I hate a lot of them. The crying-laughing is the worst to me.

My father has been using computers for 50 years and hasn’t seemed to really learn anything. His work had one of the first personal conouters, an Altair, and we had C64s and early DOS machines when I was a kid. He could do excel, word, general word processing, had spreadsheets back in the early days of Lotus… at this point he gets confused and frustrated by like, the CVS website. Doesn’t ask for help though, just keeps doing his knows what and getting angry about it, then when I try to help (like, “oh, your credit card number is entered wrong”) he just gets angry and says “this is a SIMPLE THING! I DONT NEED HELP!” Like, okay, you’ve been overlooking this error message on a website and acting pissed for 15 minutes, but whatever.

history | grep <word> and ! would blow his mind.

That was something I got tired of saying, about error messages, “what do the words on the screen say?”

When using computers became more mainstream in the late 90s I thought “phew, finally people will learn to use them and not act like it’s some arcane and nerdy thing they couldn’t possibly understand! They’ll have to figure it out for work and the average person will finally understand the basics like file system hierarchies, right click menus, switching between windows and…” nope. We entered the period of “monthly_report.pdf.exe” instead and then, mobile phones which have enabled people to use computers without learning anything about how they work at all.

That’s true, he’s a case study in poor ethics. Always good to know what’s going on out there.

Why would I think about Jake Paul?

You can call it whatever you want. Email has been around since the 70s. Bluesky and ActivityPub sure have not.

Your rephrasing changed it qualitatively. Of course it takes no position on whether Lemmy is part of the Fediverse considering it now does not have the word Fediverse in it.

The mention of email is

Even so, much like how users of one email service such as Gmail can still send emails to users of another service such as Outlook, users may still view content and interact with users on any other instance in the fediverse

which implicitly says email is not considered part of the fediverse by comparing the two.

The others listed are bluesky, nostra and farcast. I suppose we could count protocols that nobody uses…

Fediverse is ActivityPub. Email is not, though the theory is somewhat similar.

That’s the problem. I know of a couple video games where the publisher closed their forums and opened a discord channel. I have no idea why people view them as equivalent things.

You could start a Lemmy community, subreddit, even a mastodon or Twitter account with the same investment and effort.

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People who talk endlessly without even asking about your own thoughts or experiences are red flagged. Sometimes i’m guilty of talking a lot about something I’m excited about, but at some point I ask people what they’ve been doing at least. I do the thing of sharing common experiences like “oh something like that happened to me too!” but it’s meant to show empathy, not provide an opportunity to change the subject to myself. I think this is something people learn with self awareness.

I had a girlfriend who when I had known casually for years before we got together. We met up at a Dunkin Donuts one time and she literally talked about herself for 2:45 and I barely got a single word in. I was “wtf is with her, like Adderal overload?” and she asked if I wanted to hang out afterwards and i was uh… I have to finish what I’m doing and move this stuff out of state, sorry… I ended up moving in with her 6 years later and it turned out no, she wasn’t on amphetamines, she is just a really self-unaware narcissist. My advice is that if you hang out with someone and it’s exhausting and you leave feeling worse, don’t hang out with them.

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The more lenient ones I’ve tried are midwest.social and lemm.ee

From what I understand, yes, moderation is not federated. That’s good in that instances can enforce their own mod standards, but it also means spam/harmful content has to be removed by each server individually.

No idea if there’s an appeal process but you could ask on the lemmy.world support community.

Great, do whatever you want. Just shut the fuck up about it, nobody cares.

Then next paragraph…

I switched from Linux to macOS for a number of years and it was fucking awesome. Then my Macbook Pro became defective and I bought a PC and …

Well, okay. Great, why not write a whole article about your personal taste in software.

What do I use? Arch Linux.

BTW