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That 🤑 emoji’s a bit on the nose though, isn’t it

Also mostly happy with my iPhone 12 mini

My only real gripe with it is that I want a better camera.

I can sideload or mod enough with scripts to suit my purposes, so no issue as far as flexibility goes. But I want better quality photos and videos without having to lug out the “real” gear on a trail run.

Chaps my ass that phones just keep getting bigger, and the mini’s been all but phased out. I’m a small person with proportionately small hands. Why stop making phones we can fully fit in the back pocket of women’s jeans, or use with (mostly) one hand?

The lemmit or whatever bot was the first “user” I blocked here.

It might not have been bad if they’d stuck to news articles, but so much content is more personal in nature and it feels gross to see it botted.

I’m not going to give advice or empathize with a bot who basically just stole someone’s question or story. OP isn’t even here, they aren’t going to see our comments. Just feels like talking about someone behind their back.

One of the things I love about lemmy is how much of the content and conversation is actually authentic.

Those bot posts are spam and need to go away.

Someone did make goblincore, but it’s still pretty empty and I’m not creative enough to meaningfully contribute.

I loved looking through all the happily amateur mossy green nature pics, tiny ecoscapes & terrariums, all the mushrooms, frogs, and foresty crafts & creations from people much more talented than myself.

The issue isn’t that the rooms don’t exist in this house, but more that the smaller niche ones are still just a couple shy people early to the party, waiting for the extroverts to show up lol

/running /bikewrench & /cycling /askscience & /science /autisticwithadhd /onguardforthee /ontario /kingstonontario /ontariogardeners /canadianinvestor /cozyplaces /ifyoulikeblank /notthebeaverton /oddlysatisfying /plantclinic /renovations

Also Select a Set was a very cool little music themed sub that I enjoyed participating in.

…

/scrungycats!

Someone did make goblincore, but it’s still mostly empty and I’m not talented enough to contribute lol

I loved looking through all the mossy green nature pics, tiny ecoscapes, mushrooms, frogs, and forest-witch style craftsmanship from people much more creative than myself

Yeah I think a lot of people equate education with overall intelligence, and that’s just not how it works.

I’ve personally known an anti-vaxxer with a PhD, MDs who wrote at a middling grade 8 level, and a literal rocket scientist who never could figure out his email lol

Highly educated people can be brilliant in their specific fields of study, while being absolute morons in other areas. They just had all the right opportunities, money, and the time/skills/ability to study, memorize, and pass tests.

I actually know at least a couple high school grads whom I’d consider more broadly intelligent than some of the MD & PhD holders I’ve worked with over the years.

I don’t want to pile on, you guys are doing a great job

Immediately for me though, since you asked:

• ability to see which instance I’m logged into at a glance (memmy has this in the feed topbar)
• inbox functionality
• search (communities, posts, users, all)
• other user profile pages (incl ability to message, block)
• tap to open images, pinch zoom, save/share
• markdown buttons in the text editor

Missing from both:

• ability to hide thumbnails in compact mode
• text size scaler
• ability to hide read / swipe to hide individual posts
• swipe from device right to go forward (like device left goes back)
• own profile page with ability to see all my posts and comments, edit/delete, saved items etc.

I’ve been hearing good things about peertube and pixelfed, but have yet to really dive into either. Both are free and decentralized like lemmy though :)

https://joinpeertube.org (positioned to replace youtube)

https://pixelfed.org (more like instagram?)

I can’t believe I’m only now looking into the decentralized side of the social internet - I’m usually an early adopter lol. Been a boiling frog in corporate for too long.

I’m super pissed about this.

I have a ton of client domains registered with google, and squarespace’s pricing is double.

They had by far the best platform I’ve used for managing domains. This sucks.

Memmy was easily my app of choice, but these are some big improvements so it’s between these two for sure now.

Each has important features the other doesn’t, but both are steaming ahead at a record pace. I know all about how the tiniest feature can take ages to code properly, so I’m really appreciative of all the work being poured into making lemmy more friendly.

Especially for us who had apollo set up just right for all our own personal idiosyncrasies lol

Thunder is too far behind to compete right now, but damn if the front runners aren’t setting the bar high

I considered it, but I liked the idea that I could actually pick something short and (semi)sweet instead.

Plus, new start and all that.

I’d be interested to see how they isolated use of AI from, well, everything else that’s happened in the last three years.

We are more stressed, burned out, socially isolated, broke, and pessimistic than ever.

The findings do make sense I think, if AI is replacing interpersonal collaboration and already dwindling social contact within that larger context, combined with the knowledge that (in my case, anyway) the very tool you’re using also poses a threat to your own financial future.