It’s not like you have to upgrade your phone every year. People are on different upgrade cycles in which these devices will be a big upgrade.

The very sudden and very quick pain I had in my back this morning. It was so bad I very nearly passed out.

It shows a B in the screenshot and a bot icon on my client next to the username that says it’s a bot so I assume it must be identifying itself as a bot.

That and Inbox were peak Google.

♥️ glad to be part of our community!

Our instance is federated with hexbear, lemmygrad etc. I want to be resonsible for what I see and block, I’m really not a fan of defederation unless it’s a last resort (i.e. CSAM or other illegal content).

I did end up blocking the lemmy.ml instance though, fuck that place. I haven’t even blocked hexbear or lemmygrad.

The problem is most likely people that are new to the fediverse/lemmy just not understanding it and choosing a “default”, popular instance. I was going to pick it as a safe option when I first came here but it was under load and wasn’t accepting new users, where I then had to find another instance and settled on feddit.uk.

It would be good if lemmy instances could have the option of “load balancing” new users, so if the current instance has way more active users than it’s federated wtih then it disables registration but recommends other, smaller instances to the user.

Sausages, but they have to be good quality ones. Cheap ones can get in the fucking bin.

Yorkshire Tea

I don’t think you can correlate the number of readers to the number of book instances or whatever they’re called. Most people (myself included) probably just use Goodreads, and BookWyrm is probably a good enough alternative that there’s no need to spin up another.

Edit: according to this there’s a lot of instances: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/

“Be nice and civil” - which is a fair enough rule, but it’s always used as a blanket ban. Most of the removed comments weren’t hostile or uncivil

The thread was posted into the memes community too so there’s always going to be a bit of banter, but most comments that weren’t in support of China were removed.

What country are you from? I don’t see any fascist comments in your profile, but you do seem extremely pissed off that Ukraine is defending itself from Russia.

And the other 10%?

I don’t think they are, they’re more akin to forums.

In my mind, social media is where you follow people and people broadcast their lives. That’s the social aspect of it.

With Reddit and Lemmy we follow communities on topics we’re interested in.

I do get the arguments for it to be social media but that just makes the category way too broad, as you could argue any site with a comment section is social media.

Not sure if theyre technically cartoons, but Thunderbirds and Stingray.

SMS was free when I started using WhatsApp, but MMS wasn’t, so I think that was part of why it took off in the UK. You could finally send pictures and videos and have read receipts and typing indicators and group chats. Plus it was instant and reliable where SMS always felt slow and unreliable.

Also it worked on WiFi so you could still use it at home where you might not have had the best phone signal.

It became popular when you had to pay for it. It was a one off fee on iPhone or an annual recurring fee on Android, that’s how much people wanted to get away from SMS.

Probably worth noting that BBM was very popular at that time too but it was exclusive to BlackBerry phones so the concept wasn’t new, but everyone that started moving to iPhone and Android after blackberry wanted the same messaging experience, and WhatsApp provided that.

I’ll never really understand why the north American market didn’t make the jump like everyone else did, because WhatsApp provided so much more, it wasn’t just about cost of messaging.

Ah right! I’m a fair few versions behind now so didn’t recognise it.

That was my first thought. Which skin of Android is this?

I’ve been using the internet since the mid 90’s but never really saw the appeal of forums, but maybe I never had something I was “into” that warranted being on a forum a lot. My only usage was support forums and I always found them annoying to use.

I personally see sites like Reddit & Lemmy as the natural evolution of forums. You still have the concept of a topic (subreddit / community) where people can make posts, but the comments are displayed in a better format.

I started running using the Couch to 5k app from the NHS, it made it so easy ane encouraging to start running.

I did my first 10k in Jan and did my longest run (11k) yesterday, and like you say, the feeling is incredible, it’s like a high year that day.