The lack of tracking is also nice. I've found it to destroy the performance on my older tablet, and Kbin, while also not entirely lightweight, does run surprisingly well for what is basically a modern social network. It's got some minor issues, but it's fairly usable.
techno156
joined 2 years ago
I'm on the fence, personally. Being able to post across instances is nice, but Lemmy does also have some minor annoying problems that do get in the way of the experience a bit. Currently, I've run into a bug where some comments and posts don't send for some inexplicable reason, and the issue where Lemmy's web UI simply doesn't send errors messages and fails silently doesn't really help things. Kbin has a nicer UI, but it doesn't have the same kind of formatting options, which can be a little bothersome (Kbin doesn't do spoiler tagging, for example), and the Kbin instance I'm using seems prone to crashing as a result of load from the recent influx of users.
I personally can't wait until they start implementing the ability to move accounts, so I can jump to a different instance, and see if it's just an issue of high server load (My other account is on lemmy.world, which is one of the big ones), or whether there might be a deeper bug at play. Not being locked to the one instance would also be nice.
Personally, I'm rather partial to "Homer's Triple Bypass". The imagery of having Homer's heart in a little corner of a screen, like it's in a little camera/box is pretty unique, and not something that I've seen any other show do, even after all this time. The film is also good, and surprisingly poignant, considering recent climate events and all of that.
Although I'm curious about how they might address the "clickbait" issue of people having a massively upvoted/boosted post, and then changing the post to say something else entirely.
That seems like it might be a problem if people are allowed to edit titles.
I don't see why they wouldn't be.
It wasn't all that long ago that we had waterproof phones, with similar ratings as current phones, whilst also having a replaceable battery.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 had an IP67 rating, for example, despite having a headphone jack, and a replaceable battery/removable back. (it also featured wireless charging, which was surprisingly forward for the time).
At the same time, it might not fit them. Lemmy is a link aggregator, which seems like extra functionality that they don't really need, not when existing forum software will do what they need, while also being more stable/mature.
Lemmy is pretty immature, and probably doesn't suit their needs compared to a forum.
They don't really need a link aggregator, so using Lemmy there wouldn't really make much sense.
The only thing that they might use Lemmy for is the community, but otherwise, it's not a great fit for what they need.
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- /r/steam is getting steamy. Some users are blowing their safeties, but the sub seems to be on board with posting things relating to steam, and steam engines.
It's got a very TOS-style of writing and story to it.
I remember seeing a fair few people pitch a fit about the Burn, for example, even though "angry man has a tantrum and nearly blows up the universe", and "child with godlike powers" are common TOS plots.
They tried something new, which I don't mind them for, but I don't think it mixed well with people being used to more TNG-styles plots, and the writing not being that great. Still, it managed to help kickstart the modern revival of Trek, and gave us (non-wheelchair) Captain Pike, so it wasn't all bad.
And a Russian and Japanese crew member at the height of the Cold War. Not just as background, but as one of the main crew.
Reddit didn't have a third party app (just the compact and mobile interface) when I used it, so I picked up an app and never left.
I mostly use Alien Blue and Apollo, both of which are almost certainly on the chopping block. I tried the official Reddit app for a little bit, but my iPad Mini 2 is too old and slow for it, so it tends to crash almost instantly, or run rather poorly.
On my phone, I started with relay, but moved to Redreader and Infinity, since they were open source, and have better performance compared to Relay. I still keep relay around for the message notifications, since they're better than the other two apps.
It'd also go well with modern battery packs, because you can just have a spare battery sitting and charging away in your bag, and can swap it on the fly, without having to have a cable dangling about that might get caught on things, or bent the wrong way.
The only downside with a replaceable battery is that you have to switch the phone off to do it, but that's small potatoes for effectively charging the phone to full in an instant.