system for one local representitive, then there is a list vote to fill up the rest of the seats in a proportional way.

One thing I heard from somewhere is to pick a random word. Then for each letter in it, think of a random animal. Then pick another random word and repeat.

Supposedly this mimics the brain activity during sleep and dreaming, which tricks your brain into actually sleeping. No idea if it’s effective or not though.

The lack of primary selection/middle click paste. I select text, try to paste it and then have to sheepishly go back and actually copy it for realsies.

I used to get annoyed at the lack of multiple workspaces, but since switching to a multi-monitor setup, I don’t really use multiple workspaces any more.

If there’s a post or something on another instance but not your one, you can enter the full URL into the search bar and it will fetch it and make it available on your instance (unless defeds get in the way).

Works on both Lemmy and Mastodon.

I have a Fairphone 5. Maybe too expensive for what it is, but hopefully it doesn’t have a big evil annoying company behind it and it should hopefully last a while. Still running stock Android on it though, because I don’t want to lose Play Attestation or whatever it is called.

If you see content that you think breaks the rules, use the report feature rather than making a callout post on a random sublemmy.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Not really the most profound or insightful, but it’s just a good fun film.

I mean, lemmy.world is a big enough instance that it has attracted people with all sorts of views. You probably aren’t going to find it better on any other instance.

Probably just block communities which don’t moderate people enough to keep on topic.

Or if this is a dog whistle for rightwing centristism… Uh… Stop it?

Some that I use:

• Proton Unlimited, which gives me access to mail, storage and a VPN.
• Linode, I have a VPN which I use for selfhosting some things.
• Various domain names. They’re actually cheaper than you think they are.
• Youtube Premium. I watch a lot of YouTube, and it helps creators.
• Discord Nitro. Begrudgingly.
• 1Password. Technically I don’t pay for this, as I get it free as part of a plan from work, but I’d probably buy it when that runs out.

I’m kinda interested in watching streams more (to diversify my video watching habits), so am kinda curious about Twitch’s ad-free premium plan thing as well…

Of course, there’s also donations and patreon/subscribestar/ko-fi subscriptions, but I don’t really consider those “subscription services”.

Same here. I’m mostly paying because at least some of the money goes to creators, and I don’t want to have to constantly be fighting with the adblocker stuff. I watch a lot of youtube (perhaps more than is healthy) and realistically it does cost Google money to host it.

There’s the whole “instances” thing which, while not that confusing, is still a barrier to entry. You could make an account on mastodon.social, but there’s a vocal group out there that says you should NEVER do that and pick an instance that is good (without any good tooling for finding out what a “good” instance is). The benefits of Mastodon over Twitter or Bluesky aren’t as obvious either to non-technical people, so I can imagine people see it like Arch Linux or something. It’s something that’s good for the people that understand it, but not useful for those that don’t.

You also need to figure out how to get content from another instance into yours, which is not really that intuitive. If I give you a link to a Mastodon post, you need to know to go back to your own instance and paste it into the search bar. That’s not intuitive at all.

And of course there’s experiences people have had with “bad” instances that travel through word of mouth. A lot of furries are reluctant to try Mastodon because a big furry instance exploded a while back, I think.

You have to have technical knowledge and understanding, both to create an account and work around the rough edges.

I used to be a staunch mastodon fanboy, but honestly I’m starting to lean towards Bluesky nowadays.

Sure there’s only one big company controlling all the instances, but their federation system has solved a lot of the pain points that have been plagueing Mastodon. I can actually follow artists on it without having to deal with mastodon.art.

And hey, it’s an easy to use social media to use for the “normies” rather that the techie Mastodon.

Remember to always check default mount options.