I’ve been slowly switching away from google products the past year or so. Switched from chrome to firefox, and google search to duckduckgo, but maps is one I couldn’t give up. It’s just better than all other competitors IMO.
I’ve been slowly switching away from google products the past year or so. Switched from chrome to firefox, and google search to duckduckgo, but maps is one I couldn’t give up. It’s just better than all other competitors IMO.
Yeah that’s not happening. The tech differences add up to a horrid VR experience. Google cardboard was exactly this project, but it was burned because it was just plain bad. Phones aren’t meant to be glued to your face, but VR headsets are built for it specifically and the difference is immense.
I’ve also been having some issues today connecting to @midwest.social. I was able to browse earlier today, but now cannot connect directly. I suspect it’s something server side with DNS, or its a load issue from too many users.
That said, the actual content is still there if you access it from another server, like https://lemmy.ml/c/main@midwest.social
I was an alpha tester for new reddit before it was publicly pushed. There was a private sub for it and plenty of ppl saying everything that was bad and needed changing. Admins were very receptive to any suggestions, but slowly everyone realized they didn’t want to change anything, despite saying otherwise. The “finished” new reddit was nearly identical, and still garbage to use. I switched to old.reddit within a few days.
I expect most of the content to be saved at some point before reddit fully dies. Many sites from the early 2000’s no longer exist, but there are backups of forums online all over the place
Yeah this is the main reason I won’t be giving up reddit 100% once the 3rd party apps go down. I definitely won’t be doom scrolling on my phone like I used to, but I 100% will still use reddit on my desktop as a research tool. There’s just nothing else like it for the amount of quality niche information atm.