Feeling competent at something is great for your head! Being able to thus share things with others – who, you know, actually want you to share them – just multiplies that.

I love X! (not that one) and I love reading this!

Very glad to read this. I’m terrible at keeping on top of email with just webmail, but since I’ve been using Windows all the alternatives have felt pretty abysmal. You never realise how spoiled you are for good software on macOS, albeit at a cost.

(Linux has some very cool stuff too of course, but most of it will likely never be at home on Windows.)

Signing up is just having an instagram account and opting to check it out, so I’m not sure the numbers are very meaningful yet.

Right to repair is a thing in Europe now (https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-self-service-repair-in-europe/), though I’ve heard complaints about how it’s conducted.

I understand people’s attachment to their community, but if even a significant minority of those who went dark mass resigned on the 30th, it would’ve had so much bigger an impact than any of the ongoing attempts at protest.

Feels like every year corporations rely on the naivety of youth in an attempt to push more and more egregious shit.

Another executive-driven decision by people who clearly don’t use their own product (kinda impressive really when it’s YT).

I can’t help wonder if they saw an uptick in adblocking as a result of their absurd increases in ad-time recently and somehow thought this was a reasonable solution.

Hard to give a toss about most of them, they knew what they were getting into and it seems like the entire submersible community tried to warn against it, but such was ignored and disregarded as established interests stifling ‘innovation’.

But I feel really bad for Suleman Dawood. He was just a kid, and was – seemingly wiser than the rest of them – rightly terrified of this aquatic death machine. A lot of people, especially in the media, have tried to make light of their collective, violent end, suggesting it should be some consolation that it would’ve been over before they knew anything was wrong, Except according those most informed on the situation, stubborn owner aside, those onboard seemed to be entirely aware something was wrong. (Why else would they have been trying to surface?) Really sucks that a teennager got roped into this stupidity on account of his Titanic-obsessed dad.

Gallows humour is to be expected with these things, but finding out about Suleman left me utterly depressed. Perhaps it’s wrong to direct my irritation thus, but I felt particularly disgusted at someone who casted things as somehow beautiful for a father and son to die together, as though creating a deep, spiritual bond between them in the afterlife. So much media mindlessly lumping him in with his father’s motivations as though he was a fellow extreme tourism enthusiast, rather than a scared kid simply looking to his father for validation.

I’m not sure what’s more painful, American Free Speech’ers who don’t know it has no relevance outside being free of government censorship, or non-Americans thinking it’s some universal truth.

That’s why I’m not really worried either way. Unless they 100% fail to enforce their own rule, the second it goes beyond braindead political shitposting he’s going to be out of there anyway.

Having a rule against bigotry that is entirely ignored would be much more concerning than one wayward fool anyway.

Yeah, I’m on here and kbin.social, mostly because there’s so many communities popping up and I have a million niche interests that I’d feel like I was shooting myself in the foot by locking myself out of communities that are defederated due to having too many spambots etc. but also because lemmy and kbin don’t seem to play perfectly with each other yet.

(Presumably a natural consequence of a sudden influx in users, both due to bots having more reason to spam said instances, and due to the rapid rise in users making them somewhat harder to spot and expunge.)

I would normally think someone like the … proprietor of that community of one-ish, would simply be a troll. But going off what they posted I think they’re just immature, heard about a new social media thing, and wanted to be able to tell people they’re the ‘owner’ of a Trump-fanboy ‘community’.

Huge extrapolations on my part, but I really struggle to see this outside a lens of someone who is incredibly immature trying to be edgy, looking for clout, or both.

What weirded me out was it was being cast as a joint exploration effort when one of the members was charging the others. Would seem like a total grift, given the cost-cutting steps, if not for the owner/‘designer’ putting their own life on the line too.

Such deep sea submersibles are inherently a bit of an experimental industry, but even a cursory scan of opinions from others in that community seems to suggest it’s seen as extremely not-kosher to put others’ lives on the line with your experimental craft. Dude just seems to have been a bit nutty, and not altogether considerate enough of his own wellbeing or others’.

I mean if they start saying outright nazi shit it’s already in the rules there that they get the boot. But one person getting off to themselves making cringe political memes that were old nearly a decade ago is, well, just that.

I guess I just think that it’s a teeny, tiny bit dangerous to make out like this is actually them hosting a community of nazis, when it’s essentially one user – we have no idea how many of the small handful of people subscribed to it share their affiliations, versus how many are subbed just to keep an eye on their bs or even just to downvote their posts (personally I think those people would be wasting their time, but they certainly exist).

What @truckkun@lemm.ee said seemed pretty believable to me:

I think he just wants to give his little pet project Agora a test run to start things up since he just set it up lol.

(Much as I agree it’s unnecessary to get communal consent to nuke what could only develop – at best – into a well of negativity.)

Yeah, I’ve known plenty of antifascists subscribed to, or otherwise technically “members” of awful online spaces just to keep an eye on things.

It just feels incorrect to even label it TD because it (as far as I can tell) has no relevant connection to that pile of filth beyond its “topic”, ultimately being only one person.

Much akin to reddit, the best thing about goodreads isn’t the product itself so much as the communities that use it, and the resulting history of reviews/comments/etc. that build up over time.

The absence of these user generated reactions (for lack of a better catch-all) is a big part of why I never really managed to permanently migrate to Librarything instead. Though, given their devs are quite technical, one could hope they would consider connecting up with the fediverse some day too.

(I realise that many reviews on GR are worthless, but sadly if you’re interested in some particularly niche things, it can be not only awkward to find the right version of a book on LT, but often enough there just aren’t any reviews at all due to make it useful when a particular text is rather niche to begin with.

But assuming it federates in a way that’s actually useful, this at least might mean a beginning that could lead to alternatives that are not just an improvement on BookWyrm’s UI/UX, but Goodreads’ too.

I want to be able to see all those channels in a single place instead of clicking between servers but 🤷

That’s precisely what Ripcord does so well! I can hardly fathom how decision-making works at Discord, given all the random bells and whistles they add, but not a core feature like this.

Usually I’d think this was just another case of developers not using their own product, but I mean … they hardly use slack, do they?

Yeah, that sounds about right. Honestly, the thing that I find hardest about the internet – and which makes me want to log off indefinitely – is the constant wave of people assuming the absolute worst about everyone, and a kind of ignorance that people can come from different formative experiences without being an enemy.

Not really sure how we solve that one (though I did choose to sign up here because, ostensibly, it’s a place where jumping the gun on judging people – something that is often performative anyway – is discouraged.)