I unsubscribed years ago when I finally saw them for what they are.

https://lemmy.world/post/41022485

https://piefed.social/post/956553

“Due to feedback from a wider audience than before, some of the idiosyncratic features that I built because of my personal obsessions have been made optional and OFF by default, such as the 4chan meme filter, meme communities being flagged as ‘low quality’ and so on”

The piefed dev made some biased decisions, owned up to their mistakes, fixed it, but lost the trust of many users.

This is what drove me off of piefed and back to a lemmy instance.

One more issue: https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

Again, straight from the dev:

"You can be pretty sure anyone with 1488 or even just 88 in their user name is a nazi, for example.

Speaking of which, PieFed has an optional approval queue for new registrations. New accounts with “88” in their name are always put in a different /dev/null queue that leads nowhere. The UI tells them they’re waiting for approval but that approval will never come."

So the dev is shadowbanning people born in 1988 or of asian descent that like the number 888888

https://sonofchina.com/what-does-888-mean-in-chinese/

This type of hamfisted moderation turned many people off of the platform.

dev politics and dev opinions. Pick whichever you like it doesn’t matter.

Kbin is dead Mbin is the successor, both have lemmy (reddit-like) and mastodon (twitter-like) capabilities. You can submit a “tweet” and a “post” from the same platform and browse both lemmy and mastodon content.

Lemmmy is the activitypub version of reddit. PieFed is Lemmy but with the ability to see all comments and cross-posts of the same link or post, all collapsed into a single post and single thread to scroll through.

Beehaw deserves its own mention because of how cut off it is from the rest of the fediverse, its its own little walled garden, protected from all the baddies out there in the world.

All the rest is just drama surrounding the devs of all the platforms, and either their questionable political views (lemmy) or their questionable platform moderation views (piefed). So the platforms keep splintering as well as the instances on each platform. Which is a good thing its part of the fun of the fediverse.

TLDR:

• Lemmy is reddit-like with controversial developers (political views).
• Piefed is Lemmy with cross-posts collapsed to one thread, and controversial developers (moderation defaults).
• Mbin is Lemmy (reddit-like) plus mastodon (twitter-like).
• Kbin is dead.

My favorite variations is the ‘Add 30 seconds’ button, you don’t need anything else (except the power level button), just press that +30 as many times as you like and it’ll start cooking.

“Moves are underway to take RISC-V to a new level. The association is collaborating with Linux to create an open-source trinity of software, ISA and hardware.”

Great stuff! Please do linux phones too!

That’s great, glad you like em!

From woman’s perspective, its hostile now to even be pregnant, if stillbirth, miscarriage, etc can stick you with murder charges and doctors in the state can’t save your life in the event of complications.

From man’s perspective, if you accidentally get someone pregnant, you get stuck with 18 years of child support, wage garnishing, criminal penalties but only civil court proceedings so you can’t defend yourself well legally.

Why bother.

Edit:

“But if things keep trending the way they are, the United States is heading toward a future in which our population numbers will be directly tied to border policy.”

The pre-trump population projections I’ve seen all accounted for a decline in fertility and also depended on immigration to support growth, social security programs and other retirement solvency. But now we have the double whammy of decreased immigration, forced deportations, and super accelerated declines in fertility thanks to federal policies and economic uncertainty.

I’m curious to see the revised population projections for the USA out 100 years with those factors woven in.

It probably means all of these cones get shifted downward somewhere, and worst case we see flattening or decline in the line, and end up like Japan and Korea, no fertility and no immigration and who knows what happens after that.

yep, get a used pixel and put grapheneos on it.

I have a Pixel 6 series that is end of life soon, I’ll probably get one of the Pixel 9’s that will get me security updates through 2031 if the phone doesn’t break by then.

Edit: if OP hasn’t heard, GrapheneOS team revealed … that they are collaborating with a mainstream Android device manufacturer (OEM) to provide official system support for some of the manufacturer’s future devices.

So buy a used pixel for now, one that will get security updates for a few years, and hope that the new non-google manufacturer starts selling the grapheneOS approved device by the time you’re ready to replace the used pixel.

There’s a lot of info direct from grapheneOS here in this reddit thread, they said 2026 or 2027 for the release of the new non-google phone.

https://brander.ca/range/

Food for thought: Replace Your Range With a Modular Kitchen

I want a new shiny thinkpad but I don’t want the stupid copilot button that I’ll need to reprogram when I install linux.

Let’s make one here in fediverse

Why are we posting 4 year old drama? This is from November 2021…

Why are we posting 4 year old drama? This is from November 2021…

Fedora Atomic Budgie is where I’ll probably set my boomer parents up next, with a framework laptop for each.

Effectively they are the same to me feature wise. The main difference is that Waterfox lets you login to your mozilla account and has the mobile app, so I can sync my bookmarks between devices.

The prequel NOiSE as well (manga)

How does this work with all the plastic surgery going on and people changing their faces for vanity?

RIP kbin

Lumo: “I’m sorry, but I can’t provide investment advice.”