Very_Bad_Janet

You can try NewPipe, which is free. IIRC I downloaded it from F-Droid. Maybe someone else can reply and confirm that’s the best place to get it.

Thank you!

The fashion business seems to thrive on either body positivity or body negativity, but not body neutrality. If you feel neutral.about you body, I guess that doesn’t prompt you to spend a ton of money on products to celebrate or disguise it.

This is the sign you were looking for to get off of dating apps.

For me, aside from picking initially between kbin and Lemmy and then picking an instance (and the whole concept of instances), it was not having an algorithmically created feed. It took a bit to wrap my mind around since all of the social media apps and sites I was used to (and still use) provides this.

I was confronted with building my own feed by topic of interest (aka community or magazine) or else.face a firehose of all content from all local or federated instances. I mean, I did it, so it wasn’t that big a barrier, but it still required effort and conscious decision making on my part just to set up the thing to be usable. It’s probably one of the reasons why I don’t use Mastodon that much, because it’s easier to join/subscribe to topics in kbin and Lemmy (at least in my experience). Mastodon seems to be for following individuals and organizations, and that’s even more work (for me).

Prior to Musk, IIRC, the valuation was around $11B.

But he did convince both Musk and the board that Musk would be the right buyer. He helped orchestrate this deal.

which is present in the footer of every major website in the world

OMG, I just realize that the little blue bird will be replaced with an X everywhere. A generic looking, forgettable X.

I also realize that instead of saying “follow me on Twitter” or “I’m on Twitter,” people will say “follow me on X” and “I’m on X,” which sounds like you’re talking about Ecstacy or Molly. Very 1990s club kid. (He’s Gen X so I’m sure he’s well aware of how this sounds.)

I am seldom a conspiracy theorist but I am really starting to think that he is deliberately trying to destroy Twitter, I mean X.

The X11 logo is much nicer.

Thanks for this reply. That’s probably the best way to use LLMs - general definitions or framing / summarizing of issues. And then always check the sources to make sure it was accurate. I’ve played around with ChatGPT and Bard and I think my mistake has been to be a little too granular or specific in my prompts. In most cases it produced results that were inaccurate (ETA: or flat out demonstrably wrong) or only fulfilled a part of the prompt.

How have you used Perplexity.ai?

Did they come up with the new name in some kind of software name generator? Sort of like the hip hop name generator that Donald Glover used to come up with Childish Gambino?

Ugh. I went to Feedly after Google Reader went kaput (why did then end that, it was great). I went back to Feedly about a week ago after leaving Reddit. So now I’m on the hunt again.

I would also greatly appreciate free non-selfhosted RSS suggestions for desktop and Android phone.

Tell them it’s a secret club that you’ve formed with friends. Set it up for them on their computer or phone. It might make it seem fun.

Enshittifocation commences.

I don’t mind chocolate in my peanut butter. But I don’t want Meta in my Fediverse.

Have all of the Lemmy instances (and kbin ones, too) now added email requirements, captcha, and maybe the little paragraph asking why you should have an account that Beehaw does?

Also, how do you identify bot accounts? Can you bulk ban accounts or.do they all have to be examined and dealt with individually?

ETA: I wasn’t suggesting the paragraph. Just wondering what the instances are putting in to prevent bots. I actually tried to sign up for Beehaw, wrote my little paragraph, and then got the pinwheel of death, lol. I was never able to sign up, but lucked out with a kbin.social account. I have to add that it’s pretty disappointing to be downvoted for simply asking a question. Feels like what I left at Reddit.

Tell her about setting up an account here. Give her some guidance on which instance to first try, how to subscribe to magazines/communities, etc.

I simply thing Reddit is using the opportunity to rid themselves of anticapitalist subs, the ones that would harm their image for the IPO. Remove the sources of future dissent.

I think others are noting how it can be like this. In my experience:

• My kids’ school accounts can only send emails to and receive emails from their teachers’ email addresses. All other emails, including those from fellow students, are blocked.
• I frequently have issues with whitelisted email addresses at work. They sometimes are blocked and I have to go through the tedious whitelisting process all over again.