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

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.

It really is hard to fathom how that got through any internal discussion.

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.

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, or at least not enough to make it useful when a particular text is 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 better alternatives. If someone has to make the first move, I’m glad this happened.

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?

Sure are a lot of tech companies seemingly speedrunning their self-destruction right now. Is there something in the water in the SF?

On a more serious note, Discord has always been mediocre. Makes me sad that the third-party client(!), Ripcord, is more or less abandonware. Being able to monitor just the specific channels you’re interested in is infinitely better than being forced to use servers wholesale given it’s near impossible to keep an eye on one at a time beyond notifications – which are clumsy at best. But for how useful that is, not having access to things like spoiler tags, most voip (and all video related) stuff really limits its practical use.

Oh well.

Don’t know where you live, but my experience of NL is that everyone and their dog did things via WhatsApp. Even government services, would absolutely struggle to abandon all things Meta-related entirely while living there.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but since ETH moved to a proof of stake model rather than proof of work (i.e. “mining”), isn’t its environmental footprint now a fraction of the wasteful behemoth it was previously?

(Though I 100% agree given the ‘gas fees’ (transaction costs), it’s still absolutely useless as an actual currency.)